By Eliahu Sussman“The best part of doing what I do is practically everything,” confesses Jim Smith, the director of bands ...

By Tracy LeenmanAn alarming trend is emerging in music classes in my state of South Carolina: band and string classes ...

By Peter J. HabermanAn instrumental music curriculum should help create comprehensive musicians. This large task cannot be accomplished through orchestra ...

While performing in large ensembles provides countless opportunity for achievement, learning, and fun, engaging students in smaller ensembles – quartets, ...

By Rachael Tolliver and Steve Arel Most musicians dream of performing on a world stage, leading their own band, or composing ...

Have you thought about your legacy? And I don't mean in terms of reputation or trail of awards, but the ...

Francisco Núñez Develops New Masterpieces with Young Singers from All Over the Map.

As we encourage our students to be life-long choristers, it is important that we expose them to the entire body ...

By Eliahu SussmanLaura Mulligan Thomas considers herself fortunate, and it’s easy to see why. For starters, she is now in ...

 Music education programs modeled after El Sistema, the Venezuelan movement of social empowerment through classical music, continue to multiply and ...

By Kenneth Wayne ThompsonIf you follow soccer, or football as it’s known around the world, the title of this article ...

Play-along recordings have been motivating student practice since the 1950s with everything from simple piano accompaniments to full orchestras. In ...