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Aids and encourages music education in schools, public and private; Recognizes and promotes outstanding American music and composers annually through programs such as American Music Month (November), Parade of American Music, Celebrate Strings (Previously named "Crusade for Strings"), Music Outreach, and the Emil and Ruth Beyer Composition Awards.
InterHarmony International Music Festival, a summer classical music festival, was the inspiration for founding the InterHarmony International School of Music, [5] [6] in order to provide students with the option of studying in full programs without having to leave their homes. The programs allow students from any city or country to receive a ...
In the mid-19th century, educator Luther Whiting Mason established music education in the schools of Cincinnati, and become a prominent author of textbooks. His National Music Course, first published in 1870, was a widely adopted standard part of many American curricula. Music education continued to expand across the country, and gained in ...
The potential of online music education to create positive change in terms of professional development has been noted by various scholars (Hebert, 2008; Sherbon & Kish, 2005); However, concerns have also been raised regarding the absence of a sufficient research base concerning the effectiveness of online music education (Hebert, 2007; Webster ...
Blue Bear's current Board of Trustees include co-founder and Board President Steve Savage, [2] and well known singer/songwriter/keyboard player Bonnie Hayes. The current board chair is Tom O'Connell. Day-to-day operations are under the direction of Dennis Criteser, a former student who has been associated with the school since 1979. [3]
DECA Inc., formerly Distributive Education Clubs of America, is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit career and technical student organization (CTSO) with more than 260,000 [1] members in all 50 U.S. states, Washington, DC; Australia, Canada, China, Germany, India, Mexico, Poland, Puerto Rico, Spain, and Vietnam. The United States Congress, the United ...
This is a list of music organizations in the United States. It does not include symphony orchestras or other performance groups, or educational and research institutions unless they have significant programs outside the fields of education, research or performance. It does include corporations or record labels.
She founded the Music Supervisors National Conference in 1907. It was an organization of American music educators dedicated to advancing and preserving music education as part of the core curriculum of schools in the United States. In 2011, it was renamed the National Association for Music Education and it had more than 130,000 members. [1] [8]