Missouri Classical Music News

Many have been afraid that the culture and music of New Orleans being lost, but of all localized music sub-cultures, I'd consider The Big Easy's as one of the most resilient. As the city's instrumentalists were moving out of the city, their priority was locating their musician brethren. For now, the website of the popular N.O. venue Tipitina's serves as information portal on accounted and missing artists, donors providing housing and instruments, and upcoming gigs.

MusicLearningCommunity.com is becoming an indispensable teaching tool for professional music teachers and their students. This ground-breaking interactive website is filled with over 150 extraordinary multimedia games and learning activities of varying levels, all carefully planned to gain mastery of the elements of music theory, ear training and rhythmic skills in an exciting, challenging environment.

MusicLearningCommunity.com enhances a teacher's current curriculum and correlates with all popular piano teaching methods. As students play the games, they fall naturally into the learning process. And they have such fun that they don't even realize they're learning solid music concepts.

Since its launch at the 2005 MTNA convention in April, MusicLearningCommunity.com has grown to include teacher-members in 22 US states, Canada, and Europe.

Teachers and students can play sample games by going online to www.MusicLearningCommunity.com and clicking Free Preview. A free two-week trial membership, newsletter and curriculum guide are available to all music teacher.

Christine Hermanson created and coordinated the MTNA National Symposium on Technology in Music from 1988-2003.