Leading Notes is a new media venture in music education, kind of a curated blog/magazine. It is the creation of two graduate students: Justine Dolorfino (from Columbia University) and Nick Jaworski (from the University of Illinois). The first issue has a “state of music education” theme, and is well worth checking out. There’s pieces from many areas of music education (administration, strings, etc.). Nick’s is a thoughtful and a spot-on impression of an actual SOTU (down to a, “you lie!” exhortation), and there’s a short piece I was invited to contribute, “The Necessity of Openness for Music Education.”