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Alfred Music has announced the release of The Professional Pianist: Classical Solos, a collection of 40 piano masterworks in their...

Remember when jazz music being taught in your school was unthinkable?

This issue we present the 17th annual School Band and Orchestra Essay Contest winners and their essays.

The 2017 school year is over, summer band programs are beginning, and planning for 2018 is well underway.

It’s been a great ride: elementary school band playing for school assemblies, junior high school band with marching and a...

There are few aspects of playing a stringed instrument (specifically violin/viola) which feel like a natural, physically familiar, comfortable use...

Directors are entrusted with thousands of dollars of instruments and equipment, yet along the way, few have ever had a...

Ideally, every band and orchestra teacher would like every child in their band and strings programs to own a quality...

Drum Corps International will celebrate its 45th anniversary throughout the summer, as the world’s most elite marching music ensembles entertain...

It reminded me of the movie Spartacus.

There are extended techniques, and then there are extended techniques.

This 2018 William Davidson Neighborhood Concert Series from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s (DSO) will allow fans to experience the DSO in West Bloomfield, Southfield, Beverly...