Sep 24, 2020
George Quinlan, Jr. is President of Quinlan and Fabish Music Company in Burr Ridge, IL. In their 61st year of servicing the needs of band and orchestra directors and their students, Q and F is the crowned-jewel of school band and orchestra dealers. With 9 locations, 25 road reps and over 50 technicians, they are a...
Sep 15, 2020
Donald Stinson is the 5th director in the Joliet (IL) High School Band's 108 year history. Here is a young man with a passion to influence his students' lives through music and the rich traditions that made Joliet one of America's finest band programs. Don's story is one of growing up in Joliet with some of the same...
Sep 9, 2020
As Paula Crider quit her high school basketball team she was handed a trumpet and a career in music followed. After seven days of student teaching she became the school band director. Paula talks about her days of growing up in Mississippi to becoming director of the University of Texas Longhorn Marching Band. A past...
Sep 1, 2020
Growing up the son of a dance band drummer, Michael Daugherty would walk to the library to check out record albums to try and figure out what the jazz greats were playing. From there he got thrown out of band for improvising his timpani parts. Today, he is one of the world's most prolific composers for all musical...