Education News

Quiescence Music Announces ‘Winter Special’ 100 Piano Lessons for $19!

Source: Edward Weiss
February 10, 2011

It's winter in many parts of the world, with snow and cold weather keeping people inside. Now is the perfect time to learn something new and Quiescence Music is facilitating that with a winter special—online piano lessons for just $19. “Now is the perfect time to learn to play the piano," said Edward Weiss, originator of the Piano Lessons by Quiescence Music piano course. “It's easy and anyone can learn to play New Age music in just a few hours." ...

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Supporting Jazz Education

Source: JazzINK by Andrea Canter
February 10, 2011

The debate over “Is Jazz Dead" seems so tedious and dated that it isn't worth addressing any more. Let's agree, jazz is not likely to ever regain its 1930s status as American's “popular" music, any more than classical music will fill stadiums or dance halls. Rather, let's ask “how do we keep jazz vital, ever-evolving, and heard by an expanding audience for years to come?" Vijay Iyer made the accurate and interesting observation in the February 2011 issue of Jazz ...

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Steve Vai Attempts to Break Record for World's Largest Online Guitar Lesson

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
February 8, 2011

Berkleemusic, the online continuing education division of Boston's renowned Berklee College of Music, along with Grammy®-award winning guitar virtuoso Steve Vai, today announced a call to action for guitarists around the world to join forces and set the Guinness® World Record for the largest online guitar lesson on March 3rd, 2011. This first-of-its-kind initiative will bring together the worldwide community of guitarists in an unprecedented online celebration of music education. Vai, who is currently recording a new album and preparing ...

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Ars Nova Workshop Hosts Two Series with Fieldwork & ICP Orchestra

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
February 3, 2011

Ars Nova Workshop Hosts Two Special Creative Music Series

Composer Portrait: Fieldwork, March 11 -13 featuring Vijay Iyer, Tyshawn Sorey and Steven Lehman; Instant Composers Pool Orchestra, April 1ש

Ars Nova Workshop, Philadelphia's leading nonprofit jazz and experimental music presenter, announces two special weekend concert series in Spring 2011. Featuring the work of Fieldwork and Instant Composers Pool Orchestra, the concerts take an in-depth look at the work of two important groups of composers and musicians representing both today's most ...

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Paramount Pictures Works with Berklee Students on Film Music Project

Source: Berklee Public Relations
February 2, 2011

Paramount Pictures is working with a team of 40 student interns from Boston's Berklee College of Music to create the first full-function database of its immense archive of film music. The online music library database will make it easier for filmmakers and others to access music and obtain rights to music from the Paramount catalog for use across a range of media platforms. Students will conduct an in-depth analysis and interpretation of audio clips from a number of films (totaling ...

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Jazz saxophonist Chris Potter inspires Drake students to pursue musical innovation

Source: AAJ Staff
February 2, 2011

By Lisa Lacher Drake University recently played host to a master class and concert by Chris Potter, a Grammy nominee and renowned jazz saxophonist and composer. Both events were well attended by Drake students and faculty, as well as members of the Des Moines community and music enthusiasts from across the state. The master class, which was free and open to the public, was held in the newly constructed home for Drake's acclaimed jazz program—the Patty and Fred Turner Jazz ...

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Lecture on Bob Dylan February 23 at University of the Pacific

Source: Chris M. Slawecki
January 30, 2011

Bob Dylan Expert to Discuss Folk Icon's Connection to the Blues

During his nearly 50 years in the music business, Bob Dylan has been labeled the “voice of a generation and “America's Troubadour." He often is described as a genius, a music sensation who seemed to appear nearly out of thin air after being selected by a Greek muse to write lyrics that will be discussed and studied for generations. And he is always labeled as a “folk" artist.

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It's Official: First Master Degree in Beatles Awarded

Source: HypeBot
January 29, 2011

Back in 2009, Liverpool Hope University launched a Master Of Arts course, titled The Beatles—Popular Music and Society. A Canadian woman has become the first person to graduate with the degree. In the course, Mary-Lu Zahalan-Kennedy told the BBC that she studied, “how The Beatles came to be. What the political and social climate was and the cultural aspects that helped to facilitate an environment where The Beatles' could happen." The course also entailed learning the history of British music ...

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