Longy’s New 1-Year Master of Music in Music Education
Applications are now open for Longy School of Music of Bard College’s new one-year Master of Music in Music Education degree in Boston, MA. The new program, which starts in 2020, builds on the success of Longy’s Master of Arts... Read More →
Mr. Rogers and Stronger Teaching Impact
Feature films about the late Fred Rogers have put him back in the public eye, but in one way he never left. The Fred Rogers Center leads a program in partnership with Harvard Graduate School of Education and the University of Pittsburgh... Read More →
MusAid Summer Program
The MusAid summer lab offers musicians the unique opportunity to perform and teach at socially-driven music programs around the world during two-week summer workshops taking place in El Salvador, May 28-June 13, and India, June 29-July 12. MusAid Teaching Artists teach, perform and... Read More →
New Assessment Tool for Teaching Artists
What is “excellence” in the arts? There is a worldwide effort to redefine what the word “excellent” can mean in an arts-for-social-change context. Researcher/activist Dennie Palmer Wolf investigates the ways teaching artists can use the report “Attributes of Excellence in Arts for Change,” from Animating... Read More →
MUSAIC, a Video Library of Learning for Classical Musicians
MUSAIC is a collaborative digital project from some of of the most distinguished institutions in classical music: the New World Symphony, Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London), Manhattan School of Music, Royal Danish Academy of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music, Curtis Institute... Read More →
Do you know about these seven black composers?
You may know about Florence Price and Scott Joplin, but do you know the work of George Bridgetower, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges? Make sure you know about these seven black composers who made classical music history. ... Read More →
Expanding the Ways We Evaluate Excellence
For twenty years, the initiative Animating Democracy, from Americans for the Arts, has been the most prominent national organization supporting arts for social and civic change in the United States. A few years ago they produced a significant report called Aesthetic... Read More →
Teach to Learn
Although we live in a world connected extensively through the web and social media, it can still be challenging to forge meaningful connections between creative individuals from different cultures. This is especially true for individuals who seek mentorship within the... Read More →
Discover Musical Explorers: A Teaching Resource for Little Ones!
Musical Explorers has long been a beloved live program at Carnegie Hall for kindergartners through second graders. Using singing, listening, and movement, it builds fundamental musical skills through a diverse global music curriculum. Carnegie Hall has now made its curriculum... Read More →
Announcing the launch of Music In Action Journal: A Knowledge Hub for the Frontlines of Music-For-Social-Action
When cultural historians reflect on the late 20th and early 21st centuries, one of the most significant paradigm shifts noted will be the explosion of music-for-social-action initiatives across the globe. Inspired by the work of pioneering figures including Jorge Peña... Read More →