Curated from Mark J. Connor’s The Everything Band Blog – Here’s a great national podcast posting of an interview with St. Louis’s own Sister Gail Buckman, who as this was recorded, is in her 50th year of teaching. Sister Gail Buckman has been teaching in the St. Louis are since 1968, and I recently had a chance to visit Sister…
MORECurated from Everything Band – Let the words of Frank Troyka encourage and inspire you. Frank, a longtime band director in Richardson, Texas and now serves as an adjunct instructor at SMU, educational consultant for Conn-Selmer, and director of education for System Blue. GO TO ORIGINAL POST
MORECurated from Mark J. Connors’ Everything Band Podcast #84 – Steve Graves has been a middle school band director in Orange County, California for over 30 years. In this episode he shares his advice about teaching middle school including some really great advice for young band teachers. Topics: Steve’s background and his 34 year career as a middle school band…
MORECurated from Directing Band – Here’s what one Georgia band director expects of his incoming middle school students. The state standards may differ from yours, but the concepts can apply. Episode 11 is an episode based on a listener request. In this episode, Josh describes what he ideally wants every student to know when they enter the high school…
MORECurated from the Bulletproof Musician – by Noa Kageyama, Ph.D. Is it better to focus on our failures or our successes? Whether it’s an audition, a math final, or your herculean efforts to prepare a non-dried-out Thanksgiving turkey for once, it’s never fun to fail, make mistakes, or fall short of your goals. Which probably explains why there are so many…
MOREWhat better way to improve than to dive into the thoughts of a legendary band director. Alfred Watkins was the longtime band director at Lassiter High School in Georgia and one of the finest band directors of his generation. He joins the show to talk about his career and share the wisdom from his 37 years as an instrumental music…
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