
Welcome to Strike up the Band (and Orchestra!): Motivating Student Musicians. This podcast is a series of discussions about motivation in the instrumental music program. The participants are Luke Jones, Matt McKeever, and Jennifer Mishra. The podcasts were recorded on the University of Missouri – St. Louis campus.
| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 16 | Founded | 10 years ago |
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In this podcast, Tom Poshak is in the studio with us discussing motivating instrumental ensembles. Tom is a retired high school band director and taught 30 in the Ladue & Kirkwood school districts (St. Louis, Missouri). In 2001 he received the Music ... more
In today’s podcast, we conclude our interview Anthony Mazzocchi, a trombonist who has played with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and San Diego Symphony and is a Grammy nominated music educator of the year. Currently he is the associate director and pro... more
In today’s podcast, we interview Anthony Mazzocchi, a trombonist who has played with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the San Diego Symphony and is a Grammy nominated music educator of the year. Currently he is the associate director and professor of... more
In today’s podcast, we interviewed Dr. Julie Troum, the author of The Motivated Musician blog. She does educational consulting, student seminars, and teacher workshops. Her research addresses the motivational issues musicians face during training act... more
In this podcast we interview Sandy Lundberg, a private piano teacher from Berthold, CO. We discuss motivating students and ways that parents can influence their children when playing music.
In this podcast, we discuss the factors that affect whether children choose to participate in music. We are reacting to a research study by Kwang Suk Yoon. Because a major motivator for the choice is parental value, we continue our previous discussio... more
In this podcast we discuss Daniel Pink’s video about the puzzle of motivation. We begin by discussing the popular psychology test of the candle problem, which requires critical thinking skills of the participants. We discuss how incentives can have a... more
This episode focuses on instilling in our students a sense of ownership over the instrumental music ensemble by giving them some control through choices and student leadership. We discuss the idea of letting student choose repertoire and interpretati... more








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