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The article offers information on several award created to honor U.S instrumentalist such as the John Philip Sousa Band Award, the Patrick S. Gilmore Band Award, and the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award. It mentions the works of different U.S instrumentalists to whom the awards have been named after such as composer and as a band director John Philip Sousa, composer Patrick S. Gilmore, and Jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong.

The article offers information on several awards including the John Philip Sousa Band Award, the Patrick S. Gilmore Band Award and the Director's Award for Band. It mentions John Philip Sousa Award was first offered to directors in 1955 with the endorsement of music composer Helen Sousa Abert. It mentions Patrick S. Gilmore Band Award was introduced in 1994 in honor of cornetist Patrick S. Gilmore. It mentions Director's Award for Band is given to junior or senior high school band.

The article offers information on several awards given by the periodical from 1955-2015. Topics includes several awards such as John Philip Sousa Band Award, Patrick S. Gilmore Band Award, National School Marching Award, Quincy Jones Musicianship Award which is dedicated to musician Quincy Jones and is given to chorus, band and orchestra, physical appearance of the National School Marching Award and changes made in Sousa Student Award.

The article announces the recipients of the magazine's Awards 2017 in various categories like concert band, jazz band, and orchestra.

The article profile Norman Dello Joio, who wrote "Fantasies on a Theme" by Haydn on a commission from the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association in 1968. In 2002, the composer will celebrate his 90th birthday and the 35th anniversary of his composition. Dello Joio was became a church choir director and organist at the Sea Church on City Island, New York. At the age of 28, he studied composition with Paul Hindemith and Tanglewoood and Yale, and finally decided to be a full time composer. He taught at several schools and directed the Ford Foundation Contemporary Music in the period from 1959-73. He received many awards and recognitions, including a Pulitzer Prize.

The article reports on American music composer Florence Smith Price, who earned an international reputation for her music, including 300 art songs, choral compositions, and symphonic works as well as several important pieces for piano. She won first prize in the Rodman Wanamaker Composition Contest in Chicago for the Piano Sonata in E Minor and in her Symphony in E Minor in 1932. She composed several works in minor keys because minor scales, open up the possibility of using the flatted-seventh scale degree that is characteristic of the blues. Price died unexpectedly of a stroke in June 1953, which her works fell into neglect because most of her concert piece is still in manuscript form, and little have been recorded commercially.