Patience

Dear Students, Irritating Directors, Drama Queens, and 7 Recitals in the next 8 days,

I regret to inform you of the following budget cuts: 

the patience I've budgeted for the semester was exhausted sometime mid-November. 

Please be sure to practice. 

A lot. 

And seriously, don't get on my nerves.

listening

Today, I heard in an interview about jazz
that music was color for the heart. 

I would like to think of it as sunshine.

I recently learned of David Fulton's 

Italian violin collection in Seattle. 

Yowzah!!! 

And I suddenly wanted to finally figure out 

the family trees once and for all. 

What a legible graph from Sheila's Corner

via {grace galleries}

"Cremonese & Brescian  
Violin Makers 


Looking at a map of Italy. It's interesting to notice that Cremona, Brescia, and Mantua all fall within a 30-mile circle. If you add in Venice which is just a little farther away, you have the entire home of the great Italian violin makers encompassed in a very small area, smaller than the state of Ohio. A tiny area to produce such a great result.

This a chart of the greatest and most famous Cremonese and Brescian violin makers. The red line across the chart is where famine and plague struck Cremona and Brescia in the 1630's. That plague wiped out the entire Brescian violin-making school with the death of Gio Paolo Maginni in 1632. The Cremonese school hung by a thread with only one master remaining, Nicolo Amati. Nicolo was the teacher of both Antonio Stradivari and of Andreas Guarneri. Just imagine if Nicolo had died ... no Strads and no Guarneri's!"

via {maestronet}

Bean and Beethoven

Ysaye's Secret?

Is this all it takes to conquer any movement of the 6 behemoths?

I ran across this humorous post while drooling over Tubbs bows up for auction from the Moenning collection. I assume they play like butter--if only I could try one someday...

What a cheater!

Thesis Statement

I have considered this venture for quite some time now, knowing how much I love talking with fellow teachers, finding new resources, discovering new ways to relate.

I invite you to join me on my new quest to identify the many elements and impacts of music education. Please feel free to share your thoughts, ideas and reactions!