New Mexico Musician Volume 12 | Number 2 Article 1 1-1-1965 New Mexico Musician Vol 12 No 2 (January 1965) Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nm_musician Part of the Music Education Commons Recommended Citation . "New Mexico Musician Vol 12 No 2 (January 1965)." New Mexico Musician 12, 2 (1965). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/ nm_musician/vol12/iss2/1 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in New Mexico Musician by an authorized editor of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CLINIC 7/ee 1tet,(,t ??teueo ISSUE c-,'l'le.lh·t� ML I N+­ v.12 MUSICIAN ....IE UBRARY ")'\.O.2. Jr'\! 'fVI "' I , -165 Albuquerque, New Mexico Vol. XII No. 2 DANIEL MOE NILO W. HOVEY GERHARD SCHROTH Director of the t M!\IEA All-Stale Director of the NMMEA All-Stale Mixed Chorus, 1965 Symphonic Ran<l, 1965 Di1ccto1 of the NMMEA All-State Orchestra, 1965 Dr. Daniel Moc is an associate pro­ Nilo W. Hovey, Educational Direc· fessor of Music and Director of Ch01 al tor of H. & A. Selmer, Inc., has a Gt'rhardSchroth has a varied experi· Activities al the Stale University of background of over 30 years experience cncc in the field of music: professional, Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. His education in directing high school and college �chool, concert, chu1ch, radio, and lec­ includes a Bachelor of Arts Degree in bands. Most recently he was Chairman turer. His training has been in string music and history from Concordia of the Music Edu<'ation Department and band instruments, organ, voice and College, graduate work in music com­ and Director of the Concert Band at composition as well as c�nducting. He position and conducting at Hamline Butler University, Indianapolis, Indi­ holds degrees from the University of University, Master of Arts degree from ana. Wisconsin and Northwestern Univer­ the University of Washington, Kircken­ Hovey has appeared with the United sity. Early in his career he was con­ musikschule, Hannover, Germany, 1956 cian, adjudicator and guest conductor certmaster of the Milwaukee Sym­ Aspen School of Music, 1958 and his States Navy Band, the Canadian Air phony; he founded the still active Mil· waukee Lutheran A CappeUa Choir Ph.D. in music composition from the Force Band, and many All-State High · State University of Iowa in 1961. He School Bands. and was head of the music depart was director of Choral Music at the Numerous instrumental methods and mt:nt of Conrnrdia College. FOi Lliree lJnive1sity of Denver 1953-59. Mr. Moe books of instructional material written seasons he conducted the St. Louis served as a visiting professor of music or edited by Hovey are widely used in Philharmonic Orchestra and Civic at the University of Southern Califor· the schools of the United States and Chorus. Al present Mr. Schroth is · nia during the summer of 1963. 1n Canada. li\ ing in Rochester Minn. where in addition to his various conducting Hovey is immediate Past-President September of 1963 he became City acti\'ities Mr. Moe is also a composer of the Music Industry Council, an af· \llusicDirector. His duties include con­ of note his compositions including or· filiate of the Music Educators National ducting the Rochester Symphony Or­ chestral. choral and chamber music Conference. He is an active member chestra and Chorus, summer weekly with over twenty published vocal of the American Bandmasters Asso· band and orchestra concerts in Mayo works. The Denver Symphony Orches· ciation and an honorary member of the Park, is Coordinator for Music for the tra presented his Christmas opera, The Canadian Bandmasters Association. He Rochester Public Schools and is Minis­ Coventry Nati\'ity with the composer is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, honor­ as guest conductor. Mr. Moc is acti\'e ary scholastic fraternity, Phi Delta ter of Music at Gloria Dci Lutheran as guest conductor and choral clinician Kappa, fraternity of men in education, Church. Mr. Schroth has been particu· for high school and college choral fes­ and of the following music fraternities: larly active in conducting bands, or­ tivals; he also is a frequent lecturer in Phi Mu Alpha. Kappa Kappa Psi. and chestras and choirs of young people the field of worship and church music. Phi Beta Mu. throughout the entire United States. Editor Dr. Jack MUSICIAN Stephenson Official Publication of New Mexico Music Educators Association EDITORIAL - VOLUME 12 JANUARY 1965 NUMBER 2 The purpose of our schools is to pro· vide the child with the ability to crea­ tively and individually find his unique TABLE OF CONTENTS place in our society and to contribute to a constructive growth of social pro· Clinjcians ...................................................................................................................... ccss. It is easy to lose sight of this goal in vie,\ of the complexity of modern Editorials .............................................................................................................. ... 2-3 times. Harold Taylor in a speech given at the 1964 Annual Meeting of the Around the Horn ....................... ................................................................................ 5 American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education in rebuttal to Dr. MMEA Minutes ...................................................................................................... 5-9 Conant's recent book on teacher edu· cation has made the following remarks Audition Statistics ..................................................................................................... 11 concerning the aims of our schools and �urvey of Research, Howard White ...................... ............................................... 12 the training of teachers to cany them out: '·Education is considered lo be an N:\1MEA All-State Program .. ...................................................... .................... 13-16 instrument for developing increased technological and logistical strength in Clinicians .... .. ................................................................................ ...................... 14-15 international competition ... (This is so) in orclc1 to staff the man power Band I)ivision ................................................................................. -········· ......... ..... 17 needs of the present industrial and cul­ tural establishment ... (As a conse· Choral Division ... .................................................................................................. 19 quencc) what di:,turbs me about Dr. L!onant's range of recommendations is Orchestra Division ........................... ·· · · ··· ····· ························· ···· ··-······· ···· . 21 ·· · · · · ······ · · that thl')' prm ide for the transmission University .......... ................................. .................... ................................... ........... ....... 23 of American, white, middle-class Prot­ c•stant, v\'estern culture, without ques· 'Tri-M at Eunice .. ....................................................................................................... 25 lion whether the \•alucs of this culture are worth transmittin!{ in their present NMMEA Districts ............................................................................................... ?6-27 form . \ That is) It is a process of adaptation, not of re-creation . J Editor ..... .. .... .. ...... .. .................. Jack R. Stephenson, University of New Mexico find in Dr. Conant's report that the Circulation Manager ............................ Donald McRae, University of New Mexico real questions about education and Associate Editor of Elcmemary . ..... .. John Batcheller, University of New Mexico human life are constantly beinl{ begged Associate Erutor of Chorus ............................................ Arthur Loy, Highland H.S. by the assumption that cduc:.tion can Associate Editor of Band ........................................... Gregg Randall, Las Cruces be defined as academic, that intellec­ tual ability is a matter of tes·ablc sets EDITORIAL BOARD: Paul Strub, ENMU; Champ Tyrone, Highlands Univer­ of attributes ... I believe the purpose sity; John Glowacki, NMSlJ: Abrahm Parotti, NMWlJ: Sister Erna Louise, St. of education is to make people sensitive Joseph's College; Joe Blankenship. UNM; Harold Van Winkle, Alamogordo: Don to the conditions of their own txistence, Wiley, Portales; Litro Ro1m:ro, West Las Vegas; Kenneth Dobbs, Rehoboth Mis­ and to the situation of ma, in thc sion; James Van Dyke. Grants: Ronald Shaw. Mosquero; K. L. Higgins, Albu· world ... ln fact. I have bee:i longing querque. to find a book on educaticn which simply started with the idea that the NMMEA Officers: President, Dale Kempter, ENMU, Portales: Vice President of · Band, Ted Rush, 7016 Kiowa, N.E., Albuquerque: Vice President of Chorus, Joe the war to sa\ e the• country and streng· Carroll, Roswell High School, Roswell; Vice President of Elementary and Juruor then it beyond belief is to have every· High School, K. L. Higgins, 1109 Dartmouth. N.E., Albuquerque; Vice President one from kindergarten lo the end of college study the creati\'e art�, philoso· of Orchestra, .James Bonnell, Artesia High School, Artesia; Secretary-Treasurer, Rollie Heitman, Los Alamos High School, Los Alamos. phy, and the nature of socictv, on the grounds that theatre. dancr, music. Publi�hed October, Januarv, and April. Subscription $1.50 per year, 50c per copv. Direct sub­ paiming, sculpture,