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- Written by Eliahu Sussman
- Published: 30 January 2014
The Country Music Association's Keep the Music Playing Campaign Funds Public School Music
The Country Music Association (CMA) Foundation has donated $1 million toward music education programs for Nashville public school students, part of CMA’s Keep the Music Playing campaign.
The donation stems from CMA’s 2013 Country Music Festival and raises the organization’s support of metro schools in Nashville to more than $7.5 million. The funds have been used for the purchase of musical instruments and supplies through a partnership with the Nashville Public Education Foundation.
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- Written by Eliahu Sussman
- Published: 30 January 2014
The Board of Directors of the Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation has awarded a $25,000 grant to the music program at Milwaukee, Wisconsin's Ronald Regan International Baccalaureate (IB) High School to continue helping students perform, compose and study music.
The grant will be distributed to the school’s Vera J. Zilber Music Department over the course of five years and will support its college-level curriculum as well as extracurricular activities, such as drum line, DJ club, solo and ensemble clubs, piano club, pit orchestra club, jazz band, and musical theater.
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- Written by Eliahu Sussman
- Published: 29 January 2014
Music for All announces three industry leaders to be inducted to the 2014 Bands of America Hall of Fame
Music for All has announced the industry leaders who will be inducted into the 2014 Bands of America Hall of Fame: Eugene Migliaro Corporon, Fred and Marlene Miller and Camilla M. Stasa.
The Bands of America Hall of Fame recognizes individuals who have had a positively life-changing impact on Music for All’s Bands of America programs and music education. 2014 inductees were announced in the evening of Saturday, November 16th, during the opening ceremonies of the Bands of America Grand National Championships, presented by Yamaha, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
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- Written by Eliahu Sussman
- Published: 28 January 2014
Nicholas McCarthy is a professional pianist who graduated from the Royal College of Music in London in 2012. That might not be so remarkable, until you take into account that he was born with only one hand. He is the first one-handed pianist to graduate from the esteemed music school, and one of very few one-handed professional pianists in the world. Enjoy this beautiful rendition of Prelude and Nocturne OP9 by Alexander Scriabin.
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- Written by Eliahu Sussman
- Published: 15 January 2014
In its inaugural year, The Recording Academy and the Grammy Foundation will present the Music Educator Award to Kent Knappenberger, a music teacher form Chautauqua County, N.Y. Knappenberger, who works at Westfield Academy and Central School, was one of 25 finalists selected from more than 30,000 nominated educators.
A former student of his, Laura Lee Anderson, posted this statement that she made in support of “Mr. K” on her blog, lauraleeanderson.wordpress.com:
Read more: Kent Knappenberger Wins Inaugural Music Ed Grammy Award
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- Written by Eliahu Sussman
- Published: 14 January 2014
The National Coalition for Core Arts Standards (NCCAS) has scheduled the final public review of its draft Pre-K-12 arts standards in dance, media arts, music, theatre, and visual arts to run February 14, 2014 through February 28. A draft reading copy of will be available on January 30 at nccas.wikispaces.com.
This review is part of the NCCAS’s process designed to allow time for each arts discipline time to incorporate changes suggested by those reviewing the drafts. The project’s timeline was recently revised, with this February review coming as the first in a series of new benchmarks that will lead to the web-based release of the standards in June, 2014.
Read more: Final Public Review of Core Standards Set for February
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- Written by Eliahu Sussman
- Published: 07 January 2014
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- Written by Eliahu Sussman
- Published: 26 December 2013
Check out this lovely rendition of "O Holy Night" by students from Berklee College of Music from a pop-up performance in the courtyard of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts on December 14th, 2013.
Happy holidays!
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- Written by Eliahu Sussman
- Published: 26 December 2013
North Carolina's Panther Creek High School Band receives gift from noted soft jazz star
The Panther Creek High Band will benefit from a band booster’s decision to attend the N.C. Symphony concert that featured Kenny G, the smooth jazz saxophone player
At the concert in March, Kenneth Gorelick, known as Kenny G, talked about his love of his high school band days, noted some of his friends from those days are in his current band and gave away a student saxophone to a person in the audience.
Panther Creek High band parent Joy Wilkes was in the audience and was inspired by what she heard. It gave her the courage to join the line for autographs after the show. Instead of asking for his signature, she asked that he consider donating a saxophone to Panther Creek High.
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- Written by Kevin Mitchell
- Published: 26 December 2013
Midwest Clinic Reports Successful Show
“Our expectations for the conference were exceeded in all manners,” declared Denny Senseney, treasurer of the Midwest Clinic. “The exhibit hall was nearly sold-out with approximately 50 new exhibiting companies. But best of all, the concerts and clinics met our primary objective of serving the music education profession.” More than 80 professional development clinics were mixed in with multiple concerts. “As a result, music educators benefited, and, as we hope, so will their students, schools, communities, and our culture.”
While final numbers are still being tabulated, based on a significant increase in registration, it’s expected that this show will be a record-breaker, he adds. In spite of the bitter cold and dreary weather, spirits were high among those who came from all over the country to Chicago the week before Christmas for the 63rd Midwest Clinic.
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