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Sunday, January 4th, 2009

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 [...]

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Unfortunately and very obviously, I’ve been very negligent with my blog this fall. As is the case for music teachers (and teachers in general), things have been very busy. This fall, we have had Solo and Ensemble for orchestra students, All-County auditions for chorus and orchestra, All-State auditions for chorus and orchestra and preparing for [...]

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Almost a year ago, at our state Music Education convention, I attended a seminar at which Dr. Joseph Pisano was the presenter. His topic was Web 2.0 and its use in Music Education. He also talked about his goal of seeing 100 Music Ed blogs by the end of 2008. Well, that goal is rapidly [...]