What’s Really Happening in the Music Classroom?

There are many who wonder what really happens in a music classroom. What can be gained from this time spent when there is so much else to learn to create a successful life?

Celebrating Diversity

The recent CALA International Festival in Phoenix, Arizona, showcased the way that artists investigate the world around them. Festivals like this one take place all over the world, and they’re particularly advantageous to individuals who participate as artists, but also to the communities that support them.

Freedom

Opportunities to engage in the artistic process are important for everyone in this increasingly complex world of the 21st century.

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Arts and Ambiguity

Images, movement, and sounds in works of art can be understood in more than one way. In fact, most artists know that appreciation and interpretation from multiple perspectives is an important characteristic of their work.

Just Do It

Musicians, painters, dancers, sculptors, and actors know that the artistic process requires you to keep at it—to constantly create and maintain momentum.

The Arts Matter!

In preparation for November elections, political candidates are engaging in numerous conversations about education, the economy, and building healthier, happier communities.

Seeing Beyond the Visible

Last week as I visited some artists’ studios in Scottsdale, Arizona, I was reminded of what the Scottsdale Celebration of Fine Art refers to as the “pristine beauty, luminous sunlight, and mysteriousness of the Sonoran Desert” that has attracted artists to the area year after year.

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A Matter of Interpretation

An artist’s interpretation—representation of a thought, a scene, an event, or an object—might be in the form of sound, video, painting, drama, dance, or sculpture.

The Beauty of Contrast

As I listened to a recent performance of Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, I realized the significance of what the composer accomplished and the awareness that allowed him to create such a work.

Adventure in Every Moment

The world of theater is one of constant tension and release, of many beginnings and endings. You are in an adventure of some kind every moment, whether in the excitement of the opening, in the midst of the theatrical run itself, or in the poignant feeling of closing night.