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How to pick a piano teacher: with public schools slashing their art and music budgets left and right, you don't need to be a homeschooler to find this "Why is she playing that same piece again? Isn't she making any progress with this teacher?" Linda, mother of four homeschooled children, thinks as she heard her six-year-old Kari plunking away at...(Continue Reading) Frank Gehry, public artist: a year after its opening, Disney Hall is a huge popular success, a spectacular icon that draws crowds to downtown Los Angeles. Now that the Walt Disney Concert Hall has passed its acoustics tests, revealing a bright and detailed yet blended, mellow sound and a democratic reach ......(Continue Reading)Where do I go with … music? Do you hear music in your future? These four successful people did, too Some people cry at the opera. Others never feel more alive than when they're listening to their favorite band and playing air guitar. Then there are ......(Continue Reading)Music Teachers National Association Assessment Tools for the Independent Music Teacher SELF-ASSESSMENT TOOL 1 MTNA SELF-ASSESSMENT TOOL for the Independent Music Teacher MTNA offers this assessment tool to provide music teachers with an ......(Continue Reading)Crowd control: how audiences make music - On Political Books One morning in 1998, I drove to a funeral home in Chicago's South Side to watch a crowd of aging bluesmen pay final tribute to harmonica great Junior ......(Continue Reading)
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