Teaching Is Making Jam
Canning is about having your mind on the future.
arrange • compose • conduct
Canning is about having your mind on the future.
What’s your most important advice for first-year teachers?
The arts aren’t a luxury: we evolve towards art.
Do you plan to win all the time?
One of the greatest lyrical minds of the 20th Century is gone. Tom Lehrer had an outsized effect on my musical foundation. His wit, his scathing humor, and the way he wedded song to lyric all inspired me to no end. By the end of high school I had memorized […]
How do you define musical fluency?
Very rarely, there’s one perfect choice.
When someone offers to help, say yes.
The audience is just as important as the material.
Demeanor is just as important as material.