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On December 3rd and 4th, the CommonTime.online artist community held its first annual International Artist Festival. Ten artists from around the world hosted more than 10 hours of online interactive workshops and livestream performances. When offering an online Artist Festival for the first time, there are many concerns for
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In my current position at the International School of Stuttgart in Sindelfingen, I teach performing arts and coordinate outreach and performances. It was my first year at the school when COVID-19 hit. We had been planning for visiting artists, outreach programs with the Stuttgart opera, and more, but then COVID-19
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Music is service and awareness. The Cloud Forest Symphony Project was born out of a personal experience. While traveling to Singapore, I went with my family to the Cloud Forest Biosphere. It was a magnificent installation, however I found myself being incredibly disturbed-it was too silent, except for the man
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Western Classical music education is a brand name used for parts of the pedagogy of music literacy. Music literacy, as used today, was born out of a finite notation system using neumes[1]. This notation was necessary for the rise of the Christian Church and plainchant – a simple liturgical melody