Are you an Gordon MLT devotée? A Kodály-guy? A Tonic Solfa Curwenator? How about a Takadimician? I think all of those frameworks are wrong. But also right!

In addition to these concepts, you will get a rare peak behind the scenes at creating a popular music education podcast, and why you might think you should try to make your own! But, you probably shouldn’t.

Recently, I went to share some thoughts with a meeting of the Kodaly Educators of Texas at Magnolia High School. Shout out to Thea Persinger for the invite! This is the audio AND video version of excerpts from my “Filling in the Gaps” presentation. It is based on the premise that all music education or pedagogical theories have important insights. But, of course, they all miss something. This is my attempt to fill in one of our most common music ed gaps: The Science of Reading, and how it can inform our pedagogy if COMBINED with Kodaly, Edwin Gordon, Curwen and the others.

Most popular music education theories were generated during, and draw on practices of a time when music education was almost entirely practiced on the privileged and/or kids that showed high musical aptitude at a young age. Almost any theory of music education works if you pre-select for talent in advance…

We know SO much more than we did 50 years ago about the brain and the most impactful ways to maximize its function. This presentation provides IMPORTANT context to supplement episode 219 on the importance of individual assessment, and 220 with Dr. Anita Collins, expert researcher on music and the brain.

As always, the slides to this presentation and all of my past ones, are in the shared Google folder!

Tune in, and have your thinking stimulated and challenged. Then, weigh in yourself with your related ideas and experiences on Facebook in the Choralosophers group or over on choralosophy.substack.com Also, don’t forget to grab a reading rope for your classroom wall from the shop! Music Reading Rope

For future rehearsal clips, find me on TikTok, Insta and FB!

If all our choir’s problems could be fixed with “a short bullet point” or “tip” this job would be much easier.

One of the reasons I subscribe to Choralosophy is because I know that long form content with in depth analysis and demonstrations is so much more valuable than “3 easy tricks to…”

I am a professional. I do not need tricks, I need professional development, knowledge, and skills.

I have listened to and supported your podcast since from around its inception. You have done an amazing job growing it into what it is—a tremendous resource for those of us in the choral community. Also, I agree that disingenuous is not a word to describe you. Anyone who has listened to your podcasts would know that. Keep up the good work and thank you.

The expectation that fellow educators will share resources (or do extra work) on demand/beyond what they’ve chosen to share has become a major problem in education social media spaces…

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