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Music and YouTube - Mozart’s Monthly Memo-Volume 30
This Memo includes
Feature Article: Music and YouTube
Student Hall of Fame
Practice Tip
Sign up link for our 2023 Spring Recital
Parents Ask Pam - Will there be a dress rehearsal for the Spring Recital?
Feature Article - Music and YouTube
The internet has done much to transform the experience of music, and not just in the sense of being easy to find - those wanting to make music have more options than ever before. While you could (and still can) always just play something and see what the others think about it, the lifestyle of a traveling musician in today's day and age is not easy, if it ever was. And while the record player did much to bring music to the masses, it brought with it a great horror - record companies. Well, that's probably an exaggeration, but it is no great secret that they can be a pain to work for. And while in today’s day and age, a contract with a record company is still usually needed if you want worldwide success, it is no longer the only option for those who want their music to be heard by thousands.
That option is YouTube. A website that has had a massive impact upon culture worldwide and in no way has it failed to have that impact upon music.
With YouTube people have access to music on a scale never before seen and it has provided . . .
How Tonara Makes Practice Fun - Mozart’s Monthly Memo-Volume 29
This Memo includes
Feature Article: How Tonara Makes Practice Fun
Student Hall of Fame
Practice Tip
Sign up link for our 2023 Spring Recital
Parents Ask Pam - For the Spring Recital, which times will be in person and which times will be online?
Feature Article - How Tonara Makes Practice Fun
What makes a strong piano student? It is all about the practice time! You’ve heard the expression, 10% talent, 90% perspiration? That is so true with musicians as well! It really doesn’t matter how musically inclined your child is, what matters is how motivated and excited they are to play the piano. With Move Over Mozart, we are fortunate to have a practice app, Tonara, that helps motivate and inspire our students to practice. While this app is optional, those that use it practice an average of 30% more than those that do not use it! This is a claim I read before purchasing the app and was pretty skeptical about its actual effectiveness. However, after tracking my own private students’ practice that first week, I was pleasantly surprised to find that 30% was a conservative increase! So what is it that draws students to play more while using the Tonara app? Today’s article will explain and hopefully motivate you to fall in love with this app as much as I have.
There are several features within Tonara that children love. One is the points. . . .
Music That’s Out Of This World! - Mozart’s Monthly Memo-Volume 28
This Memo includes
Feature Article: Music That’s Out Of This World!
Student Hall of Fame
Practice Tip
Registration start dates for our in-person Crescendo Kids Classes
Sign up link for our 2023 Spring Recital
Parents Ask Pam - My child is 4 years old, but I think they are ready for 5 year old piano material. Can they be moved into the older class?
Feature Article - Music That’s Out Of This World!
Written by Sean Kenney, son of our piano teacher, Mr. Kevin.
There has been a great deal of music made over the course of human civilization; songs devised with thousands of miles separating them, and almost all of it created on earth. Almost.
Chris Hadfield is one of those people who seems to have pushed the limits of what a human can do in one lifetime. He is a writer, a mountain climber, an engineer, the first Canadian to walk in space, and a musician; he is perhaps most well known for that last one. Back in May of 2013 a music video was recorded - something Chris thought would be fun to do with his son - of Chris singing Space Oddity by David Bowie while on the International Space Station (ISS).
Fanny Mendelssohn - One Chromosome Away From Fame - Mozart’s Monthly Memo-Volume 27
New session of Crescendo Kids Online begins Tuesday, February 14!❤️
This Memo includes
Feature Article: Fanny Mendelssohn - One Chromosome Away From Fame
Student Hall of Fame
Practice Tip
Parents Ask Pam - Do you teach children under age 3.5 years old?
Feature Article - Fanny Mendelssohn - One Chromosome Away From Fame
You may be familiar with Felix Mendelssohn, who wrote "Wedding March," the song frequently played at weddings as the wedding party exits the ceremony. However, his sister, Fanny Mendelssohn, was also a great performer and composer.
She was born in 1805, in Hamburg, Germany. Her mother claimed she had “Bach fugal fingers,” (Long, skinny fingers ready to easily to play a Bach Fugue.) correctly predicting her daughter’s talent and life ambition. By the age of 14, she had memorized all 24 preludes . . . .