Archive for January 2025
Are You Familiar with the T2 Program?
Have you ever heard of the T2 Program? If not, this article will familiarize you with an outline of this important document which is shaping the future of Dalcroze teacher training in the United States. The T2 program, which symbolizes the two Ts in Teacher Training (and is sometimes pronounced as T-squared and other times…
Read MoreRhythmic Solfège
Translated by Robert M. Abramson Foreword Rhythmic solfège is not in competition with other systems of solfège. It is a complement to them, and an indispensable one. In fact, in the better treatises on the subject, classical or modern, the exercises are given with the sole intention of teaching the laws of pitch and meter,…
Read MoreUpdates from the DEI Committee
Recently I attended a reunion of the k-8 school where I taught from its founding in 2005 until 2016. The Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures Charter School was founded by a group of primarily Asian American but also African American social justice activists and folk arts advocates. The vision of the school is to teach through a…
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