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Written by Chad Criswell

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National Anthem Project Event Video Wrap-Up

On June 13, 2008, students, teachers, and community members gathered on Capitol Hill to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" and raise awareness of the importance of...
Marty Stuart and Clay Aiken Voice Support for School Music

MENC released the newest edition in its award-winning series of radio public service announcements featuring top pop and country musicians for “Back to School” 2008....
Music Educators Feast On a Banquet of July Workshops

In June 2008, the MENC National Executive Board named the MENC headquarters in Reston, Virginia, The National Center for Music Education. In July a slate...
Taking the Spotlight: New Jazz Book Teaches Improvisation Skills

Kids who have no problem acting out a movie scene in the cafeteria or doing a monologue for friends on the school bus often freeze...
August Teaching Music Lands in Your Mailbox Soon

Whether music educators are headed back to school right away or still have a few weeks to prepare, the August 2008 issue of Teaching...

Daughter of MENC Members Receives Caitlin Scholarship

Caitlin Merie Hurrey Memorial Scholarship Named in Memory of Budding Musician

Four recipients were recently named in the fifth annual Caitlin Merie Hurrey Memorial Scholarship awards.The recipient...

New MENC Magazine Schedule for 2008-2009

For the 2008-2009 school year, MENC members will receive Music Educators Journal and Teaching Music on a new schedule.

Music Educators Journal...

Virginia Officials Recognize MENC

In July, MENC received letters of congratulations from Virginia Governor Tim Kaine and Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) regarding the 2008 U.S. Army All-American Marching Band's receipt of...

Taking Capitol Hill by Storm

On June 13 MENC President and choral director Barbara L. Geer conducted 1,000 music students and their teachers in singing "The Star-Spangled Banner." The MENC...

MENC Marches Away with Prestigious Recognition

MENC is one of only 11 organizations nationally to receive an Award of Excellence in the third round of the 2008 Associations Advance America (AAA)...

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Hold Activities at The National Center for Music Education

The MENC National Executive Board has designated the MENC headquarters building in Reston, Virginia as "The National Center for Music Education."

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- 2008 National Symposium on Multicultural Music
  
  2008 National Symposium on Multicultural Music
  
  Co-Sponsored by MENC: The National Association for Music Education and the University of Tennessee
  
  October 8-11, 2008
  
  University of Tennessee School...
- National Anthem Day 2008: September 12
  
  Music teachers around the nation will hold National Anthem Day 2008 events on Friday, September 12 to showcase the important role music education plays in...
- Starting a Mariachi Band in Your School
  
  Summer 2008 Workshop Provides "Everything You Need to Know" about Starting a Mariachi Program
  Sponsored by Yamaha and Villanova Summer Studies for Educators in Cooperation with...

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Children's program brings music to their ears (Sewickley Herald)
The latest research in child development shows music is an important part of a child's physical, social, cognitive and emotional growth. read more »
Recommendations (All About Jazz)
Biography Brian Wesolowski is a graduate of Oberlin College Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio where he completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in music...
Upheaval over arts, music funding in Phila. schools (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
With a major funding source threatening to pull support for Philadelphia's music program and with turmoil over who will teach and direct the arts, some...
Board approves contracts during session (The Times-Reporter)
Contracts were approved for a number of German/music consultants by the East Holmes Board of Education at its Monday meeting at Berlin.
Music in the park (The Daily Advance)
Music in the park? You bet there is.
Kasilag: ?Making a difference in music? (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA, Philippines?I was in Davao City last week for the soft opening of the Heritage Museum of the Pamulaan Center of Indigenous People?s Education and...
Quartz Mountain made integral part of higher education in Oklahoma (Altus Times)
History was made at Quartz Mountain Arts and Conference Center and Nature Park this week with the signing of the Quartz Mountain Education Compact, making...
New music academy offers lessons and life skills (Florence Morning News)
?We?re excited to be in Marion to help out with the supplementing of education,? Crescendo Music Academy co-owner Cleve Dorsey said during the new academy?s...
Texas Music Legend Joe Ely Sends His DNA and Nobel Laureate Insights into Space (Centre...
Operation Immortality, the project to create a digital time capsule of the human race, has again joined forces with Planet Make-Over, an entertainment driven social...
Park City Jazz Festival's Education Day Schools Listeners in Soul (All About Jazz)
Improvisation, loud music and public displays of affection are generally frowned upon in the confines of the classroom and it may be fair to say...

Yahoo! News Search Results for school band

Yahoo! News Search Results for school band

Band prepares for year (Norwin Star)
The Norwin Band Aides will host the 48th annual Norwin Band Festival on Sept. 13 at the Norwin High School stadium. read more »
Local foundation donates $500 to support Willowridge High School Band (Fort Bend Sun)
A local nonprofit foundation has made traveling a smoother ride for an area high school band.
Local high school marching bands tune up for fall (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
Like many schools, the Webster High School Marching Band started band camp this week to prepare for statewide competitions this fall.
John Mountain Band to play Rotary concert (Today's Sunbeam)
PILESGROVE TWP. - The next installment of the Summer Concert Series hosted by the Woodstown Rotary Foundation and the Rotary Club of Woodstown will take...
Plano West junior chosen for national band (Plano Courier)
Plano West Senior High School junior Austin Webster was chosen to be a part of the 95-member Future Farmers of America (FFA) band to play...
BRHS band enjoys ice cream (The Alexander City Outlook)
The Benjamin Russell High School Marching band took a trip to the jungle Monday and parents came along for the ride. The band performed their...
MLK Band back from China with new appreciation for home (Detroit News)
The Martin Luther King High School Band were reputedly the only American high school band to play in Beijing during the summer Olympics. They returned...
Band camp means school's close (Old Colony Memorial & Plymouth Bulletin)
High School Music Director Jonathan Porter put the combined high schools band through its paces during last week?s annual band camp at Plymouth...
Detroit Jazz Festival strikes a chord with Troy school band (Troy Eccentric)
Schedules were changed and vacations were postponed, but students at Boulan Park Middle School ? and their parents ? apparently felt the effort was well...
High School Boy Drowns at Band Camp (PAHomePage.com)
MANCHESTER TWP., WAYNE COUNTY- State police are investigating the drowning death of a Pleasant Valley High School band member. It happened at Camp Equinunk on...