I was perusing the web looking for some videos to show my students and I came across this mini-documentary of Pablo Casals. The first part is narrative and provides some background, but the greatest part follows. He is shown in a brief segment working with an adult student. Casals’ comments are quite interesting as is [...]
During a time when music in American public education is an oft endagered component, Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog April entry highlighting the 60 Minutes segment on El Sistema and the Venezuelan National Youth Orchestra was very refreshing. I cannot imagine anyone not being very glad for the positive impact this music program is having [...]
I came across a video of Scala on John P.’s One Man’s Blog. Scala is a string quartet recently featured on Britain’s Got Talent. You will certainly recognize the faces on the panel if you watch any of the American talent shows. This may be something to show your string students and let them see [...]
