Side by Side

2020-10-15

Author : Wiff Rudd
Release : 2020-10-15
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Book Rating : 519/5 ( reviews)

Book Synopsis Side by Side by : Wiff Rudd

Download or read book Side by Side written by Wiff Rudd. This book was released on 2020-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Side by Side" deals with how to develop and grow a group culture where students feel trust, not only with the teacher but also with one another, and where music-making is fun. Such a program involves hard work, but Wiff believes that it pays big dividends, and he has generations of successful, committed graduates to prove it. In the end, it's a book about how to live a better life.-Anthony Plog / Composer, Conductor & TeacherReading this was like drinking in a tall glass of calm during a stormy time. Wiff's insights are deeply thoughtful and ever-generous. This is a book I will share over and over. -Marianne Gedigian / Professor of Flute, Distinguished Academy, UT-AustinThis shines a spotlight on the part of the musician's highway that has remained a mystery. It may be more important than any other aspect of our professional and personal agendas.-Tim Lautzenheiser / Attitude Concepts for TodayThere lies a sense within every committed teacher that our vocation is a sacred trust; that we are here not simply to point the way to technical - or even musical - mastery; that we are here to pass on the joy of living as human beings who happen to be musicians, and to pass on to our students the values we hold dear. Throughout this book, Wiff opens his heart as a teacher to inspire all of us to do likewise, with practical (and occasionally whimsical) guidance in building students as individuals and as members of a studio community that can effect tremendous positive change in our profession and in the world. Wiff has passed along to all of us an incredible gift, so personal and vulnerable, so solid and direct; may this book help develop and serve teachers who, like him, are willing to share deeply of themselves in service of their students.-Terry Everson / Associate Professor of Trumpet, Boston University / Principal Trumpet, Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra

Side by Side: Building and Sustaining an Effective Community in the Music Studio

2020-09-10

Author : Wiff Rudd
Release : 2020-09-10
Genre :
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 337/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Side by Side: Building and Sustaining an Effective Community in the Music Studio by : Wiff Rudd

Download or read book Side by Side: Building and Sustaining an Effective Community in the Music Studio written by Wiff Rudd. This book was released on 2020-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Side by Side" deals with how to develop and grow a group culture where students feel trust, not only with the teacher but also with one another, and where music-making is fun. Such a program involves hard work, but Wiff believes that it pays big dividends, and he has generations of successful, committed graduates to prove it. In the end, it's a book about how to live a better life.-Anthony PlogComposer, Conductor & TeacherReading this was like drinking in a tall glass of calm during a stormy time. Wiff's insights are deeply thoughtful and ever-generous. This is a book I will share over and over.-Marianne GedigianProfessor of Flute, Distinguished Academy, UT-AustinThis shines a spotlight on the part of the musician's highway that has remained a mystery. It may be more important than any other aspect of our professional and personal agendas.-Tim LautzenheiserAttitude Concepts for Today

Beyond the Beat

2018-11-27 Social Science

Author : Daniel B. Cornfield
Release : 2018-11-27
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 392/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Beyond the Beat written by Daniel B. Cornfield. This book was released on 2018-11-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when the bulwarks of the music industry are collapsing, what does it mean to be a successful musician and artist? How might contemporary musicians sustain their artistic communities? Based on interviews with over seventy-five popular-music professionals in Nashville, Beyond the Beat looks at artist activists—those visionaries who create inclusive artist communities in today's individualistic and entrepreneurial art world. Using Nashville as a model, Daniel Cornfield develops a theory of artist activism—the ways that artist peers strengthen and build diverse artist communities. Cornfield discusses how genre-diversifying artist activists have arisen throughout the late twentieth-century musician migration to Nashville, a city that boasts the highest concentration of music jobs in the United States. Music City is now home to diverse recording artists—including Jack White, El Movimiento, the Black Keys, and Paramore. Cornfield identifies three types of artist activists: the artist-producer who produces and distributes his or her own and others' work while mentoring early-career artists, the social entrepreneur who maintains social spaces for artist networking, and arts trade union reformers who are revamping collective bargaining and union functions. Throughout, Cornfield examines enterprising musicians both known and less recognized. He links individual and collective actions taken by artist activists to their orientations toward success, audience, and risk and to their original inspirations for embarking on music careers. Beyond the Beat offers a new model of artistic success based on innovating creative institutions to benefit the society at large.

Resilience for All

2018-05-24 Architecture

Author : Barbara Brown Wilson
Release : 2018-05-24
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 924/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Resilience for All written by Barbara Brown Wilson. This book was released on 2018-05-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, people of color are disproportionally more likely to live in environments with poor air quality, in close proximity to toxic waste, and in locations more vulnerable to climate change and extreme weather events. In many vulnerable neighborhoods, structural racism and classism prevent residents from having a seat at the table when decisions are made about their community. In an effort to overcome power imbalances and ensure local knowledge informs decision-making, a new approach to community engagement is essential. In Resilience for All, Barbara Brown Wilson looks at less conventional, but often more effective methods to make communities more resilient. She takes an in-depth look at what equitable, positive change through community-driven design looks like in four communities—East Biloxi, Mississippi; the Lower East Side of Manhattan; the Denby neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan; and the Cully neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. These vulnerable communities have prevailed in spite of serious urban stressors such as climate change, gentrification, and disinvestment. Wilson looks at how the lessons in the case studies and other examples might more broadly inform future practice. She shows how community-driven design projects in underserved neighborhoods can not only change the built world, but also provide opportunities for residents to build their own capacities.

Creativity, Inc. (The Expanded Edition)

2014-04-08 Business & Economics

Author : Ed Catmull
Release : 2014-04-08
Genre : Business & Economics
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Download or read book Creativity, Inc. (The Expanded Edition) written by Ed Catmull. This book was released on 2014-04-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The co-founder and longtime president of Pixar updates and expands his 2014 New York Times bestseller on creative leadership, reflecting on the management principles that built Pixar’s singularly successful culture, and on all he learned during the past nine years that allowed Pixar to retain its creative culture while continuing to evolve. “Might be the most thoughtful management book ever.”—Fast Company For nearly thirty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story trilogy, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, and WALL-E, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner eighteen Academy Awards. The joyous storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is. Here, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques that have made Pixar so widely admired—and so profitable. As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: to make the first computer-animated movie. He nurtured that dream as a Ph.D. student, and then forged a partnership with George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his founding Pixar with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter in 1986. Nine years later, Toy Story was released, changing animation forever. The essential ingredient in that movie’s success—and in the twenty-five movies that followed—was the unique environment that Catmull and his colleagues built at Pixar, based on philosophies that protect the creative process and defy convention, such as: • Give a good idea to a mediocre team and they will screw it up. But give a mediocre idea to a great team and they will either fix it or come up with something better. • It’s not the manager’s job to prevent risks. It’s the manager’s job to make it safe for others to take them. • The cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them. • A company’s communication structure should not mirror its organizational structure. Everybody should be able to talk to anybody. Creativity, Inc. has been significantly expanded to illuminate the continuing development of the unique culture at Pixar. It features a new introduction, two entirely new chapters, four new chapter postscripts, and changes and updates throughout. Pursuing excellence isn’t a one-off assignment but an ongoing, day-in, day-out, full-time job. And Creativity, Inc. explores how it is done.

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