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Vol. 36, No. 3; October 2017 The International Voice of Community Bands INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Make Your Band’s International Trip One That “Matters” Conductor’s Corner: It’s All About Communication Harry Watters Trombone Soloist “ …breathtaking technical assurance…” —The Washington Post Career Highlights: Summit Records Jazz Recording Artist Jupiter Band Instruments “Power Practicing” Clinician United States Army Band Trombonist Former Leader of The Dukes of Dixieland Recent Appearances: ACB National Convention Midwest Clinic International Trombone Festival American Band College Great American Brass Band Festival European Trombone Festival MENC, ABA, JEN, TMEA, A Prairie Home Companion Emeril Live! Booking Information: [email protected] www.HarryWatters.com also available: the watters brothers www.WattersBrothers.net The International Voice of Community Bands Vol. 36, No. 3; OCTOBER 2017 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE PAST PRESIDENTS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF CONCERT BANDS President Jerry Brubaker Estes Park, CO President-Elect Susan Sands Sewickley, PA Edmond E. DeMattia Andy Isca 1977-1979 1999-2001 Past President Lew Buckley Salem, CT Williard I. Musser Richard E. Hord 1979-1981 2001-2003 APPOINTED OFFICERS Leonard B. Smith Gerald J. Guilbeaux Secretary Nada Vencl Montgomery Independence, OH 1981-1983 2003-2005 Treasurer Roy Burgess Fairfax, VA Herbert L. Schultz Allen E. Beck 1983-1985 2005-2007 Publications Coordinator Nancy Michalek McKinney, TX Donald M. Hardisty Don Snowden Convention Coordinator Jim Caneen Arkport, NY 1985-1987 2007-2009 Historian Delbert Eisch Racine, WI Delbert Eisch James Caneen Chief Information Officer Mike Montgomery Independence, OH 1987-1989 2009-2011 Membership Chair Sarah McElfresh Farmville, VA Joseph S. Sulkowski Judith Shellenberger BMI/ASCAP Compiler Donna Caneen Arkport, NY 1989-1990 2011-2013 Life Members Bill Dawson Northbrook, IL Leland A. Lillehaug Art Himmelberger 1990-1993 2013-2015 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Noah A. Lee Tommy Guilbert 1993-1995 2015 Gail Brechting (2016-2019) Spring Lake, MI Ronald J. Keller Lewis J. Buckley Lorelei Conrad (2016-2019) Sahuarita, AZ 1995-1997 2015-2017 Patrick Hennessey (2017-2020) Melbourne, FL Charles “Bud” Sessions 1997-1999 Tom Ridley (2017-2020) Huntington Beach, CA Tom Rotondi (2015-2018) Kingsport, TN Beth Steele (2015-2018) Breckenridge, CO For more information about A C B Jan Turnage (2017-2020) Chandler, AZ VISIT OUR WEBSITE: Chris Wilhjelm (2016-2019) Glen Rock, NJ www.acbands.org ADVISORY COUNCIL OR CONTACT: John Bourgeois Lowell Graham James Christensen Graham Jones Nada Vencl Montgomery, Larry Daehn Ronald Keller Secretary Johan de Meij Tim Lautzenheiser 6613 Cheryl Ann Drive Ronald Demkee David C. McCormick Independence, Ohio 44131 Roy Ernst Erica Neidlinger Toll Free 1-800-726-8720 Robert Foster Loras Schissel [email protected] Arnald Gabriel Bryan Shelburne Andrew Glover ACB Website Member Access Code: accelerando 3 ACB JOURNAL October 2017 Editor’s Notes As we move into the Fall and Holiday Season, it is a good time stories. We’ve often profiled such stories in a feature we call The to reflect on the many accomplishments of our member bands. An Community Band Experience. Many thanks to David Smith for increasingly good way to share your accomplishments with others sharing his personal story and his mission to create places for adult in our world is to post stories on our ACB Facebook page. Although musicians to play. And to Rick Meehan for sharing his story about much of the content on our page is created to share information about recognizing a former teacher. These and other member news stories composers and ACB shine a spotlight on what we do, and I’m grateful for those who take news items, we are seeing the time to share. more items coming from The ACB Journal is one of the ways we can share with our our members, such as the membership what is happening with ACB. Please take a few minutes story about Tom Ridley to review the ACB News in this issue! and the Huntington Beach Concert Band. I encourage you to ‘like’ our ACB Facebook • There are many ways to recognize people and bands through page and to ‘share’ stories from our Facebook site with your friends. ACB. For bands, the ACB Recognition Certificate; for directors of ACB Bands, the Outstanding Conductor Award; for Regarding ACB Members and bands in weather path: We are starting individuals exemplifying Music for Life, the Tommy Guilbert to get word from bands in the coastal areas hit by the hurricanes this New Member Fund; for directors as outstanding mentors, the season and we are ready to help our fellow band mates as they try to Herb & Jean Schultz Mentor Ideal Award. get back to their mission of bringing music to their communities. As we hear of their needs we will post on Facebook. • In other ACB news, the opportunity to shape the Round Table Discussions for the 2018 Convention; more information on Our Cover Photo is by Jackie Bradley and is one of several photo the 40th Anniversary of ACB at the 2018 Convention and illustrations accompanying the article about the Fairfax Band. registration information; how your band can host an ACB The band traveled to France in a very meaningful way, and the Convention. experience is chronicled by Dan Merriman of the City of Fairfax Band. We love to hear from our member bands, and this is an article • Our Corporate Members are important to us! Please note the list that will inspire you. of our Corporate Members in this issue and also on our ACB Web Site. We have many recurring contributors featured in this issue. You’ll want to read Harry Watters’ musings on the many musical As a final note, please remind your band to look for the renewal opportunities around the country. Seaway Winds, one of our member information coming in October. Community Bands often have bands in Canada, participated in Canada’s 150th celebration and changes in contact information and address, so if you don’t have submitted their story (thanks to Barb Hunter and Ralph Svendsen). your renewal information by end of October, please check to make Dr. Bill Dawson, long-time ACB Member and chairperson of ACB sure we have your correct address and Life Members, has another fine article for our membership, “Rust contact information. Removal: Returning to a Musical Life.” Andy Isca continues his review of New Music and Bob Ullery continues his compilation of opportunities to “Play Away.” In our Conductor’s Corner you’ll find an excellent article on Communication written by our President- Elect and conductor of the East Winds Symphonic Band, Susan Sands. 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Think about writing an article! office and vow to continue to make our organization one I had a very moving experience this past June. City of Fairfax Band that serves its members in in Virginia, my first community band, was invited to participate in every way possible. We have D-Day ceremonies at two American cemeteries. Though I now live in a very talented, smart and Colorado, they were generous to let me join the group in Normandy, dedicated board of directors France. We performed wreath-laying ceremonies at the American who constantly come up with cemeteries, Brittany and Omaha Beach. To be at that place where so new and innovative methods of many made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom was perhaps the supporting the membership of most moving experience of my life! ACB. I hope you all saw the article in the June 2017 issue of the Journal Jerry Brubaker I want to thank my good friend, about bands supporting the Honor Flight program. This is a program ACB President Lew Buckley for his service that is near and dear to my heart. I have done arrangements of the five as President for the past two major service songs in an easy to put together format and will supply years.