The children of Cuba attend official state schools where there is no music in the elementary curriculum. The best opportunity that children have to learn music is either through non-state conservatories fashioned after the Russian model or through evangelical churches. At the request of Sr. Elio Mora, Director of the Eastern Baptist Convention of Cuba, […]
Supplementing lessons with fun games and activities will maximize learning and optimize student interest. The songs in the Be A Recorder Star Method Book present many such opportunities. Here is one example: Fun with Improvisation based on “Songbird” (Page 25, Line 2). Try this with your students! “Songbird” is a very beautiful eight measure tune […]
Over the years, I have had the pleasure of visiting with thousands of recorder teachers by exhibiting at hundreds of music conferences and attending dozens of sessions presented by my Dad and our clinicians. If I had to pick one challenge that seems almost universal for every recorder teacher, it would be having students keep […]
