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“Rave review.” That’s right, by me! Overlooked among the media coverage on Doctor Atomic is the support provided for those who want to learn more. When it comes to opera, I have long admired John Adams for creating works that have direct relevance to my life and times. Don’t get me wrong, I admire John…

Over the past year or two we’ve seen the emergence of significant studies to determine the levels of access to arts education by students in a given state or in some instances a city. Later today, the New York City Department of Education will release its second Annual Arts in the Schools Report. This year,…

Early on in my tenure at CAE, I had lunch with an extremely talented principal of a charter school with a heavy focus on the arts. There was so much to admire, not the least of which was the principal’s commitment to excellence, innovation, and high standards. Among the charter school movement, it is central…

I have had the good fortune to be associated with Chamber Music America’s New Music Institutes, which are a series of institutes across New York State providing professional development for students, professional artists, and managers in connection with the creation, performance, and promotion of new chamber music. Last week at SUNY Potsdam, I was deeply…

I always thought he was underestimated as an actor. It wasn’t just  as measured by the number of Academy Awards, but rather by the opinions of all my friends that he wasn’t on par with Marlon Brando, Robert DeNiro, Gregory Peck, Lawrence Olivier, etc. I argued then and will argue now. I know it sounds…

Looking at the ashes being scattered across Wall Street, the extent to which we do not yet understand or can reasonably predict, made me think a bit about what it was like going into the public schools as a “teaching artist” during the early to late 1980’s. Okay, I am not completely sure that the…

I hope that everyone will read about Don Rosenberg, the long-term, deeply respected music critic of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, being reassigned so that he will no longer be reviewing The Cleveland Orchestra. The music journalism perspective has been covered very well, very quickly and if you haven’t taken a look, you can find it…

Eduwonkette. She’s Babe Ruth, Wayne Gretzky, Diane Ravitch, and Edward Murrow all rolled into one. She’s absolutely brilliant as she manages to remain cheeky and friendly, while taking on many of the specious claims connected to testing, accountability, and the powerful propaganda machines claiming great success as a result of test score obsessed reforms. The…

You hear it all the time, that schools should be accountable same as the workplace. Merit pay, determined by performance evaluations, rewards high performing employees and creates a highly competitive, successful workplace. Conversely, workers that do poorly as measured by their employee evaluations will be weeded out. It all works for the good of the…