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The Magic High-Pass Filter
SBO Staff | November 30, 2020A closer look at one of the most understated and overlooked controls in all of audio. Read More... -
Keep Singing!
SBO Staff | November 30, 2020There’s an easy way to build a virtual choir performance that encourages each student to find and use their own talents as they sing in a group context. Read More... -
Guys and Dolls: 70 Years of Loesser’s Broadway Gem
SBO Staff | November 30, 2020Frank Loesser, legendary Broadway and Hollywood lyricist and composer, wrote Guys and Dolls. This article commemorates the seventieth anniversary of this huge Broadway hit musical. Because Loesser was so involved in other aspects of his stage musicals, he wrote only six stage musicals: Where’s Charley? (1949), Guys and Dolls (1950), The Most Happy Fella (1956), […] Read More... -
Performance Based Assessments: Enhancing Effectiveness
SBO Staff | November 30, 2020Several considerations to ensure performance-based assessments yield more than just a data point for accountability. Read More... -
Successful Group Singing During a Pandemic
SBO Staff | November 30, 2020Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way. Read More... -
The Blue Bird
SBO Staff | November 30, 2020Although he is little recognized today, the English composer Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 – 1924) was one of the most prominent musicians in the English-speaking world at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and he had considerable influence on the work of many composers and musicians whose work is better known. […] Read More... -
Why Choir Students Are Quitting and What You Can Do About It
SBO Staff | November 30, 2020A few of the dominant reasons why students are quitting choir and ways we can combat them. Read More... -
JackTrip Foundation’s Push for Realtime Online Performance
SBO Staff | November 30, 2020A look at the JackTrip Foundation's plans to solve the remote group preformance problem for music educators and musicians. Read More...
