Music Monday
On Monday afternoon close to two million children across Canada will be singing the same song — at the same time. They’ll be singing, shouting, hollering and chanting Sing Sing, Continue Reading →
Category: education
Young Musician’s Survival Guide
I have come across a great new book that probably should be on every young musicians bookshelf and available in the waiting rooms of all of our teaching studios. The Continue Reading →
Why are we shutting children out of classical music?
This article by Tom Service is about the state of music education in the UK, but much of what he speaks about applies directly to the local situation here in Continue Reading →
BC Lower Mainland Festivals and Competition List
Thanks to Christie Smith at Long & McQuade for putting together this list of competitions and festivals for 2008/2009. This information sheet in pdf format includes festival dates, application dates Continue Reading →
Research Briefs – Did you Know?
Here are some Music advocacy shorts to jump start your New Year.From the AMC website – Research Briefs: Did you Know? Middle school and high school students who participated in Continue Reading →
Canadian Music Centre provides new online access
It was announced this past week by the Canadian Music Centre that the Ann Southam Audio archive will now be available online for users to listen to sound files from Continue Reading →
Benjamin Zander: Classical Music with Shining eyes
Here is a video clip of Benjamin Zander, musician and author of “The Art of Possibility” talking about the relevance of classical music to our world and how classical music Continue Reading →
Student expectations of grades
Here is an article recently pubished in the National Post about changing expectations from students with respect to grading. We increasingly live in a world where success is thought of Continue Reading →
Recent Articles on Education
A couple of interesting articles on education have appeared in the past few weeks. The first from Science Daily indicates that children learn from mistakes only after about the age Continue Reading →