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Alison S. Barr, Music Teachers National Association 2024 Teacher of the Year
This fall, our theme is “The Americas – Energy, Hope, and Joy!
We’ll be exploring music, history, and cultures from all over America — North, South, Central and The Islands! There’s a wealth of music which we’ve never heard.
We’ll also think about social and political issues, geography, natural resources, challenges and triumphs – all as they contribute to the music we are studying and performing.
A very creative and unique contribution from each student, including a QR code scan of Allie’s improv and Liam’s pieces, being guided by Composer, Kevin Michael Sullivan!
Alison S. Barr has been named Music Teachers National Association’s “2024 Teacher of the Year.” This award was conferred on March 20, 2024, at the MTNA National Conference in Atlanta. Ms. Barr is thrilled to share this award with her current and former students and her dear colleagues in MTNA and Massachusetts Music Teachers Association! This is Alison pictured in Beirut, Lebanon, where she volunteers as a piano teacher in a cultural exchange program, American Voices.
Our “Caring for Our Oceans” Winter Recital was beyond all expectations! Dr. Carol Anne
Clayson, Senior Physical Oceanographer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, spoke to us about being a pianist AND a world renown scientist. Her talk, our brilliant cover art, Heather’s banner, the students’ program notes which they wrote and shared, the serenity of the James Library, the beauty of the ocean pieces — all contributed —but it was mostly the sincere, heartfelt playing that made the night spectacular.
And afterwards, everyone got a whale cookie and a Madeleine, freshly-baked by Ngoc Dupont, mother of three students performing! Thank you Eliza, Allie, Micah, Christian, Naomi, Linux, Thisbe, Lauren, Winter, Liam, and Clayton!
