You can watch this video I put together last night to catch a glimpse of how our Olympic-themed Piano Camp turned out this week. It’s impossible to capture everything, but suffice it to say that we had a wonderful time!
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Great Pianists on Piano Playing Podcasts
Michael Griffin, developer of the Music Education World website and author of the Music and Keyboard in the Classroom curriculum, has just posted eight episodes of a new Great Pianists on Piano Playing Podcast (scroll to the bottom of the page for the links). The eight episodes range from 5 to 18 minutes in length […]
How to Register Your Own Domain Name and Point it to Any Website
I just gave a workshop last weekend to our local music teachers association on setting up your own website. Regardless of whether you are designing your own site from scratch or are using a pre-designed website from another provider (like Music Teacher’s Helper), you will definitely want to set up your own domain name so […]
Amazing Grace: The True Story – A New Musical
I first read about this new musical, Amazing Grace: The True Story, in a news magazine and was thrilled! The story of how it came to be (nine years in the making!) is fascinating. I’ve been following their website and subscribed to their newsletter so that I could stay up-to-date with the progress. From everything […]
Piano Camp Planning
Next week will be my week of piano camps and I’m sitting here at my dining room table with papers scattered around, jotting down ideas and finalizing the daily outline while the strains of Vivaldi’s Oboe Concertos quietly escape the speakers of my CD player in the background. There are always so many ideas and […]
Don’t Slam on the Brakes!
Lately I’ve found myself using the same analogy with a number of my students because it seems to be very effective. I tell them to imagine that they are riding in the car with one of their parents and are approaching a stop sign. Then I ask whether their parent waits until they are right […]
