Guest: John Jacobson is a music educator, choreographer, and author who is internationally recognized for his large-scale music and choreography productions. His outstanding body of work includes producing hundreds of shows in association with Walt Disney Productions, directing choreography for presidential inaugurations, and producing massive song and dance numbers for events such as NBC’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. He founded the classroom standard John Jacobson’s Music Express Magazine which has reached nearly four million children worldwide. The topic proposal for the research is to conduct interviews with music educators and authors who have written, arranged music, performed, recorded, published, shared, and sold elementary general music resources to teachers in the educational marketplace. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for MUED 783: Final Project in Music Education at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts graduate studies program. Hosted, recorded, edited, and music composed by Samson Trinh with additional music by John Jacobson. This interview was conducted on July 22, 2020.

Guest: Bethany Johnson is an elementary general music teacher from Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia who represents a generation of educators who share new and innovative lessons utilizing technology and social media. The topic proposal for the research is to conduct interviews with music educators and authors who have written, arranged music, performed, recorded, published, shared, and sold elementary general music resources to teachers in the educational marketplace. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for MUED 783: Final Project in Music Education at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts graduate studies program. Hosted, recorded, edited, and music composed by Samson Trinh. This interview was conducted on June 16, 2020.

Guest: Brent Holl is the owner of Beatin’ Path Publications, a publishing house in Bridgewater, Virginia that distributes Orff-Schulwerk resources to classroom music teachers. The topic proposal for the research is to conduct interviews with music educators and authors who have written, arranged music, performed, recorded, published, shared, and sold elementary general music resources to teachers in the educational marketplace. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for MUED 783: Final Project in Music Education at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts graduate studies program. Hosted, recorded, edited, and music composed by Samson Trinh with additional music by Brent Holl. This interview was conducted on June 12, 2020.

Guest: Paul Bakeman has been teaching general music to kindergarten-5th grade students since 1994 and is the author of two published music resource books: Recorder Connection and Cooking with Marimbas. The topic proposal for the research is to conduct interviews with music educators and authors who have written, arranged music, performed, recorded, published, shared, and sold elementary general music resources to teachers in the educational marketplace. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for MUED 783: Final Project in Music Education at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of the Arts graduate studies program. Hosted, recorded, edited, and music composed by Samson Trinh with additional music by Paul Bakeman. This interview was conducted on June 9, 2020.

Guests: Justin Laughter and Doug Richards. People often attach the Muzak label to any form of relative unobtrusive music, just as a facial tissue often is called a “Kleenex,” regardless of its actual manufacture. Guests for this episode include Justin Laughter, a business, intellectual property and entertainment attorney at Threshold Counsel, PC in Richmond, Virginia and Doug Richards, a professional music arranger and former music professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. Laughter has analyzed several agreements from a mood music corporation. Richards briefly wrote music for Muzak in the mid 1970’s. Hosted, recorded, edited, and music composed by Samson Trinh. Podcast Transcription and References: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MS-IXgxFxlgdzo-vn2-IjGOaeUed4SC2/view