As has been the pattern of late, I kicked off the book signings for this year by spending three days at the Ohio Music Educators Convention. It’s an event that I truly enjoy and I’m sure a lot of that feeling comes from memories of my early piano lessons and marching band experience. The good vibe also extends from the great treatment I always receive from everyone involved with the OMEA and from the familiar faces I see each year as I’m signing their books. If you’ve got to emerge from hibernation, and you eventually do, this is the best way I can think of to greet the new year. So, if I may, a tip of my marching band shako to all of the people working hard to bring music’s story to a new generation.
