From The Cradle to The Corps

They claim to market “education.” That space is already taken by socialist teacher's unions. Two out of three are going out of business. The Marching Industry Cult by Ken Mazur

How did Marching Bands and Corps Become Competitive and Toxic?

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears — it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more — it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.-Oliver Sachs
Right here is the menace in machine-made music! The first rift in the lute has appeared. The cheaper of these instruments of the home is no longer being purchased as formerly, and all because the automatic music devices are usurping their places. And what is the result? The child becomes indifferent to practice, for when music can be heard in the homes without the labor of study and close application, and without the slow process of acquiring a technic, it will be simply a question of time when the amateur disappears entirely, and with him a host of vocal and instrumental teachers, who will be without field or calling.-” The Menace of Mechanical Music,” by John Phillip Sousa

The Band Directors vs. The Music Teachers

“I didn’t say it was bad to be an asshole. It isn’t good or bad. It just is. Warner Erhard a former Scientologist who influenced the creation of DCI, YEA, and BOA
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

This Tangled Web We Weave…

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!”-from Marmion by Sir Walter Scott

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Tuba player, creator of Struwwelkinder and The Flying Circus Orchestra