Month: September 2011

Music Education Matters

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Yesterday morning I had the pleasure to attend an event at Norman Binkley Elementary school with VH1 Save The Music Foundation, Energizer and country singer Jimmy Wayne.  This event was part of VH1 Save The Music and Energizer’s “Positive Energy” campaign, where the two partnered together to give musical instruments to select schools throughout the nation.  Now, if you know anything about the Save The Music Foundation, then you know that this is their mission and goal, that they are an “organization dedicated to restoring instrumental music education in America’s public schools, and raising awareness about the importance of music as part of each child’s complete education.” (STM.com).

Now, as you might know, I had the privileged to intern with STM this summer in Manhattan.  In my “About” section, I go-on about this probably a bit more than I should.  But, it’s with good reason.  It was truly life changing and eye-opening for me.  It not only opened doors and windows and all these other outlets for me, and showed me ways I could use what I was learning in the class room, or how happy I could be with a future profession, but I was also working for something I felt passionate about — music education…

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Decisions & Definitions

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So, as you may or may not know, this blog was partially an “assignment” for my Social Media in Public Relations class.  However, I don’t view it as much as an “assignment,” but rather a challenge.  I’ve always been interested in blogging, but I’ve never quite figured out how to fit it in my life.  Or how to blog about something that people, other than my close friends & family, actually care to read on a regular basis.  Or — bum bum bum! — how to pick a solid topic.

If you know me relatively well, or even have just known me for a short time, you also may or may not know that I am TERRIBLE with decisions.  It’s a problem.  With that, comes the difficulty of deciding on a cohesive and copacetic topic for this (what I hope to be) very lovely blog of mine.  And yes, this deciding of a topic was an “assignment…”

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A world before, 10 years later.

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In a time before social networking and hashtags, before phones were smarter than some humans, before hipsters and Flash Mobs, and even scarcely before iPods, when books and newspapers were not being read electronically, and barely past Y2K and the scare that surrounded it, the United States was changed forever.

Ten years ago, on September 11, 2001, the United States was targeted by a group, a force, of people with one common goal — death & destruction.  To destroy a nation as they knew it, a nation which stood for all that they stood against.  To target the lives of thousands of innocent people, to take them from their friends and their families, and alter reality as we all once knew it…

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And so it begins…

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Day 21: Do I dare?

There always comes that time for the first post.  There’s always that struggle of oh, what do I say? Do I say, “WOO FIRST POST,” and leave it at that, or do I post something thoughtful and awesome that shows how much of a creative and deep-thinker I am?  Do I post something about myself?  Do I post something random, or something that will be similar to what the posts to come will be like? Well, I have no idea what to post, either.  It’s best to use the band-aid method, though, and just get-it-over-with!

And, honestly, I’m not sure if I’d be able to post anything like what other posts will be like.  Because, honestly, I’m not sure what they’ll be like.  They will, most likely, incorporate that of news, pop culture, the entertainment industry, the music industry, photography, travel, social media, interesting and thought-provoking subjects, and everything in between.  I simply cannot promise you one thing, because I can only promise you everything.

Enjoy!