It’s always challenging trying to come up with a creative and musical gifts for students each year, but I love trying to think of something that will be special and useful. After quite a bit of brainstorming and reflecting on what students have appreciated most in the past, I settled on the idea of making […]
Watch Our 2011 Christmas Recital
Even though we weren’t able to live stream our Christmas Recital (like we did in 2010), a friend of mine video recorded the event and we’ve uploaded it to YouTube for your viewing pleasure! I didn’t realize until after it was posted that the credits at the end rolled through at the speed of light! […]
Happy New…Blog!
After thinking and working and dreaming and planning a complete blog redesign for over a year, I finally…hired a friend to get it done. 🙂 Thanks to the extraordinary design acumen of my dear friend, Tiffany (of TJ Design), my dream has materialized into a blog that is everything I hoped it would be! I […]
Music Matters Blog is Shutting Down…
…but only for a week. 🙂 It’s been a long time coming, but the brand new Music Matters Blog is almost done and ready to be launched! YAY! I can hardly wait to get the new look in place, but it will take about a week to get everything transferred and ready to go. Thus, […]
Another Fun Video Editing App!
While the Videolicious app that I posted about several weeks ago is great for creating narratives, I’ve been looking for a video editing app that would retain the original audio from the video files. Splice is just what I was hoping for! It is super simple to create a timeline of video clips, edit them, […]
2 Recital Prep Questions to Ask Students
With just a little over a week until our rehearsal for the Christmas recital, it’s going to be a close call for some of my students! It’s right about now that I start second-guessing myself and wondering if it was really such a good idea to give them a challenging piece to learn (even though […]
