Mollie Tower on Music Memory Program
Contact:
Ivan Milman
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19 Aug 2019 |
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 Austin University Area
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Music Memory Program - Classical Listening for Fun
Mollie Tower will introduce us to a Made in Austin classical music listening program. The Music Memory Program is an award-winning curriculum designed to promote an understanding of music using powerful techniques that combine aural experiences and visual memories.
The curriculum is an in-depth study of great composers, their lives and their music. In grades 3 –8, sixteen music selections are taught each year from the major historical periods - Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, 20th Century and Contemporary. Prominent composers of orchestral, vocal, choral, and keyboard selections are featured. Background Information, Animated Listening Maps and Live Performance Videos help teach the featured selections.
Mollie Gregory Tower is the founder of the Music Memory Program mightymusic.mollie@gmail.com
Mollie Tower is President of Mighty Music Publishing, LLC, a company dedicated to the musical education of young and old through the power of combining cutting-edge technology and masterpieces of music literature. She has worked with students at all levels, K - college, and holds a BS in Music Education and a Masters Degree in Education Administration from the University of Texas in Austin.
She taught music, K–6, for nine years at Lee and Andrews elementary schools in Austin ISD. In 1977, she became the AISD Elementary Music Coordinator (K–6), and was appointed to the position of AISD Choral and General Music Coordinator (K-12) in 1990. During her twenty-one years as a music coordinator for AISD, Mollie created and organized many district-wide programs, including the Music Memory Program.
Mollie is the Senior Author/Executive Producer of the Music Memory Curriculum, an annually produced, year-long listening program that brings the richness of classical music to thousands of students throughout the country. Mollie personally organizes and hosts several Music Memory Contests around the country. She recently hosted the New York City All-City Music Memory Contest and also works with the Music Memory Contests held each spring in Dallas, in Austin, in San Diego, California and in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
From 2006 - 2014, she taught in the School of Music at Texas State University at San Marcos, where she served as a Student Teacher Supervisor for Elementary Music student teachers, and taught Music Education classes to over 2000 future elementary classroom teachers.
Mollie has published many textbooks for all levels of students, K – college. Her publishers include Routledge Publishing in London, England, Macmillan/McGraw- Hill inNYC, and Glencoe/McGraw-Hill in NYC.
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