Travel/Festivals

Selecting the Best Trip for Your Students

Traveling with your student performing groups can be a rewarding and enlightening experience.

The Long Game: Multi-Year Planning

Living in the northern Chicago suburbs, I’m a proud Chicago Cubs fan. And as I write this, they are poised to possibly win their first World Series in over a century.

The Benefits of a Performance Event While on a Music Tour

We lived in the Boulder, Colorado, area for nearly 15 years. If you’ve ever been there, you know that it is a bit of an eclectic place. Legally now.

The Benefits of Staying on Both Sides of the Podium

Many of us have just completed another summer of performing in community summer bands or orchestras— the once per week, concert in the park ensembles that play a wide variety of repertoire.

Competition: Inside the Mind of the Adjudicator

As the fall semester draws to an end, many students and directors are turning their musical efforts to the preparations necessary for concert festival and solo and ensemble contests. In the coming months, many groups and individual young people will perform for mysterious people who are busy scribbling furiously on adjudication sheets.

Festivals: Not Just for Music Majors Encouraging Lifelong Musicianship

It was the one thing I remember from my first meeting with my college engineering counselor. “You don’t have time for band.”

Don’t Let The Job Kill You

Do you remember the story of Jean-Baptiste Lully from music history class? (You WERE paying attention in music history class, right?) A French composer of the Baroque Period, he was also one of the world’s first conductors. And in 1687 the job killed him.

The Undeniable Benefits of Band and Orchestra Trips

As a choir director and employee at a music travel company, I can say without a doubt that every traveling ensemble undergoes a transformation at the end of the tour that enhances their music program on both a group and individual level.

Cedar Fair Entertainment and the Benefits of Playing Local

There’s no doubt that band travel is a big recruitment tool for band directors. Cedar Fair Entertainment Company owns and operates 11 parks throughout North America.

Travel Survey

Closer to Home

It’s a phrase I’ve heard countless times: “It’s our big trip year.”

Justifying a performance trip to the Walt Disney World Resort

Editor’s Note: Our September issue cover feature, “UpClose: Six Decades of School Music at Disney,” spotlights the Disney Performing Arts programs and the multi-generational tradition of value associated with their workshops, festival competitions, and performance opportunities.