Category: Music
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How Trumpeter Sean Jones Gets Respect – YEB
Thank you to the Yamaha Educators Suite for this article. This is a great article for anyone who is interested in Sean Jones and or how leading by example is an effective way to teach young musicians. Source: How Trumpeter Sean Jones Gets Respect – YEB
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Surprising to me still
When I think about things that upset me, I’m often surprised about the things that get me amped up and blood boiling. There are the usual thing like humans mistreating one another or lack of empathy toward suffering. You know…war, famine, wastefulness, bigotry, bullying, unnecessary shaming, miss using bacon to make other foods taste good,…
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This might work out
I recently changed the curriculum of one of my classes to be a more project-based class. My want and desires are to give students an opportunity to dig deeper into a musical subject. As to not make my classes all about performance. It seems as if the only context given for learning about the history…
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Class Activity
I don’t usually past about class activities, however, I am making this exception because I’m enjoying the fruit of the activity. On the first day of school, I asked my students to create a playlist of tune to represent how they would like their school year to go. As I tend to do, I put…
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Thinking about a new school year…
It’s that time of the year. The summer is starting to feel like it’s winding down and my mind is moving toward the kind of teacher I want to be this year while thinking about concerts, big projects, and possible themes for the year. I’m also thinking about what the new school year means for…
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Persistent Ear-Worm
Over the summer I find myself going between the dropping off my kid at summer camps, helping the family with home-related projects, working/ continuing to learn how to care for my house, writing/ arranging music and (of course) practicing my instrument. Summer is a convenient time to make significant progress on some of these things.…
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In Performance: Kate Soper & Erin Lesser – Video – NYTimes.com
Wow, what a performance! I really enjoyed this.
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‘Fame’ High School Stages Sit In
Very proud of my alma mater. As a music teacher, I couldn’t agree with these students more. Good for them. Please read this article.
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Cultural Treasures
www.nytimes.com/2019/05/24/arts/music/fab-5-freddy-archives.html Great article about a collection related to hip-hop and thee cultural in and around it.
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Retrace your steps
I’m back at writers’ block. I think it should be good for me to just start writing and then send it out into the world, but I don’t think there much to mention. All I want to do is watch the NBA Playoffs and listen to music. So I’ll tell you about that. Perhaps if…
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