Servicing brass instrument slides can be rewarding. With only a few affordable supplies, some basic knowledge, and a little time, you can greatly affect the playing condition of your brass inventory, stretch your repair budget, and have fun getting your hands dirty at the same time!
This article is a review of music for intermediate concert band. Selections touched upon include new music for grade levels three and four, followed by established favorites at grade three. Each title reviewed has merit as a composition that is recommended for performance, and should be listened to online.
As tools like e-mails and cell phones serve to facilitate communication and accessibility in ways that would have been unfathomable a generation or two ago, the music world is filled with comparable advances.
It’s a lucky music student who can take an advance placement (AP) music theory class, especially while budget axes are swinging. But it takes more than luck to score a 4 or 5 on the College Board sponsored AP exam. And about 33 percent of the approximately 4,000 students who take the exam each year are reaching that goal.
Carl Sabatino and Peter Sciaino are the co-directors of the band program at Whippany Park High School, a small school in Whippany, N.J. Through meticulous design and unflagging enthusiasm, the two have built a marching band, “The Pride of Hanover Township,” that now boasts a whopping 25 percent of the student body.
