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Arrange-Con II

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The culture for making music the property of piano students themselves, through arranging, improv and composition, is developing.
We had two piano recitals this year. Students participated in each others’ performances by actively listening. They shared energy and inspiration to become more creative with their music making.

2020 TMTA Teacher Enrichment Grant

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The Texas Music Teachers Association awarded me the Teacher Enrichment Grant to further my study of Music Learning Theory applied to Piano at the advanced level professional development course to be held by the Gordon Institute for Music Learning in Quincy, MA, in August 2020. Naturally the course was canceled because of the pandemic, but TMTA said I could keep the funds for when GIML offers the course again in the future. Thanks, TMTA!

Easy Zoom piano lessons through April 1, at least

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Hi again, Musikhaus parents and students!
I will no longer send you Zoom links for piano lessons. It’s much simpler for you to set up a free basic account at https://zoom.us/ and “Join” me on Zoom by inputting my Personal Meeting ID. That’s what I’ll be sending you this week, and you’ll join all lessons with it even when we reschedule. Use a desktop, laptop or tablet for the lesson so the screen is big enough to see what I am doing.
Online piano lessons are getting better day by day!

Students and parents, this set-up gives me a side view of the student’s hands, and the laptop/ladder is super easy for the student to move to show the face up close or movement activities if student backs away. Use “gallery view” to see me and how you appear to me.

Zoom lessons Mar. 16-20

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Musikhaus parents and students,

I will text you Zoom links for our online piano lessons this week. You don’t need a Zoom account, just a device (or two) that has Internet, microphone, speakers, and camera.

The Skype-MyMusicStaff integration didn’t work out in test calls yesterday afternoon.

Additionally I’m having trouble with more emails than usual not being delivered, even after carefully going through the configurations yesterday morning. That’s why I’m posting about what’s going on here, on the Musikhaus Piano Lessons Facebook page, and the musikhaus.mymusicstaff.com portal.

Keep calm and wash a song!

Carla