Excelcia Music Publishing Releases Inspiring New Concert Band Music Catalog byMike Lawson May 24, 2021 0 A bold release with over 50 new works, Excelcia Music Publishing’s just released 2021-22 Concert Band music catalog is filled...
The Northshore Concert Band Finds a Way to Safely Make Live Music Again byMike Lawson October 6, 2020 0 After COVID-19 canceled their season, the Northshore Concert Band found a way to safely make live music again. A leader...
We Better Think: A Band Director of Color’s Perspective on Current Practices, Customs, and Ideologies on Teaching Band in the 2020s byMike Lawson October 1, 2020 0 Balancing life and work gets so overwhelming that few band directors take time to critically analyze the macro- and micro-effects...
Excelcia Music Publishing Shares Concert Band Music Release with Digital Catalog byMike Lawson May 13, 2020 0 Forging ahead with new band titles from favorite veteran composers as well as talented newcomers, Excelcia Music Publishing introduces its...
Band Directors to be Recognized in the 2021 Rose Parade byMike Lawson November 4, 2019 0 The Michael D. Sewell Memorial Foundation, based in Pickerington, Ohio, is planning to salute band directors with an animated float...
Concert Band Set-up Fundamentals byMike Lawson August 29, 2019 0 In doing clinics and adjudications all over the country, I get to see hundreds of bands each year. Nearly all...
John Philip Sousa National High School Honor Band Returns to the Stage byMike Lawson August 19, 2019 0 After a 13-year absence, the John Philip Sousa National High School Honor Band was revived in June 2018 and rehearsed...
VanderCook College of Music’s Symphonic Band to Perform at the 2018 Midwest Clinic byMike Lawson November 27, 2018 0 On Friday, December 21, at 8:15 a.m., the VanderCook College of Music Symphonic Band will perform at the 2018 Midwest...
Teach Strings? But I’m a Band Director! byMike Lawson October 1, 2018 0 At some point, all of us will get forced out of our comfort zone. Think about the first day you...
Unplanned Intermission: Secrets of a West Texas Band Director byMike Lawson October 1, 2018 0 It was the first school period after lunch when the door to the band hall opened and the student gathering...
Thoughts from a Beginning Band Director byMike Lawson August 3, 2018 0 This issue, I’m using this space to present correspondence from a middle school band director, Eric Combs, chronicling the journey...
New York Wind Ensemble Festival At Carnegie Hall byMike Lawson May 11, 2018 0 The full range of human emotions were present when the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School Wind Ensemble from Parkland, Florida...