Music Education

School Districts Sound Sour Note to Cut Costs

Meryl Ain, Ed.D. | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Creativity, Education, Budget Cuts, Music Education, School Finances, Imagination, Arts Education, Education News

A report this week by the U.S. Department of Education paints a dreary picture of arts education in the nation.

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There Is Something About El Sistema

John M. Eger | Posted 06.02.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Orchestra, Parenting, Global Poverty, Dropout Epidemic, Music, Mentoring, Music Education, Arts News

El Sistema, which doesn't translate well, means simply "the system," a system for giving young, usually poor kids, a chance on living. At first glance it's about music. Getting young people to play an instrument, then joining an orchestra. It is that for sure, but so much more.

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Music Unites Campus Representative Program Gives Back by Mentoring NYC Students

Michelle Edgar | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: The Bailen Brothers, Sophia Melon, Columbia University, Demi Lovato, Music Education, New York City, Choir, Music Unites, Campus Progress, Impact News

Music education is an essential aspect of child development. However, because of budget cuts, especially in our inner city schools, music education is among the first things to go.

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Emmy-Award-Winning Violinist Saves High School Music Programs

portwashington.patch.com | Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Electrify Your Strings, Mark Wood, D'addario Strings, Port Washington, Music Education, Greatest-Person-of-the-Day, Wood Violins, School Music Programs, Saving School Music Programs, Mountain View High School, Impact News

Mark Wood steps into a high school auditorium, his patented electric violin in hand. The kids know immediately: this is no ordinary music lesson. T...

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Music Unites: Empowering, Inspiring and Uniting NYC High School Students Through the Power of Music

Michelle Edgar | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: The Rolling Stones, Public Schools, Cobra Starship, Education, Shontelle, Music Education, Gary Clark Jr., Choir, Rolling Stone, Non-Profits, Music Unites, Arts Education, Impact News

The arts and music education is always the first to go during budget cuts. As cutbacks continue, there is a greater need for music non-profit organizations like Music Unites.

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Taking the Snow Home to São Paulo

Alessandra Costa | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Projeto Guri, Sao Paulo, Music Education, Brazil, Guri Project, Good News News

Ian, a student from Projeto Guri, a music education program of the São Paulo state government, had never left his home state, much less his country. On February 7, he traveled with his violin and 17 friends to Detroit, Michigan.

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More Music Please

C. M. Rubin | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: John Corigliano, Arts and Education, Music Education, The Talent Code, Paquito D?Riviera, Francisco J. Nunez, Jerry Kremer, Howard Gardner, C. M. Rubin, Children?S Choruses, Carnegie Hall Choral Institute, David Del Tredici, Transient Glory Symposium, Young People?S Chorus of New York City, Music Performance, Joan Tower, Michael Gordon, Education News

All children should have the opportunity to experience, learn and perform choral music by great composers. Francisco J. Nunez, Artistic Director and Founder of The Young People's Chorus of New York City, believes this.

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So You Want to Be an Opera Singer?

Susanne Mentzer | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Classical Music, Opera, Opera Education, Julliard, Voice Coaches, Music Education Advice, Music Education, Opera Singers, Arts News

Majoring in music entails major multitasking and focus and a particular skill set. Those who think it is easy are misguided as those who think we never landed on the moon.

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NBC To Fund Musical Theater Programs For Needy Schools

AP | By LYNN ELBER | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Video, Music Education, Musical Theater, Musical Theater Education, Needy Schools, Musical Theater Programs, Itheatrics Junior Theater Project, Itheatrics, Junior Theater Project, Arts Education, Make a Musical, Nbc, Education News

PASADENA, Calif. -- NBC is funding an initiative to create musical theater programs in U.S. schools in need of arts education. The network said Frida...

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Music and the Arts: A New Opera

C. M. Rubin | Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Sarah Brightman, Suzan and Jerry Kremer, Jim Henson, Brundibar, Victoria Bond, Opera for Children, Music Education, Miracle!, Francisco Nunez, President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, Young People's Chorus, Miracle of Hanukkah, Sophia Miller, Hans Krasa, Susan L. Roth, Andrew Lloyd Weber, Arts News

Twenty-three years since its beginning, Nunez's Young People's Chorus has become one of the most influential and honored choruses in the world. In the process, it has introduced millions of listeners, young and old, to great music across the spectrum.

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Raising Their Voices

Network Awesome | Posted 10.28.2011

Read More: Video, Music Education Programs, PS22 Chorus Director, Music Education, PS22 Oscar Performance, PS22 Chorus, PS22 Chorus Youtube, Ps22 Oscars, PS22 Breinberg, Entertainment News

The PS22 Chorus' many fans include musicians, movie and television stars, politicians, and the list continues. To appreciate the chorus, you need to start with the man who dreamed it up: Gregg Breinberg.

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Cutting Electives From High School Grad Requirements Will Have Big Impact

MercuryNews.com | Sharon Noguchi | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Education, School Electives, High School Graduation, Music Education, Foreign Language Education, Cutting Electives, Vocational Programs, California Schools, High School Graduation Requirements, Paul Hay, Arts Education, Jerry Brown, Education News

It's hailed by some as a way to cut California's 18 percent dropout rate, and condemned by others as the beginning of a two-tier education system that...

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How About Some Country, Rock And Rap For Homework?

Speakeasy, WSJ | John Jurgensen | Posted 11.16.2011

By John Jurgensen, The Wall Street Journal Nashville bills itself as Music City–now it’s trying to lock in the future of that status. The city ...

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Music and Our Children

Agnes Gund | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Music Education, Music in Schools, Classical Music, Music and Child Development, Music and Kids, Music Children, Music Class, Music and Children, New York News

I am also discovering music everywhere else. For American youngsters, music is alive and loud outside of school. The commitment to playing and singing and concertizing takes many forms.

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'Glee' DVD Maker Donates $1 Million To Music Education

AP | Posted 11.09.2011

Read More: Twentieth Century Fox Entertainment, Glee, National Association for Music Education, Education, Twentieth Century Fox, Music Education, Glee Dvd, Education News

NEW YORK — The maker of the "Glee" DVDs is donating $1 million to school arts programs across the country. Twentieth Century Fox Entertainment ...

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The Global Search for Education: If Music Be the Food....

C. M. Rubin | Posted 09.25.2011

Let us speak of even greater things with the innovative educator and president of Bard College, Leon Botstein: a man who understands the juxtaposition of art and education better than any.

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Students Sound Off: Sophomore Jonathan Murray Hinely On Why Music Education Is Essential

The Huffington Post | Jonathan Murray Hinely | Posted 07.15.2011

Read More: Get Schooled, Students Sound Off, School Budget Cuts, Music Education, Arts Education, Education Budget Cuts, Education News

"Students Sound Off" is an ongoing student blogger contest aimed at providing students a loud and clear voice in the education debate presented by Huf...

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'Good Schools Have the Arts' -- Isn't That What We Want for All Kids?

Richard Kessler | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Equity, Music Education, Dance Education, Music, Art Education, Arts Education, New York City Public Schools, Michael Hinojosa, Education Reform, Education News

Change will require the type of leadership that makes it known that schools without the arts cannot be good schools and will no longer be accepted.

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Teachers Should Cry, Get Mad, Do Something!

Gary Stager | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: At-Risk Youth, Harlem, Music Education, 60 Minutes, Hope, Standardized Testing, Teachers, Education Reform, Art Education, Love, Joy, Education News

I am sick and tired of hearing about "those kids" and how they're failing! You never know when the slightest gesture of good will, willingness to listen or an act of kindness can change a young person's life.

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Budget Blues: Music Teacher Goes Solo After School Cuts Music Program

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Music in Public Schools, Youth Mentoring, Teachers, Music Education, Arts Education, Mentoring, Music Teacher, Video, Education News

When the public school music program was eliminated at Patterson Public School No. 7, music teacher Nathan Thomas warned his students that he'd be Bac...

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Music Unites Expands Efforts in 2011 With Nationwide Instrument Drive

Michelle Edgar | Posted 05.25.2011

In less than two years, Music Unites has grown exponentially and expanded a number of its programs. The New York-based non-profit has grown from an id...

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Waiting for SuperCandidate! What do the 2010 Candidates Say About Education?! (VIDEO)

Levi Felix | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Education, 2010 Elections, Public School Education, Education Reform, Georgia Education, Public Education, Music Education, Students-Rights, Elections 2010, Education News

Some people say that they don't want education to become political. But with the election around the corner, it is hard to avoid the reality that local and state politicians have the power to lead our communities in many directions.

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Josh Groban, Bing Donate New Instruments To Underfunded School Music Department

HuffPost | Victoria Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Education, Slideshow, Bing, Music Education, Bing Our School Needs, Josh Groban Foundation, Josh Groban Charity, Josh Groban, Marie Curie Middle School, Grammy Awards, Impact News

In a music class at Marie Curie Middle School in New York City on Thursday, students were sitting on their hands to keep still. Grammy award-winning s...

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Stix Bones of Soulfège

Lucia Brawley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aretha Franklin, Inner City Schools, Hip Hop, Music Education, Mos Def, Mary J. Blige, The Roots, Q-Tip, Quincy Jones, Clive Davis, Music, A Tribe Called Quest, Arts Education, Drummer, DJ Scratch, Entertainment News

I first introduced you to the band Soulfège through its leader -- musician, public speaker, entrepreneur and Oprah Radio host, Derrick Ashong -- in m...

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Breaking News: Lang Lang Will Stick With Piano

Laurence Vittes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chopin, Lang Lang, Music Education, iPad Apps, Magic Piano, Debussy, Best Ipad Apps, Ipad, Piano, Arts News

Already a legend for his Flight of the Bumblebee on an iPad with the San Francisco Symphony, Lang Lang is announcing the release of Version 2.0 of his best-selling iPad-only app, Magic Piano.

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