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The personal weblog of Chad Criswell, MusicEdMagic Webmaster.

A First Look Sibelius 6

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Written by Chad Criswell
On May 19th Sibelius released the latest version of the Sibelius music notation program. This version boasts a lot of new features, many of which are very significant improvements over the previous version. But what exactly are the new features of Sibelius 6 and is it worth the investment?
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Online Music Lesson Directory Now Open For Registration

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Written by Chad Criswell
Several months ago I posted an article titled How To Teach Music Lessons Via The Internet. Following the publication of it I had had several people contact me asking if I knew of any directories where potential students could find teachers that are willing to teach instrumental or voice lessons over the Internet using videoconferencing. While there are several places out there that people can find a music teacher there were none that I could find that specialized in this new, virtual type of instruction. I finally got around to putting together an online music lesson directory, but decided to go beyond just providing a place for virtual lesson instructors.
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Metropolitan Opera Archives Free Access May 1-3

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Written by Chad Criswell
The New York Metropolitan Opera has been doing some incredibly cool things lately by putting archived productions of hundreds of operas, audio files, and even high definition video online for subscribers to view at any time. They have even gone so far as to stream live operas directly into theaters all over the United States. Now they have announced that for one weekend only (May 1-3, 2009) they will be opening up the web site for everyone to view or listen to the archives for free.

Internet MIDI and Teaching Piano On The Internet

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Written by Chad Criswell
I just finished a Skype chat with George Litterst, the founder of a company called TimeWarp Technologies. George is a pianist and music educator that I have used as a source for other articles I have written on the topic of teaching music over the Internet. He is going to be Skyping in to speak with the audience of a session I will be giving in a couple of weeks at the Iowa Bandmaster's Conference, and he wanted to give me a tour of his Internet MIDI product. I went into the call expecting to just see little more than a glorified on screen MIDI keyboard, but came out realizing that he has really got some potential there that could become a serious technological tool for the music education classroom.
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An Ohio Serenade- Video Story from New York Times

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Written by Chad Criswell
Schools all over the country are struggling with money issues, some are cutting music programs to the detriment of their most needy students. In a video news story from the New York Times a student from a school in Newark, Ohio shows just how important music programs can be. If we cut back on music programs what will be left for students like this one? Take a look, and pass this one on.

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