More Gordon Shaw…
The best obit I have seen to date providing excellent perspective on his work from the Boston Globe (via LA Times): Gordon Shaw; his work led to 'Mozart effect' learning theory Other Coverage: AMC Remembers Dr. Gordon Shaw: "Remembering Dr. Gordon Shaw" From his Foundation: MIND Institute Co-Founder, UCI Professor Emeritus, Visionary Scientist Dr. Gordon […]
Your Reward for Doing a Good Job…
'Teacher of the Year' pink-slipped South Bend, IN – She was named South Bend's "Teacher of the Year" but come next school year, she could be looking for a new job. Susan Walker was given the award Tuesday night, four days after the school district handed her a pink slip. Walker has taught music in […]
Canadian Music Advocates Launch “Music Monday”
From the wires: TORONTO – Students across Canada will join together in song Monday, at an inaugural event spearheaded by a group promoting music education in schools. Elementary and secondary schools across the country are taking part in the first annual Music Monday, with the goal of drawing attention to the importance of learning about […]
AMC Remembers Dr. Gordon Shaw
The American Music Conference – the organization responsible for bringing much of Dr. Gordon Shaw's work to the general public – weighs in on his passing: Dr. Shaw established himself as a pioneer in the understanding of "music as a window to higher brain function." Best known to the public as a leader in the […]
Confessions of a college music major
You know the feeling… we have all been there (well… most of us). The distain you feel from the superior gaze that comes from someone after you tell them "I was a music major in college." Like choosing a career path in the arts was some sort of scarlet letter. For me, it was worse. […]
UCI physicist/Music Research Pioneer Gordon Shaw dead at 72
What Plato, Socrates, and Albert Einstein knew intuitively, Gordon Shaw set out to prove scientifically. Most people will never really know the true impact of Gordon's work… Music Makes You Smarter, The Mozart Effect, Baby Mozart products, Zell Miller's CD's for Every Newborn in Georgia, Johnson and Johnson's CD for young children, VH1's Save The […]
Arts Education Getting New Respect
The Pittsburgh Post Gazette reported in yesterday's paper that arts education, long treated as an academic stepchild is now being embraced as more and more officials understand the role creativity plays in the educational development of our children. While one news report does not a trend make, we are beginning to see more of this […]
Sousa Gives Way to Mariachi
Today's New York Times highlights something many people involved in music education have known for a long time… the traditions of the past have to make way for everyone's traditions. Music education needs to embrace music that is culturally releant to the students involved. So, it is no suprise to see how new genres of […]
Welcome the new home for our blog!
This is the new home of the Blog of Music for All. We hope you like the changes we have made. Please send any comments you may have to bob@music-for-all.org Enjoy! Bob Morrison
Florida Legislation Could Mean More Music/Arts Education
A Florida legislator has proposed new legislation to have the arts measured and assessed with other core subjects. An Editorial from Daytona Beach hits on some of the disturbing data that has led to this proposal: An estimated 85 percent of Florida public school students took some sort of music class in 1985. By 2003, […]
