Today, I am pleased to welcome Elizabeth Wellburn, author of the children’s book Echoes from the Square, for a special interview. What prompted your interest in writing this story about Vedran Smailovic, cellist of Sarajevo? My daughter Amy is a cellist, and we had heard about Mr. Smailovic’s actions on the internet. I believed that […]
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Win a Free Set of Animusic DVDs!
Have you seen these super cool music animations produced by Animusic? These highly creative animations are sure to mesmerize students, and are a fun resource for music teachers. In fact, Animusic has produced and made available free teacher guides for both of their DVDs. The guides were prepared by music teachers and correlate with items […]
MTNA Conference Blogging
If any of you, like me, wish you could have been at the MTNA Conference in Atlanta, but couldn’t make it, you will definitely want to take a few minutes to visit Laura Lowe’s blog. She did some blogging at the conference, and has several additional posts up now with brief summaries from some of […]
Earn Swagbucks Just By Searching the Web
I’ve been hearing about Swagbucks for a while now, and finally decided to check it out in more detail. (A friend of mine has been using this for several months now and loves it!) It was a piece of cake to sign up! Then all you have to do is download their search toolbar to […]
14-Year Old Jennifer Lin Performs and Improvises at the Piano
One of my students sent me the link to this video a while back and I finally sat down and watched it. It is amazing! About 15 minutes into it, Jennifer Lin does an improvisation activity that is incredible! Not only is she a great pianist, she also speaks articulately and connects well with the […]
Piano house in Huainan, Anhui
I just had to post a picture of this very cool piano house!