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Execs From All Over The World Deliberate On How To Expand The Market For Musical Products Balmy Newport Beach, California, was the setting for a rare gathering of over 100 [...]

The media abounds with reports about how poorly the achievement of American students compares with the accomplishments of students of other countries. Discussions typically center around language skills, math, and [...]

The craftsman knows how to do a job well, but produces nothing essentially new. The artist not only has the skills of the craftsman, but discovers new possibilities as work [...]

Lesson planning requires skillful and constant consideration. Without it, the studio lesson can be filled with non-directed activities that result in disappointing, frustrating outcomes. Intentions are noble (nobody sets out [...]

Education... Why Japan Is The World's Richest Music Market Change has become a way of life, and the speed of change is ever increasing. Success, growth, and even survival are [...]

Why Our Children Need A Music Education NAshville recording artists, educators, and music industry executives took the stage of McGavock High School on November 14 to testify that every child [...]

Keyboard instruments in music classrooms may well put young students on the road toward both a greater interest in music and stronger overall academic achievement, as suggested by a new [...]

New Kind of Summer Music Workshop Blends Education & Technology For Teachers And Students Debut Music Systems |TM~, the music education and technology division of The Baldwin and Wurlitzer Companies, [...]

One of the most serious and ominous issues facing American society is the shocking decline in academic standards in schools across the country. This has caused a 'back to basics' [...]

A Review Of NAMM Efforts To Aid School Music By Larry Linkin NAMM Executive Vice-President Winston Churchill provided us with a way of thinking about beginnings in the midst of [...]

Most everyone is aware of the stiff competition in the sale of pianos, and most identify competition as brand B, K, Y, S, or others. What many don't realize is [...]

What happens in the classrooms of our public schools may seem remote from the business health of the music industry, but there is a direct and powerful connection. it is [...]

NASMD Meeting Reflects Stable And Growing School Market 300 Dealers Meet In Ft. Lauderdale For Annual NASMD Convention Three hundred members of The National Association of School Music Dealers convened [...]

How Music Can Help Improve Our Schools The Study Of Music Fosters Concentration, Discipline, And Knowledge Retention Today there is a nationwide concern of parents, grandparents, educators, and business professionals [...]

NAMM AND VH1 have announced a joint program called 'VH1 Save the Music' to support music education in public schools. The program will encompass a musical instrument drive and fund-raising [...]

Sports Stars Join In Unique Program To Aid To Help Boys & Girls Clubs A star NFL cornerback, hundreds of people in the crowd, and a successful kick-off. It's not [...]

The Folks Responsible For 'This Is Your Brain On Drugs' Will Promote The Benefits Of Music Participation The American Music Conference (AMC) has announced that it is joining with the [...]

Building A Coalition For Music Education Not many efforts would attract the commitment of a group of 60 individuals as diverse as Leonard Bernstein and Bill Kaman II of Kaman [...]

Why Music Lessons Enhance A Child's Learning Power Concentration, Coordination, And Confidence Accrue To All Music Students When a child plays the piano, he or she learns 'the three C's' [...]

Cooperative Effort Supports Music Education For the first time ever, the nation's entire music community - including educators, performers, retailers, manufacturers, technicians, and publishers - has banded together in a [...]

NAMM Launches Campaign To Build Music Education The annual member luncheon of the National Association of Music Merchants saw the association unveil a grass-roots petition campaign in an effort to [...]

Music education. In today's climate of tightening school budgets, many of our political leaders find that phrase a contradiction in terms. America is placing increased emphasis on the hard sciences, [...]

Noted Author Harvey Mackay On The Subject Of Exposing Children To Music I had an exciting phone call a couple of weeks ago. The publicist for one of the country's [...]

NAMM Debuts Market Development Plan Pledges $1 Million Towards Promoting Music Education For Young Children After months of planning, NAMM unveiled its market development program at a special session during [...]

Blueprint For Expanding The Music Market When Congress called for an assessment of arts education in 1986, the National Endowment of the Arts (the Federal agency that provides funding to [...]

What Makes Teens Want To Play Music? New AMC Research Probes Why Teens Start And Stop Playing Music New market research conducted by The American Music Conference sheds light on [...]

Band & Orchestra Recruitment Film Available from NAMM A new band and orchestra recruitment film, You are the Music, has been released by the Music Achievement Council in conjunction with [...]

Richard Dreyfuss, who has received raves for his performance in Mr. Holland's Opus, a film that depicts the life and career of a public school music teacher, took the stage [...]

Connecticut Public Radio will examine music education in the U.S. today in a nationally syndicated five-part series, The Music Education Project, for broadcast on 445 public radio stations. The five-part [...]

The National Coalition for Music Education (N.C.M.E.) has released a new tool kit to help support implementation of the recently adopted national standards for music education. The new kit is [...]

Leaders of educational organizations from around the country convened in Washington DC for a two-day summit meeting to discuss ways of strengthening the future of music education in the United [...]

A newly created Indiana Coalition for Music Education has been formed by a task force of music educators, arts advocates, parents groups, legislators, retailers, and manufacturers of musical merchandise. The [...]

Gemeinhardt's newly published Report 3, entitled Through the Eyes of the Parent, examines the reasons why non-musical parents encourage their children to join a school band or orchestra. The study [...]

No National Answer, But Plenty Of Local Solutions The rallying cry of 'support music in our schools' invariably draws a sincere and affirmative reaction from everyone associated with music: instrument [...]

How Music Can Save Education Politicians, parents, police, and the captains of industry are looking towards education for the solutions to a myriad of social and economic concerns. Everything that [...]

The More Things Change... The advent of microprocessor technology has focused attention on the rapid pace of change. In an eight month time frame products regularly descend from the status [...]

How To Profit From Music Videos As the music video instruction market matures, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at how it evolved, and what the [...]

Will Music Be Part Of School Education In 1999? The American Music Conference has outlined a strategy to assure a continued strong presence for music in national education. The strategy, [...]

Music Education... An Introduction To Work For many children, producing music is their introduction to work. They discover what powerful satisfaction work can give. These are the impulses people need [...]