Composer Ensemble Grade Title Publisher Balmages Band 3 Arabian Dances FJH Balmages Band 2 Moscow, 1941 FJH Balmages Band 2 Colliding Visions FJH Balmages Band 2 Blue Ridge Reel FJH Bryant Band 4 Dusk Multiple Publishers Giroux Band 2 I’ll Be Home A’fore Ye Musica Propria Mackey Band 4 This […]
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Revival Music Project provides services to school districts and universities to create effective, compassionate and culturally relevant music educators. Home of The Score, an Urban Music Education Podcast hosted by Eric and Justin. They provide tips and strategies through honest discussions about their experience teaching music in an Urban setting. The goal is […]
Many conductors, directors, ensembles, and curators want to program the music of women and people of all racial and ethnic backgrounds, but sometimes don’t know where to find these works. Thus, there’s the very human tendency to program the composers and pieces that they already know. It’s not uncommon for […]
Did you know that as late as the 1970’s, most of the world’s orchestras were populated by men? To change the gender ratio, blind auditions were created. Soon after, blind auditions also included the removal of shoes. As a result, women began to successfully secure orchestral positions and the […]
And We Were Heard connects underrepresented composers with wind band conductor-educators to foster equitable programming practices through collaborative recording and digital dissemination.
In 2018, one of the first things we wanted to know was which pieces by women and BIPOC composers were already on state lists. Four ACU music students (Tiffany Bartgis, Jerremy Fender, Marissa Lietz, and Jacob Murillo) were selected to participate in an On the List undergraduate research project. They […]
The Institute for Composer Diversity is committed to the celebration, education, and advocacy of music created by composers from historically underrepresented genders, racial, ethnic, and cultural heritages, and sexual orientations as well as disabled composers.
Hi there. Chances are, if you’re reading this you are interested in required music lists. Many of these are administered by state organizations, though several organizations maintain lists for their own events. Required music lists for bands began in the 1920s as the National Band Contest addressed the perceived need […]