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This area of the Midwest Clinic website features the clinics and accompanying handouts (if available) that were presented at every Midwest Clinic dating back to 2000. The purpose of this section of the website is to share the sessions and their materials for teachers to access. This is a great resource for teachers to experience the sessions, especially if they were unable to attend. The sessions cover concepts from all areas of music education focused on both band and orchestra. There are many unique concepts and approaches to teaching music available on this website.

This is a link to the midwest clinic. This website provides programs from all of the past performances at the clinic. This provides great ideas on repertoire for ensembles at all levels.

The Midwest Marching website offers up to date information on available competitions as well as results and judging information from previous competitions. Additionally, there are great resources in the articles section.

The purpose of this website is to allow you to browse upcoming educational workshops and events scheduled to take place at the annual Midwest Clinic International Band, Orchestra, and Music Conference in December. The content focuses on the schedule of events which shows the most recent upcoming material on specific teaching strategies/pedagogies and how to implement these in the classroom. It allows you to sign up as an exhibitor, advertiser or attendee. It also allows you to sign up your performing ensembles to showcase their talent or to feature newly published music. Exhibits include workshops, musical equipment/instruments, and other material to help music educators and musicians.

This site is for the Midwest clinic. The Midwest clinic is an international clinic for music educators. I have been 4 times and every time it is so much ti take it and I have left with tangible and intangible thing that have increased my knowledge and made me a better teacher.

This website is the home page for the international band and orchestra conference. The page also offers professional development resources.

A clinic handout from the Midwest Clinic on marches.

This is a resource i found and use on tuning instruments. It was presented at the 2006 midwest clinic and is very useful

I have always found it difficult to make my warm-up something that the students take seriously, and improve from. This is the PDF of Larry Clark's clinic at Midwest 2014. It discusses a variety of different tools to help make warm-up something that the ensemble excels at, rather than a waste of time. Also includes a great graphic for the Circle of 4ths / 5ths.

Unsigned bands/artists are interviewed

I learned about this resource at the Midwest Clinic a few years ago. It contains graphic organizers and score analysis of a wide variety of band literature, sorted by difficulty level. This resource could supplement score study for music educators

The web page for the Midwest Clinic, an International Band and Orchestra Conference that takes place annually in Chicago. A plethora of resources about music teaching can be found here as well as information about the conference itself.