Buying on eBay is an extremely simple
affair. Simply enter your credit card and other personal info and
make a bid on anything from a band instrument to a full sized car.
While millions of transactions have taken place over the years on
eBay, the one caveat that has always remained is that you are often
buying something based solely on photographs that may or may not show
you the whole story.
I hadn't intended to post a blog article today. In fact, today marked the opening day of the annual Iowa Bandmaster's Convention in Des Moines and I had hoped to let the next few days recharge my mental batteries and return with a renewed stack of ideas to share with all of you. Things changed a bit as I listened to the news on the way home.
The Fourth Of July is just around the corner, and with it come thoughts
of the patriotic music that we have all grown up with to celebrate the birth of
our country. Over the past several months I have been working to
create a series of sheet music collections to allow music students on
any instrument to play the most often requested of these patriotic
standards. All of these pieces of traditional patriotic music are
written to be playable by any musician, including beginners. Parts are
included in Adobe PDF and in Sibelius SIB formats. For each of the
pieces you can view a copy of the full conductor's score and listen to
it as well using the free Sibelius Scorch plug-in.
Read
this posting with an open mind. The ideas that I am throwing out here
may seem downright absurd. Some of the thoughts I
have spelled out here scare even me. But what if they are right?
I recently received an email from the Music Educators National Conference (MENC) speaking of an upcoming web based music advocacy seminar titled "Working with Allies -- Associations and Businesses." This webinar is to be shown on May 24th, and MENC is providing free registrations to the first 200 MENC members that sign up.