HOW TO CREATE A MAGICAL CONCERT TAKEAWAYS FROM MUSIC EDUCATION FOR INSTRUMENTAL INSTRUCTORS IN JAPAN 2017 VOLUME 3 LESSONS LEARNED FROM MASTER EDUCATORS JEFF COFFIN PROFESSOR ROCK STAR EDITOR’S NOTE SupportED 2017 Volume 3 Yamaha SupportED 6600 Orangethorpe Avenue, Buena Park, CA 90620 317.524.6272 YamahaSupportED.com INSPIRING, EMPOWERING AND EQUIPPING MUSIC EDUCATORS AND STUDENTS THROUGH FINELY CRAFTED Dear Music Educator, INSTRUMENTS, ACCESS TO LIFE-CHANGING MUSICAL EVENTS AND THE SHARING OF GIFTED ARTISTS Creating a Magical Concert Welcome to a new edition of SupportED. As with every issue, we aim to Ingredients that nourish your students and bring you fresh perspectives and a new look at age-old challenges we enhance your audience’s enjoyment EDITORIAL John Wittmann Editor face teaching music in the classroom. After six issues, I’m pleased to Christine Ngeo Katzman Managing Editor do the same for this Editor’s Note. I want to share with you a welcome Jalissa Gascho Contributing Editor message from a member of our team—Director of Marketing, Lisa Steele- Jennifer Vierling Contributing Editor MacDonald—who you may not have met yet. - John Wittmann, Editor Elizabeth Geli Assistant Editor Jeff Coffin Brian Bengelsdorf Art Director Insights from a Professor Rock Star n this issue of Yamaha SupportED, we ask some of our Master ARTIST RELATIONS Educators to tell us about a pivotal moment in their careers. & EDUCATION For me, it was the day I realized my job was a platform; an John Wittmann Director of Artist I Relations and Education opportunity to advocate for people who love the things I love. Jennifer Vierling Specialist, Artist Relations I also love a mission, and SupportED has one that Lessons Learned Jalissa Gascho Coordinator, Artist Relations fills my bucket: to inspire band and orchestral directors From Yamaha Master Educators to continue to be the best teachers they can be. 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Hitoshi Fukutome President To earn that response each day in the future. Garth Gilman Corporate Vice President, General Manager Artist Events ............................... 20 Gratefully Yours, Yamaha SupportED is produced by Lisa Steele-MacDonald Yamaha Corporation of America. Director of Marketing Cover photo by Alysse Gafkjen for Yamaha Corporation of America 2017 Volume 3 1 INDUSTRY NEWS BY SARA HODON NATIONAL ARTS ASSESSMENT ow much has music education changed in the last eight years? average of 32 points higher, meaning that the gap in music knowledge HAccording to the National Assessment of Educational Progress is narrowing. (NAEP), Hispanic students scored higher in music knowledge than in “Arts education can be especially valuable for our nation’s the previous assessment while little else has changed. underserved students, leading to better grades, higher graduation The NAEP, also known as the Nation’s Report Card, evaluates rates and increased college enrollment,” said Ayanna Hudson, director answers given by eighth graders for “responding” to and “creating” of arts education at the National Endowment for the Arts, in a press music and visual arts. release. “In music, ‘responding’ questions asked students to analyze, The survey also found that students—regardless of family income interpret or critique a piece of music that they listened to or to describe level—performed better on the assessment if they have heard a the social, historical or cultural context of a piece of music,” according musical performance in a theater. DR. DRE TO DONATE $10 MILLION to the report description. “‘Creating’ questions asked students to use In total, the NAEP assessed 8,800 eighth graders from various musical notation to apply their musical ideas after evaluating written or social, cultural and ethnic backgrounds attending public and private recorded pieces of music.” schools across the country. TO BUILD PERFORMING ARTS CENTER In the recent 2016 report, white students scored an average of For more information or to view the full results, go to 23 points higher than their Hispanic peers; in 2008, they scored an www.nationsreportcard.gov/arts_2016. apper Dr. Dre recently committed $10 Rmillion to the Compton (California) Unified School District in his hometown to build a performing arts center at the new Compton High School. Along with other cutting-edge technology, the center will include digital U-46 ILLINOIS SCHOOL media production capabilities and a 1,200- seat theater. DISTRICT ADOPTS “My goal is to provide kids with the kinds of MUSICFIRST CURRICULUM tools and learning they deserve,” said Dr. Dre in a press release. “The performing arts center will be a place for young people to be creative PHOTO COURTESY OF SCHOOL DISTRICT U-46. in a way that will help further their education usic educators are adopting a new listen to various sounds, play along with pre- school year. and positively define their future.” PHOTOS COURTESY OF ROGER ALCOCER AND COMPTON UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT. M curriculum in U-46, the second-largest recorded music and sight read, among other “Each district goes through their own board School district officials are excited to school district in the state of Illinois. The district capabilities. approval process,” Kopec says. “We utilized partner with Dr. Dre to create a positive impact is revamping its standards for the first time in The new curriculum gives teachers more the National Core Arts Standards and built our for their students and the entire Compton more than a decade. autonomy to differentiate students, according curriculum around those standards since they community. “We are looking forward to The new program includes resources for to Alicia Kopec, district fine arts coordinator. are in place, ratified and implemented. Since blending both his vision and that of the District topics such as music theory, which is taught “This curriculum is not cookie cutter; it can be the standards are also being reviewed at a to provide opportunities for individuals to both at the high school level but had no materials in tailored to meet the needs of the students,” state level, we thought it was the perfect time explore and apply their creativity in the arts,” the existing curriculum. Teachers have access she says. “Every student will learn the way they to introduce a new curriculum. This will put us said Darin Brawley, district superintendent, in to MusicFirst, an online software for K to 12 need to.” at the forefront among the other districts in the release. students in band, chorus, orchestra, general This update puts the district ahead of Illinois. We have great teachers, but they’ve Dr. Dre will also be involved in raising music and music theory classes. Tools allow the state, which has a plan to roll out and been using outdated materials, so it was high the remaining funds for the facility, which is students to record their practice sessions, implement new standards for the 2018 to 2019 time for the new curriculum to get done.” expected to break ground by 2020. 2 SupportED - FOR INSTRUMENTAL INSTRUCTORS 2017 Volume 3 3 Yamaha NEWS 2017 Yamaha Young Newly Signed Yamaha Artists Performing Yamaha is proud to welcome the following talented musicians to its acclaimed artist roster. Artists FLUTE instructor at Eastern Michigan University, front BY JALISSA GASCHO • Jenny Shin; adjunct instructor at DePaul University ensemble coordinator with the Boston Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps and director of the Detroit TRUMPET Lions Drumline • Christopher Stingle; second trumpet with the Seattle • Dr. Robert LedBetter; director of percussion Symphony studies at the University of Montana Dorico Notation • James Wilt; associate principal trumpet with the Los • Kyle Peters; percussion instructor at Eastman Angeles Philharmonic and trumpet professor at the Colburn Community Music School Conservatory of Music Software CELLO BY ELIZABETH GELI TROMBONE • Jacob Szekely; recording artist and co- • Luke Malewicz; adjunct trombone professor at Moraine Valley founder and artistic director of String Project usical notation is now as easy as Do-Re-Mi with Steinberg Community College, low brass instructor at Naperville North Los Angeles MMedia Technologies’ Dorico scoring software.