On Teachers
February 26, 2014 at 12:04am (With subsequent edits. I am a compulsive reviser.) As I write this, I am in my thirty fifth year of teaching music in the public schools of Oklahoma. I have worked in very small school…
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Some Empathy for Music Teachers
Folks may not be aware that there is no real off-season for music teachers. So… I basically travel the locality calling on band and orchestra directors. Since I sing (a lot) I often drop by the choir classes as well.…
What Makes Teachers Amazing (and it isn’t their ability to administer FITD or online tests)
I would like to begin this post with something I posted to my Facebook page. I hope you have time to read. This is the textual opposite of a tweet. I began by posting an observation of how teachers do…
A Few Parting Thoughts – From My Last Concert Program
I wanted to address the audience at our last concert before I retired. I knew the concert was plenty long and the seats in our school gym were not the most comfortable. Any more than the most brief necessary remarks…
Rob Reck
I am a musician. I sing. I play. I compose. I arrange. Music is what I do. Mostly. I was a low brass major but I also studied voice. I played euphonium in middle school but I learned how to…
Knowledge Should Serve People
This piece was written in response to a post on the ChoirThoughts blog, also on Word Press. You may want to read that post in order to get some context for this one. This post does not fit well on…
Getting In Touch With Your Inner Nerd
This happened: It was the last few minutes of the last period of the middle school day. My seventh and eighth grade orchestra students were putting their instruments away. One student, Aundrea, was still seated and putting her violin in…
Be Your Own Kind of Awesome!
I was discussing a situation at school once with someone who probably does not want to be identified here. (I apologize for the mysterious nature of the opening, but I stole this person’s idea and I don’t want to pretend…
Six Skills of the Professional Encourager
In the musical theater version of Camelot Arthur has a moment when he recalls something Merlin said to him when he was younger. Merlin, who has since been bewitched and is no longer available for counsel and guidance, mentioned the…
Honestly, I was Just Minding My Own Business and Life Happened
When I was in junior high school a new family joined our church, First Lutheran, in Muskogee, OK.. They quickly made friends with my parents and this friendship continued until recently between my Dad and his best friend, who both…
The Happy Rock Way 