This year I am launching a new series on YouTube to share some thoughts, ideas, and perspectives on instrumental music education called The Two Minute Clinic. I hope that these short videos spark some discussion, ideas, and creativity in band directors at all levels. If you have some thoughts for future episodes that you would like to see discussed, please […]
While much of this space is devoted to music education, advocacy, thoughts on instrumental music, and sharing new works that I have completed, I ask for your patience here. Those who know me well know my love of all things Star Wars. But after the closing of the Skywalker saga, I have to get a few things off my mind. […]
I am enjoying a few days in Cleveland, Ohio for the Ohio Music Educators Professional Development Conference. It is wonderful to reconnect with many of the great music educators I got to know in Eastern Ohio while teaching in Western Pennsylvania during the first 22 years of my career. It is equally fulfilling talking with new faces about opportunities within […]
I write tonight to a group of students who will audition for the PMEA District 5 Honor Band tomorrow night. I am proud of them as musicians and people for what they have chosen to do. >>>>><<<<< Dear Andrea, Janalyn, Lindsey, Jordyn, Sami, Abby, Kyle, Kyle, Ryan, Dakota, Andrew, and Chris, I am excited for you. Tomorrow is Honors Band […]
I am looking forward to work with the Clarion-Union-Brookville Honor Band this weekend at Clarion High School. Special thanks to Tim Stevenson, Chris Curry, and Lisa Hummel who extended this invitation- they are fantastic people, educators, and directors. The program includes Pageant (Persichetti), A Festival Prelude (Reed), Harford Rhapsody (Patrick Burns), Noble Men (Fillmore), and A Frontier Fought and A […]
