I’m continually astonished at the number and quality of music education articles, links, and information that continue to appear around the blogosphere. Here’s a summer sampling of music education links that I’ve found interesting in the last while:
- John Mannos has recently started a Tumblr blog entitled What is worth doing is worth doing well, in which he writes about his practice process and posts screenshots of annotated scores in order to give readers some better insight into the way he thinks at the keyboard.
- Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog recently featured a Midwest Young Artists lecture by Joseph Schwantner on the compositional process of his Percussion Concerto.
- Expand your musical horizons with some of the sites on ReadWriteWeb’s 18 Streaming Music Resources.
- Waterfall talks about her quest for the ideal piano bench.
- Gretchen Saathoff has been writing a wonderful summer-long series on her practice process, including articles on articles on Practicing with your animated self, Practice tools you already own, and whether or not to practice the same music on consecutive days.
- Joseph Pisano makes the case for music technology usage in the classroom and the educational curriculum.
- Stuck on a passage that resists fixing? Jonathan West writes about Practicing a difficult passage effectively.
- Trying to find the right orchestra for your students? Patty Mitchell has some very useful suggestions on choosing a youth symphony.
- Those doing an audition are well advised to make your audition pianist happy, thanks to some great info from Billie Whittaker.
- Dan Starr looks at fluency and how to get it.
- That certain je ne sais quoi can be so difficult to achieve on stage…Susan Eichhorn Young asks the question What is that “it” factor?
- Saving money this season? Gerrit Theule looks at ways to make the cheapest rehearsal scores available and the best free options for listening to opera online.
- Finally, some great finds from Natalie Wickham: 50 Music Practice Websites and 50 Open Courseware Collections for Musicians.
About the Author
Chris Foley is a pianist, teacher, examiner, adjudicator, and blogger based in Oakville, Ontario. He currently teaches at the Royal Conservatory of Music where he also serves as head of the voice department at the Conservatory School. As a member of Toronto's Tapestry New Works Studio Company, he has coached and performed in numerous workshops and performances of contemporary opera. In 2005, he started the Collaborative Piano Blog, which has grown to become one of the most well-known blogs about classical music. He has also made numerous media appearances, including playing piano for the first two seasons of Bathroom Divas (a reality show about opera singers), an interview about teaching piano to adult beginners on CBC Television's Living in Toronto, an interview in the Toronto Star about video games and music education, and an upcoming commercial for RCM Examinations.
Even since I started my own blog about a year ago, the information and ideas on the web about making music have grown tremendously - both in number and quality. Thanks for the great list!
Catherine
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