Kids who are exposed to music perform better in school: students in high-quality school music education programs score higher on standardized tests compared to students in schools with deficient music education programs, regardless of the socioeconomic level of community.
He got the idea from the kids he was teaching at an after-school music class in one of the tougher neighborhoods of north Philadelphia.
At Google 's holiday party, some employees dressed to the nines while others wore whatever they had on at work that day to enjoy an evening of food, music and playing old-school videogames inside a music arena next to the company's Mountain View, Calif.
At Google 's (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) holiday party, some employees dressed to the nines while others wore whatever they had on at work that day to enjoy an evening of food, music and playing old-school videogames inside a music arena next to the company's Mountain View, Calif.
"Manhattan School of Music offers world-class musical education at a reasonable price, " said interim President Marjorie Merryman.
So here at Manhattan School of Music were high-school musicians from California, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York and Wisconsin immersed in his compositions and thereby him.
The new partners cover a broad range of institutions, from Ivy League universities Columbia and Brown, which has lagged in offering free online courses, to Wesleyan, a small liberal arts college, to a top-ranked music school, Berklee College of Music, to state schools like University of Maryland at College Park, to foreign institutions like Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Melbourne.
In its present form the New School is indeed new: It is a recent amalgam of a graduate program called the New School for Social Research with two conservatory-like schools (the Parsons School of Design and the Mannes College of Music) and several less well-known entities.
' With these songs, I feel like the old-school folks who love traditional music are going to love this, but it's also cool enough, and topically challenging enough, that young people are going to dig it, too.
There are still many gemlike elements in Season 3, like a scene in the second episode, in which Antoine a formerly dissolute second-line musician who is now a sober family man, teaching music in a run-down public school is alone in a classroom.
Last year, Benjamin Curtis and twin sisters Ally and Claudia Deheza left the bands they were in, moved in together, set up a home recording studio and launched an all-consuming music project they call School of Seven Bells.
Even the music rooms in the school are high-tech, with microphones built into the ceilings so they function as recording studios.
Mr. Yerawadekar, who leads the band Low Mentality, teaches a rock-music program at the Bank Street School for Children in the Morningside Heights section of the city.
The trio members all study music through the Juilliard School's pre-college division.
During music class at the Bilkent school, third-graders sitting cross-legged on a large carpet sang "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" in Turkish, followed by "London Bridge" in English.
The disc, which goes by the title Antarctic Waves, works on both PCs and Macs and will be made available for free to every secondary school in the UK that teaches GSCE or A-level music.
And I'm back in school pursuing a degree in music with a minor in film-making.
He was in the sixth-form of Forest Hill School and excelled in sport, music and acting.
One gadget is so popular it ranks with everyone from grade-school kids to CEOs: Apple Computer 's iPod music player.
The movie runs on film-school cleverness a homemade pharmaceutical cocktail of pop music, visual jolts, and allusions to Scorsese and Peckinpah.
For example, since 1996, Jazz at Lincoln Center has staged "Essentially Ellington, " an annual competition among high-school bands across the country centered around Ellington's music.
Prosecutors said his relationship with the 17-year-old was part of a pattern which showed his unhealthy interest in girls in their early and mid-teens while he was the school's director of music.
Though Fox's "Glee, " a music-laced show about a high-school glee club, remains in the top 20 for viewers between the ages of 18 and 49, it has seen its rating drop 25% in that group so far this TV season compared with a year earlier, according to Nielsen data provided by Fox. (Fox, like The Wall Street Journal, is owned by News Corp.) This could signal a challenge for "Smash, " Mr. Adgate says.
When young Jonah, a world-class singing prodigy, is turned down by a music school because of his Jewish connection normally, it is his blackness that brings trouble the family responds by gathering around the piano to sing Phrygian folk tunes: that'll learn them.
He's also the mariachi director at a program run by a nonprofit out of the Brooklyn Music School that began last year, and he started an all-female mariachi band in February.
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The country music group announced last week that Henryville Junior-Senior High School was the winner of its "Own the Night" prom contest based on a video entry submitted by a rival Clark County, Indiana, school.
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Her school offers four full-time teachers, two part-time teachers in art and music and 3.6 computers for each pupil.
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Walter Arrington remembers "a good girl" who enjoyed listening to music, dancing and learning computers at school, where she was well-behaved.
The sights and sounds of old-school games like Frogger and Donkey Kong are now becoming a part of mainstream music and culture.
Born in the picturesque Kent village of Pembury in 1976, Philip showed an early interest in music - playing saxophone in an orchestra - and travel after a school French exchange.
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