Tag: Teaching

• 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…

  Ed Castro

  September 11, 2014

  Thoughts

  Adult, art, Balance, Beethoven, Coffee, Dad, father, Football, Home, Husband, kid, music education, musician, Parent, Saturn, school, soundview school, Space, Students, Teaching, Unicon

• 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…

  Ed Castro

  July 2, 2014

  Methods

  educator, exercises, music, music education, Practical Daily Warm-Ups, Practical Daily Warm-Ups for Trumpet, practice routine, Students, teach, Teaching, trumpet, trumpet routine, Zachary Lyman

• Balance

  I’d like to think that I have a certain amount of balance in my life. If I keep to my routines I feel whole and complete. As a musician-educator there are few opportunities to work both sides of my professional life equally and with the same intensity. One will usually be stronger than the other,…

  Ed Castro

  March 19, 2014

  Thoughts

  Balance, Dad, educator, kid, musician, performer, teacher, Teaching