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I’m excited to be a part of the PA intercollegiate band festival this year as I have been for the past decade.  This year the festival is being held at the newly finished Swope Auditorium at West Chester University. 

This is the 61st Annual Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Band festival and is the longest running state band festival of its kind.   This year Dr. Peter Loel Boonshaft from Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York is the conductor of the festival band.  The concert is being hosted by Dr. John Villella and Dr. Andrew Yozviak of West Chester University.

The concert is open to the public and will be held within Swope Hall, at West Chester Unviersity, on Sunday March 9th at 2:30 p.m.  The concert program is as follows:

• The Star Spangled Banner  -John Smith/James Swearingen
• Salute to P.M.E.A. - A.D. Davenport
• Celebration Fanfare  -Steven Reinecke
• Symphonies of Gaia -Jayce Orgen
• Vigils Keep- Julie Giroux
• British Eighth March -Zo Elliott
• Lux Aurumque -Eric Whitacre
• Machu Picchu -Satoshi Yaisawa

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Hello all,

       It’s been busy this month.  We’re in the “thick” of things at the college here in Grove City, PA.  Snow has been coming down for weeks like water over Niagra.   It’s been hard to keep up with mustech.net (and all the snow shoveling!)  and the great questions, tips, and ideas we’ve been getting here!   I have not even been able to keep up with the finishing of many of the half written articles that have been in the “works” for weeks!  Wow… it’s good to vent!

      Despite the hectic schedule, I’ve been doing a lot of podcasts on others sites over the last month and wanted to let you know where you can find these great informative audio informational gems.  I also have one coming up on this Wednesday the 5th that you’ll want to catch live and even…participate with!

       Kieth Mason and I had a great conversation that he posted over at MusicTechForMe that talked about blogging, the ME blogger campaign, and other great music technology related information.  As Keith is located in Nashville, we used SKYPEto make this work.  We had a few audio glitches along the way, but the podcast was a great success and I encourage you to “check it out” and have fun with it.

       Robert Brannon and I had a great interactive LIVE podcast that utilized both a chat room and a multi-user SKYPE session to talk about topics that are very current regarding blogging, websites, english as a 2nd language, music, and various classroom topics.  The podcast was about an hour and part of their great music group and project, the music is free, and can be found here at his site, and here at Musicbridge.com.

       Darren and I also started up our 2nd season of podcasts.  You can bet that these podcasts are some of the most informative and ENTERTAINING music education and related topic podcasts you will ever listen to.  You can listen to these directly from our site from the left sidebar podplayer, find our complete list here, or visit our hosting site at http://mustech.podomatic.com.

      GREAT UPCOMING LIVE OPPORTUNITY TO TALK WITH ME AND LEE ANN BABER OF EDTALKTECH.COM THIS COMING WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5th, AT 9:00 P.M. EST!!! (more…)

Blogging, Blu-Ray, HD-Radio, And RSS, Podcast E11

Darren and Joseph are back on the air and kicking it hard! In this episode they talk about getting their new campaign to get 100 music educators blogging by 2009 among other great topics!

Original Air Date: 2/21/2008

Website: http://www.mustech.net

Podcasters: Dr. Joseph Pisano and Mr. Darren Morton

Episode 11’s Show:

• Joseph Makes a public apology for missing a podcast DATE!
• Mustech.net exceeds bandwidth and has to upgrade to 20 Gig a month!
• How about comments -don’t be afraid to comment on a blog!
• The campaing to get 100 Music Education Bloggers by 2009!
  Learn more about our campaign!
• Darren upgrades to HD-Radio for his FM station
• Blu-ray becomes the winner of the format wars
• What are RSS feeds and OPML feeds?
• What’s coming up in the next few podcasts? Find out.

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Last Friday was a great day for the realm of music education everywhere!  I finally got to meet, in person, Owen Bradly and James Frankel.  We’ve been talking back and forth on our blogs for over a year and we actually, finally just met face to face.

One of the interesting things about meeting them both was that we started to talk just as if we were friends “for years”.  The only formality was making sure that we actually had the “face” with the right “digital personality”.  Many things were discussed and I can promise you great things ahead for ME bloggers and Music Education and Technology…

If you haven’t read either of their blogs yet I encourage you to do so.

James’s blog is at http://jamesfrankel.musiced.net

Owen’s blog is at http://digitalmusiceducator.wordpress.com

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