Carnegie Hall
“If you’re asking me about why music education is important, it begs the question, why is music important? And music, to me, is like water. It’s just like breathing. It’s waking up in the morning... If I don’t have music, then I don’t have life.”
We all remember that one teacher who really changed our lives, the one who made us think and feel differently, the one who made us believe in ourselves. For many of us it was the art or music teacher, the one who handed us an instrument, or a song, or simply the permission to be heard.
Great Music Teaching, a podcast from Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute, shares the passion, challenges and lifting up of students from a music teachers perspective through the foundational tenets of music education: Improvise, Notice, Express, Empower, Cultivate, and Unearth. We developed and produced the series, sitting down with each of the six educators at its heart, Bishop Chantel Wright, Thomas Cabaniss, Sean Jones, Emily Eagen, Margaret Jenks, and the string quartet PUBLIQuartet, to hear their stories, their histories, and what drives them back into the classroom year after year.
With interviews from teachers, musicians, students, and, of course, music from across the country, we invite you into the classrooms and hearts of these extraordinary people navigating the complex road of education and the arts.
Client
Carnegie Hall
Project
Great Music Teaching
Services
Concept Development - Strategy - Creative Direction - Naming - Production - Interviews - Sound Design - Post Production - Distribution Strategy
Voices
Bishop Chantel Wright, Thomas Cabaniss, Sean Jones, Emily Eagen, Margaret Jenks, PUBLIQuartet
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Our Process
One teacher, one tenet, one conversation at a time.
Opportunity
Carnegie Hall is synonymous with musical excellence and performance, less well known is the work of its Weill Music Institute in classrooms across the country. The opportunity was to shine a light on that work, and on the teachers who make it happen, and to ask a deceptively simple question: what makes a music teacher great?
Insight
We have long believed that the most powerful way to talk about something is to let the people who live it do the talking. Rather than build a case for music education, we built the series around six teachers, each one embodying a single tenet, and let their stories, their students, and their music.
Outcome
A six-part podcast series that celebrates the art of teaching and offers educators, students, and music lovers alike a window into what great music teaching looks and sounds like. It is a lasting resource for anyone who has ever stood at the front of a classroom, or sat at the back of one, and been changed by music.
