Music Is Not for Insects

About the Blog

A blog about music ed, technology and other important things missing from the the timeless quote by Lazarus Long, a fictional character created by  Robert A. Heinlein:

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
Specialization is for insects.”

-Robert A. Heinlein

About the blog author

Ken Pendergrass teaches music at Thurgood Marshall Elementary in Seattle. Mr. Pendergrass taught elementary music at Coe and View Ridge Schools for six years and started his teaching career at a middle school in Southern California.

He also conducts the Seattle Pacific University Men’s Choir (pictured below)

and has a master’s dergree from Western Washington University in choral conducting. He spent four years conducting The Northwest Girlchoir and continues to work with a variety of choral groups of all ages throughout the Puget Sound region as a conductor and clinician.

Mr. Pendergrass lives in Seattle with his wife and two boys, sings regularly at his church and plays trombone in the area whenever he doesn’t have a guitar in his hand.

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