Holiday and Winter Concert Repertoire Recommendations
I hope this list of over 30 pieces can serve as a resource for you in your repertoire selection.
Band Directors of the Future
Knowledge of only college level repertoire will have little use to an in-service instrumental music educator. It is more important than pre-service instrumental music educators develop personal criteria and a process for evaluating repertoire at all levels.
New Music for 2022
I hope you have enjoyed a restful summer vacation. As we near August, I hope I might take a few minutes to share some works with you to consider for your ensembles to study and perform this year. There is a great deal of variety between their styles, and each piece offers an enjoyable musical challenge for your students. I […]
Overtures to an Overture (in Bb)!
Caesar Giovannini (1925-2017) became a piano soloist with the Navy band, and later completed a master’s degree from the Chicago Conservatory of Music. He would go on to join NBC as a staff pianist in 1949. He would go on to be the music director for several television shows, and in 1958 joined the ABC Staff Orchestra (Giovannini, 2017). His […]
