“It is imperative that all students have access to an equitable delivery of arts education.” -Arts Education Is Essential The Spring 2020 issue of The Musician’s Way Newsletter has arrived in subscribers inboxes and is being shared widely. Along with practice...
To be eligible for full-time, tenure-track faculty positions, performers and composers typically need doctorates. And the degree that most of them earn is the Doctor of Musical Arts, the DMA.* Although universities sometimes hire renowned musicians who lack...
“When you’re thoroughly prepared for a concert, you’ve taken charge of the personal, task-oriented and situational components of performing.” The Musician’s Way, p. 155 The Winter 2020 issue of The Musician’s Way Newsletter is now available....
“Forward-thinking students uncover multiple career avenues that they would enjoy.” –The Musician’s Way, p. 301 Peter Spellman’s article, 5 Essentials of Music Career Success, gives the following sage advice: “Your goal, to use marketing lingo, is to ‘position’...
“I recognized a gap between what we musicians typically learn during our schooling and what we actually need to know.” -Gerald Klickstein In September 2018, Yamaha Music Media published a Japanese translation of The Musician’s Way, which rocketed to the top of its...
