by J.R. Smith As many of you may already know, I’m involved in many arts and performing organizations. Besides handbells, I’m also involved with community theater as well as barbershop chorus and quartet singing. In all these endeavors—all amateur—I get the...
by J.R. Smith We all continue to say that we don’t want handbells to be considered primarily as a Christmas instrument, but there is no denying that the season is especially exciting to handbell musicians. In that spirit, we invite you to enjoy the season with things...
by J.R. Smith As I prepare the layout for each issue of this journal, I have found myself disheartened the last couple of years that the Events Calendar had been shrinking steadily during the time of COVID. What had once easily taken two pages, eventually dwindled...
by J.R. Smith While writing the feature article in this issue remembering the life and music of Cynthia Dobrinski, I fondly remembered my first ever experience discovering and playing handbells. J.R. SmithPublications Director Always Looking for New Content...
by J.R. Smith The last time International Handbell Symposium came to the United States was 2008, when it was held in Orlando, Florida. I had only been on the staff of what was then the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers a little over three years. J.R....
