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5 Steps to Rock Your Solo and Ensemble Festival

March 30, 2016 | 3 Comments

  If you are an orchestra or band teacher, solo and ensemble festival is one of the events you prepare your students every year. This year, make these simple changes that will make your festival preparation even better! Before you read on you can check other music director articles here: How to Prepare Your Students for Sigh Reading at Music Festivals 3 Harmless Habits That May Cost You Lower Scores at Festivals I started writing this article after talking to … [Read more...]

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Four Tricks To Get Even More Students Into Your School Music Program

March 11, 2014 | 7 Comments

recruiting for music band and orchestra programs

Do you want to grow your orchestra or music program just a big bigger? Are you wondering how to get these few extra students to balance out the numbers in your music program? Recruit More Students at the Beginning and During the School Year In the previous post we talked about recruiting students for your band or orchestra program and especially what not to do when you go to the elementary schools to recruit. Here are some pointers that you can use when you want to get these couple of extra … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Developing Classroom Community, Public Classroom, Recruitment & Retention, School Music Program, Teaching Ideas, Teaching Ideas-Orchestra, Teaching Tips, Thoughts, Uncategorized Tagged With: band recruitment, beginning band recruiting, orchestra and band, orchestra classroom, orchestra or band, orchestra recruiting ideas, orchestra recruitment

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