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2023 Essay Contest Now Open!
SBO Staff | December 8, 2022For the first time ever, the SBO+ Essay Contest is open to instrumental and vocal students across the USA! With the generous support of the NAMM Foundation, Alfred, MakeMusic, Hal Leonard, Yamaha, Casio, Focusrite and Adam Audio, we are again offering massive prizes for the music educator who has a student with a winning entry, […] Read More... -
Job Opening! Assistant Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Music
SBO Staff | December 1, 2022The University of North Carolina School of the Arts is a top-ranked creative and performing arts conservatory in Winston-Salem, N.C. Founded in 1963, UNCSA is America’s first public arts conservatory and the only school in the U.S. composed of five arts conservatories on one campus: Dance, Drama, Design & Production, Filmmaking and Music. UNCSA trains […] Read More... -
Take Part in Survey for NAfME, NAMM Foundation, edTA, NDEO and NAEA
SBO Staff | November 22, 2022A survey on the use of federal funds to support music and the arts, has been launched by the National Association for Music Education (NAfME), the NAMM Foundation, the Educational Theatre Association (edTA), the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO), and the National Arts Education Association (NAEA). The survey asks questions about the use of funds […] Read More... -
Little Kids Rock Rebrands to ‘Music Will’ With Goal of Reaching One Million More Kids in Next Five Years
SBO Staff | September 16, 2022Little Kids Rock, the largest nonprofit music program in U.S. public schools, today unveiled a bold new brand, Music Will, with artist support across a wide variety of genres from Slash and Usher to Hozier, Mavis Staples and Darryl DMC McDaniels. The 20-year-old national nonprofit aims to bring the gift of music to a million […] Read More... -
MakeMusic Reducing Price of Finale
SBO Staff | September 8, 2022MakeMusic, Inc. announced today that Finale, its flagship music notation product, will now feature reduced pricing for new and existing customers. MakeMusic’s mission is to have more pieces practiced and performed, and to become the reference ecosystem for music practice. The decision to reduce the price was made to better align Finale with this mission, […] Read More... -
Eastman School of Music Appoints Christine Jensen as Assistant Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Media
SBO Staff | September 8, 2022The Eastman School of Music has recently announced Christine Jensen as Assistant Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Media. Saxophonist and composer Christine Jensen has been described as “an original voice on the international jazz scene… [and] one of Canada’s most compelling composers,” by Mark Miller of the Globe and Mail. Christine will make the move from […] Read More... -
New Music USA’s Amplifying Voices Program Expands to Include Over 45 Orchestras in the US and beyond
SBO Staff | September 8, 2022Amplifying Voices Fosters Collaboration Toward Racial and Gender Equity in New Orchestral Music Announcing Two Additional Composers to be Co-Commissioned: Katherine Balch – New York Philharmonic & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Clarice Assad – The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Amplifying Voices will present 13 Orchestral Premieres During the 2022-23 Concert Season in London, Los Angeles, Berkeley, Houston, Atlanta, […] Read More... -
Alfred Music and SmartMusic Join Forces on New Interactive PerformancePlus+ Series
SBO Staff | September 8, 2022Alfred Music and SmartMusic by MakeMusic have joined forces to bring directors the newest innovation in performance music—the PerformancePlus+ Series. These engaging selections for concert band, orchestra, and choir are presented with educational resources designed to enrich the rehearsal process and create outstanding performances. When PerformancePlus+ titles are accessed through SmartMusic, that’s when the full […] Read More... -
Music & Computers For Musicians – a new online course from Alan Parsons’ ASSR to Help Music Teachers “get on top of technology.”
SBO Staff | September 2, 2022Musicians of every stripe and especially those who teach music— orchestra and choir directors and piano teachers along with worship leaders—are frequently too busy playing, teaching, writing, even recording, to find the time to become proficient at conducting a recording on a digital audio workstation themselves. “It’s too complicated.” “It’s too late.” “I don’t have […] Read More... -
50 Directors Submissions Deadline Sept 30th!
SBO Staff | September 1, 2022After honoring over 1000 music directors since our founding, which we paused during the awful COVID years, the annual issue honoring “50 Directors Who Make A Difference” returns in December 2022! Please help us honor a friend, colleague, mentor, assistant director, or anyone else you know of who had been an outstanding director worthy of […] Read More... -
Hal Leonard Offers World’s Largest Interactive Performance Assessment Library with SoundCheck™ Performance Assessment
SBO Staff | August 29, 2022Hal Leonard has released a massive expansion of their SoundCheck™ library, now offering over 82,000 interactive titles for performance assessment and composition. Powered by MatchMySound™, SoundCheck is a proven leader in assessment technology, providing ratings and feedback on pitch, rhythm, and intonation, while supporting both audio and video recording assessments. The newly-released interactive titles include […] Read More... -
On the Passing of William (Bill) Clark
SBO Staff | August 5, 2022William (Bill) Clark passed away on July 31, 2022, in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He was 84. Bill graduated from Henderson State Teachers College and completed a Masters Degree from the University of Arkansas. He received a doctorate from the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Upon completion of his degree, he became Director […] Read More...
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