Strings instruction helps overall learningHilton Head Island Packet"A 2007 Kansas study found that students in high-quality school music education programs score higher on standardized tests compared to students in schools ...
Canadian Rockers Join The Music Fashion ProjectMusic Indistry News NetworkRock for Kids provides free year-round music education for children.” “It's a pleasure to have Theory of a Deadman on board supporting us,” commented Maria ...
Northeastern University Taps Noteflight to Take Music Education OnlinePR Web (press release)"Northeastern is a university that is ready, willing and able to harness the power of online technology for music education," said Joe Berkovitz, ...
The Doctor Rocks!www.kennydavinfine.netKenny Davin Fine is a singer/songwriter whose body of work spans the musical spectrum, ranging everywhere from classic rock to blues to country-rock. It’s a varied palette of artistry that’s almost as versatile as the artist himself… who also happens to be a medical doctor ...
Take note: Music skills benefit youths' brainsRockford Register StarMichael Day, 17, (left) holds sheet music while practicing with Kantorei, The Singing Boys of Rockford, Monday, Oct. 12,at the Second Congressional Church ...
Make A Donation to Support Music Education October 19-20 and Help ...By MENC MENC: The National Association for Music Education is the world's largest arts education organization and the only association that addresses all aspects of music education.
Talented teen Shaheen backs school singing initiativeWalesOnlineMusic education in Welsh schools is currently being reviewed by the Assembly Government after stars including Katherine Jenkins and Catrin Finch together ...
Alexander Autographs to Offer Rare Michael Jackson Memorabilia, Including His ...ReutersAlexander Autographs, Inc. and Mohegan Sun are proud to be a part of VH1 Save the Music Foundation's important work to restore music education in America's ...

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Venezuela's winning system for saving children through musicToronto StarAny account of El Sistema reveals that the music education itself is different, less focused on the self. Traditionally, most music students aim to become ...
New Artist Spotlight: Nathan Lee JacksonGreat American CountryNathan Lee Jackson nourished his talent with a regimen of piano lessons, church choirs, talent contests ...
Paul Shaffer's 'Swingin' ' message for the kidsCNN... from piano lessons in his native Canada to a "Saturday Night Live" stint to the gig he's had, and relished, for 27 years -- Letterman's sidekick. ...
Hutt, J makes statement on The Review of Music Education in Wales for 3-19 ...DeHavilland (press release) (subscription)This Statement provides Members with details of the action being taken to improve the range of opportunities for music education in schools and the ...
Emmylou HarrisHour.caBelieve it or not, when Country Music Hall of Famer Emmylou Harris was a kid, she took piano lessons and hated it. "Then I discovered Pete Seeger and folk ...
Christmas caroling can be especially merry if you plan aheadKFSMSince Santa is the only one with a red-nosed reindeer to cut through the dark, bringing flashlights or clip-on reading lights to read the sheet music and ...
Sweet Adelines International Prepares to Set a Guinness World Record for ...eReleases (press release)This nonprofit music education association is headquartered in Tulsa, Okla., where it was founded in 1945. It is one of the world's largest singing ...
Dudamel's great, but he's not the whole showLos Angeles TimesDudamel speaks passionately about the need for such broad-based music education. In that spirit, the Los Angeles Philharmonic already has beefed up its ...
Mehta launches program to aid Israeli Arab communityHa'aretzBy Noam Ben-Zeev A concert was held yesterday at Beit Almusica, the music conservatory in the northern Arab town of Shfaram, to launch a new music education ...

October 2009

Mentoring mastery: KU program makes music education affordable for children in ...
Lawrence Journal World
Oliver is part of a KU music education group Music Mentors that provides free lessons to children in need. Tatum McCart pulls her half-sized violin out of ...

Berklee music school reaches out to Latin America
Boston Herald
But now the school has launched an even more aggressive effort to recruit more and be a dominant force in music education in Spanish-speaking countries. ...

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Berklee in trademark battle
Boston Herald By Donna Goodison
Berklee College of Music is suing a Florida company that offers online music education to colleges, claiming it blatantly lifted content ...

Paul Shaffer's Showbiz Journey
CBS News
He is the piano-playing Tonto to Letterman's Lone Ranger, a job that Letterman says is very important. "Paul is essential," Letterman said. ...

Student to develop music theory teaching site
Otago Daily Times By John Lewis on Tue, 6 Oct 2009
Music education for the masses . . . University of Otago performance piano student Jaroslav Novak has won an AMP Regional ...

Loving restoration of a piano captured on film
San Francisco Chronicle...
to work there straight out of Piedmont High in 1975, he got seniority, though he is the only one of eight Callahan kids who didn't take piano lessons. ...

Latin Music Night Planned at the White House
New York Times
The concert will also feature a house band led by Mr. Escovedo's daughter, Sheila E. The concert will be shown on PBS on Oct. 15, on Telemundo on Oct. 18 ...

Tim McGraw to appear on Letterman before concert at Ed Sullivan theater
New York Daily News
After taping Letterman, McGraw will do a concert from the stage of the Ed Sullivan Theater. It will go out live to CBS Radio's country music stations around ...

Another Mozart?
The Sun
A BRITISH lad is being hailed as the new Mozart after just FOUR MONTHS of piano lessons. Schoolboy Shane Thomas, practises for four hours a ...

Hollywood's New Dude
Wall Street Journal
He comes from an developing country which boasts a music education program called El Sistema, which annually provides a quarter of a million children with ...

Week Ending October 4, 2009

The quest to save classical music and opera

SDNN

And there's not enough hands-on music education to fully prepare the audiences of tomorrow. Generous funding, both public and private, would help greatly. ...


Justin Timberlake in Sync with Kids' Charity

People Magazine

"He cares about music education and wants to make sure these kids can continue to have music lessons," says Ronen Segev, founder of the non-profit, ...


Virginia Tech University Libraries acquires Carter-Cash family ...

Staunton News Leader

The collection includes biographies and memoirs, sheet music, programs from performances and festivals, funeral programs, photographs, newspaper and ...


Music Education at a Crossroads Reaffirms the Right of Every Child ...

NewsReleaseWire.com (press release)

RESTON, VA (September 3, 2009) – Music Education at a Crossroads, a new publication edited by Janet Barrett and published by MENC: The National Association ...


Michael Jackson medley video a Web hit

Detroit Free Press

Schneider told the Inquirer that he has received thousands of requests for the sheet music and has started a business to sell his arrangements.