PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE TO 5:00 PM New Directions for Music Teaching and Learning: 2020 Vision Peter Richard Webster is Professor Emeritus of Music Education at the Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University and a Scholar-in-Residence at the Thornton School of Music at USC in Los Angeles where he currently resides. He has taught on the music education faculties of Northwestern and Case Western Reserve universities for forty years. He holds degrees in music education from the University of Southern Maine (BS) and the Eastman School of Music (MM, PhD). He has taught in the public schools of Maine, Massachusetts, and New York. He has presented numerous lectures on creative thinking, both nationally and abroad. His published work includes over eighty articles and book chapters on technology, music cognition, and creative thinking in music. Webster is co-author of Experiencing Music Technology and co-editor of the new MENC Oxford Research Handbook on Music Learning. He is also the author of Measures of Creative Thinking in Music, an exploratory tool for assessing music thinking using quasi-improvisational tasks. He is currently writing a book on creative approaches to music and learning approaches. Professor Webster will share his ideas for charting new directions for music teaching and learning at all levels of instruction. He will draw significantly from his work in musical creativity, technology, and assessment. He will begin with some reasons for optimism about the future, and also a few reasons for concern. The body of his lecture with focus on seven “big ideas” in music teaching and learning that might serve as a focus for renewed initiatives in curriculum development and research study. His lecture will conclude with reactions and questions from the audience.