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Hard to believe it, but the year 2010 draws to a close this evening! It has been an incredibly busy year for MusicEdMajor.net, and I wanted to take this opportunity to recap some of the posts and pages that have been the most popular over the course of the last twelve months: [Read more...]
It has been a busy week, but the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic is over, and I’m finished with all the wrap-up posts on the conference here at MusicEdMajor.net! I wanted to take this time to do a quick recap of the week of Midwest, highlighting some of the good times and blog posts along the way! For a full live recap of Midwest, visit the Midwest Clinic 2010 Landing Page, which will let you replay the live-blog I did throughout the week. Here are some of the great experiences I had this week: [Read more...]
While at the 2010 Midwest Clinic, I had the opportunity to talk to Peter Boonshaft and the folks at Alfred about their new beginning instrumental method book series, Sound Innovations. I did a full-length interview with Dr. Boonshaft about the project, and after almost a week of learning about and studying the method, here is my review. [Read more...]
While at the 2010 Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic;, I had the opportunity to spend a good amount of time at the Alfred booth, learning about their new “Sound Innovations” method book. While I’ll be writing in more detail on Sound Innovations in the coming days, here is a ten-minute interview I did with Peter regarding the method book, his involvement in its development, and what advantages it brings over other methods. Check out what Peter had to say about Sound Innovations (there is a lot of background noise, so I have included a transcript below the video): [Read more...]
While at the 2010 Midwest Clinic, I had a chance to sit down with Peter Boonshaft, author of the well known Teaching Music With… series of books (which I love!) and Alfred representative. During our chat, I asked him what advice he would give to pre-service music teachers. Here’s what he said: [Read more...]