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more flanagan report analysis April 8, 2008

Posted by Charles Noble in : research study, the orchestra world, add a comment

Brian Rood, member of the Kansas City Symphony and ICSOM President, has written an interesting and accessible analysis of the methodology, history and findings of the by now practically infamous Flanagan Report. You can read it in its entirety after the jump. (more…)

music studies page added March 9, 2008

Posted by Charles Noble in : News, music, research study, add a comment

I just added a page (see tab at top of the site) where I’ll be posting new and existing major studies on arts education.  There are two studies currently posted: the Knight Foundation’s 2006 Magic of Music Final Report: The Search for Shining Eyes, and the Dana Foundation’s 2008 report: Learning, Arts, and the Brain.

I’ve just finished writing a Final Note essay for the late April Oregon Symphony program book, which will reference both of these important and ground-breaking studies on the continuing, and ever more urgent need for arts education in general, and music education in particular, in the public schools.

we’re smarter - but why? March 7, 2008

Posted by Charles Noble in : appreciation/criticism, music, research study, add a comment

It’s in its early stages, but a study by the DANA foundation is examining whether people interested in the arts are smarter to begin with, or if their intelligence is stimulated and improved by their exposure to the arts. (more…)