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 ...