Tag: Students
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Back To School
While I recognize the changes that occur in my life around the month of September are major shifts, I can’t help the feeling of running head first into the truth….. that I am an adult. Maintaining stability in two art based professions while dealing with parental and husbandly duties, is a total shift from the…
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Lyman Practical Daily Warm-Ups for Trumpet: Book Review
Practical Daily Warm-Ups for Trumpet by Zachary Lyman is a great set of exercises to add to your practice routine. I don’t often get an opportunity to review the work of a friend and colleague, so I take great delight in writing the next set of words. I use this book often and I use it…
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Shoe Lace Cinquain
In honor of National Poetry Month, I will provide a poem I composed while on a field trip with my middle school students. Shoelaces Long and slimy Walking, stepping, tying Stuck under my soul Shoelaces Here are some of my favorite poets: Robert Frost, Stephen Dobyns and Langston Hughes
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Rhythm and Art
Recently I was at the Seattle Art Museum with my students. I forgot how walking from room to room experiencing installations of art had it’s own rhythm. Standing in one part of a room only allowed you to see part of the space. If you’re curious and you turn your head, you may see something…
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Podcasts
There aren’t many ways to occupy your time while driving to and from work. Especially with when you have a four year-old diva sitting in the back seat belting out the hits like she preparing for an audition to “the Voice”. Before my kid, I had time to decompress after a long day, take long…
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Things I learned from my students
I was blown away by two statements made by middle school students I teach. The first made me wonder about the way independent thought is formed and the other is just an impressive thought I want to share. “Footsteps and echoes of the environment demand to be heard through something. That something is music.” “Chapstick…
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