A Music Education Blog Collective

Please listen to this powerful segment on NPR’s Morning edition on Music and the Holocaust.  From the NPR site: “During World War II, hundreds of prisoners in the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia performed Verdi’s requiem as a way to passively defy their Nazi captors. On Sunday, American musicians performed the same requiem in the former […]

Belinda Reynolds, a composer who I have referenced in previous posts, now has a column on newmusicbox focusing on issues facing composers writing music for young people. I think this is a great initiative to encourage some dialogue between educators, composers, performers, critics etc. We can certainly learn from each other. Her most recent post […]

There is an interesting comment on Melissa’s post regarding sharing student popular music online. Mallory writes “I really wish that all schools had the ability and time to look into children’s music. It was give the children a chance to express themselves individually, and then maybe more students would enjoy music, and the programs in […]

I enjoyed listening to these three different arrangements of Sabre Dance. (My favorite is a video performance by the exuberant Marimba Ponies–independent young musicians performing as a small ensemble that has no need for a conductor–isn’t that a goal our students should reach?) Thank you to Alex Ross for finding these arrangements. There […]

After posting about living composers writing new music for students on the other site I blog on, I found an excellent letter to the editor written by composer Michael Colgrass on newmusicbox regarding the same article that first prompted my post. Mr. Colgrass’s website includes letters students have written to him along with his replies, […]