Play in PA tells a story of inequity in school funding
A documentary play, based on real-life interviews, premiered in Philadelphia this week. School funding, based on property taxes, is unfair.
Performing Arts
Help wanted: Football, Marching Band researchers
Voxitatis is looking to hire two research & writing positions, one for IL football, one for IL marching bands. Here's how to apply.
Religious freedom bumps into gay rights in Ind.
A new Indiana law worries education support businesses that call Indianapolis home, including the NCAA. What about Bands of America?
Jared Cassedy wins GRAMMY's 2nd Music Educator Award
The Recording Academy and GRAMMY Foundation have announced the winner of their 2nd annual Music Educator Award: a band director from N.H.
Chicago high school choir to perform in the Nutcracker
Lincoln Park High School Chamber Singers will join the pit orchestra at the Joffrey Ballet this weekend.
Proposed: Ensemble types for a performing arts database
We are spelling out our plans for the development of a performing arts database (searchable and sortable) for IL high schools.
Violinist amazes students and staff at Twin Groves
Violinist Rachel Barton not only performed one of Paganini's caprices for solo violin and talked about it, but she did it at an IL middle school.
BOA grand national champion: Tarpon Springs, Fla.
Bands of America named the marching band from Tarpon Springs H.S., near Tampa Bay, Fla., grand national champion last night in Indy.
ABCs for Marching 100 success
The band program at Alton HS in IL has bounced back after 2 troubled directors. The Marching 100 sounds great.
Choristers may have prepared sight-singing in advance
Some students in the northern suburbs may have cheated when auditioning for the ILMEA District 7 senior chorus. Corrective action is under way.