Closing up our "Quarantined but Not Forgotten series" is this amazing interview where science meets the band room. Denis Wick Artist Travis Harris is a longtime Texas based band director and pro-trombone performer, and his wife is a teacher, pro-vocalist, and has degrees in microbiology and chemistry. We started this series in quarantine, and now as we open schools where do the science and logistics meet in that discussion for musicians?

*** For a list of scientists and specialists Maria provided to help you find your own answers, as well as the complete library of podcasts in this series, visit the Denis Wick App: http://bit.ly/musicsciencepodcast

Closing up our Quarantined but Not Forgotten series is this amazing interview where science meets the band room. Denis Wick Artist Travis Harris is a longtime Texas based band director and pro-trombone performer, and his wife is a teacher, pro-vocalist, and has degrees in microbiology and chemistry. We started in quarantine, and now as we open schools where do the science and logistics meet in that discussion for musicians?

*** For a list of scientists and specialists Maria provided to help you find your own answers, as well as the complete library of podcasts in this series, visit the Denis Wick App: http://bit.ly/musicsciencepodcast

For a band director, music education has become equal parts of inspiring students and advocating for your programs. This week we continue to part 2 with music educators Jenny Maclay, Terry Guynes, and Carla Newsome on the past, present, and future of these cornerstones of music education. Last week we discussed what it takes these days to grab your student's attention. This we will discuss what it takes for the importance of your music program to grab your community's attention.

For a band director, music education has become equal parts of inspiring students and advocating for your programs. This week we start a 2 part discussion with music educators Jenny Maclay, Terry Guynes, and Carla Newsome on the past, present, and future of these cornerstones of music education. This week, we discuss inspiration. What does it take these days to grab your student's attention?

For many teachers, quarantine has removed access to a classroom and students. So what does band rehearsal, music lessons, and everything else that goes along with it look like? Vanessa Jackson and Scott Cullen join me this week to discuss this and how they've impressively gone beyond the notes by using their music training to continually encourage and enlighten their students, no matter the environment.

If you knew that one class in school would provide an experience of equality for all, and provide a context that would help them take that experience with them the rest of their lives, would you enroll them in that class? That class exists. It's school band. Find out what band director Meara Mitchell experiences on a daily basis with her kids in this week's episode of This Is You.

Every area of the music industry has been affected by Covid 19 quarantines. How are we all dealing with it? Tune in to these stories from teachers, students, and performers, professionals to enthusiasts,

and get a glimpse into the trials, and successes seen around the United States.

In my discussions with friends and colleagues, this time of Quarantine for Covid-19 changed our lives and livelihoods, bringing many new struggles as well as many new skills. Musicians performing lives were brought to a halt, but we still found ways to join, make music, and teach music, and we shared our art in completely new and creative ways.

Now in the New Normal, what does our landscape and life look like, and how do we bring what we learned during Quarantine into the New Normal?

This is what we will be discussing in our new series Defining the New Normal for Musicians.This week, we look at Empathy. Under the initial threat of Covid 19 we were all united under the same fear, the same danger to our lives, and that united us in many other ways as well. In the new normal, we see news of protests, divisions, and most recently the killing of Amahd Arbury, and I find myself wishing for that feeling of United Empathy again. How do we bring what we learned about Empathy into the New Normal. That is our discussion with Denis Wick Artists Arnetta Johnson and Kevin Woods on This Is You.

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Now might be a great time to sit down and start tracking what is happening, or has been happening in your life as a freelance musician. This may be the best piece of advice you ever receive to grow your freelancing career.

When it comes to success in music it is all up to you, and all about you and what you put into it. This makes your relationship to yourself and your craft especially important. Denis Wick artist Kyla Moscovich provides some amazing insight into creating an epic performance every time by bringing yourself into every moment of your music.