Ginastera's compositional style incorporates folk elements, serialism, polytonality and cross rhythms.
A New School Year to Try out New Ideas in the Music Studio
After having my students take the VARK Learning Preferences questionnaire last year, I discovered that my students fall under three general categories:
Visual (mostly in combination, Visual-Aural or Visual-Kinesthetic)
Aural-Kinesthetic
Read/Write
Useful Music Websites
A great big thank you to my teaching colleagues on LinkedIn for sharing their favorite music websites:
Singer in a Band Workshop Musings
My vocal coach, Sherry Kennedy, convinced me to take the Singer in a Band workshop she ran last week. Shortly after the singing workshop began, I thought, "What on earth was I thinking? Why did I pick two songs I don't know very well? Why did I pick a song in Spanish?"