October 2025 Energizing Young Players: Creative Ideas to Inspire Beginners bySBO+ Contributor October 15, 2025
You Are Enough: Self-Care in this Stressful Time byMike Lawson October 28, 2020 0 The phrase has been overused recently, but we are in unprecedented times. I am taking a step back from the...
Sound Matters: Sound Equipment to Enhance Distance Learning in Orchestra byMike Lawson October 1, 2020 0 Music listening and playing is ultimately about sound. So why are you not using simple tools to enhance your teaching...
Shielding Our Future: Tony van Veen pivots his company Disc Makers towards providing PPE byMike Lawson September 2, 2020 0 When the ball dropped on New Year’s Eve and 2020 began, Disc Makers CEO Tony van Veen had no idea...
Five Repair Tools Every Orchestra Program Should Own byMike Lawson July 15, 2020 0 When we inevitably return to the classroom, due to the extended closures in many areas, some of our school-owned instruments...
Rehabilitation for Violinists: Surviving the Coronavirus byMike Lawson April 30, 2020 0 With all the weird we have had thrown at us lately, the lack of making music with other people has...
The Intricacies of Tuning and Wellness byMike Lawson January 10, 2020 0 When Eileen McKissick began offering sound therapy in her massage practice, she soon discovered she could use tuning forks to...
Physical Applications: Learning Movement byMike Lawson December 5, 2019 0 In my perusal of last month’s SBO content, I came across a comment that addressed the reuse of proven resources...
Anomalies: Knowing the Musical Language byMike Lawson November 1, 2019 0 Much like using language as a functional aid , creating and making expressive music involves unique manipulation of a musical...
Orchestra Survival Skills byMike Lawson October 3, 2019 0 I spent the first five (or more) years as an orchestral professional in a perpetual state of panic and/or frustration....
Back to School: An Olympic Event! byMike Lawson August 2, 2019 0 Tips for Integrating and Initiating New Orchestra Members into the ClassroomWe all know that orchestra classes are not one teacher...
Agility and Artistry byMike Lawson July 5, 2019 0 When I started writing these articles, there was a topic I very much felt needed attention but was unable to...
What Makes an Orchestral Musician an Effective and Sensitive Section Player? byMike Lawson June 6, 2019 0 As I am a very moody individual (by anyone’s standards), ensemble rehearsals have always been both a challenging and a...