Category Archives: current events

Consider Supporting this Project for Classical Music CD for Kids!

By joy (admin) | Published: 18 April 2011

Have you heard of KickStarter.com?  It’s a cool site where people can raise money for creative project of all kinds.  Ordinary people like you and me can support these projects.  Here’s the kicker: the team must reach the monetary goal by 3-month deadline or else they don’t get any of the money that was pledged. [...]

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End-Of-The-Year Update

By joy (admin) | Published: 30 December 2010

Hello Readers, I hope this post finds you all well and enjoying this blessed season with your family and friends.  I’ve been enjoying some time off from both school and blogging in order to visit and spend time with my family.  I hope you’ve missed me while I was away.  =)  Although the blogger inside [...]

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Current Giveaways in the Blogosphere

By joy (admin) | Published: 8 October 2010

If you haven’t already seen these giveaways happening around the blogsphere, take a look below! Natalie Wickham MusicMattersBlog.com is giving away six Suzuki violin cds (ends Thursday, October 14).  Click here to learn more. Jenifer Cook at TheChurchPianist.com is giving away a copy of her book of intermediate level hymn arrangements, called “Showers of Blessings” [...]

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Watch the International Chopin Competition Online

By joy (admin) | Published: 5 October 2010

The International Chopin Competition, held in Warsaw every five years, is currently going on now and you can watch the contestants play online! Click here to view the list of performers and pieces, and click here to view the online broadcasting. Check it out! Pin it

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Michigan Teachers: 2010 State Conference October 17-19

By joy (admin) | Published: 28 September 2010

For any fellow teachers in Michigan: The Michigan Music Teachers Association (MMTA) State Conference is to take place Sunday, October 17 – Tuesday, October 19 at the Detroit Novi Sheraton (21111 Haggerty Rd., Novi).  Click here to for more information (including a link to the conference schedule), and click here to register. Martha Hilley is this [...]

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Babies and Music

By joy (admin) | Published: 25 March 2010

Check out this interesting news article, reporting about a research study done on babies and their response to rhythm versus speech.  Here’s the summary from another site reporting on the same research: Human infants are born to dance, researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Psychologists from the United Kingdom [...]

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Upcoming Poster Session @ Mich. Music Conference

By joy (admin) | Published: 14 January 2010

Remember that improvisation paper for school that I’m been mentioning here and there?  Well, I’ve been accepted to present my research findings at the poster session on January 22 as part of the 2009 Michigan Music Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan!  I don’t know if any of you Michiganders out there are planning on attending [...]

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New Nat’l Music Achievement Program in the US?

By joy (admin) | Published: 19 October 2009

I recently heard that Carnegie Hall and The Juilliard School are considering the possibility of implementing a National Music Achievement Program in the US.  Here’s the lowdown: The program would include the following characteristics: Students would be evaluated by regional, reputable adjudicators using a pre-defined syllabus and repertoire list Evaluations would be available several times [...]

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Highlights from Michigan Music Teachers Conference 2009

By joy (admin) | Published: 15 October 2009

This past weekend was the Michigan Music Teachers Association 124th State Conference, taking place in Bay City, Michigan.  A couple of my fellow college piano pedagogy majors and I drove over to Bay City on Monday, to hear the conferences of the day.  Conferences are so great because they give you all sorts of new [...]

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Earn 8% when you order sheet music

By joy (admin) | Published: 10 September 2009

Sheet Music Plus has begun a new promotional program for music teachers to earn 8% back in rebates when they or their students order from SheetMusicPlus.com.  I was thrilled to hear about this program last week, because I just so happened to need a few music books!   Other perks: $2.99 budget shipping. Going on [...]

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