Arts Entrepreneurship — Third Dimension
After digesting the many superb responses, both published here and private, to last week’s blog entry, I spent a lot of time pondering what is really bothering me about the arts entrepreneurship...
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3:30 a.m.
From time to time I find myself in discussions with trustees asking very detailed questions about the future of NEC. The last question they ask, though, is almost invariably the same. “So Tony, what...
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Teaching, Learning, Experience (III)
Photo: Andrew Hurlbut/ New England ConservatoryOutside NEC’s Jordan Hall, there is a giant poster depicting one of our students, a young violinist playing with obvious emotion and concentration on a...
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What’s in a Fludde?
One of the most creative and inventive films I’ve seen recently was Wes Anderson’s 2012 Moonrise Kingdom, with all the strange oddities of style, camera angles, and storyline that make this director’s...
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Being in Tune
The Guildhall School of Music & Drama, housed at the Barbican in London, is an extraordinary cauldron of invention. It teaches some of the finest young musicians and actors, has community...
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Ranking Music Schools: What’s Wrong with This Picture?
This is the second post in our August Guest Blog Series! Barbra Weidlein is co-founder and director of MajoringInMusic.com, a website for prospective music and current music majors, parents, and music...
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A Note to Me: D.C.
What I Would Tell My Younger Self… As a university professor, I often tell my studio stories from my student days in order to make a point about something, usually practicing! I have been thinking...
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Benjamin Franklin and the Reflective Conservatoire
I recently heard a mordantly humorous new take on Benjamin Franklin’s most famous quote: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes and the immutability of...
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Every couple of years or so, someone in the mainstream media decides that Orchestral Auditions Are Interesting and does a story on them. This better-than-most iteration, written by Janelle Gelfand,...
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When Jean Sibelius Almost Taught at the Eastman School
File this one under the category of “fascinating music school history.” According to Vincent Lenti’s 2004 book, “For the Enrichment of Community Life: George Eastman and the Founding of the Eastman...
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Save the Date! Paul R. Judy Center Conference – October 8, 2016
Join us in Rochester, NY for a one-day conference organized by the Eastman School of Music’s Paul R. Judy Center for Applied Research! The title of the conference is INNOVATE. LEAD. MUSIC. and the day...
View ArticleArts Entrepreneurship — Third Dimension
After digesting the many superb responses, both published here and private, to last week’s blog entry, I spent a lot of time pondering what is really bothering me about the arts entrepreneurship...
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3:30 a.m.
From time to time I find myself in discussions with trustees asking very detailed questions about the future of NEC. The last question they ask, though, is almost invariably the same. “So Tony, what...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Teaching, Learning, Experience (III)
Photo: Andrew Hurlbut/ New England ConservatoryOutside NEC’s Jordan Hall, there is a giant poster depicting one of our students, a young violinist playing with obvious emotion and concentration on a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What’s in a Fludde?
One of the most creative and inventive films I’ve seen recently was Wes Anderson’s 2012 Moonrise Kingdom, with all the strange oddities of style, camera angles, and storyline that make this director’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Being in Tune
The Guildhall School of Music & Drama, housed at the Barbican in London, is an extraordinary cauldron of invention. It teaches some of the finest young musicians and actors, has community...
View ArticleRanking Music Schools: What’s Wrong with This Picture?
This is the second post in our August Guest Blog Series! Barbra Weidlein is co-founder and director of MajoringInMusic.com, a website for prospective music and current music majors, parents, and music...
View ArticleA Note to Me: D.C.
What I Would Tell My Younger Self… As a university professor, I often tell my studio stories from my student days in order to make a point about something, usually practicing! I have been thinking...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Benjamin Franklin and the Reflective Conservatoire
I recently heard a mordantly humorous new take on Benjamin Franklin’s most famous quote: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes and the immutability of...
View Article15 seconds
Every couple of years or so, someone in the mainstream media decides that Orchestral Auditions Are Interesting and does a story on them. This better-than-most iteration, written by Janelle Gelfand,...
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