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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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NBA Playoffs and Trumpet
Once again, I find myself multitasking during the NBA playoffs and somehow settle on a practice routine while watching games. This year it’s been four books, the Max Schlossberg Daily Drills and Clarke Technical Studies, Charles Colin Advanced Lip Flexibilities and finally any variation of flow studies. The first quarter involves mouthpiece buzzing of Schlossberg…
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Blackbird Variations
Blackbird Variations Blackbird Variations — Read on mosaicbrass.com/2019/03/10/blackbird-variations/
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ISM’s in me
The problem with being someone who likes to fix things is, you may end up causing more problems. Unintended problems which may put into question the very reason you chose to help. In my case, a bad mixture of paternalism, guilt, narcism, and hero’ism gone too far. Recently I caught myself trying to help too…
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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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It’s Been A While…
It’s been a long time since my last post, so I feel the need to add something new. However, the something new feels like it will be a combination to things that have been on my mind since November. There are personal thing and other ideas and feeling related to music or teaching. I guess…
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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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