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Jon Silpayamanant with Secondhand in St. Louis singing a song in Azerbaijan (March 10, 2013)

on singing while playing the cello (part 5: singing in multiple languages)…

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One of the questions I often get after shows is how I manage to sing in so many languages. Even for those who do regularly sing this can seem like […]

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Cello, Diversity, Education, Language Affects Sound Perception, Music, Music Literacy, pedagogy, Singing
Amanda Palmer's TED talk, "The Art of Asking"

Free culture, undercutting, and the environments they create.

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Since I last blogged about Amanda Palmer I’ve been seeing a number of facebook friends post her recent TED talk (titled, the Art of Asking).  Quite a few have been […]

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Arts Funding, Economics, Education
Jon Silpayamanant performing with Raks Makam at the Eifler Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky. October 7, 2011.

“I’m having trouble with the idea that art is universal lately”

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The title of this post is taken from Clayton Lord’s recent blog post, All the People, where he questions the Universalist position most arts organizations in the states take for […]

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Aesthetics, Arts Education, Arts Funding, Audiences, Cross-Cultural criticism, Diversity, Education, Orchestra Reform, Post-Colonialism
Tyler Thompson, 15, is a standout student in the Oakland-based Purple Silk Music Education program, which teaches children and youth - mostly from low-income immigrant families — how to sing and play traditional Chinese music.  More info here: http://malaysiafinance.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-cool-is-this.html

Are music schools serving the needs of its students?

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  I really do plan on getting back to the Aging of Orchestra Audiences issue–really, I do!  But I’d been having a stimulating and thought-provoking dialogue with some folks over […]

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Aesthetics, Arts Education, children, Cross-Cultural criticism, Diversity, Economics, Education, Music, pedagogy, Research, Teaching, World Music
Like Disney's Chicken Little, the Chicken Little Think Tank would have us believe the "Sky is Falling" in Classical Music Culture!

Aging of the Orchestra Audience and the Fallacy of “Demographic Destiny”

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In a February 2011 NEA Research Report, “Age and Arts Participation: A Case against Demographic Destiny” by Mark J. Stern, we find a refutation of the so-called dire data that […]

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Arts Education, Audiences, Education, Orchestras, Research

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