Musicals opening at Illinois high schools, Feb. 24, 25, and 26
The weekend of Feb. 24-26 will see the opening of two of this year’s most popular musicals on Illinois high school stages: Beauty and the...
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Musicals opening at Illinois high schools, Feb. 16, 17, and 18
Five musical productions open this coming weekend at Illinois high schools, all of them in the Chicago area. On Feb. 16, Lane Technical High School...
Musicals opening at Illinois high schools, Feb. 10, 11, or 12
Whether it was from planning or just an act of God, Mother Nature will allow musical stages in the state of Illinois some time to...
Bands of America: 4 IL marching bands advance to Grand National Semifinals
… UPDATE AFTER FINALS: Bands of America, celebrating its 35th year in service to America’s schools, named the marching band from Avon High School in...
Evaluation of our 2010 marching band coverage
This year the Voxitatis team made the following changes to our marching band coverage: Partnering with Illinois Marching Online (link) to develop a general survey...
Ex-O'Fallon, Alton band leader gets 6 years for molesting student
Our full coverage is here. A former band teacher at Alton High School was sentenced Aug. 30 to six years in prison for molesting a...
Respect Others. Cheer Often. Not Quietly.
For the full story, click here. Abstract: We present instructions for what to expect when attending marching band festivals. These multi-band performance extravaganzas (or, competitions...
Bias detected in Bands of America trait scoring
Introduction I’m almost reluctant to say anything about this, since what some of our best educators try to do with marching band performances has absolutely...
Honor concert preview: looking at Haiti with majesty, joy, and love
PEORIA (Jan. 29, 2010) — The levels of excitement and anticipation are high here at the Illinois Music Educators Association All-State Conference. Hundreds of Illinois’s...
Keynote at Illinois Music Educators All-State parallels State of the Union
PEORIA, Ill. (Jan. 28, 2010) — The Illinois Music Educators Association has brought hundreds of Illinois’s best high school musicians to the Peoria Civic Center...