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By Eliahu SussmanLaura Mulligan Thomas considers herself fortunate, and it’s easy to see why. For starters, she is now in her 30th year at her first job out of college,...

Finding music that is educationally sound and inspires students to work hard and play well is a real challenge. Music that creates motivation in our students is an important factor...

 Music education programs modeled after El Sistema, the Venezuelan movement of social empowerment through classical music, continue to multiply and flourish in the United States. Affiliated with major orchestras, universities,...

By Kenneth Wayne ThompsonIf you follow soccer, or football as it’s known around the world, the title of this article is not only a play on words, but rather is...

Play-along recordings have been motivating student practice since the 1950s with everything from simple piano accompaniments to full orchestras. In their originally produced analog format, students could only rigidly follow...