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Celebrating His Music and Birth Centennial.

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

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

In a previous article, “School Music in Nepal,” I wrote about how, due to the lack of money, instruments, teachers,...

An interdisciplinary approach for using Hello, Dolly! that took place at a New Jersey high school.

“My family couldn’t afford violin lessons or a violin,” recalls Zeneba Bowers. “My elementary school gave me a free violin...

In September the North Bay Haven Charter Academy Marching Band and its auxiliary units brought home the first-ever regional first...

Michael San Gabino grew up in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Illinois, learning to play saxophone. In college he...

I am going to discuss rehearsal techniques for training a mallet and percussion section in your marching band. Many of...

If you are (or are soon to be) a band or orchestra teacher, you may wonder what someone who spent...

I have always felt that percussion students can easily be overlooked, maybe because they are way back in the room,...

Of all the bandmasters active in 1917, it should come as no surprise that John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) would head...