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John Snyder of Artists House Music and Loyola University, New Orleans moderates a seminar for musicians in wellness and injury prevention titled “Physical Activity and Music (Be Fit or B Flat),” presented in conjunction with the Joint Commission on Sports Medicine on March 6-9, 2008. The panelists are three members of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band (clarinetist Ralph Johnson, pianist Ricky Monie, and drummer Joseph Lastie, Jr.), who discuss the physical aspects of their craft, such as embouchure and endurance, ergonomics, repetitive stress injury, and other aspects of the chain of physical activities required to play music.