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 […]
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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 […]
Is ACDA the right name for us?
In case you haven’t heard, MENC (Music Educators National Conference” changed it’s name to NAME (National Association for Music Education) on September 1, 2011. Here is part of the announcement: One of the world’s oldest and largest arts education organizations enters a new chapter in its distinguished history today when it officially assumes the […]
What?!? We don’t learn differently?
Research shows that teaching to different “learning styles” doesn’t help. Music is featured in this story (at about the 3 minute mark in the story that lasts a little over four minutes): The NPR story.
Honduras President Bans Cell Phones at Meetings. Do you?
Recently, Honduras President Porfirio Lobo banned cell phones at all of his meetings, complaining that it was “a lack of courtesy” that the phones are ringing and beeping during the weekly two-hour Cabinet meeting. One of my colleagues counts people as absent if he sees a person texting in class. Another person has […]
Guest Blog: Choral Singing and Political Power
From an interested ChoralNet user who wishes to remain anonymous: You live in a very small country that has been invaded, occupied, and controlled for decades, in fact centuries. For a brief period in the twentieth century, from 1918 until 1940, your country was free and independent, but then terror struck again. During the […]