Musician, Heal Thyself: Sarah Schmalenberger
Musician, Heal Thyself By Sarah Schmalenberger Sarah Schmalenberger, a hornist and musicologist, is an Associate Professor of Music at the University of St Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. She created the Life and Livelihood Study in 2007 in search of solutions for musician survivors of breast cancer. The study was grounded in a personal quest, as narrated in the following essay published in 2009. Following the essay, she shares with the IWBC an update on the study and current plans with a new phase of the research. Permission to...
read morePutting together the Baltimore Holiday Brass Concert
Author: Ginger Turner, member of the IWBC Board of Directors In the aftermath of the 2010 Baltimore Holiday Brass Concert (our seventh one), I wanted to write a short history about the evolution of this yearly concert. First is my deepest thank you to Susan Slaughter, for having the vision and courage to start the International Women’s Brass Conference. She started the very first Holiday Brass Concerts (HBC) in St. Louis, Missouri to help provide scholarship money for the IWBC. To this day, these concerts are still going. In the fall of...
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