These two women put on a spectacular show using a floor piano inside a toy store. They duet Bach’s Toccata in D and it’s very entertaining. It’s difficult to tell if either of these women were already familiar with the piano before learning this routine, but if so it would have made for much quicker … Read more
Getting a song stuck in your head happens to approximately 92% of us. It’s otherwise known as getting an “earworm”, translated from the German word Ohrwurm literally meaning “sticky music”. For scientific purposes, it has now also been labeled as Involuntary Musical Imagery. It would be so easy to just identify which songs create earworms and … Read more
1. Creativity 2. Confidence 3. Problem Solving 4. Perseverance 5. Focus 6. Non-Verbal Communication 7. Receiving Constructive Feedback 8. Collaboration 9. Dedication 10. Accountability Each year research continues to show these skills come from participating in the fine arts such as music, theatre, dance, painting, drawing, photography and drama. Many schools in the U.S. put … Read more
Listen to this amazing acapella version of Carol of the Bells by the chart-topping musical group, Pentatonix. Thousands of years ago pagan songs were sung at Winter Solstice celebrations in Europe. The Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year, typically around December 22nd. This involved people dancing around stone circles because the word … Read more
Today was my last day of teaching at OCSA for the semester. Parts of me were happy, parts of me were sad, but when the students led a few interventions for their final project…part of me felt anxious. Why…? I’m not sure…but as I reflect on my first semester (ever!) of teaching high schoolers, I … Read more