Short video clips of musicians and other entertainers discussing their successful performance experiences was the introduction to the keynote address by Bill Moore, author of Playing Your Best When It Counts. What are the images, sensations, and feelings that come to mind when you think about your best performance? After encouraging us to contemplate this […]
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2011 MTNA Conference – Sunday Morning – Alfred Showcase
Good morning from Milwaukee! The exhibitor showcases started bright and early this morning, and I’m currently sitting in an Alfred showcase. Dennis Alexander plays samples from his Especially in Jazzy Style collection. Next, Martha Mier took the bench and played pieces from her series, Musical Snapshots – 9 Original Solos for the Intermediate Pianist Portraying […]
2011 MTNA Conference – Opening Session – Culminating a Year of Collaborative Music
Wouldn’t you know it, we had internet connection issues tonight, so this post won’t quite be live. We are working on the issue and it should be resolved tomorrow so that the posts will be live throughout the day! Anyway…here is a rundown from the Opening Session: After some lovely prelude music performed by Stained […]
Interview with Easy Ear Training
A while back, Christopher Sutton, of the Easy Ear Training website, contacted me about doing an interview for their Music & Life series. The list of questions I received was pretty extensive and very thought-provoking, so it took me a while to finish them, but you can now read the complete interview on the Easy […]
10 Interactive Music Websites for Students
When I was doing some research recently, I came across this handy compilation of 10 Interactive Learning Websites for Some Fun and Games with Music. Some of these I have seen before, but some of them were new to me. They will be great to pass along to students! And it’s always nice to have […]
Zenph – Pioneering the Future of Music Technology
This has got to be one of the most incredible things I’ve read about in a while! Listen to the Before and After recordings of Rachmaninoff’s performance of his arrangement of Kreisler’s Liebesleid on the homepage of the Zenph website and you’ll see what I mean. I couldn’t believe how beautiful the “After” recording was, […]
