Category: Performance
Skyping Spain in Elementary Music/Spanish Class
Last month, the Spanish teacher and I worked together to have our second grade skype another second grade class in Spain. The Spanish teacher set this up with a teacher from Spain. The children in Spain wanted to sing and ask questions during the Skype interview so the Spanish teacher asked if our students could [...]
Elementary Music Concerts/Informances
It is that time of year again when my students perform their annual holiday concert. Many music educators of elementary general music are preparing for their annual concerts or classroom informances which can include such themes as holidays, seasons, a theme solely tied to the current curriculum, or a combination of any of the above. [...]
First Performance for My Elementary Instrumentalists
Today will be the first performance for my elementary instrumentalists. We title this performance our Performing Arts Showcase because we showcase the students who are participating in extra-curricular ensembles, such as our philharmonic, our musical theater class, and in the past, our young chorus, our older chorus, and our jazz band. This showcase also features [...]
The Future of Band Music Publishing?
In my humble opinion, if there is any aspect of music education that remains firmly footed in the traditional model, it’s band. That’s not a bad thing. As a former band director myself, I believe that we are creating some incredible performing ensembles, and band directing at all levels has become a position with very high [...]
Our K-5 Annual Community Sing-Along
At the beginning of each school year, I get to run the first assembly for the students in grades K-5 and it is one of my favorite assemblies. I plan our community sing-along where I make a keynote file of 17-20 songs and project the lyrics (along with some fun graphics) onto the screen so [...]
TI:ME/JEN Clinic: iPad Apps For Music Performers
The following is the presentation is from my TI:ME/JEN clinic on Friday, January 6th, 2012 held at the Galt House in Lousiville, KY. The presentation was titled iPad Apps for Music Performance. A complete list of apps that I demoed (and some that I didn’t have time to demo) are found at the bottom [...]
Winter – Christmas Jazz And Pops At Grove City On December 10th
Every year, at this time, I am very excited to present our annual Winter Jazz Concert. This year I am doubly excited because we are adding our newly formed Grove City College Ensemble, the GCC Singers, to our mix. Each year, we “blow the roof off of the house”. The concert is literally packed “wall-to-wall” [...]
