Growing Your Musician: A Practical Guide for Band and Orchestra Parents

(Paperback, Second Edition)

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Written for a "civilian parent," not a college-educated musical professional, Growing Your Musician: A Practical Guide for Band and Orchestra Parents, Second edition has a light but informative approach to band and orchestra, interspersed with interesting stories and anecdotes. Informative checklists and quizzes sprinkled throughout the book make a dense topic interesting and accessible while simultaneously focusing on important issues.

Growing Your Musician aims to help students develop musical skills faster and facilitate better communication among teachers and parents about their progress. Using the National Standards as a benchmark, Growing Your Musician tackles critical performance areas that are often overlooked by "civilians" and teachers alike.

This book bridges the gap between parents who want the best for their children but don't exactly know what to do!

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Praise for the first edition: A helpful guide for parents who want to be hands-on in their support of the young music student..... -- Aaron A. Flagg, director of Educational Outreach, The Juillard School
Praise for the first edition: Growing Your Musician will become a staple of the music director's library. Parents will find it comprehensive, informative, and reassuring in supporting their child's instrumental music endeavors..... * The Grammy Foundation *
Praise for the first edition: A practical, down-to-earth guide to the challenges and pitfalls of shepherding your child through selecting and then practicing and instrument. I highly recommend this book to all band and orchestra parents..... -- Lynda Jenner, director of community partnerships, Music Center Education Division
Praise for the first edition: Tony's book is a welcome guide for those who want to keep music alive at home and in the classroom, and it reinforces the fact that playing music is a powerful and positive activity..... -- Felice Mancini, executive director, The Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation
Praise for the first edition: This book is the first real self-help music book for parents-a true blueprint of how to engage your child in a lifetime of music. Tony Bancroft has filled a void in learning for every parent..... -- Mike Gordon, mayor, El Segundo, California
Praise for the first edition: This is a terrific, much-needed book packed with valuable advice and helpful anecdotes benefiting parents and their music-learning children. -- Alexander Bernstein, president, The Leonard Bernstein Family Foundation
Praise for the first edition: Growing Your Musician will become a staple of the music director's library. Parents will find it comprehensive, informative, and reassuring in supporting their child's instrumental music endeavors. * The Grammy Foundation *
Praise for the first edition: A practical, down-to-earth guide to the challenges and pitfalls of shepherding your child through selecting and then practicing and instrument. I highly recommend this book to all band and orchestra parents. -- Lynda Jenner, director of community partnerships, Music Center Education Division
Praise for the first edition: Tony's book is a welcome guide for those who want to keep music alive at home and in the classroom, and it reinforces the fact that playing music is a powerful and positive activity. -- Felice Mancini, executive director, The Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation
Praise for the first edition: This book is the first real self-help music book for parents-a true blueprint of how to engage your child in a lifetime of music. Tony Bancroft has filled a void in learning for every parent. -- Mike Gordon, mayor, El Segundo, California
Praise for the first edition: A helpful guide for parents who want to be hands-on in their support of the young music student. -- Aaron A. Flagg, director of Educational Outreach, The Juillard School
Praise for the first edition: Growing Your Musician is the most comprehensive, well-thought-out text of its kind. -- Bob Curnow, owner, publisher, composer, Sierra Music Publications; past president / Hall of Fame member, International Association of Jazz E
Praise for the first edition: It's great to have a book that gives a step-by-step process to help students select instruments and carefully gives students and parents an effective guide to practice! -- Frank Heuser, associate professor, department head, music education, UCLA
Praise for the first edition: This manual provides very practical advice for nurturing young musicians of all ages, guiding parents to ask the critical questions at the appropriate time. -- Charles Grode, director of education, community relations and diversity, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Praise for the first edition: The concept of 'active practice' is especially helpful to beginning band or orchestra students and their parents. Setting a goal and breaking down the music into manageable pieces make practice much more purposeful. Thank you, Mr. Bancroft, for demystifying the 'practice makes perfect' mystique! -- Laurie T. Schell, executive director, California Alliance for Arts Education

Author Bio

Tony Bancroft began his instrumental music career at age eleven, playing tuba in middle school band. He continued to pursue his love of music into adulthood, earning a bachelor's degree in music from UCLA and a master's degree in music from Yale University. Performances at Carnegie Hall and at music festivals around the world are among the highlights of his musical career. He currently serves as the music director for the El Segundo Unified School District in California, and the city has honored him with four public commendations. In 2003, he was selected as an alternate for a Fulbright Teaching Scholarship and was a nominee for the Music Center of Los Angeles County's prestigious Bravo Award.