NORTH CAROLINA MUSIC EDUCATOR 2017 NCMEA Professional Development Conference The Every Student Succeeds Act: Over 200 clinics, sessions and Opportunities for Music concerts, including Educator Action by Lynn Tuttle Tim Lautzenheiser Sunday Afternoon Keynote U.S. Navy Band Commodores Sunday Evening Concert Piedmont Wind Symphony Monday Evening Concert November 11 - 14 • Winston-Salem #musicmakesmeNC Volume 68 Number 2 NORTH CAROLINA Conference MUSIC EDUCATOR 2017 | 1 Board of Directors EXECUTIVE OFFICERS SECTION CHAIRS President: James Daugherty Band: Rodney Workman Jazz Education: Keith Grush [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Immediate Past President: Band Section Delegate: Jamie Beam Jazz Section Delegate: Richard Holmes [email protected] Marjorie Harrison [email protected] [email protected] Collegiate NAfME: Emily Lott President-Elect: Jazzmone Sutton [email protected] Middle School Choral: Catherine Butler [email protected] [email protected] Elementary: Janet Berry Recording Secretary: Aria Westbrook [email protected] Orchestra: Sarah Russell [email protected] [email protected] High School Choral: Eddie Adams Member-at-Large: Andy Carter [email protected] Orchestra Section Delegate: Joey Walker [email protected] Higher Education: Cynthia Wagoner [email protected] Member-at-Large: Jeffrey Danielson [email protected] [email protected] Non-Voting Members COMMISSION & COMMITTEE CHAIRS DISTRICT PRESIDENTS Exceptional Children & General Music: Research: Jennifer Walter District 1: Jennifer Fowler Rue S. Lee-Holmes [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Retired Membership: David S. Albert D i s t r i c t 2 : V i c k i e W h i t fi e l d Conference Chair: Barbara Geer [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Student Activities: Jazzmone Sutton District 3: Jessica Ferguson Asst. Conference Chair: Adam Joiner [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Teacher Education: Greg Hurley District 4: Tonya Allison Mentoring: Beth Ulffers [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Technology Chair: Howard Ledford District 5: Lois Parris Multi-Cultural Awareness: [email protected] [email protected] Johnathan Hamiel Tri-M: Windy Fullagar District 6: Kristen McGuirk [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Music In Our Schools Month: Webmaster: Justin Barrett District 7: Lillie Allmond Harris Angela Mangum [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Young Professionals: Lisa Qualls District 8: Brian Barfield Music Program Leaders: Nathan Street [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] District 9: Pamela Collings [email protected] AWARDS, GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIP STANDING COMMITTEE CHAIRS District 10: Pauline Reimers CHAIRS [email protected] Advocacy: Alyssa Montgomery District 11: John Philip Mullinax Awards: Jeffrey Danielson [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Constitution: Maribeth Yoder-White District 12: Angela Sessoms Mini Grant: Richard Holmes [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Finance: Richard Holmes District 13: Gena Wiltshire Summer Professional Development Grant: Greg Hurley [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Membership: Jazzmone Sutton District 14: Hillary Goodson-Spear Scholarships: Andy Carter [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Publications: Kim Justen District 15: Jenifer Hutson [email protected] [email protected] EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS Collegiate NAfME Advisor: Lisa Runner Executive Director: Pat Hall Music Industry Rep.: Scott Love [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Editor: Kim Justen Historian: Dr. John Henry, Jr. State Department of Public Instruction [email protected] [email protected] Rep.: Christie M. Lynch Ebert [email protected] 2 | NORTH CAROLINA MUSIC EDUCATOR NORTH CAROLINA MUSIC EDUCATOR | 1 NCMEA Conference 2017 v2.indd 1 8/24/17 1:53 PM NORTH CAROLINA MUSIC EDUCATOR NCMEA Board Directory 1 We Take Full A special thank you to all our advertisers who sup- NCMEA President’s Message 4 James Daugherty port music educators and music education in N.C. Responsibility Thank You 5 Brevard College 9 — For Music Education — NCMEA Executive Director’s Message 6 East Carolina University 11 Pat Hall Festivale 13 Music education is a cornerstone Conference News 6 All National Ensembles 8 Hayes School of Music 7 of the Yamaha philosophy. We advocate US Army All-American Marching Band 8 Messiah College 23 at national, state and local levels for General Music & Exceptional Children 9 Music and Arts Inside Back Cover every child’s right to music education. Awards, Grants & Scholarships 10 The Music Center 5 NC American Choral Director’s Luncheon 12 We also sponsor music education Musicale 57 NCMEA Elections 14 programs that inspire music participation Pfeiffer University 34 NCMEA Past Presidents 20 from preschool through college. Because Honorary Life Members 20 Stetson University 45 Featured Performance 22 Super Sensitive Musical String Co. 17 we know that music education doesn’t Band Section 24 UNC Chapel Hill 51 just make someone a better musician, Band Clinics 25 UNC Charlotte 31, 39 it makes them a better person. 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Advertising: Information requests and ad orders should Non-Profit 501(c)(3) Organization U.S. Postage Paid at Lub- be directed to Kimberly Justen, Editor-in-Chief, at bock, Texas. ISSN Number 0400-3332 EIN number [email protected]. 20-3325550 2 | NORTH CAROLINA MUSIC EDUCATOR NORTH CAROLINA MUSIC EDUCATOR | 3 ED12811 Music Education Corporate NCME.indd 1 8/23/17 11:03 AM NCMEA and lend support to our next president. In the last few months we have worked hard preparing for the transition in NCMEA WISHES TO EXTEND SINCERE THANKS NCMEA leadership. Jazzmone Sutton is an impassioned and TO THE FOLLOWING resident’s Message innovative leader who will continue leading NCMEA with vigor James Daugherty and intensity. There isn’t a question she is afraid to ask in her quest It takes numerous wonderful people to plan and present this to find the best possible solutions. She has a great guiding compass outstanding professional development Conference. This is just a P small list of those who spent many hours since last November to and map in hand, ready to chart our course for the next two years. It’s an honor to stand with her and with our next president-elect to get ready for 2017. We thank all of you! champion music and music education for all of North Carolina. The Times are a Changin’ I’ve still got a few more years before I get out. The office of past Barbara L. Geer, Professional Development Conference Co-Chair president awaits me. Serving music education has opened up a new Adam Joiner, Professional Development Conference Co-Chair world. These people on the inside are committed to ensuring every student and citizen in our state and nation have the opportunity for Pat Hall, NCMEA Executive Director their lives to be well-rounded and positively impacted by music. Mark Healy, Conference Administrator and Webmaster These people on the inside understand building relationships and colleague of mine recently shared a humorous thought is most often measured in some sort of interval or distance. Some sharing their story is how we will keep music alive and away from Kim Justen, Journal Editor with me about how often teachers could be mistaken for we can measure with a quantity. We can quantify the number of a death penalty. These people on the inside are the best. My life is Benton Convention Center and Staff prisoners if someone listened to their conversations – minutes of the class we teach, the number of years we’ll continue forever changed because of the opportunity to serve “on the inside.” especiallyA as they near retirement. She noted their comments often our career, or the number of steps we’ll walk in a day. Yet, we find it Music Industry and College & University Exhibitors contain such phrases as, “How long have you got in?” “How many hard to quantify the time that has value to us. We become engaged To every member of this powerful association and every NCMEA Section and Committee Chairs more years do you have left?” or “When do you get out?” and captivated in valued time because (just like an interval in music member of our board, I say, “Thank you.” Thank you for your belief in our profession, our passion, and our mission. Do not be Stevens Center for the Performing Arts and Staff In recent weeks, many of my own friends and colleagues have theory) it has not only a quantity but also a quality. discouraged that the times are a changin’ – be encouraged that you Twin City Quarter and Staff hinted some similar sentiments to me as my term of service as Musicians have not only learned to quantify distances in our get to be a part of this change and be the force that changes minor Visit Winston-Salem and Staff NCMEA president draws to a close. “Are you ready to go?” “Are melodies, we have very uniquely qualified the distances contained in and diminished intervals to major and augmented ones.