Jul 27, 2020

Eric Jimenez is a co-host of The Score podcast and assistant band director at Prairie View A&M University. He joins the show for an exceptional conversation about his career, being a Latino band director, and ways that we can create more culturally responsive classrooms.

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• The score podcast and the story of...

Jul 20, 2020

Theresa Hoover Ducassoux is the band director at Dorothy Hamm Middle School in Arlington, Virginia and co-author of a forthcoming book titled Pass the Baton: Empowering All Music Students

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• Theresa tells the story of how she turned her piano skills into an instrumental music education track despite not playing a...

Jul 14, 2020

Justin McClean is a band director in Houston, Texas and co-host of the “The Score”, which is an urban music education podcast. He joins the show for a very remarkable conversation about how we build a better band community.

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• Justin’s background story growing up in Texas and the role of the church in his...

Jul 6, 2020

Major Joseph Hansen is the commander and conductor of the United States Air Force Band of the Golden West based at Travis Air Force Base in Northern California.

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• Joseph’s early career growing up in Western Colorado and attending Brigham Young University.
• His early career as a teacher and the story of how he...