Eastman Showcase 2007
Cover Girl
Making the cover of Time may be exciting, but if you are a conductor and music educator, it probably ranks a few rungs below making the cover of The Instrumentalist, as Sandra Dackow (BM ’73, MM ’77, PhD ’87) did for the magazine’s March 2007 issue.
Sandra, who is currently music director of the Hershey (PA) Symphony Orchestra and Hershey Symphony Festival Strings, is a prolific arranger and author, an award-winning conductor, and a very experienced music educator and adjudicator. In her Instrumentalist interview, titled “Stirring Souls,” Sandra gives some fond reminiscences of Eastman Wind Ensemble founder and longtime director Frederick Fennell. She offers her views on community support for school orchestras and on inspiring students to consider a career in music education, and gives advice to new teachers – among many other subjects.