Archive for December, 2011
Music Education for Parents: Why Learning Music in Classrooms Is Essential For Young Musical Talents
It is no big secret that parents are the most important people in the life of a child. Teaching the child music in classrooms or at home makes no difference to the responsibility of parents in mentoring him and supporting him by all means.
You need to awaken his interest and eagerness towards his musical education so that studies become joy and not compulsion. One way to do this is to encourage him to learn music in classrooms and play in groups before an audience.
Everyone, including private music tutors, knows the benefits of playing or singing to an audience. They even organize small gatherings if they have a dozen students or so under their tutelage. But learning music in classrooms is more favorable because the child gets to play in concerts and in group performances. This is actually great for shy children to shed their inhibitions and become more confident.
Tags: confident music, marvelous piece, music tutors, musical talents, shy children
Still time to catch some of the summer’s best European arts festivals
Summer is traditionally the time of year when cultural calendars are at their busiest, and your favourite Art Guide is full to bursting point with unmissable events.
While the English summer is slowly drawing to an end, other European countries continue to be bathed in sunshine, with a whole host of cultural and artistic events still to come before the clocks go back.
If you haven’t yet managed to get away for a summer break, now is the perfect opportunity to soak up those last rays of late-summer sun and take in some of the wonderful and diverse cultural events that Europe has to offer. Here are just a few of the events that lie in store over the next couple of months.
Tags: franco zeffirelli, madama butterfly, new york city ballet, opera parsifal, york city ballet
