Boonshaft’s Blog
#3. Familiarity Breeds Ignoring
Choose one thing you regularly do in rehearsal. It could be anything: one phrase you say just before you start conducting, one activity you do in a...
#2. Habitual Sight
Have you noticed yourself looking at the same few students as you teach or conduct? I do, and I find they fall into two categories: those who are always...
#1. Hmmm…
I saw an advertisement while walking through an airport today. It read, “Tomorrow will be nothing like today.” And it bothered me, but I couldn’t figure...
Back to School Message
That first day of school is approaching. And with it comes many thoughts and feelings: worries about everything that needs to be done the first few days...
Dr. Boonshaft, Director of Education for KHS America, is the author of the critically acclaimed best-selling books Teaching Music with Passion, Teaching Music with Purpose, and Teaching Music with Promise. He was honored by the National Association for Music Education and Music For All as the first recipient of the “George M. Parks Award for Leadership in Music Education.” Dr. Boonshaft was selected for the Center for Scholarly Research and Academic Excellence at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY, where he is Professor Emeritus of Music.