I’ve been fortunate enough to have had many music educators as my students and they tend to respond very strongly to the book we read in my class, The Art of Possibility by Conductor Benjamin Zander and Psychologist Rosamund Stone Zander. The following video was brought to my attention via one of my students’ blog …
So yesterday I got an email from my girlfriend, Tricia, who was so amazed by this video of this music making machine that appeared to make some really complicated music via shooting balls at the various rhythm instruments. The writer of the original message ends the message with, “Of the all the balls you will …
The first video was created when illustrator, James Braithwaite, took a 1969 audio interview of John Lennon by 14-year-old Jerry Levitan. Uploaded by imetthewalrus on Jun 17, 2008 In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. 38 years later, …
At TEDx Orlando 2011 we were shown the following video/TED talk by Eric Whitacre. I’ve been working in online education for over three years and earned my master’s degree and worked on a doctorate online, I know how powerful the connections can be. Far from being a weak substitute for “being there,” there is a …
Uploaded by youcefpreston1 on Apr 11, 2011
Uploaded by neal campbell on Oct 18, 2011 When my ex-wife left in January 2010, my friend Geoff Smith said come to Nashville and hang out. I did. He was working on a new album. I was a lost zombi. I had my camera with me, and I asked if I could shoot some stuff …
Since they first started recording in 1960′s Liverpool, The Beatles have inspired thousands of artists. More than 50 years later, their music still has the power to unite millions of fans all over the world.
Uploaded by nevasmusic on Aug 8, 2011 This is one of my songs ‘Isolated Movements’ in it’s earliest most raw form. I had just written the gist of it, threw down a couple of tracks and was showing it to my friend Neely. She loved it so much she made me sing it again and …
Educational Music Video created by Full Sail University student, Peter Binskin, for emdt/Music Theory & Applications (MTA) course. He’s gotten over a thousand hits and a “response” video. Our students do amazing work.