There is not a day that goes by that I get twitter/plurk followers looking for royalty-free music or asking me if I have any original music for others to use. Since I teach fourth through eighth grade music and all my students create and compose I am a bit perplexed. My students compose so much
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2 Comments » As part of the Golden Apple Award, I attended Northwestern University for spring quarter starting from March 30-June 7, 2009. Here is my reflection of the “once in a lifetime” experience. My composition class with Dr. Maud Hickey was nothing but incredible. It made me see the beginning stages of how we compose to the
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I love to compose. When I was younger, in high school and college, the emphasis was on how well you could play the written notes. No improvisation, no creativity, no innovative music making. Actually, I remember my first composition in college. I was so scared, that all I did was copy Charles Ives. I got
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