Seven Qualities for Band Directors to Value
My only goal here is to share, to remind, and to encourage the many fine educators out there who call themselves a band director, present company included.
A Composer on Composing: Thoughts on Creating Music to Convey Emotion
An important part to emphasize is that the composer feels that something is incorrect or in congruent. There may be no rule or guideline that explains it logically, but the composer feels that they must continue the process of refinement.
Episode 15 of the Two Minute Clinic
Episode 15 of the TMC is now up. The one thing we all have is exactly the one thing we don’t need in our horizontal and vertical conversations in music education.
Messiah Year 1: Lessons Remembered
I suppose that every now and then it is a good idea to have a first-time experience all over again. I didn’t really plan on having my first year teaching all over again in year number 23 of my career in music education, but it happened. There are still things that I don’t know that I don’t know, and it […]
It truly is an honor.
Tomorrow (November 5th) I will be at Indiana University of Pennsylvania for their annual Junior High Honor Band Invitational. Dr. Jason Worzbyt (friend, colleague, and bassoonist supreme) extended an invitation to me last spring to come down and share with the students. I am so very appreciative when the invitation comes from not only a friend, but a colleague that […]
