Category: Music
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Music and Words
Last month my school had an assembly celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Every year I think about how my school celebrates MLK. In years past, when I taught at a small independent elementary and middle school, we kept it to many of his highlights and events. Students learned about nonviolent protest,…
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Amplifying Diversity: Small Presses — The Best of It
Originally posted on educating alice: The ongoing and hugely important conversation featuring #ownvoices, diversity, and equity was most recently centered around an unfortunate WSJ journal article which Allie Bruce unpacks in her RWW post, “Why ‘Rock Star Librarian’ is an Oxymoron.” I highly recommend reading the original article (tricky as it is behind a paywall…
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More From Composition Game – Glass’ish
In August I posted a short composition I put together as part of a pilot program connecting me with an artist mentor. Somehow between then and now I didn’t get around to posting some of the other sketches. I mean to remedy that with this post. A friend thought the minimalist gestures sounded a little like Philip Glass.…
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Math and Music Conversations
Yesterday I had the pleasure of sitting down with another teacher to talk about a seminar she is teaching about the intersection between Math and Music. We talked about music theory and how she sees patterns both in music and math. I found myself listening and becoming more inspired to explore Pythagorean ideas surrounding tuning…
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Remembering a brass quintet recording – Drei Stücke
I was going through some files recently and came across an old program for a concert I played with a brass quintet. There were two big pieces on the program and both were pieces were obscure to me. The one I ended up looking for online was a piece by Stefan Hakenberg named Drei Stücke.…
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Nasa postpones ‘mission to the Sun’
Nasa postpones ‘mission to the Sun’ https://snapzuscience.wordpress.com/2018/08/11/nasa-postpones-mission-to-the-sun/ — Read on snapzuscience.wordpress.com/2018/08/11/nasa-postpones-mission-to-the-sun/ Can’t believe we can do something like this. Touching the sun! Crazy and awesome.
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The Composition Game
I was recently asked to participate in a pilot program connecting me with an artist of the same discipline to work with me and coach me achieve an important next step in my career. My peer mentor and I talked about using music composition as a way of stretching out to meet some artistic goals.…
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Blogger’s Block? Here’s How to Beat it
Blogger’s Block? Here’s How to Beat it http://cristianmihai.net/2018/07/15/bloggers-block-heres-how-to-beat-it/ — Read on cristianmihai.net/2018/07/15/bloggers-block-heres-how-to-beat-it/ This was a good read and a reminder to keep working.
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Give these two a listen…
Toward the end of the school year, a few of us were sharing cool music and videos of performances we thought were really cool. Even after the end of the school year, I find myself looking up these videos and listening to some of these performances. Here are two that stood out and are still…
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Rabbit Hole and then Jennifer Hudson…
Sometimes I start listening to music and looking up different videos, just to see if I find something new and interesting. This time I landed on Jennifer Hudson. I must have listened to this about five or six times. Her inflections and phrasing are simple and beautiful. The kind of music making that makes me…
