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In today's environment of budget cuts and ever increasing demands on teacher time, this song from The Clash seems like...

Can you believe that there are high school band directors who are still teaching band long after they have retired?...

For many years, at the conclusion of the spring festival season, I have thought that I should write an article...

For many music programs, both vocal and instrumental, the primary indication of their effectiveness and impact is the quantity of...

I finally have a choir class at the middle school that feeds my high school; this is the first time...

Setting the stageIf you are teaching a jazz choir, you know that you will have to convey in-depth musical skills...

Throughout my teaching career, I typically have had two or three special education children mainstreamed into my Chorus I classes....

Anyone who has ever organized a choral festival knows that it is not a one-person venture. Location, staging, and audio...

Mary Martin as Maria with the Von Trapp family singers in the original 1959 Broadway production.All photos courtesy of the...

So you want to record your choral group and don't know where to start? With so many different types of...

Friday night lights, the thrill of the Final Four, the new billion-dollar Yankee Stadium. Team sports have a larger-than-life place...

This spring will be the second time the 8th Grade Choir at Learwood Middle School in Avon Lake, Ohio will...