The Music Teaching Artist's Bible: Becoming a Virtuoso Educator

When the artist moves into the classroom or community to educate and inspire students and audience members, this is Teaching Artistry. It is a proven means for practicing professional musicians to create a successful career in music, providing not only necessary income but deep and lasting satisfaction through engaging people in learning experiences about the arts. Filled with practical advice on the most critical issues facing the music teaching artist today--from economic and time-management issues of being a musician and teacher to communicating effectively with students--The Music Teaching Artist's Bible uncovers the essentials that every musician needs in order to thrive in this role. Author Eric Booth offers both inspiration and how-to, step-by-step guidance in this truly comprehensive manual that music teaching artists will turn to again and again. The book also includes critical information on becoming a mentor, succeeding in school environments, partnering with other teaching artists, advocating for music and arts education, and teaching private lessons. The Music Teaching Artist's Bible helps practicing and aspiring teaching artists gain the skills they need to build new audiences, improve the presence of music in schools, expand the possibilities of traditional and educational performances, and ultimately make their lives as an artists even more satisfying and fulfilling.

Arts & Photography

Booth, Eric

Music

Oxford University Press

When the artist moves into the classroom or community to educate and inspire students and audience members, this is Teaching Artistry. It is a proven means for practicing professional musicians to create a successful career in music, providing not only necessary income but deep and lasting satisfaction through engaging people in learning experiences about the arts. Filled with practical advice on the most critical issues facing the music teaching artist today--from economic and time-management issues of being a musician and teacher to communicating effectively with students--The Music Teaching Artist's Bible uncovers the essentials that every musician needs in order to thrive in this role. Author Eric Booth offers both inspiration and how-to, step-by-step guidance in this truly comprehensive manual that music teaching artists will turn to again and again. The book also includes critical information on becoming a mentor, succeeding in school environments, partnering with other teaching artists, advocating for music and arts education, and teaching private lessons. The Music Teaching Artist's Bible helps practicing and aspiring teaching artists gain the skills they need to build new audiences, improve the presence of music in schools, expand the possibilities of traditional and educational performances, and ultimately make their lives as an artists even more satisfying and fulfilling.

An eye-opening view of the unprecedented global spread of El Sistema―intensive music education that disrupts the cycles of poverty.
In some of the bleakest corners of the world, an unprecedented movement is taking root. From the favelas of Brazil to the Maori villages in New Zealand, from occupied Palestine to South Central Los Angeles, musicians with strong social consciences are founding intensive orchestra programs for children in need.
In this captivating and inspiring account, authors Tricia Tunstall and Eric Booth tell the remarkable story of the international El Sistema movement. A program that started over four decades ago with a handful of music students in a parking garage in Caracas, El Sistema has evolved into one of classical music’s most vibrant new expressions and one of the world’s most promising social initiatives. Now with more than 700,000 students in Venezuela, El Sistema’s central message―that music can be a powerful tool for social change―has burst borders to grow in 64 countries (and that number increases steadily) across the globe.
To discover what makes this movement successful across the radically different cultures that have embraced it, the authors traveled to 25 countries, where they discovered programs thriving even in communities ravaged by poverty, violence, or political unrest. At the heart of each program is a deep commitment to inclusivity. There are no auditions or entry costs, so El Sistema’s doors are open to any child who wants to learn music―or simply needs a place to belong.
While intensive music-making may seem an unlikely solution to intractable poverty, this book bears witness to a program that is producing tangible changes in the lives of children and their communities. The authors conclude with a compelling and practicable call to action, highlighting civic and corporate collaborations that have proven successful in communities around the world. 16 pages of illustrations

Playing for Their Lives: The Global El Sistema Movement for Social Change Through Music

Tunstall, Tricia

W.W.Norton&Company

In Tending the Perennials, master teacher Eric Booth provides the architecture and understandings you need to create a “personal religion” that brings greater meaning and happiness to your life. He guides readers toward engagement with the perennial truths of art and religion—truths that are grounded in the same deep human principles. Truths that can get lost in the distractions and pressures of daily life, and in the institutions of art and religion. Tending the Perennials is a successor and companion book to Booth’s 1997 bestseller The Everyday Work of Art. Both books focus on the verbs of art and spirituality, not the nouns that distract and separate us. What we do when we engage artistically is very close to what we do when we engage spiritually. By consciously practicing these behaviors, we can create a personal religion that makes us more centered and contented as we navigate life’s challenges. Tending the Perennials shows you how: Booth gets you started with specific suggestions for active involvement that you can use right away. You will meet up with powerful personal stories in these pages—and with incisive philosophical perspectives you haven’t heard before, sentences you will want to underline and copy into a journal, and simple activities you can try. You’ll spend time with a wide-ranging and ceaselessly creative mind; Booth has been named one of the 25 most influential people in the American arts. You will meet up with the Ten Commencements (not commandments), which offer ways to consciously apply the artistic and spiritual skills you already have, and with the Seven Deadly Sins, which show how we often fail to focus on the little habits that make the biggest difference. You will find entertaining digressions into etymology. (Did you know that the etymological root of the word “sin” means “misalignment”?) Beyond that, you will have the sense that your own personal experience is being shown to you in a mirror. You will receive an eloquent language for describing experiences and ideas that you didn’t have words for before. “You’ve given me a language for what I always felt and knew, but didn’t know how to say”—this is what Booth’s readers tell him, again and again. Eric Booth is America’s foremost teaching artist. His entry into that world was preceded by separate successful careers as a Broadway actor and then as an entrepreneur. He gives keynote speeches around the world, works with the world’s foremost arts institutions, and is the only artist ever to receive the nation’s highest honor in arts education. All of Booth’s work has a spiritual aspect, and his accumulated wisdom has now been distilled into a clear, cogent, inspiring book that lays out a path to greater happiness. Tending the Perennials is a “best friend book.” Read it, and you’ll want to give copies to your friends.

Tending the Perennials: The Art and Spirit of a Personal Religion

Religion & Spirituality

Betteryet Press

Teaching Artists work directly in every kind of community (e.g. schools, hospitals, neighborhoods, companies), using their distinctive skills to create change at the individual and community level. Teaching Artistry is the sleeping giant of social change, and Making Change shows us why.\nWhat is a teaching artist? If you don’t know—or if you do and would like an advocacy tool to help you spread the word—this book is for you.\nWritten by the man frequently described as “the father of the teaching artist profession,” Making Change shines a light on this powerful global workforce that is largely invisible but astoundingly effective.\nLearn how Teaching Artists can activate anyone’s innate artistry to achieve a wide variety of positive goals. Enjoy stories about the surprising impact of their partnerships in health, government, education, corporations, environmentalism, social justice, and peacebuilding.\nThis inspiring book will leave readers — both inside and outside of the arts — with an awareness of new possibilities for shaping a better world.\n“Teaching artists amplify the power of the arts—and no one better than Eric Booth to share these stories.” 
Clive Gillinson — Executive and Artistic Director, Carnegie Hall\n“Making Change is absolutely riveting! 
Sangeeta Isvarin — Founder, Wind Dancers Trust; Co-Founder, Katradi Method: Arts for Conflict Resolution, India\n“a profoundly useful and provocative book — stories from the exuberant front lines of teaching artistry.” 
Jamie Bernstein — Author, “Famous Father Girl”; Filmmaker, “Crescendo: The Power of Music”\n“Every parent, leader, teacher, and therapist would benefit from the clarity of the insights and practical know-how contained in this succinct but powerful manifesto.” 
John Zweig — Chairman, Neuro-Insight; Director, Foundation for Art and Healing\n“Eric Booth expands our sense of what’s possible for a beacon for a brighter, creatively rich future.” 
Stu Warshawer — CEO, ArtistYear\n“ artists can be healers, educators, and advocate-- new solutions to making the world a better place.” 
Carla Dirlikov Canales — 2022-23 Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership Social Innovation + Change Initiative\n“An incredibly useful resource for organzations around the world. 
Elizabeth Njoroge —Founder of The Art of Music Foundation, Kenya

Making Change: Teaching Artists and Their Role in Shaping a Better World

A Book of the Month Club Selection, and winner of the Broadway Theatre Institute and Benjamin Franklin awards, The Everyday Work of Art has earned a wide, varied and passionate followingin the arts, education, business, and spiritual communities. Its wide appeal springs from its unique and powerful redefinition of art. This is more than the nouns of art that fill museums and concert halls. This is the art in which all people engage in bits and pieces throughout the daywhenever we use the same verbs of art that artists use. The Everyday Work of Art illuminates the artistry we all practice, and it enables us to reclaim the fun and satisfaction that is already happening unnoticed right under our noses. Discover why Yo-Yo Ma calls this book a joy to read and why critics, celebrities, artists, educators, philosophers, students and parents have become enthusiastic readers and practitioners of The Everyday Work of Art.

The Everyday Work of Art: Awakening the Extraordinary in Your Daily Life

History & Criticism

iUniverse

Acclaimed by audiences and critics alike, Music From the Inside Out is a cinematic exploration of the magic and mystery of music through the stories, passion, and artistry of the 105 musicians of The Philadelphia Orchestra. Bring the excitement of the film into the classroom with these beautiful inspirational classroom posters.

Music from the Inside Out: Poster

Santman, Donna

ANKER, DANIEL

Ponder, Carol

Alfred Music

Acclaimed by audiences and critics alike, Music from the Inside Out is a cinematic exploration of the magic and mystery of music through the stories, passion, and artistry of the 105 musicians of The Philadelphia Orchestra. Also available: classroom posters and a matching curriculum that engages students in reading, writing, listening and talking about all kinds of music and offers students the opportunity to compose their own works.

Music from the Inside Out: DVD

Argues that every time humans do their best, no matter in what type of activity, they are engaged in creating a work of art, and explains how to channel artistic abilities into other situations in daily life

The Everyday Work of Art: How Artistic Experience Can Transform Your Life

Sourcebooks, Inc.

The Everyday Work of Art redefines the way we think of art and shows a practical way of making the creative process a part of the things you do each day. Author Eric Booth speaks to the artist in each of us by using exercises and personal anecdotes to simplify artistic skills, and demonstrating how to apply these skills in day-to-day living. 
The work of art will creep into all aspects of your life, enriching how you play with your children, what you give to your personal relationships and how you do your job. This down-to-earth book takes the mystery of the arts and puts it into your hands to make a joyful difference in the quality of your everyday life.

Self-Help

Happiness

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The Music Teaching Artist's Bible: Becoming a Virtuoso Educator

The Music Teaching Artist's Bible: Becoming a Virtuoso Educator

Playing for Their Lives: The Global El Sistema Movement for Social Change Through Music

Tending the Perennials: The Art and Spirit of a Personal Religion

Making Change: Teaching Artists and Their Role in Shaping a Better World

The Everyday Work of Art: Awakening the Extraordinary in Your Daily Life

Music from the Inside Out: Poster

Music from the Inside Out: DVD

The Everyday Work of Art: How Artistic Experience Can Transform Your Life

The Everyday Work of Art: Awakening the Extraordinary in Your Daily Life