Is Music the Key to Success?
CONDOLEEZZA RICE trained to be a concert pianist. Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, was a professional clarinet and saxophone player. The hedge fund billionaire Bruce Kovner is Continue Reading →
Category: education
The Fraser MacPherson Music Scholarship Fund
The Fraser MacPherson Music Scholarship Fund was initiated to foster the music education of BC’s most promising young jazz instrumentalists. Scholarships are available up to the amount of $2000.00 each Continue Reading →
New Evidence links music education to higher test scores
Does studying music boost students’ overall test scores? Recent research casts doubt on that belief, concluding that the link between music education and good grades appears to reflect the impressive nature of Continue Reading →
Top 10 Skills students learn from the arts
You don’t find school reformers talking much about how we need to train more teachers in the arts, given the current obsession with science, math, technology and engineering (STEM), but Continue Reading →
Why musical genius comes easier to early starters
Good news for pushy parents. If you want your child to excel musically, you now have better justification for starting their lessons early. New evidence comes from brain scans of 36 Continue Reading →
The New Economic Reality for Classical Musicians
There is much strife these days in the classical orchestral world between professional orchestra management and the musicians, especially in the country of our neighbours to the south, the United States. Continue Reading →
Is Music the engine behind language acquisition?
Contrary to the prevailing theories that music and language are cognitively separate or that music is a byproduct of language, theorists at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music and the Continue Reading →
The Role of the Community Music School in audience building
What is the role of the local Community Music School with presenting concerts? Do we do this because we want to educate audiences in our communities about various forms of music? Do we Continue Reading →
Music Monday shares key message
The language that unites every being on the planet is being cut out of many schools in an effort to save cashby Bramwel Tovey Every year, the Coalition for Music Continue Reading →
Making Music Together Increases Kids’ Empathy
Music education produces myriad benefits, strengthening kids’ abilities inreading, math, and verbal intelligence. New British research suggests it may also teach something less tangible, but arguably just as important: The ability to empathize. In Continue Reading →