Category Archives: Current Events

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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Gabriela Montero: pianist/improviser

By joy (admin) | Published: 1 September 2009
Have you seen the some of the incredible improvised performances by Gabriela Montero on YouTube?  Not only is she an accomplished classical pianist, but she’s an incredible improviser as well.  In this video, she took a request from the audience to improvise upon the theme from J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations: According to her website, she [...]
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Strep throat may have killed Mozart

By joy (admin) | Published: 27 August 2009
Check out this interesting news article: Strep throat may have killed Mozart – Yahoo! News Source: news.yahoo.com The death of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the age of 35 may have been caused by complications stemming from strep throat, according to a Dutch study published on Monday. Since the composer’s …   click here to read [...]
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