No silver bullets – on the nature of “Proof”
The social power of music is something we hold to be good and true. And in many ways, this is greater proof than any study
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Opera-ting outside the lines
May 9, 2012
The manner in which we engage with art often divorces it entirely from its social origins: orchestra and opera companies deliver performances in great temples before catatonic worshipers, popular music concerts are presented at exorbitant – nay, elitist ticket prices in massive stadia that reinforce social isolation, rather than reducing it.
El Sistema, Special Needs and Music Therapy – new article now available online
April 25, 2012
Although Sistema and music therapy are not entirely analogous, there's a very natural, organic overlap between the two. We see this common ground in the vocabulary Sistema-inspired programs use to describe their activities and their impact, and how it often emphasizes the development of the individual as much as the community.
Them’s the breaks
April 17, 2012
This is the framework in which they can satisfy their own curiosity, when they'll expand their technique while they discover the neat tricks or sounds they can create with their instruments, and find out just how capable they are of growing on their own.
Sistema weekend in Ottawa
March 27, 2012
March might have come in like a lamb, after the mildest winter Boston (my place of residence) has seen in decades, but it’s going out like a lion thanks to the Leading Note Foundation Symposium on Social Change through Music in Ottawa this weekend. If you haven’t registered, there’s still time. Information is available… [Read more…]
“If you think education is expensive…”
March 22, 2012
Until education is viewed as the acquisition of multiple literacies for life-long learning rather than the timely regurgitation of factoids for standardized testing, music can’t compete in the educational sphere
Revenge of the Domestic Dispute Part 3 – in which all questions are answered and all issues forever resolved.
March 16, 2012
Music cannot be single purpose. The social element it offers is critical, but it's not the only one of importance or value.
The Domestic Dispute Strikes Back – Part 2, Jonathan vs. the Horn
March 12, 2012
...The part of the experience that has stayed with me the longest was the opportunity to engage with the music on a completely different level, to go beyond playing it to a place where I started to understand it, to appreciate its architecture and narrative experientially, even if I lacked the knowledge to deconstruct it theoretically. The difference was no more than frequency and repetition, but music had finally begun to mean something more to me.
The Domestic Dispute returns!
March 10, 2012
I occupied my mandated daily half hour by playing through things as best I could, trying to play fewer wrong notes each time without any conscious strategy or method, in a pseudo-Bachian optimism that if I were to hit most of the right keys at roughly the right time, the device would in fact play itself.
Thirty Minutes with Maestro Abreu
February 9, 2012
“Teaching is not something hierarchical. It’s a pleasure. We consider ourselves privileged to be a teacher, especially because in Venezuela we didn’t have the profession of music teacher in the past. There’s a sense of pride to achieve through your students.”
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- the pursuit of artistic excellence as an orchestral conductor
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