Growing up (yes, I am old), I remember my dad stopping at the gas station by the soft serve ice...
Playing in a school band or orchestra can be a satisfying and enriching experience for students. School ensembles offer many...
A list of top ten tips for choral directors - An excerpt from Bumblebee! Rounds & Warm-ups for Choirs by...
by Fred Bogert The combined voices of a choir can really bring folks together, performers and audiences alike. And over...
A Nashville School of the Arts project to learn as many choruses as possible from the Mozart Requiem in four...
Few things excite people as much as being in the presence of a celebrity. Indeed, on many occasions I’ve had...
Dear SBO Readers,We recently had another rental saxophone returned, and I wanted to cry. Even more than I usually do....
As a quick introduction, I retired from the U.S. Army a few years ago after 37 plus years culminating as...
John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) started his own band in 1892, which toured and played until his death in 1932. It...
While our colleagues and peers in the industry today know our father as Bob Rogers, founder of our business, when...
Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore (1829- 1892), the man who became known as, “The Father of the American Band,” should not be...
Part 4 in Walter Bitner's series on teaching solfege.
