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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 few concerts, and then high school band with parades, concerts,...

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

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