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Gregory Pittman

Choral Music Educator • Conductor • Professional Musician

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The Arts

Thoughts on the arts and their role in education and everyday life.

Singing in the Age of COVID-19

As we await the results of the Colorado State University study on the role of singing and playing wind and brass instruments in the spread of COVID-19, there is a study available now that gives us some potentially important information.

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The Value of Arts Education

Abstract painting on the subject of music and rhythm

The American Psychological Association recently published an article that repeats what we already know: that, on average, music students perform better in their non-music classes than non-music students do. Arts educators and institutions have shared this article in droves recently. As arts educators, we know why music students perform better in their non-music classes than their peers. Music students have to think in multi-dimensional ways. They have to be able to take a chord and analyze and think about it and visualize it like Tony Stark was able to visualize holographic 3D models of his next invention. Music students have to learn perseverance; one can’t rehearse a four-measure phrase for an hour without some measure of stick-with-itness. But…

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Gregory Pittman
Choral Music Educator • Conductor • Professional Musician
 
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