m~. I rL,,Iilr I 7T-I I --TILT I-illllllll-I I I I I n- I 11,, I I I Ill.11 I 1=-I11-1111r-I •1 -, - - I I - I IIIIT-- - I I I- I - - I I I - __ I /1 I+11 VOLUME 1, NUIVIBER 2 JANUAFiY 1984 OFFICIAL PUBLICATloN OF NORTH CENTRAL ACDA Cover: First Lutheran Church, Sioux Falls, S.D. Concert Site for North Central Convention NORTII CENTRAL DIVISION OFFICERS President: Wayne Kive]] 1003 Maple Northfield, MN 55057 President Elect: Diana Leland 221 W. 59th St. Minneapolis, MN 55419 Edi(or: Sandra Chat)man 1209 Avenue C Fort Madison, IA 52627 Ace Editor: 1300 Anderson 201 W. Orange Mt. Pleasant, IA 52641 State presidents 1983-85 IOWA Gnp Schwartzhoff 909 llth St. Charles City, IA 50616 Hm. 515-228-2179 MINNESOTA Roger Tenney 758 Rolling Green Dr. Owatonna, MN 55060 Hm. 507451-3595 NEBRASRA Paul Swauson 1521 Urbana Lane Lincoln, NE 68504 Hm. 402464-1108 Wk. 402466-2371, x 367 NORTH DAKOTA Teny Eder 921 32nd Ave. S., #18 Grand Forks, ND 58201 SOUTH DAKOTA Stephen Parker 219 Polley Ave. Spearfish, SD 57783 Hm. 605-642-7161 WISCONSIN Mark Aamot 121 N. Hartaell Waukesha, WI 53186 Hm. 414-542-8631 -2- NC Convention ln 'Land of Infinite Variety' Lives Up To Its Billing: Concerts, Interest Sessions and More! Holiday Inn City Centre -Sioux Falls, SD -March TIS From the Thursday morning keynote ad- Choral Music. Mr. Peterson is a frequent Panelists are: John French, Sioux Falls dress to the final chords of Orffs "0 clinician for show choir clinics and has College; Tom Janssen, Ankeny, Iowa; Dr. Furtuna" on Saturday, South Dakota, produced consistent winners in numerous Ronald Becker, Sioux Falls Public Schools. "The Land of Infinite Variety, " promises swing choir and jazz festivals. With the an excellent setting for a varied and quality assistance of Scarlet and Cream, he will SPECIAL SESSIONS Some of South Dakota's contributions to convention. present "The Show Choir . What Makes it Go!„ the convention will be heard in four special INTEREST SESSIONS Theo Lindenbaum is an internationally sessions: Elementary, junior and senior high levels known vocal pedagogue on the factilty of Ecumenica] Service "Sing Joy" will be the theme of the of choral activity are included in the In- the Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie in terest Session offerings. Each session will be Detmold, Germany. He has served as a lec- convention Ecumenical Service. Combined presented twice and includes: turer, vocal workshop instructor, concert choirs of First Lutheran and Our Savior's Sister Loma Zemke is Chairperson of the and oratorio singer, and is an accomplished Lutheran will be the participating choirs. Division of Fine Arts and the Department accompanist. He received his training at the Both were chosen from audition tapes sub- of Music at Silver Lake College and is a Musik Akademie in Germany and studied mitted to the convention committee. In nationally and internationally recognized with the renowned artist/teacher, Frederick addition to the choirs directed by Don Kodaly Music Education specialist. She re- Husler. He will present, "Physiology of the Levson, Our Savior's and Jerry Hansen, ceived her Bachelor of Music degree from Voice. " First Lutheran, participants will include: Silver Lake College and MM and DMA Mark Lehman will moderate the two-part Weston Noble, Luther College; Fr. Leon- from the University of Southern California, session featuring a panel consisting of a ard Thury, Holy Family Church, Mitchell, Los Angeles. She has studied the Kodaly college placement director, school admin- S.D.; Augustana College Brass Choir, Concept in the United States and Hungary istrator, and a choral director. The first Harold Krueger, Director; combined Hand and will present "Children Can Sing Well session will focus on tips from marketing Bell Choirs of both churches. The service . Teaching Singing in the Elementary the prospective teacher and preparation for music will be enhanced by the 40 rank, 30cO Classroom. " job applications and interviews. pipe Acolian Skinner organ. A graduate of Northwestern College and The second session will deal with mar- The Augustana Brass Choir, formed in St. Cloud State University, Richard Schir- keting a choral program and surviving the 1965, is a major contributor to campus and macher has taught junior and senior high all-important first year of teaching. community music with a repertoire varying music in the Robbinsdale Area School Dis- from 16th C. antiphonal to 20th C. expe- trict of Minneapolis. His love and under- rimental works. Dr. Harold Krueger, their standing of junior high students has given director, received his BA from Luther him numerous opportunities to serve as a College and his Masters and Doctorate clinician for choral festivals, workshops, from the University of No. Colorado. and clinics. He will share his success in Don Levsen, Choral Director at Our "How to Mold, Motivate, and Maneuver Savior's Lutheran is a graduate of Northern Junior High Choirs. " State College and the University of Min- Jeanne Opitz is currently teaching choral nesota. He holds lay staff accreditation music in grades 7-9 at Central Middle with the American Lutheran Church. School in Waukesha, Wisconsin. She has Jerry Hansom, Director of Music at First BS and MS degrees from the University, of ZEMKE SCHI RMACHER Lutheran, has a BA from St. 0laf College Wisconsin at Whitewater and is a frequent and is currently on staff at Augustana clinician in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Min- CONVENTloN continued page 4 nesota. She has conducted workshops in Wisconsin and Northern Illinois and will present "Music Reading Skills . Academically Relevant: ``How They Are Applied.„ A native of South Dakota, John Windli is on the music faculty for Carthage Col- lege, Kenosha, Wisconsin, having pre- viously taught in grades 5-12 in Iowa and Wisconsin public schools. At Carthage he FIRST LUTHERAN CHOIR conducts three college choral groups, a community oratorio chorus, and teaches conducting and music history. He has taught conducting at Florida State Uni- versity and studied at Northwestern Uni- versity and the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. ``Pacing the Choral Rehearsal" will be the title of his Interest Session. Presently serving as Director of Choral Music at Nebraska Wesleyan University, Jon Peterson is on leave from Lincoln East High School where he has been Director of PETEFtsoN LINDENBAUM LEVSEN HANSOM -3- - .____ We in the choral profession are SOUTH DAl(OTA HONORS CHOIR colleges and universities was selected by a constantly besieged by promotional nine-member committee and represent materials - from publishers, from fund- Yankton College, Dakota Wesleyan raising concerns, from robe companies, University, Sioux Falls College, Augustana from handbell makers, from colleges College, Freeman Junior College, South seeking our singers. The list goes on and on. Dakota State University, Dakota State Everyone is trying to sell us something, and College, Black Hills State College, usually you pay dearly, then get a product Northern State College, and the University that doesn't live up to its advertising. of South Dakota. Their performance is a Many times, we too are called upon to be yearly tradition at the State ACDA promoters. The ideal situation would be Convention. one in which we can promote only the Carl Orff's Carmina Burana will be choral art, pure and untrammeled, for ALICE LARSEN presented by the SD Collegiate Chorale, the adoring audiences who have magically been CONVENTION continued .... ACDA Director's Chorus and the South lured to the concert hall. The fact, however, College. He has been a church choral Dakota Symphony under the direction of is that nearly all of us have no staff director while pursuing a career in aviation, Kenneth Klein. promoter, no PR man to make the world electrical engineering and the Air Force. aware of what we do. All the promotion is left to us. We manage the light bulb and South Dakota Honors Choir fruitcake sales to keep the program afloat, The tenth All-State Honors Choir we design (and sometimes print) the consisting of 150 high school juniors and programs, we push the tickets. we write the seniors is chosen in competitive auditions of news releases, we work with the parent over 500 applicants. In July of 1983, the groups and/or the parish council, we accept choir enjoyed a busy and productive week the civic and ch.urch invitations to perform of intensive rehearsals and organized any and everywhere at any and all times. recreational activities on the Black Hills There's no one else to do it, so either the State College Campus. As in past years, the program gets good press through our work, members have been instructed by one of the KLEIN, SD SYMPHONY or it gets no press at all. OK, fine; 1'11 accept country's outstanding choral directors. that as part of the job. It's not the fact that Alice Larsen is the first native South South Dakota Symphony it's necessary to be PR agents for our Dakotan to direct the choir. The South Dakota Symphony is programs that galls me; it's the total Alice T. Larsen is presently an Associate composed of 80 musicians, 10 of whom are immersion in PR that some choral directors Professor of Music at St. 0laf College in full-time performers. The remainder of the engage in. North field, Minnesota. Born and raised in Symphony's musicians are music teachers I'm talking about directors whose choral South Dakota, she received her under- from area schools and colleges, pro- programs are all promo and no substance. graduate degree from St. 0laf College and fessional people, students and home- They are the programs that I not so lovingly has her Master's in Voice Performance makers.