Category Archives: Professional Organizations

Make Sure It Stays Fun

Posted on June 21, 2021 by Micah Everett

Believe it or not (I’m not sure I can), I just finished my twentieth year of teaching at the university level. I started as a terrified twenty-two-year-old teaching assistant with nine students and no experience, spent time in both the … Continue reading →

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Influential Recordings: Absolute Trombone

Posted on October 25, 2020 by Micah Everett

In my last post I discussed how listening to a borrowed copy of Romantic Trombone Concertos began to open my eyes to a bigger world of repertoire and possibilities for the trombone. A few things happened not long after that … Continue reading →

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You Kids Just Don’t LISTEN!!!

Posted on September 11, 2017 by Micah Everett

Even though this is my seventeenth year teaching at the university level in some capacity (having begun as a wide-eyed twenty-two-year-old graduate assistant), in my mind I still identify as the “young professor.” That self-identity is crumbling, though, and at … Continue reading →

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Service, Yes. “Customer Service,” No.

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Micah Everett

A favorite expression of mine over the past several years has been that “music is a service profession.” I first introduced this idea in seed form in a very early post on this blog, and it is part of the … Continue reading →

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Spring Concerts and Activities Preview

Posted on February 14, 2015 by Micah Everett

This post is a bit late in coming, I suppose (particularly since one of the events I will mention has already passed), but I think it is a good practice to use an occasional blog post to mention some important … Continue reading →

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