| Education |
| Anita Baldwin earned her BA in English with a Music minor from Colby College. |
| Performing and
Teaching Experience |
| Anita, a transplanted New Englander with diverse musical interests, has played piano in New England contradance bands and been soprano soloist for Washington, D.C., churches, including the Cathedral. In 1989, a friend sold her an accordion for five bucks, and she added it to her instrument list, along with recorder and guitar. In addition to her involvement with CSMA, she is a private piano teacher and is in the Music Together program. |
| At CSMA |
| Anita began her career with CSMA in 1997, teaching first and second grade in the Music in the Schools program. Currently she teaches Adventures in Music in the Pre-school program, along with a few private keyboard lessons. |
| Teaching Philosophy and Approach |
"I make sure that I truly enjoy what I do with the children. If I'm having fun, if I'm loving the music, the games, the dancing, then they will too."
"In my keyboard classes, I try for a hands-on, low-theory approach, based on the assumption that the children want to play as much as they can. My overall goal is to excite them, to make them thirsty to go on, if not in piano, then in some way musical. The beauty of music is that one way or the other, you are communicating - with others, or with yourself." |
| Personal |
| Anita probably would be teaching English if not music. Or environmental ed. Or history. Most memorable job: being dressed as an olive (yes, olive, though many people thought she was an avocado) for a Washington, D.C., restaurant and roaming the streets in search of customers, juggling and playing the guitar (not simultaneously). |
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