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This month's nationwide Survey on music budgets indicates that there is oftentimes a fine line between budgeting and fundraising. In many cases, middle and high school band and orchestra programs...

Recently I was in Washington D.C. doing a residency for the Kennedy Center. One of the groups I coached was the award-winning Walt Whitman High School Jazz Ensemble. When he...

Reprinted with permission from Tempo, the official magazine of the New Jersey Music Educators Association.The National Standards demand that we familiarize our students with diverse musical practices. Yet school bands...

It's a situation that most music students and directors can relate to: waiting backstage and experiencing pre-competition jitters. In this particular scenario, however, there is the added pressure of the...

A common misconception about teaching children to play the cello is that it requires more striving and effort than its smaller counterparts. Not true! Playing the cello requires more balance...