COVID-19 Response Information
Update: March 17, 2020 Please check our individual member school’s websites for the latest information. As of today most of the Non-profit music schools have suspended classes, including VSO SoM, Continue Reading →
Category: teaching
The Truth About Piano Lessons
A piano teacher looks at what it takes to succeed in music, why parents should care, and what they can do to help their kids. (This article applies to much Continue Reading →
Deadline for RCM Exams
A reminder to everyone that the deadline for registering for Spring exams for this June 2013 is March 5, 2013. The Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto) has a brand new Continue Reading →
Introducing iSCORE
iSCORE is a web-based learning portfolio that has been tailored to meet the needs of music teachers and their students. Generously supported by the Government of Canada through the Department Continue Reading →
Music Training Enhances Children’s Verbal Intelligence
A just-published study from Canada suggests early music education stimulates a child’s brain, leading to improved performance in an entirely different arena – verbal intelligence.“These results are dramatic not only Continue Reading →
How Much Should you Practice?
2 hours? 4 hours? 8 hours? 12 hours?How much is enough?Is there such a thing as practicing too much?Is there an optimal number of hours that one should practice? What Continue Reading →
Royal Conservatory of Music’s exam system to become standard for U.S. music schools
From the Globe and Mail Saturday March 26 When New York’s famed Carnegie Hall decided the United States’ patchwork of state music programs should have a national system to unite Continue Reading →
Changing Education Paradigms
Another fascinating short from Sir Ken Robinson. This short video explores the epidemic of ADHD, how it may be caused the use of irrelevant outdated educational models, how standardization and Continue Reading →
Evelyn Glennie show us how to listen.
In this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound waves hit your eardrums.
Bernstein at Harvard
Emotion and meaning in music. Food for thought…Leonard Bernstein teaching at Harvard. From ‘The Unanswered Question’ lecture series.