Life is not so short but that there is always enough for courtesy –Emerson

It’s so easy to become publicly criticized when writing ones’ thoughts about proper conduct and education, whether simply in the schools or …

Last week was the inaugural launch of the weekly Music Education Twitter Chat.  If you participated, you witnessed and were involved with one of the most significant Music Education Web 2.0 Events to ever take place to …

Hello from Chicago and the 2009 Midwest Clinic!  It’s cold up here but, as always, it’s been a great and FUN experience and one that I truly value! 
The Annual Midwest Clinic is more than fun …

I’ve worked with many teachers.  I’ve been taught by many teachers pre-k through 12th grade, under-graduate, graduate, and throughout my doctoral education-related degree programs.   I work with students aspiring to be teachers, student-teachers,  cooperating teachers, …

Today’s Monday Morning Music Mix (grab your favorite heated beverage and “take five”):
Monday’s Music Quote, Leonard Bernstein: “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever …

GoogleWave, Bad Teachers, & Broadcasting Live Music -MusTech.Net Episode E-17
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I’m becoming more and more impressed with the usefulness and well-thought purpose of what just may be the only print magazine written specifically to merge the current mainstream music paradigm(s) with the traditional-based music 7-12 public curriculums.  …

Today’s Monday Mix:
We Fail Students by Minimizing Arts: “When totaled, the time came to 66 extra eight-hour days between August and May. With my salary supplement, this came to roughly $3.79 per hour. During the …

In June of 2009, I was part of the MENC Academy discussing very real and important issues facing music educators today with regard to the onslaught of new technologies available to educators to use within …

YouTube Amazing Music Video Series #1: GRP All-Star Big Band, Cherokee
YouTube Title:
Cherokee..Arturo Sandoval Chuck Findley and more
Date Posted on YouTube: 
November 26, 2007
YouTube Original Poster’s Comments:
“A great line-up of Arturo Sandoval, Chuck Findley, Randy …

The Olympic motto, Citius, Altius, Fortius, is a Hendiatris, or a figure of speech.   These three word phrases were typical in ancient Greece and Rome (Veni, Vidi, Vici, etc.).    Citius, Altius, and Fortius translate to …

We all can “talk the talk” when it comes to supporting Fine Arts Education among our friends, but what about really doing something about it on a local level?  Can we do anything at all?  …

Maybe you missed it…
Harris Interactive released the results of their Music Education Poll mid-November of last year.  Here’s a summary:

Music education is associated with those that go on to higher education.
Music education is also associated …

I joined the International Society of Music Educators (ISME) mid-last year.  I did this to become part of a larger music education community.  One that transcends national boundaries.   As many of you know, I am …

Insert Trumpet Fanfare Here!

100 Music Education Bloggers by January of 2009

Mustech.net and the DigitalMusicEducator.wordpress.com have started a campaign to have 100 Music Educators blogging about music, education, and technology by January of 2009. We are inviting …

Since there was so much interest in my post about August Rush, I decided to interview two of my best students in the “Alternative Music” class using Pod-o-Matic, the same service that Joe and Darren …

Our we wasting a time with music advocacy and the current state of music education?  I posted a comment on Travis Weller’s site:  Composing Like Mad on his article entitled “At 3:15 p.m., class is just …

On Monday we took the Grove City College Marching Wolverine Band to one of the many festivals that we attend each year. This was not a festival that we have attended in the past. …

The following was a collaborative effort and appeared in the program of the 12th Annual Mercer Mustang Band Show on Saturday, September 8, 2007.  The article was written by Travis J. Weller (Band Director, Mercer …

I asked our current marching band president, Brad Volek, to write a little bit about his experience this year as the college band president. One thing you will notice while reading this article is …