by Robert Fisher, Catoctin School of Music With the start of a new year and the first anniversary since the onset of the global Covid-19 pandemic, most of us have been forced to embrace new norms in virtual teaching, rehearsing, and performing music online. Whether it be through Zoom or any number of teleconferencing applications and technologies, most educators have embraced (albeit, forced to embrace) a...
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by Jamey Mann, The Catoctin School of Music It is usually around the holidays when students start to find their practice schedule getting off track. Holiday travel, events, visiting and many other things start to take over. If not general business around the holiday, then other stressful events in one’s life can make practicing your instrument an overwhelming chore. It is moments like this where student...
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It’s 2021 and new year’s resolutions are upon us, this means that a lot of people are going to get inspired into getting yoga lessons. Due to the amount of people that will be interested there is also the need for a more stable, succesful studio. There are a few tips out there that can change the state af any studio from a big mess to a...
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While it may not seem very difficult, there are many things that can get in the way between you and a thriving well organized studio, and most of the times these issues come in the form of bad management or lack of the necessary tools for the job. That’s why it is a good idea to search for a few tips that might get you on...
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by Matthew Ogden, December 2020 The month of December marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven. Great concerts and celebrations of this composer’s music had been scheduled around the world, but due to the global pandemic, these concerts have been postponed indefinitely. Instead of the sublime music of Beethoven filling concert stages and symphony halls across the globe, all we hear is...
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