2020 SCSBOA Professional Development Conference & Honor Groups OC Hyatt January 17-18, 2020 Table of Contents What is the SCSBOA? 2 1937 3 Message from the President 5 2019-2020 Board of Directors 6 Honorary Life Members 7 Past Presidents 9 Standing Committees 12-13 SCSBOA Exhibitors 15 Conference Schedule 20-37 Concerts 38 Map of Hyatt Regency Hotel 41-43 Keynote Spotlight 45-47 Honor Jazz Groups 51-55 Elementary Honor Groups 56-61 Middle School Honor Groups 62-70 High School Honor Groups 71-79 www.scsboa.org What is the SCSBOA? We believe that aesthetic education through instrumental music performance is essential to the school curriculum. Our mission is to provide educational leadership to the membership of the Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association. To fulfill our mission, we provide opportunities for professional growth through developmental resources. These resources include: conferences, clinics, publications, performance evaluation, association with institutions of higher learning and interaction with professional musicians. We provide enrichment opportunities which present outstanding student musicians as models for all instrumental programs. We also provide resources to assist with the development and/or evaluation of curriculum should it be requested by a school or district. • SCSBOAsponsors band, orchestra, solo and ensemble, district and regional festivals. • We select and train approved adjudicators for band, orchestra, solo and ensemble festivals and for parade and field event competitions. •SCSBOAmaintains a continuing program to evaluate and update the adjudication forms being used for band and orchestra festivals and competitions. •We sponsor clinics and workshops for in-service training of teachers of instrumental music. •SCSBOAsponsors the SCSBOAHigh School Honor Groups, the SCSBOAMiddle School Honor Groups, the SCSBOA Elementary Honor Groups, and the SCSBOA Honor Jazz Ensembles. 1937 1937…the first Social Security payments in the U.S. were issued; Daffy Duck made his debut; U.S. steel workers were given a raise to $5 per day; NBC created the first full-size symphony orchestra for radio audiences; Joe Dimaggio hit his first grand slam. America continued to reel from the effects of the Great Depression, and the Dust Bowls of the Great Plains forced thousands of families to seek shelter and work far from their homesteads and families. Yet, on the cam- pus of Los Angeles Junior College, fifteen music educators came together to create what would become the premiere music organization in California, the Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association. As a member of the SCSBOA, you are a recipient of their dream! The first honor band was created in 1937, made up of high school students from Southern California and within a year, solo and ensemble festivals as well as band and orchestra festivals became the priority of the SCSBOA’s Board of Directors. Their vision was clear: creating a viable list of music to be used for festival and sightreading; developing a qualified judging pool; determining which grade levels would be eligible for festival participation. By the end of 1939, these visions were in fact realities and again, the Board of Directors, along with a growing membership pushed forward with newgoals. The Board of Directors introduced the first Southern California high school honor orchestra concert broadcast on nationwide radio and a “Three-Month Plan” where elementary, junior high and high school music education was the focus, culminating in a conference type meeting held every three months for specific grade levels. The Board of Directors continued to push forward with new ideas and dreams never accepting that the job was complete. While the marching band movement has gained tremendous popularity, festivals continue to grow as well. Major changes to the by-laws have been instituted throughout the past eighty years. New scoring systems have been introduced and coordinators hired to assist with the ever-growing needs of the SCSBOA. These changes have kept the SCSBOA in existence for over eighty years. We keep growing and moving forward! Little could the original fifteen gentlemen of the first SCSBOA have known that eighty one years later, music and its educational components encompass far more than band and orchestra, drums and violins. From garage bands to computerized and technologically oriented compositions, music and all its facets have evolved tremendously. Yet, it’s not so much about the parades, field events or festivals, but more about the journey the SCSBOA continues to take because of the vision. Each generation, Board of Directors and Music Educator brings a new energy and goals to those dreams from 1937. That energy has made the SCSBOA the standard bearer not only in Southern California but nationwide. Be part of the vision – you matter. Be part of the legacy of the Southern California School Band & Orchestra Association! Greetings from President, Jeanne Christensen Welcome to the Annual SCSBOA Professional Development Conference! Over the two-day conference, you will have the opportunity to choose from 72 different session offerings. You will be able to listen to guest artists from around the country, engage in meaningful dialogue with peers, and sit in and watch one of the many Honor Groups rehearse by this year’s incredible conductors. I encourage you to attend one or more of the Honor Concerts with close to 850 of Southern California’s best student musicians involved. The SCSBOA Board of Directors has been planning this conference over the past several months. We are very excited to bring you a thoughtful, meaningful, and educationally rich experience. The conference is designed for the music educator first. Each hour you will find a session that will have you thinking about new ideas, sharing what works in your classroom, and more. Our guest artists, conductors, and speakers will help provide a place where like-minded educators can gather, where music education can be celebrated, and where we can talk to one another and open up about the joys (and failures) of what we do. Let’s celebrate our strengths and continue to grow as an Association and as professionals. If this is your first conference, then welcome! If you are a veteran educator, welcome back! Either way, I challenge you to go up to someone new and open a dialogue. It’s how we all build community and how we learn to collaborate together. SCSBOA believes in music education and the power of music. Thank you for your continued support of SCSBOA and the performance opportunities you help us provide to thousands of students throughout Southern California. Our Association is rich in tradition of bringing music education to the highest level of excellence. This year is no exception. On behalf of the Board of Directors, enjoy the conference! Jeanne Christensen SCSBOA President Board of Directors SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BAND & ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION Jeanne Christensen Steve Acciani CathyOlinger Duane Otani Albert Jeung ScottDomingues Amy Villanova President 1st Vice President Secretary Treasurer PastPresident Membership HS Education MikeGangemi Yeon Choi Don Jaramillo Joe Dudek Curt Richardson Kevin Hamilton JazzEducation MS Education Field Adjudication ParadeAdjudication Festival Adjudication PublicInformation JasonMarshall Jim Wang Paul Bluto Jennifer Jackson Jeri Webb Amy Mack Festivals String Education Music Lists ElementaryEducation Awards & Medals Office Manager Honorary Life Members 1939 Chester Perry 1972 Herbert W. Roesener 1997 Danny Wagner 1939 Vesey Walker 1973 Mervin R. Corner 1998 Tom Cole 1943 Donald W. Rowe 1973 Larry H. Thomas 1998 Rolland Sandberg 1944 Holace Metcalf 1974 Ross Davis 1999 Gerald Anderson 1947 Halstead McCormac 1974 James Merrill 1999 Allan Trefry 1949 Fred Rupp 1975 Dennis A. Davies 2000 Thomas Landes 1951 George Wing 1975 Jane K. Gerow 2001 Mitchell J. Fennell 1951 George Burt 1976 Ben Godfrey 2001 Ken Gammie 1955 Nelson Bonar 1977 Michael Pappone 2002 Warren Torns 1956 Vincent Dagort 1979 Robert Gibson 2003 Richard Lorenzen 1957 Lucien Calliet 1979 Kenneth Woesner 2003 Stan Steele 1957 Clinton Sawin 1980 G. Randall Coleman 2004 Karl Fitch 1958 Justin Burston 1981 Wayne W. Reinecke 2005 Darlene Hale 1959 Maurice Faulkner 1982 Lawrence Christianson 2005 Richard Watson 1959 Fred Graff 1983 Peter Fournier 2006 James Nichols 1960 Clarence Sawhill 1984 Donald Gunderson 2006 Gordon Norman 1961 Nicholas Furianick 1984 Benton Minor 2007 Tom Hrbacek 1962 Fred Ohlendorf 1985 Kenneth Weidaw 2008 John Carnahan 1963 William Gould 1986 Ron Hoar 2008 Robert Reynolds 1963 John Green 1987 John Hensley 2009 Donald Jaramillo 1964 William Ballard 1988 Richard Marino 2009 Linda Owen 1965 Truman Hutton 1989 Wayne Nelson 2010 Mark Lowery 1965 Robert Runge 1990 Joseph Acciani 2011 Emmett Hoolihan 1966 Kenneth Mack 1990 Michael Corrigan 2011 Curtis Richardson 1967 Kenneth Fiske 1991 Harold Warman 2013 Cathy Olinger 1967 Robert Fleury 1992 Lida O. Beasley 2014 Albert Jeung 1968 Robert Greenwell 1992 Michael Shelton 2015 Rick Naylor 1969 Peter Schartz 1993 Roger Johnson 2016 Leonard Narumi 1969 Richard Wagnon 1994 Rosemarie Krovoza 2017 Randy Gilpin 1971 Helen Bicknell 1995 Larry Curtis 2018 Nancy Robinson 1971 A. Harry Harbaugh 1995 John Vorwald 2019 Bob Anthony 1972 Thomas F. Fitzgerald 1996 Jack Mason u/k Herbert Clark u/k Tom Allen u/k William Phillips u/k Louis Curtis u/k William Hartshorn u/k Ralph Rush u/k DeForrest Gay BE A PART OF THE NAMM FOUNDATION The NAMM Foundation celebrates