Silver Linings: What Do We Keep from our Pandemic Response?

The amazing COVID response, adaptation, and creative transition to distance learning by music educators has been a wonder to behold. And while we all can’t wait for a return to normalcy, that “normal” will look different than the pre-pandemic world. To that end, we must ask ourselves: “What do we keep?” What tools, procedures, technologies, philosophies and more in music that arose as part of the pandemic response do we keep and apply to the post-COVID world?