Dear Friends and Colleagues in the Band World, I hope this message finds you safe, healthy, rested, and resilient. It is hard to completely fathom what all of us in education have come through over the past five months. However, tracking music educators on various social media platforms confirmed what I know to be true: you are creative, responsive, and […]
To my friends and colleagues in instrumental music, this is the second in a series of free chamber music pieces that I am making available. Though shorter and transposed from the orginal key, I hope your students will enjoy this setting of the Minuet from Mozart’s Symphony No. 28. This quartet for 2 Flutes and 2 Clarinets in Bb is […]
Delighted to be joined by Len Lavelle, Paul Leskowicz, and Bob Matchett to discuss teaching band, the future of instrumental music education, and music to give people hope in this Episode of the Two Minute Clinic. The great conversation spilled out well past two minutes, but it was too good not to sure from three great musicians, educators and leaders!
As part of the Two Minute Clinic, I took some time to discuss my work Moravian Dance (available from the FJH Music Company).
I am pleased to share that Resilience, a commissioned work for the Liberty High School Band (OH), will be available from Carl Fischer in 2021. My thanks to their director Michael Summers for this offer to write for his students and the Liberty High School Band Boosters for their support of the project. Additional thanks to the incomparable Ben Blasko […]
