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Coming to the end of 2009 – a message from the Executive Director

14 hours ago ago from The Fender Music Foundation

As the year closes, please consider making a donation to The Fender Music Foundation. Music education programs are in great need right now, and your donation will go a long way for them. We are receiving record numbers of grant applications, but our funding has not increased at all this year. So, without your help, many programs will go without and will have to limit their reach, leaving many people without the opportunity to make music. ...

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Fenway’s own “Maestro” bringing music to local parks this summer

1 day ago ago from Fenway News Online

By Kaileigh Higgins Weekdays you can catch Ricardo Slevira walking along Queensbury Street with his violin on his back and a skip in his step on his way home from teaching at Boston Latin School. Slevira, a longtime Fenway resident better known to his students as “Maestro,” has spent most of his career sharing his love of music with others, and will take the next step to share it with others in upcoming summer seasons. He recently won a ...

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Hearing Music

18 hours ago ago from Gamer Plus

Overview Designed to include hearing music as a step in the music learning process, this program breaks music down to patterns and levels, from beginner to advanced. Children the opportunity to identify different parts of music, encouraging them to hear the nuances in a melody, the change in a rhythm and the subtleties woven into pieces by famous composers. A computer-adaptive program makes the games progressively harder or easier as the ...

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Greensboro College Opens Pop-Music Course to General Public - Carolina Newswire (press release)

16 hours ago ago from Pop Music Video Blog

Greensboro College Opens Pop - Music Course to General Public Carolina Newswire (press release) GREENSBORO, NC Greensboro College is opening to the general public a spring-semester music course on popular songs being team-taught by two veteran

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Experts Say Music Brings More Than Good Listening To Young Texas Ears

17 hours ago ago from Kill the Music - Articles About the Music Business

For decades, educators in general, and those with specific training in music in particular, have been touting the values of the experience. As research continues on the intrinsic value of having students exposed to formal music education, more and more people are understanding how the functioning of the human brain is enhanced by training in music. In cities throughout Texas, including the larger cities of Dallas, Houston and Austin, ...

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Napster: The File-Sharing Service That Started It All? : NPR

22 hours ago ago from NPR

Search: Share this page using one of the following services: Facebook Twitter Stumble Upon Reddit Digg Napster: The File-Sharing Service That Started It All? Listen Now [3 min 52 sec] on Morning Edition add to playlist | download Enlarge John G. Mabanglo / AFP/Getty Images Napster founder Shawn Fanning at a press conference in February 2001, after an ...

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