With preparations for the 2012-2013 school year already well underway, this mid-summer reader survey takes a look at some preliminary expectations of the coming year. Read on to see how...
Daniel J. Farris is the director of athletic bands at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, where, among his many responsibilities, he oversees the Wildcat Marching Band. The Northwestern University...
By Dr. Courtney SnyderMost music education students will never get opportunities to direct a marching band on their own until their first teaching job. Even if they student teach in...
By Andrew J. AllenThis winter, band directors across the nation will walk into their bandrooms, ready to get down whole-heartedly to the business of the concert ensemble. Since June, or...
Famed singer Barry Manilow recently donated a new Yamaha piano to help launch a music instrument drive in Kentucky’s Jefferson County Public Schools in Louisville, the state’s largest school district.