The first scheduled event of The Creative Life conference was dinner on Wednesday evening. I joined a table of other conference attendees and we enjoyed meeting one another and finding out what brought each of us to the conference. There was something familiar to me about the lady sitting across the table from me, but […]
Teaching
The Creative Life
As I mentioned briefly in my last post, I had the incredible opportunity a week and a half ago to attend The Creative Life Conference. Nestled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, Glen Eyrie, the historic castle built by General Palmer, the founder of Colorado Springs, now belongs to The Navigators and serves as […]
Take Note of this New Blog
Sheet Music Plus has recently launched a new blog called, Take Note. I’m always interested in finding out about new music blogs, but their special Music in Community series especially caught my attention. The first one highlights music teacher Candace Love and the free music school that she runs in San Jose, CA. A fascinating […]
A Couple Quick Images
Have you missed me?! 🙂 There are so many things I have been learning and working on that I want to post about – especially an amazing creative arts conference that I attended last week. (In fact, I’m planning to do a week-long series of posts on it next week, so stay tuned!) But for […]
Pattern Play Teaching Intensive Day 2
It has been a remarkable two days full of music-making, learning, growing, questioning, and thinking. Lots of thinking. I have greatly enjoyed sitting under the instruction of Akiko and Forrest. Even though it was stretching in a lot of ways, I know it is good for me to feel like a beginner and be forced […]
I Finally Get It!
It took two and a half years and an 8-hour teaching intensive, but at the end of the Pattern Play workshop today I had an epiphany. The philosophy undergirding this series is not that improvisation is a skill to be worked on as part of the piano lesson, but rather that improvisation (or creativity at […]
