August 2025 Arts Education Strategic Planning: The Ultimate Advocacy Tool By Laurie T. Schell bySBO Staff August 21, 2025
Learning Music: In Praise of Print bySBO Staff September 19, 2022 0 The look of my first piano book remains sharp in my memory.
Perspective: Of Sticks, Stones, and Glass Houses byMike Lawson November 12, 2015 0 This issue of SBO combines our College Search and Career Guide, along with our annual focus on percussion. I interviewed...
Learning Music: In Praise of Print byMike Lawson November 11, 2015 0 I grew up in a home with a grand piano. Although today a trim electric keyboard or other nifty digital...
Perspective: Where Have I Heard this Before? byMike Lawson September 19, 2022 0 I spent September 11th this year at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, listening to the Nashville Symphony performances of two very...
Music Education Curriculum in Schools: ‘It’ Is Something Worth Fighting For byMike Lawson October 22, 2015 0 You know it when you see “it,” and when you don’t. A school that has “it” is different than one...
Some Try to Tell Me Thoughts They Cannot Defend byMike Lawson September 4, 2015 0 As I was driving my high school senior to school today, he was telling me that his garage band was...
When Mickey Mouse Teaches Band Academics byMike Lawson September 4, 2015 0 Now for all you “macho” band directors out there, you may not be too impressed with a lot of “Mickey...
The Times They Are A-Changin’ byMike Lawson August 14, 2015 0 It was a very busy month for me, starting out with a trip to Ft. Collins, CO to attend the...
MAC Corner – Make this School Year Your Best Ever byMike Lawson August 14, 2015 0 By Dr. Charles T. Menghini This summer while teaching a graduate class in the summer master’s degree program at...
Are You Looking For a Miracle In Your Life? byMike Lawson July 24, 2015 0 There are a lot of great things about running a magazine publishing company. For one thing, it gives you a...
Survival Tip One – Who Moved My Band Director? Suggestions for Accepting Change byMike Lawson July 24, 2015 0 Congratulations! You’ve been a hot shot your whole life. Going to music school wasn’t the question, which instrument you were...
Survival Tip Two – Setting Your Band’s Expectations Before the Levy Breaks….. byMike Lawson July 24, 2015 0 Let’s put ourselves in that moment where we get the emergency call. Our community is in danger from the rising...