Jordan will speak to the Senior Music Education Seminar at Towson University. Topics will include:
Founding a nonprofit arts organization
Pursuing advanced study in music
Applying music education training to a variety of musical contexts
Creating new opportunities
The contemporary landscape in music
Innovation in the arts
Arts Entrepreneurship
Nontraditional paths in the music career
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"The above ideas were hot research topics and were much debated in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Now they seem to be commonly accepted as truisms."
I have always appreciated Kyle Gann’s website for its resources for Florence Price’s Symphony No. 3. Recently, I took time to investigate some of the other resources he freely provides, including his own compositions, as well as links to his many books and albums. Among the resources on the site is a terrific “Chronology of the Symphony: 1730-2019,” listing years and major symphonies composed and/or premiered that year.
There is a terrific new article in American String Teacher (produced by the American String Teachers Association) called “The Case for Rehearsing at Performance Tempo.” In it, author and teacher Paul Trapkus discusses a common solution applied by many conductors to improving difficult technical passages, that of working under tempo.