4 Ways to Improve Your Ensemble’s Sound…and Improve Your Festival Rating Along the Way bySBO Staff January 19, 2011 0 For many years, at the conclusion of the spring festival season, I have thought that I should write an article...
September 2010 bySBO Staff September 19, 2022 0 "Too Hot To Handel" to Bring NYC Kids to Carnegie HallThis fall, Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute (WMI) teams up...
Jazz Singing Goes to Class: Inspiration from a Master Teacher bySBO Staff September 19, 2022 0 Setting the stageIf you are teaching a jazz choir, you know that you will have to convey in-depth musical skills...
Solving the What-to-Wear Dilemma bySBO Staff September 19, 2022 0 Oh no! The concert starts in two hours and I don't know what to wear!" Fortunately, the vast majority of...
American Perspective Vocal Jazz, Part II: Medium Difficult and Advanced bySBO Staff March 24, 2009 0 Last issue, I explored vocal jazz arrangements that could give singers new to the idiom a successful foray into it....
2009, March bySBO Staff September 19, 2022 0 Oxford University Press Aesop's FablesThis new choral work by Bob Chilcott sets five of Aesop's famous fables to a musical...
American Perspective Vocal Jazz (Part I: Easy-Medium) bySBO Staff September 19, 2022 0 Jazz is one of the only truly American art forms. It has given us some of our greatest cultural treasures,...
Schools of the Arts bySBO Staff September 16, 2008 0 Schools of the arts occupy a unique position among publicly funded educational institutions in the United States. The first of...
Brad Gillet: Putting the Jazz Band Back Together byMike Lawson March 23, 2007 0 Atlantic High School, of Port Orange, Fla., has played a vital role in the Lakeside Jazz Festival since co-founding the...
Jose Antonio Diaz: Building a Jazz Foundation byMike Lawson October 22, 2006 0 By Jennifer H. McInerney Bringing the music - and the artists - to his students has been an important layer...
Improv Techniques: The Art of Improvisation byMike Lawson October 22, 2006 0 By Lindsey Berthiaume Thursdays after school I would head down to my saxophone lesson with Jimmy Shand, who was a...