Not much about playing the violin came naturally to me - but music did, very much so. One of the ...

David Kim paused after playing a few exquisite bars of music on his Italian violin. The concertmaster of The Philadelphia ...

We can all remember the excitement of our first performance—dressing uniformly being the center of attention yet within the security ...

Parades, flags, fireworks, picnics, politics and patriotic American music: whether it was the small-town traditional event at the centrally located ...

It’s hard to believe, but with the highly competitive 2018 DCI Summer Tour barely over, it’s already time to start ...

Teaching students to improvise can be one of the most challenging things we do as teachers. We spend so much ...

Clarity comes in surprising places. This summer I spent a week at Boy Scout camp in the forest of northern ...

Nearly every new teacher is urged to have a mentor to help guide them through their early years in the ...

As the summer practices and band camps are wrapping up, it is time to implement the show plan and make ...

Test your knowledge about the products John Philip Sousa endorsed in advertisements.

Dear SBO Readers,We recently had another rental saxophone returned, and I wanted to cry. Even more than I usually do. ...

This issue, I’m using this space to present correspondence from a middle school band director, Eric Combs, chronicling the journey ...