Fundamentals of Choral Conducting Evoking Sound  (Second Edition with DVD) by James Jordan Foreword by Morten Lauridsen As artists we must constantly strive to achieve that which leads to those magical, ethereal, and completely…
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Taking a unique approach to the competition field this year, director Mark D’Angelo and the staff at Wyandotte have determined to do a marching band show about . . . well . . . marching band show. Like all good artistic endeavors, this show…
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“This year’s show design process for the Wyandotte Marching Chiefs of Roosevelt HS was a circuitous path to the final product. The original concept was built around the “In the Arena” quotes and was supposed to support a gladiator theme and…
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Steve Martin Composer/Designer- GPG Music Publications Roosevelt HS Marching Band, Mark DeAngelo, Director 2011 Show  "Heros and Villains" BLOG > "Mid-Season Evaluation" As a benefit of the amazing technology available to us,…
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Get Inside The Box — And win! Randy T. Gilmore I recently saw a comic depicting a boss pointing at a subordinate saying, “You get back to your cubicle and start thinking outside the box!” Other than being an obvious oxymoron, you can…
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"First Thoughts"  The 2011 Wyandotte Marching Chiefs show is entitled "Heroes & Villains". This year, the Wyandotte design team was struggling a bit with the concept development and asked me if I had any shows that I wanted to write.…
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All too often band and orchestra directors find themselves "preaching to the choir" (literally!), trying to convince the "already converted" of the value of music in our schools. The audience enthusiastically agrees, everyone leaves with…
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New Data Overwhelming Although I have been previously asked to document music education’s relationship to the general curricula, previous data while interesting, did not address a more broad set of variables influencing academic success.…
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Symphonic Fanfare makes an outstanding concert opening fanfare. It begins with a dramatic motive played by the first trumpet in octaves with the first trombone. This motive crescendos to a short tutti chord followed by a fermata. This…
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