Category: education
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For flute teachers

I’ve launched a new website at lets-duet.com, with two new releases for young flute students (and their teachers). I am also working on uploading my many other flute arrangements 🙂 Let’s Duet! Book 140 flute duets for absolute beginners with their teacher These duets are designed for students to successfully play along with their teachers…
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[videos] Music and community
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Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about how music creates a community. A music event gives people a reason to come together. Tastes for particular musical styles and artists create communities. Individual communities share specific music as part of their collective experience. The musicians themselves are a community, but I feel like they often limit…
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[musical storytelling] Peter & the Wolf
We were asked to do a short musical presentation for the 2nd graders at our kids’ school for a unit on self-expression. It was one of those opportunities where we could either throw something together with music we already knew, OR go all the way and make it a whole thing. Clearly, I went for…