…Marie Harris! Thanks to all who took part in this contest! I hope you enjoy implementing Go For The Gold in your studios; I would love to hear any feedback or suggestions for improvement. Marie, if you can e-mail me your postal address, I’ll get the box in the mail to you today!
Win a Free Practice Incentive Kit!
As I was clearing all the items from last year’s practice incentive – Go For The Gold! – out of my studio, I contemplated how I would love to pass on all these materials to another teacher who was interested in implementing the theme in his or her studio. I decided that the best way […]
Go For The Gold!
The practice incentive I developed for last year – Go For The Gold! – is now compiled and available for purchase. In the spirit of the Olympics, I developed a practice incentive with an Olympic theme. One new thing I tried was assigning each student to a team and then basing the winners on the […]
Carnegie Hall Listening Adventures
Here’s another great site you should check out: the Carnegie Hall Listening Adventures website. You can register an account for yourself and even set up multiple accounts for your students and monitor their progress as they work through the different phases of the Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra program. It looks very interesting and […]
Incredible Music History Resource!
You must go check out the Keeping Score website, developed by the San Francisco Symphony! According to the website, “Keeping Score is the San Francisco Symphony’s national, multi-year program designed to make classical music more accessible to people of all ages and musical backgrounds. Keeping Score uses media in its most public and accessible forms […]
Learn about the Instruments of the Symphony Orchestra
Here’s a handy website I ran across as I’ve been trying to track down good website resources for my students. You can click on each of the sections in the orchestra to see a close up view of the instrument, complete with labels for each of the different parts of the instrument. The information is […]
