APRIL/MAY 2009 • Vol. 22, Issue 2 NEWSLETTER Cody Birdwell Conductor, 2009 Summer Symposium H. Robert Reynolds Conductor, 2010 Honor Band of America Music for All Summer Symposium Anthony Maiello Register Now! Conductor, 2010 Honor Orchestra of America Pages 2–16 Bands of America Championships All Locations Now Confirmed! Pages 18–21 BOA Hall of Fame Programs of Music for All National Presenting Sponsor Page 33 Music for All National Festival 2010 Application June 12 Application Deadline Page 41 ...and more News from Music for All! at the Music for All Summer Symposium presented by June 22 – 27, 2009 • Normal, Illinois Leadership Weekend Experience: June 20 – 22 Get re-energized, refreshed and ready for the Technique and Design new school year. The Summer Symposium brings you • Physical Preparation the absolute best to provide a comprehensive experience. Jazz We’re offering tools that will allow you to achieve peak Daily offerings in Jazz pedagogy and education techniques performance personally and for your ensembles. This is including: the place to get a head start on next year’s thinking today. • Director’s Band Make connections, get new ideas and learn new strategies. • The Rhythm Section - piano, guitar, bass, drumset & Putting It All Together 2009 Curriculum and Topics will include: • Improvisation • Brass/Woodwind Techniques Concert • Preparation for Concert Evaluation Festival Middle School (topics below include Years 1, 2 and 3) • Master Work Feature Session • Middle School Issues with Robert W. Smith & Panel • Producing Concert Band Ensemble Clarity • Student Leadership in Middle School and Preparation for High • Maximizing Rehearsal Efforts, Parts 1 & 2 School • Score Preparation–It Really Is Important • Woodwind Pedagogy for Brass and Percussion • Commissioning Works for Your Band Program • Establishing Middle School Ensemble Skills • Exploring Color and Texture in teh Concert Setting • Establishing the Proper Set-Up for Woodwind Instruments • They’ve Got To Have Skills Immediately • Daily Directors’ Concert Band • Establishing the Proper Set-Up for /Brass Instruments • Feature Sessions with Master Clinicians Immediately • Competitive Chair Seating Marching • Unlocking the Mystery of Teaching Middle School Percussion in • Marching Technique and Demonstrations the Full Band Setting • Marching Music Program and Demonstrations • Innovative Beginning Band Recruiting Techniques • Marching Band Warm-Up: From Rehearsal to Pre-Performance • Tuning and Intonation for Middle School Band • Drill Design • Brass Pedagogy for Woodwinds/Percussion • Full Ensemble Techinique • SmartMusic (Sessions in Instruction and Assessment) • The New Marching Band Techniques Using Technology • Finale in the Classroom I and II • Front Ensemble Technoloy 101 • Classroom Management and Organization • Outdoor Brass Technique • Middle School Curriculum Benchmarks • Judging the Musical Performance • Literature Reading for Young and Middle School Bands • Coordinating the Design Process • Motivation and Retentin of Middle School Children • Cleaning the Visual Program • What You Didn’t Learn in Colldge • Color guard Cleaning Techniques • Teaching to the National Standards • Arranging from the Arranger and Director Perspective • Parent Communication • Dynamic Marching • Survey of Middle School Resources and Methods • Championship Percussion • Building Bridges to the High School Program • Judging the Visual Performance • It’s All About the Music: Effective Show Programming Percussion, Supplemental and Additional Technology • Insights Into Programming and Design • Does and Don’ts of Travel with Your Band • Using Technology: The New Marching Band Paradigm • Portable Recorders and Digital Collaboration • Excellence in Marching Performance Through Rehearsal • Pro-Audio: What Every Teacher and Student Should Know www.musicforall.org • 2 LEARN directly from master music teachers CONNECT with others who share your passion EXPLORE new ideas and the latest trends presented by You control your own experience classroom. Meals and director social events are valuable Create your own curriculum from choices focusing on a times for relaxing, catching up and getting new ideas for wide range of tracks and topics relevant to today’s band your own program. director: rehearsal techniques, conducting, literature, marching band, jazz band, pedagogy, technology, Get Graduate Credit organization and administration, programming and Professional development is important, and often more. You also have access to observe all the student mandatory, for today’s music educators. You can receive division classes, watching master teachers in all areas of up to three hours of graduate credit from Illinois State instrumental instruction in action. University for your participation. Illinois State University will assess a modest application fee. Peer-to-Peer Networking Network with other directors and experts who share your passion for teaching music, both in and out of the Dream Team Faculty Bring Your Students, Save on The Summer Symposium Directors Academy faculty includes Director Fees some of the most respected and successful music educators • Bring 12 or more of your students and teaching today, at the high school, middle school and you can attend free! collegiate level, including: • Bring six or more students and attend tuition-free! Lee Beddis Michael Klesch Greg Bimm Tim Lautzenheiser George Boulden David McGrath One-on-One Directors’ Lounge: David Brandon Mike McIntosh Meet with the Masters Bob Buckner Andrew Markworth Our one-on-one Directors’ Lounge brings James Campbell Steve Nendza you a team of educators offering personal Erin Cole Charlotte Royal consultation on your program, show Richard Crain Jeff Rupert design, conducting, concert programming, Carolina Crown, Adam Sage drill writing and more. It’s like a director’s drum corps-in-residence Richard Saucedo private lesson with leading experts in the Mike Doll Robert W. Smith Master Teacher Lounge, Marching Design Lounge and Technology Lounge Andrew Ebert Susan Smith Sam Fritz David Vandewalker Glen Fugett Evan VanDoren Michael Gray Alfred Watkins Matt Harloff Yamaha Technology Staff Susie Harloff Jeff Young John Howell ...and more! Chuck Jackson Sharon Kalisek www.musicforall.org • 3 at the Music for All Summer Symposium presented by The Summer Symposium Middle School/Young Teacher • Up to three hours of graduate credit from Illinois State Track is designed to deliver a curriculum that will arm University with a modest application fee from the middle school teachers and young music educators with University. the tools they need to provide their students with a • Summer Symposium General Curriculum positively life-changing experience. The typical model • World Class Concerts and Musical Experiences • Networking with the Finest Music Educators in the for middle schools in America is a three-year program Country (6th, 7th, and 8th grade). Ironically, three years is also the typical career lifespan for young music educators. Who Should Attend? Most recent studies show that America is on the verge of • Experienced Middle School Teachers Looking for a Fresh a major shortage of qualified music educators. Through a Approach and New Ideas three-year curriculum, the Middle School/Young Teacher • Recent Grads & Young Teachers Track at the Summer Symposium will provide a “hands on” • High School Teachers Looking to Create a Unified education that will prepare young teachers to thrive, not Philosophy with their Feeder Program just survive! Year 1 “Nuts and Bolts” The first year curriculum will deal with the nuts and bolts 2009 marks “Year 3” of the three-year program, now of teaching 6th graders in a middle school setting. In a offering all three course phases of the track. Those who nutshell, we will fill the gap to teach you everything you attending the previous two middle school tracks can build didn’t learn in college! upon those experiences with the Year 3 offerings, while Year 1 and 2 courses are also offered. The experience will Year 2 “Ensemble” be realistic and taught by experienced and successful The second year curriculum will focus on the challenges practitioners from a range of programs and settings, that accompany the ensemble experience. From solo and including small school, low budget, urban and rural ensemble contest to taking a band to festival, year two can situations. Our curriculum will begin with a year-by- be a roller coaster ride. We will equip you to make it the year approach, adding content and subject matter each ride of a lifetime! year. Whether you come for one year or all three, the Year 3 “Maximizing The Middle School Experience” information will be invaluable. The third year curriculum will focus on both maximizing your student’s middle school experience, as well as helping In Addition to the Middle School/Young Teacher you to prepare them for the journey to high school. curriculum, your experience includes: Robert W. Smith joins the and arranged through his long association with Warner Middle School teacher Bros. Publications and the Belwin catalog. He is currently track faculty, coordinating published exclusively by the C. L. Barnhouse Company curriculum and leading sessions and serves as the Director of Product Development for C. vital to today’s middle school L. Barnhouse and Walking Frog Records. As a conductor and clinician, Mr. Smith has performed throughout the band director. United States, Canada, Japan, Europe and Australia. He is the principal conductor of the American Symphonic Robert