Month: October 2019
Rehearsing the ensemble, or smaller groups within the ensemble, can serve many ends. The kind of work you take on should depend on what you seek to produce. Whatever your time frame and/or notes that you are attacking, it’s helpful to identify the specific outcome(s) you are trying to get the group to achieve. And…
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Lakeland, Florida (October 24, 2019)– Excelcia Music Publishing expands its popular Excelcia Ensemble Series with new sets of trios, quartets and quintets for woodwind and brasswind chamber ensembles. With nine new additions, including the introduction of trios, ranging in grade from 1.5 to 3, the series continues to provide small-group resources for the modern-day classroom. …
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Lakeland, Florida (October 24, 2019)– Excelcia Music Publishing launches new Excelcia Solo Series with two works for Trumpet and Piano by award-winning composers and trumpet players Sean O’Loughlin and Michael J. Miller. Each bring with them a wealth of knowledge as performers and writers, adding their own unique voice to these challenging new solo…
Read MoreIf you don’t know anything else about me, you should know I love Marvel films and my favorite super hero is Captain America. What I really enjoy about the Avengers films is how the superheroes each play an important role using their unique gifts and skills—one superhero alone can’t save the world. The reason Captain…
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In my experience, many musicians, especially those of us with a background in classical music, are at best uncomfortable and at worst terrified of the word ‘improvisation.’ Yet for centuries, improvisation was a part of every musician’s repertoire. It is said that J.S. Bach could improvise a prelude or fugue at the drop of a…
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