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Looking to the Next Chapter
AGEHR Publishing Music Editor Dr. John Behnke to Retire
Many in the handbell community recognize the name Dr. John A. Behnke, whether on the cover of one or more handbell, organ, or choral pieces, or by having worked with him as a composer or arranger, directed by him at a handbell festival, or chatted with him at the AGEHR Publishing booth at National Seminar [...]
Community Connections
Getting Down to Business
The Business Behind the Music
If you’re in a community handbell ensemble, it’s because you want to make music. However, you quickly learn that there’s more to operating a sustainable organization than rehearsing and performing. One must balance the checkbook, apply for grants, store and reference meeting minutes, stockpile photos and videos, create promotional materials, seek and track contributions from [...]
Handbells in Education
Stringing Them Up
Bell Trees for Beginners
Once your ringers are on their way to mastering basic ringing skills, consider offering your more advanced ringers a fresh new experience to keep them interested and challenged: bell trees. You can give them an easy bell tree solo such as doubling a melody line or a C instrument part. It makes good use of [...]
Handbell Musicians Roundtable
Building Closer Bonds
How Handbell Ensembles Become Stronger Teams
Anyone who has rung bells for any length of time knows that it’s a team sport. Obviously this is true in the making of music as an ensemble, but it goes deeper than that. As groups pray together, eat together, laugh together, share funny experiences, and shed tears together, they become closer, and one could [...]
Tips & Tools
Playing Accompaniment Chords for “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”
Chord Chart and Bell Tree Duo/Trio
Chord Chart and Bell Tree Duo/Trio
