Advice for aspiring music performance majors

Update: I have a lot of advice for aspiring music performance majors on the Contrabass Conversations podcast, including interviews with major double bass teachers like Paul Ellison, Kurt Muroki, Alex Hanna, David Allen Moore, Bruce Bransby, and many others.  Check it...

Art of the States

Here is a recent press release sent to me regarding Art of the States, a project from Boston’s WGBH radio devoted to contemporary American music. Check out their website by clicking on the image in this post:Art of the States now an independent project...

Google for Educators

This week’s Podcast for Teachers describes a great new service from Google designed specifically for educators. Google for Educators amalgamates all the Google services that are of use to teachers, including Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Blogger, Google Page...

The Power of del.icio.us

The term “social bookmarking” may not be familiar to everybody, but it has emerged as one of the most useful tools of the Web 2.0 movement. The service del.icio.us (now owned by Yahoo!) is the oldest and best example of the power of social bookmarking....

The Google Earth Revolution

Anybody who hasn’t played around with Google Earth should download and install it–this program is going to change (and already is changing) the way we see our world and the way we learn about places, plan trips, teach geography, organize resources, and...