Matthew McFarlane interview
Here is an interesting clip from CBC Radio One, an interview with Matthew McFarlane of CBC Vancouver takes us to a student music festival, He speaks with several young piano Continue Reading →
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VSB cuts to music programs – The VSO responds…
Remarks made by Bramwell Tovey, Music Director of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra to the Vancouver School Board (VSB)Trustees at a public meeting at Mount Pleasant Elementary, Vancouver April 20th 2010. Continue Reading →
Books and reading are important
This post may be quite a bit off topic, but in the spirit of providing a blog about excellence in education I have decided to post this article here. In Continue Reading →
Teaching corner – memorizing music
As we head towards festival and exam season here are a couple of links to recent blog posts of interest I have discovered online dealing with the problems of memorization Continue Reading →
News from our members
The new Vancouver Symphony Music School is getting set up to open in January 2011. Construction of their new facilty on Seymour Street in Vancouver seems to be coming along Continue Reading →
Arts education: “It’s not a waste of time” – ARTicles
“Just Do It” – sounds like an over used corporate slogan, but then again the road to becoming an great artist or a great “anything at all” for that matter Continue Reading →
BC arts grants – update
This just in this morning. It looks at first glance that funding for arts programs for children and youth may be restored to some degree. Also it seems the grant Continue Reading →
Few Canadians give to the arts
Individuals gave about $101 million to arts and culture organizations in 2007, but these donors represent a very small percentage of Canadians who make charitable donations, according to a new Continue Reading →
BC Provincial Budget: impacts for arts education in BC?
So how does the March 2 budget announcement impact BC community music schools and other arts training organizations in our province? At first blush this is difficult to tell. The Continue Reading →
B.C. funding shortage sends Pite to Germany
Are you listening Gordon Campbell? Crystal Pite and her dance company are temporarily relocating from British Columbia to Germany because the choreographer was able to secure two years of steady Continue Reading →