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Chicago Opera Theater and Chicago Public Schools to Team up for Fantastic Student Performances

April 30, 2011

Chicago Opera Theater (COT) is continuing its quest to bring opera to Chicago elementary school students with the 11th year of its Opera for All educational outreach program. In conjunction with Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE), COT’s program joined students throughout the academic year at Lionel Hampton Fine & Performing Arts School, Dewitt Clinton [...]

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Music Institute of Chicago’s Academy Announces Residency by Cleveland Institute of Music Viola Instructors

March 15, 2011

The Music Institute of Chicago’s (MIC) Academy program is a nationally known center for highly gifted pre-college musicians. Beginning in September 2011, the Academy will welcome six world-renowned viola instructors from the Cleveland Institute of Music to conduct master classes, chamber music coaching, seminars, and individual instruction. The residency will prepare students for conservatory study [...]

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Join the Steve Vai Online Guitar Lesson And Help Set a Record Today

March 3, 2011

Here is a quick reminder to tune in today at 1:30 PM EST to join Steve Vai and help set a new world record. Berkleemusic will donate one dollar for every person that joins the online lesson to the Steve Vai Online Scholarship Fund, which is designed to reward and assist outstanding students studying in [...]

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Trans-Siberian Orchestra Mark Wood Rocks out with Mineola Student String Band

February 11, 2011

Bravewords.com and MineolaPatch‘s Jacqueline Kendrick have posted that electric violinist Mark Wood, one of the founding members of Trans-Siberian Orchestra, joined forces with Mineola’s middle and high school string orchestras this past Tuesday. Wood conducted workshops with the students during the day and then joined the orchestra in the evening as part of the Mineola [...]

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Music Lovers of All Ages Can Spring into March with Offerings from the Music Institute of Chicago

February 10, 2011

The Music Institute of Chicago (MIC) is not only one of the oldest community music schools in Illinois but also one of the most respected in the nation. MIC will spring into March with offerings to delight music lovers of all ages – an adult music appreciation class entitled “The Art of Listening” beginning March [...]

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Steve Vai Attempting To Teach Largest Online Guitar Lesson

February 9, 2011

To many guitarists around the world, Steve Vai is a hero and guitar God.  He has chops that make many drool.  Many of us wish we could make the guitar sing like he does. He has awesome tapping abilities.  And the good news, Vai wants to share some of his abilities with the world and [...]

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Yo-Yo Ma and Chicago Symphony Orchestra Set New Standard for Music Participation with Citizen Musician Initiative

January 31, 2011

Music connects. Music inspires. Music unites. Music heals. Music saves lives.  When I think about the power music has on people, these are the words that come to mind. It’s also the message Yo-Yo Ma and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Institute for Learning, Access and Training want to come to life with the new Citizen [...]

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The Grammy Foundation® Partners with Rock-N-Roll Gourmet to Help Enroll High Schools in the GRAMMY in the Schools Music Education® Programs

August 30, 2010

This fall, Rock-N-Roll Gourmet LLC, maker of Hippie Chips, will kick off a partnership with the GRAMMY Foundation® which will not only benefit the GRAMMY in the Schools® music education programs with a percentage-of-sales initiative but also help high schools to apply for the programs. Rock-N-Roll Gourmet was founded in June 2009 by Dan and [...]

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Are we in the middle of the Golden Age of Classical Music?

August 2, 2010

Here in the U.S. we have the perception that classical music is dead or dying. On some level that maybe true, on another, not at all. Even I have succumbed to the rhetoric that classical music is on its way downward. But after reading a great article by Heather Mac Donald, “Classical Music’s New Golden [...]

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A Musical Transformation – How One Young Palestinian Man Went from Throwing Stones at Israeli Soldiers to Opening Music Schools in the Middle East

July 10, 2010

Perhaps it is music which will change the world – Pablo Casals I heard a moving story by reporter Sandy Tolan on NPR this morning about how music changed the life of one young Palestinian man. In 1988, a photographer in the West Bank took a picture of eight-year-old Ramzi Hussein Aburedwan with tears in [...]

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