HI Everyone, Here at mid-week, it's not a very happening place "in my world" (as fellow blogger ML says!)
(I mean, it's happening, it's just not that newsworthy or exciting!), so I'll just leave you with some links to "musical" articles and sound sources you may wish to check out in your "spare" time, and/or share with your students! SCROLL DOWN.......
Hope you have a good week, and see you next! SR
Van Cliburn: 50 years later! Read how the 23 year old piano player from Texas took the Soviet Union by storm, and became the first and only American musician ever to receive a ticker tape parade in the states! Listen to his hit recording (first classical recording to ever sell more than a million copies) of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, recorded just six weeks after winning the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow! Click HERE Wings Over Jordan: learn about a weekly Gospel program on national radio, created by and for African Americans, at a time when segregation was still strong, when there were very few opportunties for black people in the United States to make themselves heard! Hear the report and read transcript CLICK HERE
12 year old composer: Read about a 12 year old girl who started composing in 3rd grade "because she loved it", "right off the bat", when composition was introduced at her school. She was born in Bangladesh, and her music was just played by the New York Philharmonic in N. Korea!
12 year old composer: Read about a 12 year old girl who started composing in 3rd grade "because she loved it", "right off the bat", when composition was introduced at her school. She was born in Bangladesh, and her music was just played by the New York Philharmonic in N. Korea!
Amateur songwriters for Obama: unknown musicians compose their own odes to the presidential candidate. CLICK
"The Boss" (Bruce Springsteen) discusses his latest album and what inspired him (or not!). Hear the conversation, and read it too. CLICK
