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Our team is always working to make directors’ jobs easier: we do everything possible to simplify the process of choosing repertoire, so you can spend less time shopping and more…

Directors’ Vote: The Results Are In! The Most Popular 2023–2024 Editors’ Choice Selections Each year, the J.W. Pepper editorial team helps directors like you find repertoire by reviewing all the…

From complicated drill sequences to advanced dance moves, the demands of performing in a competitive marching arts ensemble have increased rapidly in recent years. Just as wind players practice long…

Replace traditional flip folders and dot books with players’ smartphones! With FlipFolder®, band directors (yes, you!) can remove the stress of printing and organizing sheet music—and drill!—all while delegating tasks…

In the modern age, countless aspects of daily life have gone digital, and music is no exception. J.W. Pepper launched the digital sheet music platform ePrint back in 2000, and…

As the director of your church’s choir, choosing appropriate repertoire for each service is central to your spiritual mission, and yet finding singable selections that will resonate with both choir…

Competitive show choirs rehearse and perform productions that feature songs with a common thread, outstanding soloists, costumes, choreography, and an overall “wow” factor. Whether you have a show choir, are…

Delight students and wow audiences with educationally valuable pop music that’s fun both to play and to hear!  For choir, we’re featuring 10 new vocal jazz, stage & screen, and…

Contest and festival season is coming soon! Prepare for coming performances with seven well-written and educationally valuable titles for concert band, 10 for treble choir, and seven for orchestra.  All…

It’s an exciting time to be a music teacher in California! Proposition 28, a California ballot initiative that guarantees additional funding for arts and music instruction and programming in K–12…

J.W. Pepper, the world’s largest sheet music retailer, has been in business for nearly 150 years. In that time, we’ve sold an extensive range of products, and we even helped…

Jamey Ray and Derric Johnson founded and write music for two of today’s most popular a cappella groups: Voctave and The Voices of Liberty (VOL). Ray, the choral editor at…

Every holiday season, radio stations play the same familiar standards—but that doesn’t mean your winter concerts have to lack variety! We’ve rounded up our favorite new Christmas, holiday, and winter-themed…

Bravo! You’ve written a great piece of music and performed it with an ensemble. Everyone enjoyed it, and others want to use it with their groups. You’re thinking about publishing…

Directors’ Vote: The Results Are In! The Most Popular 2022–2023 Editors’ Choice Selections Each year, our editors help directors find repertoire faster by reviewing thousands of new titles from all…

No matter what type of ensemble you lead, choosing repertoire can be a major challenge. You don’t want to bore your students with music that’s too easy or frustrate them…

Each year, the PYO Music Institute’s Ovation Award recognizes outstanding music teachers in the Delaware Valley region. J.W. Pepper is proud to sponsor the award alongside nationally renowned piano dealer…

Planning for contests and festivals is a huge undertaking. There is so much for you, your students, and their parents to remember, and there can be unfortunate consequences if important…

Are you a West Side Story fanatic looking to expand your musical palette? Have you wanted to explore other musicals but don’t know where to start? We break down the…

Rita Moreno is an incredibly talented Puerto Rican actress, dancer, and singer, most famous for her role as Anita in the 1961 West Side Story film. Throughout her nearly 80-year…

Between the 2019 movie Yesterday, a new Disney+ documentary, and even a recently launched master’s degree, the Beatles are in our lives and in our hearts as much now as…