Welcome to the Retail Print Music Dealers Association The 2017 convention will take place in Atlanta, Georgia, from April 26-April 29, at the beautiful Hyatt Regency Atlanta Downtown. Our convention program is organized in a three track program format, which features sessions targeted for the novice print music employees, print buyers or managers, and owners… Continue Reading

Educating the Tech-Savvy Student

By John Mlynczak Today’s tech-savvy student has an entire internet full of ways to learn music. From YouTube to community sharing websites and subscription services, self-learning has never been more accessible. As an added bonus, students can search for and learn music twenty-four hours a day in the comfort of their own home using up their… Continue Reading

Have You Heard the News?

by David Jahnke, Senior Vice President of National Sales, Hal Leonard It started with a press release: MILWAUKEE – Hal Leonard, the world’s largest publisher of printed music, announced that they have acquired Sheet Music Plus, the leading e-commerce website for music publications. Sheet Music Plus will continue to operate as an independent business led… Continue Reading

Author Archives: Richard Rejino

Update from the Church Music Publishers Association (CMPA)

By Reiff Lorenz, Lorenz Corporation The CMPA is dedicated to protecting copyrights and educating publishers on events and trends in the industry. This year brought many changes in the political climate for copyrights, so CMPA has been working hard to retain copyright protection for composers, publishers, and the music industry. Specifically, CMPA is investigating the… Continue Reading

Guadalajara FIL Part 1: Selling an Experience

By Tim Cose, Hal Leonard Corporation If you only watched exchange rates and US domestic news stories for the past 12 months, Mexico might seem a lot further away -figurativelyand geographically- than it really is. Mexico has the largest GDP in Latin America when weighted by purchasing power parity. In terms of exports, Mexico has… Continue Reading

Making Your MEA Work for You

By Tracy Leenman, Musical Innovations, LLC In recent years, some retailers – and publishers – have stopped exhibiting at state MEA’s for various reasons. But we believe that our state MEAs are among the most potentially significant, positive, and yes, exciting, events of the year for our company. What better opportunity will you have all… Continue Reading

Do Re Mi Fa, and Sol On

By Patti Cooper, Vocal Music Specialist, Senseney Music, Inc., Wichita, Kansas The Kodaly concept of music education is certainly not new! Zoltan Kodaly, the mid-twentieth century Hungarian composer, laid the groundwork with his passionate philosophy of music in the Schools. Together with Bela Bartok, Kodaly pioneered the concept of music instruction for all children, even… Continue Reading

Surviving Back to School

by Evan Jones, Bandland LLC For us, the busy season begins in mid-July and has really ramped up as I am writing this article. If you are correctly working the educational market, you will hopefully be busy well into the next calendar year. For many school music retailers, August and September are basically controlled chaos. … Continue Reading