Reinforcing the fiscal crunch facing most school music programs, a national sampling of band and orchestra directors revealed that the determining factor in selecting a music supplier is competitive pricing....
When Bruce Dinkins moved 3,000 miles to become band director at Bowie High School in Austin, Texas, he went with a specific plan in mind for his marching band.” I...
Based on responses gathered in SBO's fall Budgeting Survey, two points are abundantly clear: annual budgets for school bands and orchestras are typically miniscule - somewhere in the $1,000 to...
The results are in: 57 percent of the directors who participated in SBO's recent survey on student recruitment and retention say retaining students in their music programs is the bigger...
The cynical could paraphrase Mark Twain and say that everybody talks about the lack of music in our schools, but nobody does anything about it. But David Wish did: he...
