Welcome to the 5th edition of the Music Education Blog Carnival! It is an honor to host the carnival this month and bring to you a number of compelling articles and thoughts. Now entrenched in midst of our school year, busy doesn’t even begint to describe our days. The best thing that all these articles do is give us a moment […]
A friend from a distant school emailed me the other day asking my (along with several others) for some input about a scheduling/curriculum issue. I read through the email, and decided to give it some thought during my 44 minute red light of study hall duty. Later that night I returned to my email to find another colleague had responded to […]
So Dr. Pisano says to me ” You’re hosting the November Blog Carnival.” I say “Sure!” He didn’t share with me that this carnival lacks funnel cake…very distressing. But we are lining up a series of great posts for the November carnival. I can almost smell the funnel cake from here… There is plenty of room for new posts as well as bringing […]
The morning was calm. Too calm. After taking one last drink of coffee, I picked up my scores, baton, and tuner and began walking towards the podium. In just seconds part of my middle school band would descend upon our rehearsal room eager to learn and play music (or maybe it was just the sugar from the snack line at […]
T.H.E. Journal featured the “Skype Concert” held at Mercer High School back on May 6, 2008. This ground-breaking event staged with the help of Dr. Joseph Pisano (he’s visionary!), the wonderful students at Mercer MS-HS, and composers Brian Balmages, Scott Watson, and Andrew Boysen Jr. is continuing to make headlines! Read all about by clicking here!
