DCI & MENC Team Up For New Marching Music Academy

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Education has long been a focus for Drum Corps International groups and staff members (Nearly 60 percent of college-age corps members study music!). Thanks to DCI’s growing partnership with MENC—the National Association for Music Education— the drum corps community now has an opportunity to help teachers improve and promote marching music education at schools around the country.

In 2009, the two organizations assembled the Marching Music Blue Ribbon Panel of educators and professional musicians to help develop new National Standards for Marching Music Education.

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Posted by on Wednesday, April 7th, 2010. Filed under DCI World.