The 2025 SBO+ Teachers’ Choice Awards (TCA) finalist ballot is now live! Educator readers of SBO+ are eligible to vote for products, companies, and instruments! Voting closes December 1st, 2025. The first-annual Teachers’ Choice...
By Tom Palmatier, SBO+ Editor-in-Chief This is an article no one ever wants to write. Last week, there was a school shooting in our little mountain town of Evergreen, Colorado....
By Mike Lawson Celebrating its 25th anniversary, JodyJazz has grown from a one-man idea in New York City to one of the most trusted names in saxophone and clarinet mouthpieces...
“Ready Sets” for Concert Band Excelcia Music Publishing and Wingert-Jones Publications unveil Ready Sets: Official Copies, Ready to Pass Out and Play. Ready Sets are a series of new options...
By Charlene Dell Reprinted from American String Teacher, vol 73, issue 4 with permission from ASTA and the authors. In most school orchestra classrooms, direct instruction from teacher to student...
