Military bands offer musicians great jobs, similar challenges to orchestras

Look on YouTube for the tenor Matthew Loyal Smith, and you'll find him hitting strong high C's in the showcase aria from Donizetti's "Daughter of the Regiment." Look onstage, and you might find him at Strathmore with the National Philharmonic, or at the National Gallery of Art, or at the Washington National Opera, where, like many singers, he will supplement his income performing in the chorus: this season, in "The Flying Dutchman."