Report Summer 2015
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SCOTT S. HANNA Editor REPORT SUMMER 2015 FROM THE PODIUM Dear Colleagues, motivate you to do the same. Greetings from sunny Florida. I hope you are enjoying Clean out the email inbox. That little red badge telling a restful summer. me I have 532 unread emails is about to meet its match. I resolve to answer the important ones and It was great seeing many of you in Fort Collins at the delete all the rest. I’ll never be one of those “inbox 2015 CBDNA Athletic Band Symposium on the zero” folks, but at the very least, I’m going to start the beautiful campus of Colorado State University. Our new school year with a leaner, meaner email window. hosts, Rebecca Phillips and Richard Frey, did an While I’m at it, I think I’ll unsubscribe from lists that outstanding job providing a conference as good as any are no longer of interest to me. we have held. Many interesting and stimulating presentations, fresh approaches to common problems, Re-read the class syllabus. Word processing software is and a few surprises made for an outstanding event. great, but it’s all too easy to open a class document, This is what CBDNA is all about; colleagues helping change the date and hit print. This summer, I’m going colleagues in a professional and polished environment. to re-read those important docs, adjust the calendar Bravo to all involved for a job well done. related items, perhaps change the font, and maybe even update the course content. (I found one of my Summer is a good time to catch up on all the things most frequently used conducting class papers that that seem to slip away during the busy academic year. made reference to “VHS videotape.” Goodness. How Your summer “to-do” list probably looks like mine: a old is that document?) little travel, projects around the house, reconnecting with friends and family, recreation, maybe even a Transfer old recordings to digital. Most of us have movie or two. Yes, without summer to reinvigorate irreplaceable collections of audio and video recordings the soul, it might be a lot harder to make it through with musical moments that constitute the soundtrack the other nine months. I hope you are finding time of our lives. The sad reality is that the tape in those old to recharge your batteries. cassettes won’t last forever. Depending on storage conditions, some of them may already be But being the Type-A personalities that most of us unplayable. (I won’t even get started on those even tend to be, sooner or later we will start thinking about older reel-to-reel tapes.) This summer, I’m going to the new academic year and the challenges and transfer the ones that mean the most to me to digital excitement ahead. Sounds reasonable; a little before they are gone for good. This used to be a preparation in the summer will go a long way toward tedious process, but nowadays it’s as simple as finding a more organized fall semester. So in addition to my the right cable to connect your audio player to your “fun to-do list,” I also have a “professional to-do list” computer. I really should make this a priority. Once that I want to share with you. Hopefully this may these are gone, they are gone. IN THIS ISSUE From the Podium – 1 Resources – 5 Dissertations/Treatises – 8 News – 2 Commissions/Premieres – 6 Programs – 9 CBDNA REPORT – 2 SUMMER 2015 Read a book. Some folks like to immerse themselves in Patrick Dunnigan a good novel while sitting poolside. That’s nice, but I’d rather use what little time I have for discretionary NEWS reading by expanding my musical mind. I enjoyed “We Were a Captive Audience” Diane Wittry’s “Beyond the Baton” from a few years Lawrence F. Stoffel ago so I think I’ll check out her newest tome (Baton Basics: Communicating Music through Gestures, This article originally appeared in the Spring 2014 issue of Oxford University Press). Whatever your taste, CMEA Magazine and is reprinted with permission. engaging in the printed word will have positive effects Outreach concerts and other such off-campus on your overall mental health. You just may find some performances should be commonplace and regular new approaches to old problems, or maybe just a little activities for our college and university music inspiration for your next rehearsal. There’s a ensembles. These concerts are an important and wonderful world of information out there beyond essential component of the collegiate ensemble Wikipedia. And after all, we are scholars. experience. Such outreach concerts also fulfill certain fundamental objectives of academia’s mission. The Organize concert selections. I’ve never been one of California State University proclaims the CSUs are those folks who can organize all concerts across the “working for California,” and the University of entire academic year. I envy those who can do this. California boasts itself to be a university “for, by and But this summer, I’m going to get the major works in of California.” Clearly the off-campus concert given place, find the scores, and spend some quality time by a collegiate ensemble is, at its very core, part of the breathing new life into some of my old favorites. Like university mission. many of you, I purchased a nice stack of new scores while at CBDNA National in Nashville. Rather than In December of 2013 the California State University, wait until fall, I’ll give these the thorough reading that Northridge Wind Ensemble presented an they deserve this summer. These days, if you don’t unprecedented outreach concert at one of California’s keep up with new band music, it will pass you by at state prisons — home to some of our state’s “fourth the speed of light. world population.” Located in Corona, the California Institution for Women (CIW) is a Level I–III prison That’s a nice list. More than enough to get me for female offenders. In addition to its large general through the dog-days of August. population, CIW houses inmates with special needs such as pregnancy, psychiatric care, methadone, and I’ll close by reminding everyone to make plans to medical problems such as HIV infection. CIW also attend your Divisional CBDNA Conference in Spring serves as a higher security facility for female inmates in Semester 2016. Our division presidents and host Administrative Segregation. conductors are busy planning events that will make The California Institution for Women opened in 1952 you enlightened and proud to be a member of and, except for the security perimeter, largely CBDNA. By the time you read this note, performing resembles a community college campus from that groups will have been selected for almost every decade. Indeed, the campus-like design was in keeping division. With numerous sites and dates available, with the 1950s’ progressive notion of rehabilitation. It there’s going to be a CBDNA Divisional Conference was originally called Frontera, a feminine derivative of near you. Can’t make the one in your own division? the word frontier. Until 1987, CIW was California’s No problem. Attend one that fits your schedule. only prison for female felons. Designed for an inmate Yes, division meetings are open to all CBDNA population of 1,080, the current bed count at CIW members, not just the one in your own division. Check surpasses 1,900. out the national website for links to the various division meeting websites. Save the date. Planning for the CSUN Wind Ensemble’s There is no excuse for missing a division meeting. performance at CIW began four months in advance of the concert date. The logistics for such a concert were That’s it for now. Continue to have a great summer. considerable. A formal security clearance was required Get some rest. See you soon. of each member of the band. Every aspect of the concert was scrutinized beforehand. Even our concert CBDNA REPORT – 3 SUMMER 2015 attire required approval by the prison warden. help us see the possibility of other things and other ways. One month prior to the concert the CIW chaplain and a volunteer visited the CSUN campus to speak Thank you for considering us. You with the Wind Ensemble musicians. The students are welcome here in our virtual reality. received a thorough briefing about concert day Women at CIW logistics along with a detailed review of prison procedures and protocols. Any student concerns about Upon arrival to CIW on the morning of the concert, safety were also answered. prison security thoroughly inspected all musical instruments and cases, sheet music, folders, and The chaplain also shared with us this letter from the equipment. No personal possessions (cell phones, CIW inmates: cameras, keys, purses, wallets, etc.) were permitted Dear Students: inside the prison. Each musician was individually processed through a metal detector and then issued an The incarcerated women here at the identification tag. California Institution for Women would very much appreciate you all The concert took place in the CIW auditorium. This taking time out of your busy schedule modest brick building, adjacent to the prison’s central to come and play for us. We never quad, resembles a ‘50s-era school cafetorium (part have the opportunity for live music auditorium, part cafeteria, part activity room). The here. We barely have access to music entire concert band could not fit on the auditorium’s as we do not have access to the digital small stage, so most of the musicians were seated on world you all have access to.