Be Better Do Better

Music organizations of all types need to work to identify what we can do to improve access to high quality music education for every young American. If you're not familiar with ABA, it was founded by folks like Goldman and Sousa and extends invitations to membership only after an exhaustive examination of a candidate's contributions to the concert band movement and submission of high-quality unedited recordings. Despite these growth experiences, as a member of the IDEA Committee digging into the lives of band conductors who were/are female or people of color, and having some frank conversations with members of our committee, I realized I was never excluded or overlooked because of my color or gender.