PBS’s Beat Making Lab is a music and travel log that was developed at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in which musician educators Stephen Levitin and Pierce Freelon share the tools and techniques of digital music-making with young musicians in developing nations. Recently the pair visited Panama and created a six part series to accompany their visit. Read More »
Members of the Philadelphia Orchestra know the vital role music can play in a young person’s development. At the School Reform Commission meeting on May 15, Don Liuzzi, speaking on behalf of the Philadelphia Orchestra, where he is a timpanist, submitted a petition imploring the SRC not to let budget cuts deprive schools of the music and art programs that are essential to the development of students’ self-expression and creativity as well as the future of the city’s musical community. Read More »
DETROIT (AP) — Honda plans to give the Detroit Symphony Orchestra $150,000 this weekend to commemorate the completion of a 5-year music education partnership. The Japanese automobile and engine maker is expected to present the check Sunday at Orchestra Hall during a performance by 150 Detroit elementary and middle school students. Read More »
The NAfME advocacy team would like to extend its sincerest thanks to the NAfME leaders from across the United States who wrote to the superintendent of Lansing’s public schools regarding the elimination music teacher positions. The success of this response depended on the participation of many of our colleagues in Michigan, including Cory Micheel-Mays and his team at the Michigan Music Education Association Read More »
Four years ago Heidi Welch began planning a spring trip for her music students, a performance trip to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Welch, a 9–12 grade music teacher from New Hampshire, had no idea when she began plans for the trip that she would need to make little detour to the White House on the way home. Read More »
NAfME is pleased to announce that Daniel Levitin will present the keynote address at the opening of the Conference on April 10, 2014. Daniel Levitin is an award-winning scientist, musician, and record producer. He is the author of the number one best seller This Is Your Brain on Music, which was published in nineteen languages and spent more than one year on the New York Times best seller list. His newest book, The World in Six Songs, topped the bestseller lists in its first week of release. Read More »
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