Eric Whitacre is pointing me to all the great videos these days:
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Celebrity Voices do Whitacre’s Sleep
Pretty creative. And I’ve heard of Britney Spears.
What Are You Good At?
In the late Peter Drucker’s book Management Challenges for the 21st Century, the management guru and former Marie Rankin Clarke Professor of Social Science and Management at Claremont Graduate University, stated, “Most people think they know what they are good at. They usually are wrong.” Drucker continues, “More often, people know what they are not […]
Choral Caffeine: You’re NOT Alone
She thought she was all alone . . . While talking with a newly-minted choral music teacher about the initial couple weeks in her first job, it soon became all-too apparent that she was the only music teacher in that school. Sadly, she was already feeling lonely. Rather than being surrounded by other choral […]
Copyright forever less one day
I know I'm beating a drum that no one's listening to, but I'm not the only one who thinks copyright protections are way too long. Short version: Remember all the good old Disney movies? Yeah, all of them came from works no longer under copyright protection at the time. The whole of the Disney Empire […]
Musings at the beginning of a school year
Elementary music blogger Amy Burns makes a ten point list about the things she is happy about with the start of school. A few are listed here, see the others on her site. Amy’s list: Concert planning. I adore planning for the upcoming concerts with listening and playing through some wonderful songs. Singing. My […]