SBO Staff | November 15, 2007We’ve all seen the stereotypical opera singer portrayed in cartoons, comic strips, and skits as a man or woman in Wagnerian costume with Viking-style horns protruding from their metallic headgear. And always, of course, they are people of very generous proportions. The stereotype may endure, but it appears this image may be changing in our […] Read More...
SBO Staff | September 6, 2007Imagine sitting in a concert hall with a conductor standing in front of a bank of laptop computers, speakers, and video cameras with no visible performers, except their images on the laptops#133; Now, according to the Web site, physorg.com, a computer scientist from the University of Manchester in the U.K., Dr. Barry Cheetham, has developed […] Read More...
SBO Staff | July 6, 2007Every music educator’s dream would be a school that put music at the center of the curriculum and coordinated the rest of the coursework with the music department. Perhaps in Math class the concept of fractions would be taught in the form of time signatures, History would provide a context for learning about the great […] Read More...
SBO Staff | May 7, 2007A recent show on the ESPN television network featured a roundtable discussion with several famous veteran football players from the ’50s, ’60s ’70s and ’80s. The conversation focused, among other topics, on the use of weights and training, and whether it made the players of today better than the players of “yesteryear.” One of the […] Read More...
SBO Staff | April 10, 2007Our feature interview this month with Will Breytspraak, choral director at Pebblebrook High School and the Cobb County Center for Excellence in the Performing Arts in Mableton, Ga., highlights an important issue within our field: how to provide students with an opportunity to conduct or lead an ensemble. Breytspraak notes, “The best way to learn […] Read More...
SBO Staff | February 27, 2007As symphony orchestras and choruses across the United States have been facing diminishing audiences in recent years, an intriguing study has come to the forefront to shed light on some of the reasons behind this alarming trend. According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, “it was in 1994 when the James S. […] Read More...
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