UNIVERSITY OF MICHIG AN BAND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: YESTERDAY, TODAY, AN D T O M O R R O W BLAST ISSUE Fall 2010 Volume 62, Issue 1 2009 Drum Major David Hines Jr. fanfare Inside this issue Website Project ............. 2 From The President ........ 2 Concert Band 2010-11 ..... 3 Symphony Band to tour China in May 2011 Master Roster Project ...... 4 Michael L. Haithcock, Director of Bands New Member Lunch ........ 4 In keeping with the historic legacy of the Symphony Band, the current That Michigan Band ........ 5 ensemble will tour China May 10-26, 2011 visiting Beijing, Shanghai, Blast From The Past 2010 . 10 Shenyang, Hangzhou, and Xi’an. Performances will be given in major Registration Information .. 11 concert halls as well as university venues with exchange events such as 2010-11 Membership Form 12 chamber music concerts and master classes being held in major Chinese Blast Registration 2010 .... 13 conservatories. Additional performances will be given in Ann Arbor (May Our Mission .................. 14 5), Detroit’s Orchestra Hall (May 8), and in Los Angeles’ famous Walt Annual Reports .............. 15 Disney Concert Hall presented by the Los Angeles Philharmonic on May 29. Charter Amendment Vote . 17 MMB Photo Video ........... 18 The tour also marks the 50th anniversary of the now historic 1961 Horn Reunion ................ 18 Symphony Band tour of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and the Middle Percussion Information .... 18 East, when over the course of 15 weeks, the Symphony Band served as Class Rings ................... 19 ambassadors under the sponsorship of the U.S. State Department. The Alumni Update .............. 20 American Embassy in Moscow wrote that those students “were a model Golf Outing ................... 21 group in every way — in friendliness, in self-discipline, in mature conduct, 2010-11 Bands Concerts... 22 and most of all, in talent. No performing group … has matched their UMBAA Events ............... 23 success in terms of what we usually call good public relations.” The 2011 Symphony Band has much to live up to and much to be excited about. 2010 BLAST The 1961 tour was among the first cultural exchanges with the former October 15-16 2010 Soviet Union, and was a transformative experience for students and 60th Blast From The Past audiences. The University of Michigan and the School of Music, Theatre & Friday evening BBQ & rehearsal Dance anticipate that the tour to China will be a similarly rewarding Saturday morning rehearsals, experience. The 2011 tour is an outgrowth of increasing ties between scholarship presentations, various Chinese agencies and UM. In 2005, a delegation led by President M vs Iowa, post game reception. Mary Sue Coleman traveled to China to launch partnerships designed to REGISTRATION FORM INSIDE! enable UM’s entire community to reach their fullest potential through cultural exchanges required by an increasingly globalized world. Through the joint efforts of Madame Xu Lin, Director General of the Chinese Will you be in LA in May? So Language Council International (Hanban), and the Michigan Senior Vice will the Symphony Band! Provost Lester Monts, the Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan The Symphony Band performs in (CI-UM) was established on the Ann Arbor campus in 2009. The CI-UM’s Walt Disney Concert Hall on primary focus on Chinese arts is unique among the nearly 300 Confucius Sunday, May 29, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. Institutes located around the world. CI-UM seeks to strengthen If you’ll be in the Los Angeles area educational ties with China, develop Chinese arts and experiences on the and would like to order tickets to Michigan campus, and increase intercultural understanding between the attend, please go to the LA people of China and the United States. Philharmonic website: The Symphony Band’s visit to China is an important symbol of goodwill www.laphil.com/tickets/ between UM and many Chinese constituents in addition to being an performance-detail.cfm? important opportunity for Michigan band students to experience Chinese id=4452 culture first hand. “Perfection is no trifle.” — George R. Cavender So, about the much-promised UMBAA website: We know. The process to register our site with the University Treasury department to use a University space has taken longer than planned. We have hunted far and wide for a volunteer to be our webmaster, and finally we believe we have located this extremely rare creature. [Shhhh! Be vewy quiet! We don’t want to scare her away...] We have ironed out many issues, however. As long as the registration process with the University Treasury department goes well, and migration of the website to University space goes smoothly, we hope to have a working website before the end of 2010. “IF YOU PLAY IT WRONG SLOWLY, IT’LL BE TWICE AS BAD WHEN YOU PLAY IT RIGHT.” ~William D. Revelli From The President Hello All and Happy Summer! enough, come to our annual We are quickly approaching Alumni Barbeque & Rehearsal another school year, and, like at Revelli Hall on Friday you, I am anticipating many evening, October 15. quality performances on the Although BLAST is our biggest field from both the football event, there are many other team and the Marching Band. ways for you to get involved in The University Bands 2010-11 UMBAA. Please be sure to edition will be of the highest watch for information about quality as the Symphony Band our scholarships, BandORama, The University of Michigan prepares for their tour to Crisler Concert and the Band Alumni Association China, and the Chamber Winds, University Bands concert (UMBAA), a 501(c)(3) non- Concert Band, and Campus schedule, the UMBAA Golf profit corporation, provides Bands (Maize/Blue/University) Outing, Band Alumni class service and financial plan electrifying repertoire for rings, the luncheon for new support to The University this year’s concert season. members to the MMB, the UMBAA Concert Band, Alumni of Michigan Bands. Many exciting events for the Pep Band, University Bands Through a scholarship UMBAA happen this fall. Your receptions, and so much more. endowment, your UMBAA Homecoming Committee’s hard awarded thirty two partial work will bring you another No matter which event strikes wonderful BLAST from the Past your fancy, we hope you will scholarships to deserving on October 16. It is a 3:30 start come out and join in the fun! members of the Michigan vs. Iowa this year, so we’ll See you in the fall. Bands in 2009-10. have plenty of time for Go Blue! renewing old friendships and making new ones. But just in Kristen Acton ‘01 2 case Saturday morning isn’t UMBAA Concert Band Seeks New Members for 2010-11 Jennie Dalton ‘87 UMBAA Concert Band is seeking new members The band receives tremendous support from the for the 2010-2011 season. Anyone who played staff of MMB Photo Video. All performances are a band instrument for at least one semester in a recorded and professional quality CDs are made UM Band is encouraged to join this unique available for purchase by members. A group. There are no auditions. professional still photographer from MMB Photo Video documents our performances. Members UMBAA Concert Band is a volunteer organization have very much appreciated being able to see committed to providing a place for Michigan and hear the concerts and to share their Bands alumni of all ages and abilities to gather weekly to make music and socialize. The band performances with friends and family. looks forward to growing the membership and The current group spans 54 years of graduating increasing its role in the community. classes, with the shared love for all things Michigan and music bridging the generational The 2010-11 season runs from September to gaps. In their college days, nearly 75% were at June, with three sessions. Each session consists some point in the Marching Band, and all School of eight Thursday evening rehearsals and a of Music and Campus ensembles are well Sunday performance, all in Ann Arbor. Players may join for any or all of the sessions. Fees are represented. $20 per session or $50 for all three sessions. Our members have a wide range of musical experience. Some are music professionals, The Fall Session rehearsals begin September 23 others continue to play regularly and some take with a November concert. On January 13 the this opportunity to play their second Winter Session rehearsals begin, with a concert instruments. UMBAA CB has been successful in on March 13. The Spring session first rehearsal bringing our Bands Alumni back to music, some is April 21, with the final concert on June 12. dusting off their instruments and playing again All rehearsals are Thursday evenings from 7:30- 9:30 PM. Fall and Winter rehearsals will be held after a 20-year (or longer) hiatus. at Skyline HS, and Revelli Hall is home for the Unlike a community concert band which spring rehearsals. All three of this season’s typically draws from one geographic area, concerts will be at Huron HS. members of the group commute to weekly rehearsals from 9 Michigan counties and even UMBAA Concert Band is incredibly fortunate to have two very well qualified and enthusiastic from Ohio. conductors returning to the podium. Fall and In addition to friends who joined the band Winter sessions are under the baton of Langston together, were reunited in this group, or have Hemenway, doctoral candidate from the School just met, the UMBAA Concert Band is a unique of Music, Theatre & Dance. Assistant Director musical environment were students and their of Bands Dr. John Pasquale takes the baton for former teachers, parents and children, siblings the Spring session. and spouses rehearse together and share a single stage.