John Chuang shares his violin collection and tells the history of violin and bass viol making in New England at the Museum of Fine Arts. It’s a story of innovation, technology transfer, and globalization. Bobby Giglio, Pappalardo Assistant Curator of Musical Instruments, collector of New England string instruments John Chuang, and internationally respected cellist Shirley…
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Music for kids including playing instruments and getting children to practice their instrument. Also music and songs to learn math facts and foreign languages.
Musical Journeys: Introduction to Piano Online Class for Young Children
Well, it’s been thirty years in the making but my sister’s piano teaching method books, Keiko and Sam’s Musical Journeys, are finally ready. I did the illustrations thirty years ago as well. In fact, it’s so long ago that I barely recognized some of the drawings. Noreen’s wrote Keiko and Sam’s Musical Journeys when the…
& JULIET is a Fun Musical!
My middle daughter loves musicals. When we visited London, we found that everything there was much more expensive compared to prices in the United States except for one thing … Broadway shows! The West End, the “first” Broadway, is also a theater lover’s nirvana. What is nice about the West End is that the shows…
Two Year Wait List Book Trailer Release! My Sister’s Book!
My sister’s book is coming out March 1, 2019! She’s a piano teacher with a marketing background, so it’s not a surprise that she wrote a book called Two-Year Wait List: An Entrepreneurial Guide for Music Teachers: In my new book, Two-Year Wait List: An Entrepreneurial Guide for Music Teachers, I share my tried-and-true method of…
Naruto Inspired Learning for my 5th Grade Son
My son has always had his obsessions: Age 3: Dinosaurs and Angry Birds Age 4 and 5: Pokémon Age 6: Bakugan, Ninjago Age 7: Magic Cards, Minecraft, Mario Brothers Video Games Age 9, 10: Minecraft, Dragonballz, Injustice Video Game Age 1o and 11: Dragonballz, Naruto My son’s guitar teacher has channeled his interests into guitar…
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The Hawaiian Ukelele? All About the Ukelele for Kids!
Two of my kids are fascinated by the ukelele. My son, who plays guitar, was inspired by musician Jake Shimabukuro that he showed the video to his guitar teacher, and watched Jake’s videos on technique that he can apply to guitar later on when he gets more advanced. Grasshopper and Sensei is learning the ukelele on…