Owen Bradley posted a very thought provoking article about what he experienced as a music educator after seeing the movie August Rush. His questions and statments made me think quite a bit about the future and current state of music education and technology. So as usual…I wrote… and wrote… and wrote…. in his comment section. You know WRITING really does clarify thought!
Jump on over to the Digital Music Educator’s website and his article about August Rush and JOIN the conversation today!
This guy is amazing. I certainly do not believe this is a fake. His technique is amazing and his musicianship is superb! Share this with your students who think they’ve accomplished something by beating Guitar Hero on “Expert”…
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The following is a great educational idea from Travis J. Weller… Let’s play!
Here are the rules… you have to respond to Weller’s hypothetical situation by posting a post (or comment here) with the above title and adding your top 7 pieces in the post. Let’s include a link to each other’s site by copying and pasting the below information and adding to it… At the end of the month…I’ll recap (hopefully along with everyonelse that posted) the complete entirety of the lists (we will all know who posted what via the trackbacks we post if we copy and paste the below section) and we’ll have a pretty good list of literature accumulated in a very novel way!
Copy below and paste into your post:
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You are seated in a rehearsal with your students. Suddenly without warning an alto clarinet spontaneously combusts into flames. It spreads quickly to your gradebook, old wool band uniforms, and begins creeping towards the music library. You have but seconds to get you and your students out of the room (okay so there are a few percussionists that you conveniently tell to put EVERYTHING away first before exiting the building)….. [BUT] you must save some of the music. You have time to save only 7 pieces. 7 pieces from any time, any level. But only 7.
The second Cease and Desist letter from Universal Edition, put a stop to one of the best efforts I’ve seen to put expired copyrighted scores into the hands of those that don’t have the means to acquire them otherwise. On Saturday October 13, 2007, another “library” was forced to close their doors to the public.
I don’t blame Feldmahler, the project leader for the group, for his decision though. He doesn’t have the time or the resources to do what Universal Edition is demanding of him. I’m not one to go against international copyright law, or ours for that matter, but this whole thing just reeks of the “big guy” squashing the “little man” again. Just when we had a little light of hope…where is the good news? The world has lost access a legitimate treasure trove of music information with the closing of this site. The people of imslp.org did nothing wrong and WERE very concerned about protecting copyright(s).
I sincerely hope that one of the larger, more powerful, and financially able music websites will pick up this project and continue it. We at mustech.net would be happy to support the continuation of IMSLP, within our means, and are sending a letter out to the folks at IMSLP to that intent.
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