To my friends and colleagues in instrumental music, this is the seventh in a series of free chamber music pieces that I am making available. As we seek ways to make music making more personal and meaningful in new teaching situations this fall, I thought it might be appropriate for our students to use a familiar work to help live […]
To my friends and colleagues in instrumental music, this is the fifth in a series of free chamber music pieces that I am making available. This setting of Good King Wenceslas is for a flexible woodwind quartet. The piece is about one minute and 20 seconds in length, and the technical range should be very comfortable for most mid-level musicians. […]
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 […]
Though living in the Northeast, the one thing I enjoy about January and February – besides Pitt basketball playing conference games in the Big East – is getting the chance to just teach. Nothing pressing, no standardized tests on the immediate horizon, the students have returned refreshed from break, and there is plenty of fertile ground to plant some good […]
