David J. Elliott http://www.davidelliottmusic.com Musician, Educator, Composer, and praxial music education Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:51:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 PS 22 Chorus http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/2012/04/ps-22-chorus/ http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/2012/04/ps-22-chorus/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:51:12 +0000 admin http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/?p=272 Continue reading →]]>

Among the many films being screened at the Tribeca Film Festival is a documentary story that unfolded right here in New York. It’s called “Once In a Lullaby” and tells the story of Staten Island’s most well known school choir – and their journey to perform at the 83rd annual Academy Awards. We’ll hear all about it from the film’s director, Jonathan Kalafer, and PS22 chorus teacher Gregg Breinberg.

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]]> http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/2012/02/isme-2012/feed/ 0 Hallelujah Chorus — Quinhagak, Alaska http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/2011/11/hallelujah-chorus-quinhagak-alaska/ http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/2011/11/hallelujah-chorus-quinhagak-alaska/#comments Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:24:02 +0000 admin http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/?p=133 This video is from the small Yupiq Eskimo Village of Quinhagak, Alaska. It was a school computer project intended for the other Yupiq villages in the area.

Click here to view the embedded video.

 

 

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]]> http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/2011/10/japanese-elementary-school-band/feed/ 0 Yogi Berra Explains Jazz http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/2011/10/yogi-berra-explains-jazz/ http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/2011/10/yogi-berra-explains-jazz/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:26:09 +0000 admin http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/?p=127 Continue reading →]]>

Interviewer: Can you explain jazz?

Yogi: I can’t, but I will. 90% of all jazz is half improvisation. The other half is the part people play while others are playing something they never played with anyone who played that part. So if you play the wrong part, its right. If you play the right part, it might be right if you play it wrong enough. But if you play it too right, it’s wrong.

Interviewer: I don’t understand.

Yogi: Anyone who understands jazz knows that you can’t understand it. It’s too complicated. That’s what’s so simple about it.

Interviewer: Do you understand it?

Yogi: No. That’s why I can explain it. If I understood it, I wouldn’t know anything about it.

Interviewer: Are there any great jazz players alive today?

Yogi: No. All the great jazz players alive today are dead. Except for the ones that are still alive. But so many of them are dead, that the ones that are still alive are dying to be like the ones that are dead. Some would kill for it.

Interviewer: What is syncopation?

Yogi: That’s when the note that you should hear now happens either before or after you hear it. In jazz, you don’t hear notes when they happen because that would be some other type of music. Other types of music can be jazz, but only if they’re the same as something different from those other kinds.

Interviewer: Now I really don’t understand.

Yogi: I haven’t taught you enough for you to not understand jazz that well.

]]> http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/2011/10/yogi-berra-explains-jazz/feed/ 0 Dr. Wayne Bowman at NYU http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/2011/10/dr-wayne-bowman-at-nyu/ http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/2011/10/dr-wayne-bowman-at-nyu/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:34:51 +0000 admin http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/?p=111 The NYU music education program is very pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Wayne Bowman as Visiting Professor of Music Education, 2011-12.

 

]]> http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/2011/10/dr-wayne-bowman-at-nyu/feed/ 0 Philosophical Humor http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/2011/10/philosophical-humor/ http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/2011/10/philosophical-humor/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:33:37 +0000 admin http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/?p=113 Continue reading →]]> 1.  “If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, I hope it lands on a philosophy professor.” Stephen Colbert

2. Descartes walks into a pub. The bartender asks, “Will you have a beer?” Descartes answers, “I think not,” and he evaporates.

3. How many Marxists does it take to change a lightbulb? None. The lightbulb contains the seeds of its own revolution.

4. How many existentialists does it take to change a lightbulb? Two. One to change the bulb and one to observe how the lightbulb symbolizes an incandescent beacon of subjectivity in a netherworld of Cosmic Nothingness.

5. First Law of Philosophy: For every philosopher, there exists an equal and opposite philosopher.

]]> http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/2011/10/philosophical-humor/feed/ 0 Educational reform http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/2011/07/educational-reform/ http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/2011/07/educational-reform/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:28:23 +0000 admin http://www.ejimford.com/davidjelliott/?p=58 Continue reading →]]> Education Reform should come from teachers and their communities. See Union Chief Faults School Reform From ‘On High’ by Alan Schwartz
at The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/us/12aft.html

The Eminent Education Researcher and Author, Diane Ravitch, exposes and explains
the many weakness of American School “Reform,” National Standards, etc:
]]> http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/2011/07/educational-reform/feed/ 0 Journal links http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/2011/07/journal-links/ http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/2011/07/journal-links/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:15:05 +0000 admin http://www.ejimford.com/davidjelliott/?p=56 The Mayday Group (www.maydaygroup.org) and our journal: Action, Criticism for Theory in Music Education http://act.maydaygroup.org/

The International Journal of Community Music: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-journal,id=149/

    ]]>     http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/2011/07/journal-links/feed/ 0     Future and recent presentations http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/2011/07/future-speaking-engagements/ http://www.davidelliottmusic.com/2011/07/future-speaking-engagements/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:35:27 +0000 admin http://www.ejimford.com/davidjelliott/?p=46 Continue reading →]]> “Praxial Music Education—Revised, Rewritten, Revitalized.” Lectures at the Thornton School of Music,
    University of Southern California. October 27, 2011.
    http://www.usc.edu/schools/music/
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    “Performing Music as/for Artistic Citizenship.” New Directions in Music Education:
    Revitalizing Middle and High School Music. Michigan State University.
    October 6-8, 2011. www.newdirections.us
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    “Formal and Informal Music Learning Contexts.” 4th IMC World Forum on Music. Tallinn, Estonia.
    September 26-October 1, 2011.
    http://www.ifacca.org/events/2011/09/26/music-world-convene-tallinn/
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    “Music Education as/for Artistic Citizenship.”
    The End(s) of Music Education? A Call for Re-Visioning.
    MayDay Group Symposium. University of Utah. June 16-19. 2011
    http://colloquium23.maydaygroup.org/
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    “Making Composition Accessible, Achievable, and Meaningful”
    11th Biennial Mountain Lake Colloquium. Mountain Lake, Virginia. May 17, 2011
    http://www.public.asu.edu/~jecape/Mountain_Lake_Colloquium/Welcome..html
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    “Praxial Music Education: Past, Present, Future.”
    Nordic Network for Research in Music Education.
    The Danish School of Education. Copenhagen, Denmark. March 30, 2011
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    3 Keynotes: “Reviewing and Revising Praxial Music Education”; “The Nature and Teaching of Community Music”;
    “A New Concept of Musical Emotions.”
    Taiwan Music Education Conference. Kaohsiung City University. Taiwan. Dec 30 – Jan 2011
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    4 Keynotes: “Rethinking Community Music”; “The Future of Praxialism”;
    “Concepts of Multicultural Music Education”; “New Theory of Musical Experience”
    Cedros-Panamerican University. Mexico City, Mexico. Oct. 21-24, 2010
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