Friday, November 15, 2024
Join a panel of former NAMM Scholarship recipients as they share their experiences with The NAMM Show and its influence on their professional journeys. Panelists will discuss the opportunities and challenges they encountered, offering insights into how attending The NAMM Show can benefit your students' networking and career development. Plus, learn how to guide your students in preparing for next year's scholarship applications.
With end-of-semester concerts on the horizon, help your students prepare with an attention-grabbing program note. For student-performers and their teachers, a well-crafted program note can provide important context and help direct the listener’s attention. For students assigned to write a concert report, learning about the art of program notes can facilitate an engagement with music that extends beyond mere listening. And for student-composers, a well-written program note can excite and edify audience members with information that makes their music come alive in the mind’s ear before any sounds radiate from the stage.
Accurately naming musical works, identifying creators and performing agents, tracing reception history, selecting historical information relevant to the performance, conveying important aspects of style, and bringing out moments to listen out for with clear and accessible prose–all of these aid the student’s research and writing abilities.
This virtual event will help teachers to convey knowledge about the art of the program notes and specifically how different resources can be valuable throughout the process of crafting an effective program note.
