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Everything Band: Episode 11 - Jeff Girard

6/5/2017

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Jeff Girard, the band specialist at Midwest Sheet Music joins me to offer some thoughts about conducting, band music, and copyright law from the perspective of a music retailer.
Topics:
  • Jeff's background as a conductor and band specialist at Midwest Sheet Music
  • Band Together
  • The challenges and compromises of conducting a community band
  • Interactions with composers and the music publishing industry from a retail perspective
  • What qualities make Jeff recommended a band piece
  • Lessons learned from Jeff's surprising background as a professional wrestler

Links:
  • Midwest Sheet Music
  • Jerry Brubaker: A Celebration of Taps
  • Jack Wilds: Showdown at High Noon
  • Copyright Handbook for Music Educators
  • Music Copyright Law
  • Music Law in the Digital Age
  • Ron Nelson: Passacaglia (Homage on BACH)
  • John Paulson: Epinicion
  • Frank Ticheli: Blue Shades
  • Stephen McNeff: Ghosts
  • Maecenas Music
  • BandTogether
  • Wind Band Report Archives
  • Wind Band Report Sign Up

Biography:
Jeff Girard is a wind band conducting specialist at Midwest Sheet Music in St. Louis who has been working with wind band literature for 20 years now. He’s particularly adept at tracking down hard to find, obscure and foreign wind band titles, as well as finding the hidden gems amongst all the hundreds of new wind band works published each year. He also directs a local community band, BandTogether, during the year.
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