A. Kori Hill If you are taking private music lessons, your teacher probably has you playing lots of scales. Real talk: that was my least favorite thing to play. I […]
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A. Kori Hill When you need to learn more about a topic, where do you go? Maybe you look up info on Wikipedia; maybe you go to your teacher and […]
He’s one of those people that when you find out he’s at the same conference you
How can I help my child benefit from music? There is much research on the benefits of music for a child’s development. Classical music has a positive influence, especially with […]
Find out if your child’s school takes students to a professional orchestra concert
In my last blog, I wrote about the musical legacy of the 369th Infantry or the Harlem Hellfighters. I referenced the fact that while we think of this as an […]
He’s one of those people that when you find out he’s at the same conference you
as being the 1st Black composer to win the Pulitzer Prize, but somehow, he still finds
Aaron Copland was a 20th century American composer from Brooklyn, New York. Copland is known for writing very American music, but he actually studied in France. His teacher, Nadia Boulanger, […]
His teacher, Nadia Boulanger, helped Copland find his way to an American sound in
The Mighty Handful, also known as the Mighty Five, were group of Russian composers who all wanted to develop a distinctly Russian style of classical music. The Mighty Five composers […]
When Mussorgsky’s family lost their land and money, where did he find a job?
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When he was a kid growing up, Modest Mussorgsky learned Russian fairy tales and folk stories from the family nurse. Those fairy tales put in an appearance in the music […]
When Mussorgsky’s family lost their land and money, where did he find a job?
A. Kori Hill There are times when your dream isn’t derailed but postponed. That can happen for a variety of reasons. For Irene Britton Smith (1907–1999), it was because of […]
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