It is the Super Bowl of Music Conferences. The Cadillac of Music Cars. It is the only place where you hear gems like:
Francis McBeth” “I am proud to say I have lived long enough to see the rise and fall of Communism in Russia and 12 tone rows.”
A wonderful two days in the city of Chicago, Illinois. There were many personal highlights along the way. I will make no apology for the shameless promotion of a few really good writers and new found friends that I spent some time with, in addition to an uplifting musical experience thanks to James Keene!
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What a great day of teaching! MS Band played through the setting of the Jupiter Chorale, HS Band worked Flourish for Band by Vaughan Williams, and the Wind Ensemble really dug into 1st Suite by Holst (After all, The British are coming…). But that wasn’t even the best part. Thanks to the encouragement and assistance of Dr. Joseph Pisano, I brought a little bit of 21st Century Technology into my presentation today. Using a Lenovo Webcam (provided by our Classrooms for the Future Coordinator Tracy Sevin), a spare data projector, a couple of microphones, and some auxilary speakers Jason Davis (from Texas!) was able to join my 8th Grade General Music Classroom. In addition to Tracy and Joe, Dr. Hoge (HS Principal), Mrs. Tina Greig (MS Guidance Councilor), and Gail Habbyshaw (a reporter from the Record Argus) were present to see the session.
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Easy there Paul Revere, it is just a concert we have started preparing for in February. Bump on over to Wildvoice and check out the links. The months to come will probably spurn a few more podcasts about this group of composers. My favorite, Ralph Vaughan Williams, is amongst them, so you must excuse my bias.
I am pleased to report that Pirates! is posted in its entirety, so please give a listen over at myspace.com/travisjweller when you get a chance! My thanks and appreciation are extended to Dr. R. Tad Greig and the Westminster College Wind Ensemble for inviting me over to conduct them on October 26, 2007. It was a great experience, and they really delivered what I hoped the music could be.
If you care about music education and our future as a profession, make a quick journey over to Owen Bradley’s blog (The Digital Music Educator). He has written a great blog in reaction to the movie “August Rush”. He poses a great question regarding if an individual is considered a great musician despite not having the ability to read and write music. Joe Pisano (from Mustech.net) offers some great thoughts as well. Don’t click over and think that’s nice – click on over, give it some thought and join the conversation!!!
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