Recently, I gave a workshop in Wichita called “Nurturing Creativity and Inspiration.” Â I shared about how to be more creative in teaching and how to find that elusive concept of inspiration. Â Though I cannot condense a 2 hour workshop into […]
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The questions for Mona are trickling in and someone told me that I might not have allowed enough time to tell teachers, who would tell their students, who needed to think about questions, and then needed to submit them! Â So,
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ASCAP has announced its competition for the Rudolf Nissim Prize for Composition. PRIZE: $5,000 FOR THE BEST ORIGINAL CONCERT MUSIC SCOREÂ REQUIRING CONDUCTOR Dr. Rudolf Nissim, who served as head of ASCAP’s Foreign Department for four decades, also established the Concert
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Too often, when we only know someone in one context, they get stuck in our minds existing only in that specific context. Â Sometimes we see a teacher as someone always teaching, not someone who enjoys competitive cycling. Â Sometimes we see
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I hope you and your students are thinking of some questions to ask Mona for our composer interview! Â Please submit these in the comments section of this Composer Interview post. Â Here is a brief preliminary interview with Mona which discusses
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If you are a student composer, music teacher, or piano teacher, you will want to take advantage of this great opportunity to submit interview questions to a living composer! I’m sure you remember that last year, Kevin Costley was our
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Here is the final portion of “The Myths of Playing by Ear” by Bradley Sowash. Read Part 1 and Part 2. Myth #4 Improvising is only for jazz musicians. This one is easy to dispute. Playing by ear is downright
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Here is Part 2 of “The Myths of Playing by Ear” by Bradley Sowash.  Read Part 1 here. Myth #3 Only experts can teach ear skills. The biggest obstacle for students seeking ear skills is finding instruction. To illustrate this, let me
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I wanted to invite all my teaching friends to a workshop I will be giving entitled, “Nurturing Creativity and Inspiration.” Â This workshop will be on September 17th, at Senseney Music in Wichita from 9:30-11:30. Â The Wichita Piano Teacher League asked
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I just revised several files in the Manuscript Paper section of the website. It always bothered me that my large print, “6 stave with grand staff” staff paper allowed only 3 measures per line, since so many phrases are in
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The Great Fuzzy Event of 2026!
You will not believe what we released at this premier event! Four new Fuzzies solos, a new and FREE incentive program, summer ideas, new resources and so much more! Even the replay is super fun!
