In doing some research for homeschooling my daughter next year I came across a fabulous set of printable eBooks (made available by Project Gutenberg) about the lives of the great composers. Each one includes an easy-to-read story about the composer’s life with numbered squares where the student can place pictures cut from the back of […]
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2013 MTNA Conference – Monday Early Afternoon – Hal Leonard Showcase
After a lovely al fresco lunch with some dear colleagues, I joined a packed house at the Hal Leonard Showcase. Composer/pianist Jeremy Siskind started off the session with an overview of Jazz Etude Inspirations, County Ragtime Festival, and Classical Pop. Editor and recording artist, William Westney joined the session via video to share about the […]
2012 MTNA Conference – Sunday Morning – Intermediate Masterclass with Marvin Blickenstaff
After greeting the audience and giving a brief history of the music school where he teaches in Princeton, Marvin Blickenstaff was joined by four students from his youngest class, Caroline, Haley, Ananya and Naomi. They began by giving a demonstration of what would take place at their PEPS class. This included rhythm clapbacks, melody sing-backs […]
Zenph – Pioneering the Future of Music Technology
This has got to be one of the most incredible things I’ve read about in a while! Listen to the Before and After recordings of Rachmaninoff’s performance of his arrangement of Kreisler’s Liebesleid on the homepage of the Zenph website and you’ll see what I mean. I couldn’t believe how beautiful the “After” recording was, […]
2010 MTNA Conference – Monday Mid-Morning
Not Only Fur Elise: Gorgeous Unknown Compositions by Well-Known Composers by Dr. Peter Mack, NCTM In this standing room-only workshop, Dr. Mack entertained, educated, and inspired us with performances of some of his favorite mostly-unknown works. He began the workshop with a lovely playing of Rachmaninoff’s Fragments. He then proceeded to play little snippets of […]
A Compendium of Composers
Yesterday, I shared a little bit about the Galaxy of Composers group class that we held in the studio last week. In preparation for this each student selected (or was given) a composition by a composer of interest to them. I tried to keep the duplicate composers to a minimum, but of course we did […]