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Rebecca Pennington– Administrative Director of the The New School for Music Study

June 12, 2015 By barnardc Leave a Comment

Jessica Stanislawcyzk interviews Rebecca Pennington, Administrative Director of The New School for Music Study. Rebecca discusses her background in piano pedagogy, longstanding relationship with the New School, and her hopes for the impact of music education on her students and the community.

  • 0:07: Early piano training, desire to teach
  • 2:25: Undergraduate education, choral and orchestral experiences
  • 5:25: Graduate study in piano performance
  • 6:42: Shifting role at the New School for Music Study
  • 8:22: History of the New School, teaching philosophy
  • 13:20: Impact of piano study on students
  • 15:45: Impact of the New School on Princeton and Kingston communities
  • 20:34: Difference between the musical communities she has experienced
  • 22:37: Hopes for future growth of the New School

You can read Jessica’s reflection on this interview here.

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April 8-10, 2016 Westminster Choir College of Rider University Princeton, NJ "Locations and Dislocations: An Ecomusicological Conversation" seeks to bring together scholars, performers, and composers to further explore the relationships between music, culture, and the environment. The conference will tune to sounds as they fit or belong in the place they are heard, as they fit or belong in some other place, or as they have no ecological home, either built or natural. Among the questions at

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