Friday, February 26, 2016

The Contemporary Octogenarion

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Not so long ago, a cherished colleague tweeted that he found it nice to see how new music education projects tried to connect to today's...
Saturday, February 13, 2016

Humanly Organized Sound?

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Recently I was in an international meeting on music education. Many concrete music education practices were shown. One of them started from ...
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Monday, January 25, 2016

Are DJs Musicians?

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Earlier I wrote about the question whether or not singers are musicians . The question is as pressing as ever - again and again I find snipp...
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Sunday, January 17, 2016

Erik Scherder, Mischa Spel, and why the New Lobby for Music Education desperately needs some opposition

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Interesting times for music education in the Netherlands. A New Lobby for Music Education seems to be forming. It consists of journalists, r...
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Saturday, December 12, 2015

How many people sing shanties, really?

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The Monitor Amateur Arts 2015 has appeared. Always interesting food for thought. This year in particular, at least for me: one of the ques...
Sunday, November 8, 2015

On the School Orchestra

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The school orchestra has become fashionable lately in Dutch primary education. A thorough genealogy of the resurrection has still to be writ...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Feeling Known

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I went to regional radio station Radio Westerwolde in the east of the province to be interviewed about music for an hour on Tuesday last wee...