Everything Band Podcast

Cynthia Wagoner taught middle school and high school band for 27 years in Indiana before going back to school and becoming a music education professor at East Carolina University. Topics: Cynthia’s background growing up in Terra Haute, Indiana in a musical family and the story of how she became and oboe player involved in both orchestra and band. The importance of mentors and some of the important teachers in Cindy’s life and the lessons that she learned from them. Her experience as a young female band director in the early 1980’s and some of the topics she has to discuss with her female music education students to help prepare them for entering the profession. Cindy’s duties as an Associate Professor of Music Education at East Carolina University and some of the lessons she would like to pass on from observing student teachers. An extended discussion of teaching beginners and teaching sound to sight in both homogeneous and heterogeneous classes. Seven words or less. Links: Cynthia Wagoner Shostakovich: F