How you speak can have a direct effect on your singing voice. Here are some tips to keeping everything in ...

Musicals for Teaching Tolerance and Diversity.

Around the country, the school year is coming to a close. For high school students, spring break is fast becoming ...

The Eastman Family has announced that Rio Americano High School, led by Director Josh Murray, is the winner of the 2019 ...

The April SBO editor’s “Perspective” addressed the fact that the vast majority, perhaps 80%, of students are not involved in ...

I’m writing this article about what the “dot” means in music (and the many ways to play it).

Parents everywhere sing to their little children at bedtime. It’s a loving ritual that eases the transition from waking to ...

One of the larger challenges modern band teachers face is not only how to incorporate new repertoire, but also facilitating ...

In the April/May 2018 issue of Choral Director, SBO’s sister magazine, I wrote a piece entitled “The Importance of Our ...

May is a month of intense preparation for drum corps from coast to coast. It’s the time of convergence for ...

With so many other tasks on the metaphorical plate of the school music director, why might one want to go ...

Timpani is perhaps the most different and distinct of all the percussion instruments.