Band camp is here for marching band directors. The music and drill are coming together. Soon, the buses will be back on the roads to the first game or festival. New music and instruments arrive at band rooms. Chairs and stands are reset. The hallways will fill again with eager students. The private or group lesson schedule is carefully crafted […]
You might be meeting new faces in a community group or a collegiate ensemble – but please trust me: these are still your people.
The privilege of teaching band is a beautiful, exciting, powerful, and pure idea.
Indifference cannot overcome caring. Inadequacy is pushed aside with knowledge. Opposition is dismantled with diplomacy. Slow progress brings about patience in everyone that is involved – and it is still progress.
Initially, it sounds odd that doing less is actually moving towards better. Band directors can easily fall into routines and set goals that while at face value are well-intended can sometimes contribute to feelings of frustration or inadequacy. With the start of the new year, directors have an opportunity to examine the goals they are setting for the second half […]
