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Collaborative efforts.(Dear Reader)
This issue of AMT continues the tradition of publishing the proceedings of Pedagogy Saturday. I hope that you were able to attend in person, but if not, these articles will give you an overview of the day's activities.
The MTNA Board of Directors has been moving towards a stronger emphasis on ensemble playing, just as the profession has broadened to embrace chamber music and art song more fully. No longer is just the symphony orchestra or the individual performer the focus of our attention: string quartets, piano trios, woodwind quintets, and brass quintets have been successful at making careers as ensembles. We have always known that the collaborative pianist was essential to the profession, but thankfully that position is now being elevated to long-deserved recognition.
Pre-college teachers are utilizing duet and ensemble playing more frequently in their studios, both as instructional and social tools to promote the greater cause. Thus, the Board of Directors created a new piano duet competition at the senior level, recognizing the power that this holds for our younger students. Our colleges and universities have fully embraced the need for training in chamber playing and collaborative piano, either formally or informally, and the early generations of graduates from ensemble degree programs are beginning to ...
- Join the collaborative performance forum.(Music Teachers National Association,...
- Magazine article from: American Music Teacher Wenger, Janice October 1, 2005 700+ words
...Performance." The Collaborative Performance Forum was created to serve...In the past, the Collaborative Performance Forum has initiated several...recommendation at a Collaborative Performance Forum meeting. Similarly...
- Collaborative events in Toronto. (Forum Focus: Collaborative Performance.(music...
- Magazine article from: American Music Teacher Christensen, Kenneth February 1, 2007 700+ words
...approaches to performing and teaching that have equal validity. As chair of the Collaborative Performance Forum, I invite you to attend the Collaborative Performance Forum Session. In this meeting we will embark on an open discussion from teachers...
- Adult collaborations: amateur chamber music programs.(Forum Focus:...
- Magazine article from: American Music Teacher Christensen, Kenneth February 1, 2008 700+ words
Throughout the United States there e a plethora of chamber music festivals from coast to coast. These festivals invite some of the world's leading chamber music performers and provide many wonderful concerts, lectures and continuing education for young professional musicians. Such festivals as the
- Coaching duet/duo piano.(Forum Focus: Collaborative Performance)
- Magazine article from: American Music Teacher Pridonoff, Elizabeth Pridonoff, Eugene October 1, 2007 700+ words
The challenges of playing duets at one piano, duo piano and chamber music can serve as opportunities to open new worlds of musical understanding, awareness of ensemble issues and parameters of individuality. While the ultimate goals of musical communication, technical mastery and stylistic
- The piano duet: ten exciting pedagogical benefits.(Forum Focus: Collaborative...
- Magazine article from: American Music Teacher Foster, Amy February 1, 2006 700+ words
The piano duet often is a student's first chamber music experience and can be an invaluable enhancement of the solo piano repertoire. I have stacks of wonderful duets on my piano and usually reserve the last 10-15 minutes of the lesson for sight reading through them with the student. What a
- Collaborative music making for pre-college students.(Forum Focus: Collaborative...
- Magazine article from: American Music Teacher Graves, Jody June 1, 2008 700+ words
I remember standing backstage after a concert I had played with a violinist in Washington, D.C. The concert included Beethoven's D Major Piano/Violin Sonata. A woman came up to me and said, "Thank you SO much for providing the background music to the violinist?" While those of us within our field
- Food for thought: Trenton Doyle Hancock and Ballet Austin's rousing...
- Magazine article from: Art in America Heartney, Eleanor September 1, 2008 700+ words
Trenton Doyle Hancock is known for sprawling installations that spill over gallery walls and floors in a three-dimensional torrent of handwritten words and cartoonish images. Figures tend to be fragmented and partial; space is compressed, with multiple perspectives collapsed onto a single plane;
- First Book-Houston and Houston Grand Opera's Opera to Go! Join Forces to...
- Press release article from: Business Wire October 7, 2004 700+ words
HOUSTON -- First Book-Houston and Houston Grand Opera join forces to give children perhaps their first opera experience and ownership of their first new book. Children who attend the opera performance of The Velveteen Rabbit will receive a new copy of the book that the performance is based on,
- ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE : FORUM SEEKS TO DEFINE MINIMUM ECO-EFFICIENCY...
- Newspaper article from: Europe Environment July 6, 2007 700+ words
For the first time, a stakeholder consultation forum met in Brussels on 22 June in order to set requirements on the environmental performance of energy-using equipment and products, with much attention given to energy efficiency thresholds. This exercise was carried out in the framework of
- Linking wireless networks and machinery performance.(Forum)
- Magazine article from: Plant Engineering March 1, 2005 700+ words
The U.S. Department of Energy and three industrial partners are testing the use of wireless networks in evaluating the performance of plant machinery, according to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The DOE partners in the research undertaking are General Electric, Eaton Corp., and
Source: HighBeam Research, Collaborative efforts.(Dear Reader)