The March 2007 edition of The Bandmasters' Review is now available OnLine!!

The March 2007 BMR Index is dedicated to the memory of
Dr. Irving Dreibrodt and Dr. Jim Jacobsen

Announcing the 2007 TBA Bandmaster of the Year

• Rodney Klett

Featured Articles

• It's All About Time!
  by Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser

  Time management, now theres a subject worth some time. Its time to discuss this important element of success?

• An Educator's Guide:
  Teaching Effective Sightreading on Mallet Instruments
  by John Lane

  Among the many skills young percussionists must learn, sightreading on mallet instruments remains one of the most difficult to master (and often to teach).

• When All Else Fails, Try Practicing
  by Wallace Dierolf

  Some say that the art of practicing died on October 22nd, 1962 at 6:05 p.m. Although the exact time is still subject to debate, few will argue that it has been more difficult of late to motivate young people to spend any actual amount of time perfecting basic skills on a musical instrument.

• Express-Speed Reed Balancing
  by Michele Gingras

  ...it is indeed necessary for clarinetists to know all the steps of reed making in detail as well as the many different adjustment techniques.

• So You Want to be an Administrator?
  by Michael Brashear

  Did you say that you want to be an administrator? You have enjoyed a successful run as a band director, it is time for another challenge, and you are considering moving into administration.

2007 TBA Convention

• United States Marine Band
  Colonel Michael J. Colburn, Director
• The United States Air Force Band of the West
  Keith Brion, Guest Conductor
• The Greater Ft. Worth Community Band
  Henry Schraub, Conductor
• Phi Beta Mu Directors' Band
  David Lambert, Organizer
• The 323rd U.S. Army Medical Command Band
  CW5 Douglas Paarman,
• Concerts Schedule

• 2007 Clinics and Panels

• 2007 Events