Verne Q. Powell Flutes has launched a new website with expanded features and functionality.

Carl Fischer Music is celebrating its 140th anniversary in 2012, looking back on its origins as an instrument repair shop on East 4th Street in Manhattan.

On May 15, 13- year-old Aubree Oliverson will perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, accompanied by the Utah Symphony.

Nearly six months after Robert Champion, a clarinetist and member of the famed Florida A&M University Marching 100, died following a hazing incident, 11 people were charged with felonies and two others with misdemeanors relating to the November incident.

Renowned violinist and master teacher Roman Totenberg passed away on Tuesday, May 8th, at the age of 101.

Remo Inc. recently trained and sent out a team of drum circle facilitators to deliver a hybrid of the research-based drumming program, Beat the Odds, to sixth and seventh grade students in the Santa Clarita Valley School Districts near Los Angeles, California.

MakeMusic, Inc. recently announced a partnership with acclaimed percussionist, clinician, educator and composer Michael McIntosh to incorporate percussion arrangements he creates for The Cavaliers Drum & Bugle Corps into theSmartMusic software, in effect sharing The Cavaliers experience with percussionists worldwide.

This weekend (April 27-29), over thirty leaders and advocates for El Sistema-inspired work in the United States will convene in Chicago to begin drafting documents needed to put additional shape to the El Sistema “field” in the United States and prepare to file for the organization.

Presidential appointed artists Chuck Close, Yo-Yo Ma, and Damian Woetzel will join many others to work with schools in eight states as part of a new initiative called the Turnaround Arts initiative lead by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.

The NAMM Foundation has announced the results of its 13th annual Best Communities for Music Education(BCME) survey, which acknowledges schools and districts across the U.S. for their commitment and support for music education as part of the core curriculum.