This past January, the 2012 NAMM Show was held in Anaheim, California. This annual musical instrument products convention typically attracts wpwards of 85,000 people, and this year more than 1,400...
By Eliahu Sussman“The best part of doing what I do is practically everything,” confesses Jim Smith, the director of bands at Germantown, Tennessee’s Houston High School. Recently named his high...
By Tracy LeenmanAn alarming trend is emerging in music classes in my state of South Carolina: band and string classes are being scheduled for the same classroom, at the same...