In the following two posts, jazz musician and educator George Colligan speaks to the issue of valved low brass instruments in the context of performing jazz music. If you have any perspectives on the trombone, euphonium, marching baritone and other…
The 2nd Symposium on LBGT Studies and Music Education will take place in collaboration with the Consortium for Research on Equity in Music Education (CREME) October 18-19 2012. This purpose of the second symposium is to encourage, promote, and disseminate…
Thank you to Rob Deemer for his post on NewMusicBox listing 202 living women composers! The list includes links to the composers’ websites as well. Make sure to also take a look at the comment section for ongoing contributions by…
To what extent are women composers represented in our music programs? To what extent are our music programs providing opportunities for young women to think of themselves as composers? Kerry Andrew recently problematized a gender imballance between the ratio of…
In December of 2011 the New York State School Boards Association (NYSSBA) released a report entitled “The New 3 Rs: Reducing, Restructuring and Redesigning.” The NYSSBA New 3 Rs website includes the following text in refererence to the report: “The…