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In professional and amateur sports there are serious rules about using performance enhancing drugs. Across the world using such drugs is considered a cheat and getting caught using them carries a stigma that is incredibly difficult to overcome. The musical world has no such rules and probably a more colorful history than most professions in this regard, but a new kind of drug is slowly creeping into the music education arena. The use of the drug combats one of the most common ailments of all musicians, performance anxiety or stage fright. The drug? A type of prescription pharmaceutical known as a beta blocker. 
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) March 11, 2010 ― The International Young Soloists Award Program annually recognizes emerging young artists with disabilities from all over the world who demonstrate exceptional musical talent. The soloists each receive $5,000 and the opportunity to perform at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. This year, VSA presents its 26th annual International Young Soloists Concert on the Millennium Stage of the Kennedy Center on June 8 at 6:00 p.m. The concert, which takes place during the 2010 International VSA Festival, features a soprano, classical pianist, singer/songwriter/pianist, and violinist.
At one of the schools I work at is a wonderful technology teacher that is constantly forwarding great links to information to use in class. Recently she sent us a link to a short movie that has to do with teaching kids to think about protecting their reputation while online. Considering the many examples of adults posting stupid things to their Facebook and Twitter accounts I kind of have to think that this would be good information for teachers to take a look at too as well as share with their students if the opportunity arises. The video is called .jpg)
As you may have noticed over the past week or two the podcast and music education blog feeds from other music ed oriented sites have been up and down at various times. I've been having issues with the software, trying to cram as much stuff into it as possible without slowing the web site to a crawl. It turns out that sometimes my attempted fixes actually took the whole site down for a period of time, but finally I think I have it fixed.
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Over the last few years the FCC has began to reshuffle the way it hands out licenses for the wireless radio spectrum. The most notable of these has been the transition to digital television from the old style analog TV, but now this transition may bite your music program in a way you had not expected. Certain wireless microphone systems will now be illegal to use under the new rules. Will the airwave police come battering down your office door the next time you use your school or church's wireless microphone system?
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