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ala breve Official Publication of the Alabama Music Educators Association October/November 2011 News/Features 5 ...............................................................AMEA Governing Board Directory 6 ..............................................................................MENC Gets a New Name 8 ......................................................................Phi Beta Mu “Tips That Click” 13 ....................................................................AOA All-State Quick Info Guide 14 ...............................................................................AOA All-State Clinicians 17 ...........................................................Assessing Music Teacher Preparation 6 20 ...................................................................................AMEA Past Presidents 24 ...........................................................................Call for Research Abstracts 26 .....................................................................................Campus Connections 22 ......................................Conference Keynote Speaker Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser 22 .........................................................................................Conference Hotels 29-34 ....................................................................................Conference Clinicians 8 34 ....................................................AMEA Governing Board Meeting Minutes 36 ..................................................................................................In Memoriam 39-42 ..................................................................................Conference Performers 44-48 ......................................................................................Conference Schedule 54-55 .........................................................................................Schedule of Events 52 ...........................................................................................Legislative Issues 59 .....................................................................................Music Industry News 60 ....................................................................Three Critical Concerns (Part 2) 13 Departments 22 6 ...............................................................................................................President 9.......................................................................................................................ABA 9........................................................................................................................AJE 10 ....................................................................................................................AVA 12 ...................................................................................................................AOA 17................................................................................................Collegiate Advisor 18.............................................................................................................Collegiate 20.............................................................................................Elementary/General 24 ...............................................................................................................................HED 52.....................................................................................Immediate Past President Forms 11...............................................ACDA Thomas R. Smith Award Nomination Form 23 ..............................................................................................FAME Application 43 ..................................................2012 AMEA Conference Pre-Registration Form 51 .....................................................................AMEA/NAfME Membership Form 56-57....................................................Young Composers Competition Application Advertisers 52 American College of Musicians....................20 Mississippi State Choral Activities...15 54 Arts Music Shop..............................back cover Mississippi State Choral Activities...62 Auburn University Music.............................27 Samford University...........................19 Auburn University Jr. High Honor Band......50 UAB Music........................................3 Auburn University Sr. High HonorBand......37 UAH Music......................................58 AWB Apparel/Wayne Broom........................18 UNA Department of Music...............63 Earlene Rentz Online Publications...............10 University of Mobile........................36 Huntingdon College......................................28 University of Montevallo.................35 Jacksonville Staate University......................25 USA Marching Band..........................2 Jefferson CVB...............................................38 USA Department of Music...............16 John M. Long School of Music.....................49 Yamaha...............................................7 Kennesaw State University...........................21 4 October/November 2011

AMEA Governing Board 2011-12 PPaat sSttPegraelslident PSDr1tDeeo2ds(vto3h3ihedt6s3ahteM4inSang)n.cHte7,[email protected] (p2Ms15Mt96ue0)gsu0cas3lcl8Aell@9evS-aS2hml6ohos8aoncl2assAl.,sSkvA1cHeh2Lnio.uga3oehl5l.u6Ss6c1hool PSGr3aBerr0(ssea2i0iary0dWmrVs5aeti)o@nionlmn4tlga-me3hEag9ucaEel-kmesl3Siecc2,tmt.rA0oee0reLngtt3a5ry24S2c-h6o4o4l7 (j2Do15Ahe6J6Pnocu2).arhs5c3tetnoui5sDnoriC5,dpa-HAonee3oirnv8Lg@pit2hl,e3l9dAer5ScS6RBcsc0h.oAhe1oadooduollSW a(mC21G5ue6EE6ala0dl)@rxm0ir6etyaMboc3neTur6a,,lat-lnAAi2syvoo7lLleorau5rtDD34Bh5ri.r.r0neeN5evct5eEtor RC2eTa1Tc(rr2cr3oologa3rySyad4Gm,lU)ilAnaain6lthgLlih7aav0Sh3nHe-ea6@r3acsn05lirtl8t0re,y2ot2ayS.reycdhuool PJFra6Feln4(os(le28jro2ia5dePr5nN6neeo6e)cnn.w)@ec7tC7,ee6Mah6Al,8lle8AVai-rd-2vArL3dy4o1l36ceS0a505tSl6r.Oeoc3Fehrf3agftoxiocel PCBr6lCeoa3syol2iadkMySee..MrncUTtKc,.nKiAWnioiOnnanenAsySheytirn@egetmto,npMsM.koa1ng2tng.aeoltmSecrhyooAlL Treasurer PD6rP(3aed3rk9sab3iotrdC4ttova)eomin3luBllt0neer,3,[email protected] 36104 h(iO36cN3kp0K4oeo1a)lkrriNt7kkeh4naaosr5,riHedtA-hn9eiL@c75Ik3nt3bho1t6eekS8rllm0tsr1oeeeudttiha.tneeStchool m(B28iDn0i0SrSo5i0MmcvCra)hdLimi7ooosnlau2yilofgolko@6alehner-goaNd2ssoimfha6aofUtom5t,rhMerdn1AefelioMuuvLADrsnedEr3irrdct.is5esNvi/2dteCy2u9Advisor President, Elem/Gen Beth Davis b2rD59dSe61aoc-0vm5aiSst5ue@o9rrm-v,c0Airel2ilrLs0evm73iRls5loeo6an0Rd.1uoEaal.deemdSuEentary PTTr2iTerm2(ostr37pioyo3dhtyS4hUei,ml)nyAlni6tiiPpL,[email protected] October/November 2011 ala brevethe official publication of the Alabama Music Educators Association Garry Taylor, Editor & Advertising Manager Conference Issue ADVERTISING & COPY DEADLINES 1600 Manor Dr. NE Fall (Back to School) issue: July 15 Cullman, AL 35055 www.alabamamea.org (256) 636-2754 Winter (Conference) issue: September 15 [email protected] Spring (All-State) issue: January 15 Summer (Digital Only) issue: April 15 Unless otherwise indicated, permission is granted to MENC members to reprint articles for educational purposes. Opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of AMEA or the Editor. All announcements & submissions are subject to editorial judgement/revision.The Alabama Music Educators Association is a state unit of MENC: The National Association for Music Education, a voluntary, nonprofit organization representing all phases of music education in schools, colleges, universities, and teacher-education institutions. Active MENC/AMEA membership is open to all persons engaged in music teaching or other music education work. Ala Breve is published four times a year (August, October, February & May) by the Alabama Music Educators Association. Subscription for members is $4.00 per year as part of annual MENC/AMEA dues. Subscriptions for non-members is $15.00 per year. Bulk rate postage paid at Dothan, AL. ala breve 5

Steve McLendon AMEA President The Music Educators National failures. But back to the maxim… The At the state level, Garry Taylor does the Conference (MENC) is now the National term “comprehensive education” is same work in Alabama that Michael Association for Music Education. My mentioned. Remember this catch phrase Butera does in D.C. Although we guess is they’re hoping that NAfME will when you are advocating for music compensate Garry as a part-time evolve into the organizational acronym. education. Finally, the slogan included employee, he actually works as (Just what education needs, right?….one one of my favorite words: exemplary. Alabama’s Executive Director full-time. more acronym.) The following quote was “Exemplary” means something is so Whether it is contacting politicians in included with the new name admirable that it should be copied and Montgomery and Washington, organizing announcement on the website: “For emulated. The quote ends with the AMEA website, planning the annual today’s students to succeed tomorrow, “…exemplary music educators.” The conference, or editing the Ala Breve, they need a comprehensive education that strength of our organization lies with Garry spends an enormous amount of includes music taught by exemplary these exemplary music educators who time working on our behalf. Thank you, music educators.” This quote will be the just happen to be you and me. Garry, for the extraordinary job you do maxim that accompanies the new name for us. and logo. I wish I had composed it, It is my privilege to serve under the however. Even though it is very concise, leadership of national president, Scott Make your plans now to be in it presents several wonderful ideas. First, Shuler and Executive Director Michael Montgomery at the Renaissance Hotel the affirmative statement of success is Butera. Maybe you are unaware that Mr. and Conference Center, January 19-21, assumed. I like that idea! Let’s assume Butera’s full time job is working for 2012. Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser will be the that most of our students want to succeed NAfME. He has an enthusiastic staff that keynote speaker. We are extremely and even will succeed. Under NCLB he leads every day into the lobbies and fortunate to host our Southern Division legislation, we’ve allowed ourselves to offices of our government representatives President, Benny Ferguson, who will also subscribe to the idea of educational in Washington. Every day our speak. If you are a new teacher, please mediocrity. The goal seems to have organization is actively advocating for understand that this conference is become, “Try not to fail” when the goal music education. Now I have to confess, professional development and is an In- should be, “Let’s see how far we can go!” that in the past I have disregarded emails Service conference. The superintendent Government assumes that teachers are regarding urgent music education of the state board of education endorses going to do such a poor job that they have legislation that was pending before the this event and encourages principals to to pass legislation to prevent these House or Senate. I have learned, have their music educators attend. He however, that there is power in a phone makes this official in an open letter to call or an email to politicians. Please administrators which appears in the Ala respond when NAfME or AMEA Breve and on the website. Rejuvenate encourages you to call or email a Senator and recharge your batteries this January! or Representative. Their staff tracks this communication and it does influence how they form their opinions and vote! On September 1, MENC officially assumed a new name: “National Association for Music Education, or NAfME. According to Executive Director Michael Butera, “National Association for Music Education” says exactly what we are and what we want: an organization for music education for everyone in our nation, an association that supports music teachers and the profession of music education, a group that isn’t inward-looking and static but outward-reaching and forward- thinking. 6 October/November 2011

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Phi Beta Mu Tips That Click Quality Band Literature That Nurtures and Inspires Directors are always searching for preparing the Reed masterwork. “I think (Alfred, 1953), Imperatrix (Hal Leonard, literature to perform at assessment festival the great strength of Russian Christmas 1972), and Sumus Futuro (Barnhouse, that will provide multiple rewards for their Music is that it provides significant and 1999) are examples of works that were programs. We all want quality music that worthwhile parts for every section of the created for young ensembles, but contain will help students grow in musical band! This piece truly develops musical all the distinctive elements that are part of proficiency, as well as inspire them and independence while being very student- the music Reed has written for more give them a sense of aesthetic fulfillment. friendly. My kids always loved the mature ensembles. I recently contacted several experienced challenge of preparing each segment ,and In the words of Alabama Bandmaster Hall Alabama directors to get their insights on the musical growth of the band was Of Fame member Ken Williams: “playing the music they felt had these traits. Hint- obvious and rewarding to everyone!”. Alfred Reed won’t always make your all three chose music by the composer that Both Duren and Bates pointed out that band sound good, but playing Alfred Reed is known as “the band director’s favorite while Russian Christmas Music is scored WILL build you a good band!” Most reed”: Alfred Reed. for full instrumentation, it is liberally experienced band directors will agree that cross-cued to allow smaller ensembles to truer words have never been spoken. Jim Duren has been one of the most successfully perform the work. This why outstanding band directors in the state for you hear it (and other Reed compositions) Rho Chapter of Phi Beta Mu International over 30 years. Presently teaching at Oak frequently performed by smaller military Bandmaster Fraternity is committed to Mountain High School, he also directed post bands and university wind ensembles improving quality instruction and outstanding programs at Mountain Brook as well as the larger symphonic bands. advancement of bands in this state. Please Junior High and High School and Pelham email [email protected] with any High School. His pick for a work that has Jon Bubbett has served as the band comments on this column or suggestions inspired helped him develop the program director at Thompson High School for for future columns. at each of these schools is Russian over two decades and has built the Christmas Music (Sam Fox, 1969) by program there into one that is among the Alfred Reed Alfred Reed. Jim says: “ This piece is best in the state. His pick for piece that is chock full of opportunities to transfer quality literature, yet fun for the students daily fundamental skills into real music. is Reed’s El Camino Real (Hal Leonard, Students have the chance to demonstrate 1985). He says: “ The melodies and achievement of long sustained tones and rhythms are quite challenging, especially matching unisons and octaves. The at the extreme ends of the tempo woodwinds will develop outstanding spectrum, but the students never tire of technique through all the scale passages working on this music. Every individual and flourishes throughout the piece. part must be fastidiously prepared to Russian Christmas Music requires insure a successful performance, so patience by the students and careful study accountability and teamwork is at a by the director, but it is a composition that premium.” This “latin fantasy” is has always benefitted my program each structured around two contrasting dances: time we have performed it”. the jota and fandango, and familiar set of harmonic progressions. As in Russian Russian Christmas Music was also the Christmas Music, the music is liberally pick of Betty Bates, a recent retiree who cross-cued. led the storied program at Scottsboro High School in northeast Alabama for many Alfred Reed also has some outstanding years. Her teaching situation at Scottsboro compositions written for younger and was at a high school of modest enrollment, advancing bands that are on the Alabama but she feels that they also benefitted from Selected Music list. Slavonic Folk Suite 8 October/November 2011

Alabama Bandmasters Association John Cooper, President Three Things Every First Year Director Needs to Do – Now! There are at least three things that every should be someone to whom you can calendar to keep track new band director needs to do as he or go with questions. If you have a small of everything helps me sleep! she begins their first job. Now that the rural band, you will also want to dust has cleared on the first few weeks identify a mentor with a small rural I am excited about the Alabama Music of school, you are beginning to fall into band. If you have a wide range of grade Educators Conference in January! your regular schedule. These three levels in your band, find someone with There are a number of outstanding suggestions might help improve your experience working in that situation. bands from many different levels that year. Think about where you want to be in are already planning and preparing for five or ten years, then find a mentor that their performances. Our clinics will be First, read the Alabama Bandmasters has already blazed that trail with outstanding as well. Sessions are Association Handbook. It can be found success. planned to provide practical solutions online at http://www.alabamamea.org/ to make teaching and learning more bandmasters/index.htm. The handbook Finally, buy (and use) a calendar! It is efficient. There are sessions planned on will give you information on how we the nature of a director’s work that we specific topics like breathing can work together to improve all our must be planning for many things techniques, lab bands, using bands. If you’ve read it, but not simultaneously. We have to plan our technology, and dealing with parents. recently, read it again. Every time I go lesson plans for the next day, the trip to In addition to all of these we are through it I notice or remember the football game next week, and the anticipating the largest number of something new. band trip next semester all at the same vendors we have ever hosted at the time! Among all of this we have band, AMEA In-Service Conference. The Second, find a mentor — or two, or school, and personal deadlines. I worst thing may be that it will be three! The Alabama Bandmasters learned many years ago that the difficult to take full advantage of all of Association tries to assign mentors to responsibilities of our jobs can keep these opportunities! younger directors, but sometimes it you awake at nights, but using a works better for the new director to find a mentor with whom they are comfortable. You may need more than one mentor. From Alabama Jazz Chair Randall Key... As a young teacher I had more than one director who allowed me to question All-State Jazz Band requirements are listed on the AMEA them and learn from them. Many times website at http://www.alabamamea.org. Click on the Alabama I didn’t need to ask them questions, I Bandmasters Association link located at the top of the page, just watched them work. I took note of then click on 2012 All-State Jazz Band requirements. The how they did things. I’m certain that postmark deadline for All-State audition material is November over the course of my first five years I 10, 2011. A special thank you is extended to Sid Dedeaux for learned as much or more from these the implementation of additional all state jazz groups. Last directors as I did in college. year’s jazz ensembles were a huge success and we certainly encourage high school and jr. high students to submit an Develop a group of mentors for audition recording. different situations. Any new teacher needs a mentor to help guide them through the maze of paperwork and procedures that are unique to each school. This mentor might not be a band director or even a musician, but it ala breve 9

Alabama Vocal Association Jane Powell, President Involvement or commitment? Have you and college students to the University of college students to the passion shared by given much thought to the difference? Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa for the music teachers than to interact with Most of us are involved in many things annual Fall Workshop. Attendance at them on this level. I hope that these on a daily basis, but of those things in this workshop demonstrates a students could see in us a commitment to which we are involved, to how many are commitment from so many teachers to their futures in this great profession. It we actually committed? To what are we improving themselves as well as their was also a pleasure to have college giving most of our time and energy, students. The university music students students from Montevallo and UAB mere involvement or total commitment? were gracious hosts for this event, sitting with seasoned teachers and Commitment to teaching choral music meeting the needs of AVA on so many enjoying the vivacious spirit of Dr. Steve involves a deep and abiding care for the levels. What a commitment each of Zegree. He is such a fine example to all students that come our way. Hopefully them made in contributing to the success of us of a dedicated educator and we are seriously committed to changing of every aspect of the workshop. Dr. innovative composer and thinker as and enhancing their lives through music Marvin Latimer organized the student well. We are grateful that he was able and not just involved in teaching a lesson task force beautifully as they greeted the to share himself and his music with us, every day. board upon their arrival and helped to even for such a short period of time. unload and set-up, Their involvement September 9th & 10th brought teachers continued as they were available at all I would like to applaud those teachers times to answer questions as well as who are working so hard to prepare provide physical and technical support. students for All-State Show Choir and What a great service for these students All-State Choir auditions as well as and future teachers! I can’t think of a Outstanding Choral Student, better way to introduce a group of Outstanding Accompanist, Music 10 October/November 2011

Education Scholarship Award, and the The AVA Governing Board continues its professional organization. Are we Honor Choir Screening. Some are also commitment to advocacy with the demonstrating a level of care for our preparing for Fall Solo & Ensemble introduction of the Don’t Silence Our students, our colleagues, and our Assessment as well as pulling out the Voices campaign. The executive board profession that represents a dedicated music for the winter concerts. This will be traveling with a banner and sense of loyalty to all three? Lou Holtz level of involvement with your students brochures throughout the year to has been credited with the requires a commitment to excellence that proclaim to the state that we have a following...”If you don’t make a total is exemplary and often goes beyond the commitment to Keep Alabama Singing! commitment to whatever you’re doing, regular school day. As you are reading If you would like to have copies of the then you start looking to bail out the first this, the Show Choir auditions have brochure to share with principals, PTO time the boat starts leaking. It’s tough passed and the AVA Executive Board is boards, superintendents, local, state & enough getting that boat to shore with preparing to travel the state ready to national legislators, they will be everybody rowing, let alone when a guy listen to hundreds of students audition available at all AVA events. stands up and starts putting his life for the All-State Choirs. We eagerly jacket on… anticipate meeting your students and I challenge each of us to examine celebrating their individual ourselves to determine our level of Are you casually involved or totally commitments to excellence. commitment and involvement in our committed? Please be making your commitment to Thomas R. Smith attend the AMEA In-service Award for Excellence Conference, January 19 – 21, 2012. We are once again in Montgomery at the Nomination Form Renaissance Hotel & Spa @ the Convention Center. This will be a (Submit by December 31st, 2011) weekend packed with entertainment and educational opportunities. AVA has Nominee __________________________________________________________ great session offerings for each director with Paul Gulsvig, Rollo Dillworth, and Address __________________________________________________________ Greg Gilpin. Rosephanye Powell will be conducting the Honor Choir and Paul __________________________________________________________________ Gulsvig and Santana Shelton will be working with the All-State Show Choir Phone ____________________________________________________________ students! You will not want to miss a minute of this fabulous weekend so plan E-mail ____________________________________________________________ to come early and stay late!! Criteria for Nomination The AVA Governing Board is dedicated 1. Nominee has been active in choral music for a minimum of 25 years, distinguishing to mentoring new teachers. If you are her/himself in the field of choral music in Alabama and consistently demonstrating the registering for the conference and have highest musical standards. only been teaching 1 – 3 years we invite 2. Nominee has provided leadership in the choral arts and earned the respect of colleagues you to a luncheon with the AVA Board and/or students. on Thursday, January 19 @ 11:30. If 3. Nominee is a member in good standing of AL ACDA. you will contact Pat Blackwell via email 4. Nominee must be nominated by a member in good standing of AL ACDA via a letter of ([email protected]) she will reserve a recommendation citing the merits of the nominee. Letter should also include a summary of spot for you. We would like to have the nominee’s career and background, as well as their contributions to Alabama ACDA. your reservation by January 10. Our goal is to keep you well informed, Nominated by _____________________________________________________ provide a forum for you to ask questions, and offer you the opportunity Relationship to Nominee_____________________________________________ to become better acquainted with the governing board. Address __________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ Phone ____________________________________________________________ E-mail ____________________________________________________________ This form and letter of recommendation may be submitted via mail, email, or fax to: Thomas R. Smith Award for Excellence Nomination Attn: Dr. Diane D. Orlofsky Smith Hall 210, Long School of Music, TROY University Troy, AL 36082 FAX: 334-670-3858, attn: Diane D. Orlofsky [email protected] ala breve 11

Alabama Orchestra Association Clay McKinney, President As auditions for All-State are taking place Yes, All-State is just around the corner and register for the All- and wrapping up, a word is on my mind - things are coming along right on schedule. expectations. I am thinking of this because There are so many people to thank for this, State festival by our expectations are such a crucial factor too many really to name in this short piece in what our students achieve. We must because really truly I would have to name December 1st. continue to raise our expectations and everyone. We all chip in to make this great recognize that our students far exceed the and so the thank you goes to all the Registration for the expectations of a bygone era. In preparing teachers, parents and students who come one of the trombone audition excerpts, I together to make AOA and the All-State festival will also take made the decision that trombone students Orchestra Festival so worthwhile. There this age could not be expected to read alto are so many things that must be done and place online. Like the clef and that this particular excerpt should organized leading up to getting a student to be transcribed to bass clef. I am a cellist All-State and giving a great performance audition registration, you will have the and usually, when I am thinking of at the final concert. It takes many people transcribing between C clef and F clef, I to keep us going and our AOA option of paying online using Paypal or am thinking tenor clef and bass clef. In my membership, the people in our state who haste, that’s exactly what I did and it was are teaching our students to be the next mailing a check after you have registered completely wrong. Who caught the generation of musicians, make up the mistake first? It was a student practicing majority, the core, the driving force of this online. As always you will have the option the part for an audition. He knew from his effort. We have two general meetings of own practice and knowledge that it was the AOA membership coming up. The first of submitting both registration and wrong. He asked his teacher to confirm and is in January during the AMEA conference. then emailed me to tell me of the mistake The AMEA conference is January 19-21 payment by mail. December 1st is the and sent me a link where I could find the and is always great so please make plans correct excerpt in alto clef. When I asked, to attend. The next general meeting takes deadline for all registration info and he responded that he was comfortable with place during the All-State festival on both tenor and alto clef, educated me to the Saturday, February 11th from 2:00 - 5:00 registration payments to be submitted. fact alto clef is quite common in the pm in the Moody Music Building. Please trombone parts of Romantic music and plan to come and join in the discussion. It After December 1st we will begin that, “alto clef is the standard if one plays is a great time to meet everybody, learn alto trombone, which I do.” I am grateful what is going on, and let your voice be contacting alternates to fill un-accepted for the reminder of the talent we have in heard. We need all of us to stay involved our state. and be active to continue to make this positions. This is to ensure that we mail out music festival one of the best there is. Our next reminder will be at the All-State music to students in a timely manner so Festival concert on February 12 at 1 p.m. in We have had great success with our online the concert hall of the Moody Music registration this year. Thank you to that they may begin practicing as soon as building on the Campus of the University everyone for being patient with us in this of Alabama. The Festival Orchestra will transition. We have had few snags in the possible. So, please make sure students be performing An American in Paris Suite process thanks to our brilliant Webmaster by George Gershwin/arr. John Whitney, Kenyon Wilson. Kenyon is one of the register by December 1st so that they may Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia by pillars of our organization these days. If Khachaturian, the winning composition of you see him at All-State, bow deeply. We attend All-State and receive their music as the All-State composition contest, and do want to hear your feedback though. Let Finale to Symphony No. 5 by Dimitri us know about your experience with it, soon as possible. Shostakovich. The Sinfonietta orchestra what you think of the online registration will perform Brook Green Suite by Holst process and how we can make it better. The festival is February 9-12 at the and Concerto Grosso No. 1 by Bloch. Probably, as you read this our amazing, University of Alabama School of Music in Among a slew of great pieces the Consort wonderful, couldn’t-do-it-without-you Tuscaloosa, and all events are in the orchestra will be performing an original district chairs are finalizing and packing up Moody Music Building. Student check-in modern work titled Amadare (Raindrops). audition DVDs to mail. The results of the starts on the afternoon of February 9th. This is an unprecedented line-up of music auditions will be posted by the end of the Check-in will work the same as last year. so I hope you will plan to attend. day November 14th. Students will need to All Festival Orchestra string students must check in between 12:00 and 1:30. Wind, brass, and percussion students will check- in from 2:30 - 3:00. The exact schedule will be sent with music to registered students, and seating auditions will take place early afternoon on Thursday. I encourage all participants to arrive early in order to have plenty of preparation time before the seating auditions. As mentioned earlier, a free public performance will begin at 1 PM on Sunday, February 12th, and families and friends are encouraged to attend. All participating students are expected to attend the entire concert. For interested exhibiters here are four potential exhibit locations in the Moody Music Building during the Festival. Exhibitors may set up any time after 4:00 on Thursday, February 9 and remain until the concert is over on Sunday afternoon, February 12. This time window is the 12 October/November 2011

available time, but exhibitors are not January at the Renaissance Montgomery President. Of course we have to thank our required to be present at all times and may Hotel and Convention Center January 19- ever-faithful district chairs, Daniel choose to use any periods within this time 21. The AMEA Conference is a great time Hornstein & Daniel Jamieson, Roland frame. There will be no reduction in fee for to inspire your teaching and reconnect with Lister, Sarah Nordlund & Julia Sakharova, reduced usage. The AOA President, Clay fellow educators from around the state. Dr. Anne Witt, Sarah Schrader and Felicia McKinney, must receive all requests for Last year was our first year there and was Sarubin. And of course there are always exhibitor space via email at a great success, so this year looks to be those folks that don’t have an official title [email protected] before even better. On Friday January 20th the but somehow end up on everyone’s speed January 31, 2012. Two prime locations are Etowah Youth Symphony will be dial, Mike Gagliardo, and Layla available in the lobby. Fees are $500 for performing in the main concert hall. It is Humphries. And lastly we want to thank each spot and use of space includes up to always a great pleasure to see one of our everyone at the Alabama Symphony. What three 6’ tables. A $100 deposit is required fabulous youth orchestras on the stage so I a great group of people. Your knowledge, to reserve a lobby spot. Two other locations hope to see you there. resources and willingness to share are in the building, closer to rehearsal rooms invaluable to us, and we are most but with less space, will be made available Like I said earlier, there are lots of people appreciative. at $100 each to the first two requestors. Use to thank for all of their help thus far this of these spaces includes one 6’ table each. year as we have many people who work to Good luck with auditions and other school For more information, please visit our keep things running smoothly. This performances in the meantime and I will website and click on the 2012 festival link. especially includes our AOA Board: Felicia look forward to seeing you, better yet, Sarubin - Secretary, Daniel Jamieson - listening to you. Be sure and make plans to attend and Treasurer, Julie Hornstein - Executive register for the AMEA conference in Director and Marcy Wilson - Past- AOA All-State 2012 Quick Info Guide February 9-12, 2012 University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Final date for live auditions for all levels October 16, 2011 Consult the info guide for your district on the web for specific dates! All State financial aid deadline October 15, 2011 Videotape District mailing deadline October 17, 2011 All State results posted November 16, 2011 All State Orchestra acceptance deadline December 1, 2011 Begin to contact alternates December 2, 2011 Begin mailing music Early December Audition fee is $20 for first audition, $10 extra for each subsequent audition Please make all checks payable to AOA Registration fee for the All-State festival is $65 Notice: We will begin contacting alternates immediately so be sure to abide by the deadline of December 1st to accept your position in your All State Orchestra. Reminders: Hotel Information: December 1st is the deadline for all Registration info and registration payments to be submitted. We The hotel for the festival is the will begin contacting alternates and mailing out music immediately after the deadline. Please Capstone Hotel on the campus of make sure students register by December 1st so that they may receive their music as soon as the University of Alabama. There is possible. a block of rooms reserved for our All festival events will take place in the UA Moody Music Building. event. We urge you to book rooms If you decline the invitation to come to All State AFTER mailing your acceptance letter, you will not early as there are a limited number be allowed an audition the following year (with the exception of medical emergencies ). of rooms in the block. The cutoff Check-in for Festival Orchestra will be from 12:00 - 2:00 pm on February 9, with string seating date for the block is January 12. auditions upon arrival. After this date, rooms will not be Check in will be from 2:30 - 4:30 pm for string orchestras with string seating auditions upon arrival. held at the festival price. Festival Orchestra will have their first rehearsal Thursday from 4:30 - 6:00 pm. Reservation phone number for the Pictures and warm-ups for all orchestras will take place from 9:00 am - 1:00 pm. The Festival block is 1-800-477-2262. The block Concert will begin at 1:00 pm on Sunday, February 12 in Moody Concert Hall. is under the name “All State Festival Orchestra”. Participation Requirements: Students participating in the Alabama All State Orchestra Festival must attend all rehearsals and required activities of the festival. Failure to comply with this rule will result in dismissal from the festival without refund of any fees. If a student is unable to attend all activities of the festival, it is his/her responsibility to immediately notify his/her District Chair so that an alternate may be given that place. ala breve 13

AOA All-State 2012 Clinicians Steven Byess – Festival Orchestra Millennium Orchestra, and international founder and first music director of the Davis The extraordinarily varied artists Phil Collins, Christina Aguilera, Summer Symphony, an organization geared career of Steven Byess takes him not only to the Enrique Iglesias, Toni Braxton, and Edward towards the education and outreach of stages of symphony orchestras and opera James Olmos, and was broadcast to over classical music to residents of the Davis companies, but also to the stages and genres of 900 million viewers worldwide. Byess is community. Mr. Haimor earned bachelor’s Broadway, jazz and television. He is a dynamic also currently featured in a commercial degrees in both music and neurobiology, conductor and has been hailed by critics as Steven Byess video taping for the Starz and Encore movie physiology, and behavior, and a master’s “masterful and brilliant,” “creating the epitome of instrumental elegance” and “a channels, airing internationally. Steven is degree in conducting from the University of talented interpreter, able to capture the sweep of a piece without neglecting detail.” an ardent wine aficionado, a passionate California-Davis before completing his He is the Music Director of the Tupelo Symphony Orchestra, the Arkansas Shakespeare enthusiast, an avid motorcycle second master’s degree in instrumental Philharmonic Orchestra, the Colorado Youth Symphony Orchestras, Guest Conductor for rider, and loves skiing. conducting from the Jacobs School of Music the Ohio Light Opera, and he was formerly the Cover Conductor for the Detroit at Indiana University. Symphony Orchestra and on the conducting staff at the International Vocal Arts Institute Fawzi Haimor – Sinfonietta String Orchestra in Tel Aviv, Israel. He is the Music Director Emeritus of the Cobb Symphony Orchestra Dr James Bates – Consort String Orchestra (Georgia), and the former opera conductor for the Cleveland Institute of Music (Ohio) Hailed by the Birmingham News as “a and California State University - Los Angeles. Mr. Byess received his Bachelor of highly capable conductor with a clean, As a conductor and teacher, Jim is able to Music Degree in classical performance and jazz studies from Georgia State University, precise beat, dramatic yet easy-to-follow draw on considerable experience as an and his Master of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he gestures, and overflowing educator, performer and historian. For 18 studied conducting with Louis Lane and Carl Topilow, bassoon with George Goslee and with enthusiasm,” the 28 years he was a conductor for the Louisville David McGill, violin with Carol Ruzicka, and piano with Olga Radosavljevich. Steven year old Fawzi Haimor (KY) Youth Orchestras and was music Byess is a passionate advocate for the arts, much sought after for his speeches on the begins his second season director of that organization from 1996 - arts, music, music education and general education. An important community leader, as Assistant Conductor of 2001. In 1999, he joined the conducting staff he has created and organized frequent and annual collaborations with numerous the Alabama Symphony of Interlochen Center for the Arts and choruses, chamber music ensembles, and festivals of the arts. He also wrote, co- Orchestra (ASO) and continues to co-direct the Junior Orchestra directed and is featured in a PBS presentation entitled Count On It!, which is Music Director and program and Junior String Institute there in designed for children grades K-3, and shows the correlation of music to mathematics. Mr. Principal Conductor of the summer. Since coming to Otterbein in Byess was chosen by Walt Disney World Entertainment to conduct the 2000 NFL the Alabama Symphony 2004, Jim has served as the assistant E*TRADE Superbowl Halftime show. The production had over 400 performers, Fawzi Haimor Youth Orchestra (ASYO). conductor and principal bassist of the including the Walt Disney World In addition to his duties at Westerville Symphony. In Fall 2006, he the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Mr. began as an assistant conductor for the Haimor maintains an international guest Columbus Symphony Youth Orchestras. He conducting schedule and has recently has served as a clinician or guest conductor performed with the Orquestra Nacional do in Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, New York, Porto, the Amman Symphony, and the North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Jacksonville Symphony Kansas, Minnesota, California, Orchestra. Being very passionate Missouri, Pennsylvania and Colorado. about the education of young He has served as president of Kentucky musicians, Mr. Haimor is also ASTA and as string coordinator for the engaged to conduct at the Kentucky Governor’s School for the GMEA’s All College Orchestra Arts. In addition to string education he Festival in Savannah, Georgia is very involved with the Classical and at the Alabama Orchestra Mandolin Society of America and also Association’s All-State Festival period instrument performance. Jim is Sinfonietta String Orchestra in also an active performer on the double Tuscaloosa, Alabama as well as James Bates bass and various early music continuing his work with the instruments such as the viola da gamba, ASYO. Mr. Haimor was raised in the Middle recorder and the medieval vielle. . He has East and California. He began playing the degrees from the University of Louisville violin at the age of 6 and had his first (B.M.E.), a Masters in double bass conducting opportunity at the age of 16, performance from Indiana University and a premiering his own work for string orchestra Ph.D. in Musicology from the University of which began his path towards a conducting Kentucky. His wife, Jena Huebner, is a career. 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Assessing Music Teacher Preparation: Collegiate Faculty Advisor What do the Best Music Educators Look Like? Moya Nordlund The Professional Literature Project of 2002) and the same small pool of talented actual practice. To MENC’s Society for Music Teacher and excited students. The experienced become aware of the Education covers over 50 years of research, non-expert tends to follow prescribed discrepancies between with 73 dissertations alone, in our procedures and respond to challenges with our perceptions of how profession. My initial question is what else predictable actions each and every time a lesson went and is left to investigate? My very question, (p.201). After all, that’s the intention of all watching it unfold in real however, is whether we can be satisfied NCLB standards-driven assessment time is an eye-opening experience. Painful with what is already known. The problem models. Instead, I believe we must instill as it might be, it is the single most effective with Music Teacher Education is that it is an “expert-like mind-set” to teacher way of giving feed back to teacher and will always be diverse, an expression candidates and encourage them to candidates. of the kind of society we live in today; and experiment and improvise, even risking dynamic, a reflection of the kinds of failure to further knowledge and What does the exercise of frequent video- learners we want for ourselves and our understanding. To this end, I suggest we as taping do? It shows us in the most honest students. Therefore, we, as a profession, a profession, look at adopting an “inquiry” way what our weaknesses are. Some of the must engage ourselves in creative paradigm to assessment (Serafini, 2001). most frequently cited failures of innovations instead reactionary reforms. inexperienced music teachers are error Common traits identified in literature on detection, pacing, classroom management, If indeed a 21st century music educator effective teachers include positive attitudes and giving clear and succinct instructions. must possess certain qualities and or optimism, authenticity or personal However, after years of observing all kinds competencies unbeknownst to the most touch, patience and perseverance, of music classrooms, I have come to the successful of our19th century forebears, creativity, and sense of humor (Colker, conclusion that the cause for all the above what might these be? The National 2008, Ghiora, 2010, Phillips, 2004). Not failures is not a lack of pedagogy, but a lack Council for Accreditation of teacher surprisingly there are many overlaps of music competence and music Education (NCATE) evaluates four areas between teacher and leader qualifications. preparation. Pedagogy is the product of of competencies for teacher preparation However, what I often find among teacher understanding the learner and the processes programs: process, content, pedagogy, and candidates is the lack of vision, goal- of learning; it can be derived inductively field based experience. It is no doubt that orientation, or the willingness to take risks by most reflective practitioners. Just like technological advances have necessitated and admit mistakes. They may also lack learning any new concept, one must new instructional strategies. But has the have high expectations and flexibility construct it from many varied experiences. content of music and the processes in (Ostrow, 2008). It appears that the rigid learning music really changed? Research nature of requisite teacher competencies (at So after a decade of pushing for best since the 1980s has clarified the distinction least that ones that count towards practices in the music classroom and between musical novices and expert certification) is on a tangent to the emphasizing the latest strategies in learners and why musical experiences are qualifications of a teacher-leader, teaching, I have made an about turn to push required for concept formation especially in the notion of risk taking. for better musicality in all my music (Bamberger, etc.). The question still teacher candidates. In addition, we must remains if today’s students learn Back when I was first certified as a music train these pre-service teachers to think. I differently. Is if there a biological or teacher thirty years ago, I made my share must admit that while I was aware of physiological basis for the shorter attention of mistakes and learned from them. I have Bloom’s taxonomy as a young teacher, I spans and difficulty in persevering towards tried to facilitate my students to vicariously did not see its relationship to music long term goals? I believe students behave learn through my mistakes but this rarely learning. Yet, today I couch all discussions in those ways their teachers expect them to worked. Without a contextual framework, in and decisions about music in the behave. anecdotes are mere stories. The light bulb Bloom’s hierarchy of learning. I have does not go off until a teacher candidate observed that the many successes of our All teacher education programs in Alabama step into the same pitfalls. Unfortunately, music education graduates are due in large are required to create numerous versions of the consequences of a first year teacher part to the rigorous admission requirements checklists and rubrics to assess all aspects making mistakes are dire – they either quit placed upon entering teacher candidates, of every program and from different angles or are fired, and the institution from which which automatically eliminated our (teacher candidates, cooperating teachers, they are trained can be put on probation. weakest candidates. Students succeed as university supervisors, and focus groups This makes me re-think and re-evaluate exemplary music teachers because they are consisting primarily of school own current practices in training music good musicians who are good thinkers, the administrators). Data shows that we are educators. 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Collegiate NAfME Dakota Bromley, President Greetings fellow future music With regard to the AMEA In-Service group on a regular basis, and I can educators! I hope that everything is Conference in January, I can honestly honestly tell you that it has been one of going well for all of you in a semester say that this is the best slate of CMENC the most musically-enriching that has felt like a whirlwind for me so sessions I have seen in the few years I experiences of my life. You can meet far. This is the conference preview issue have been attending the conference. All great people that you may never come of the Ala Breve, but I have something areas of music education are very well across otherwise, you get exposed to very exciting to add to all the represented, and there are certainly even more literature (and that is always conference chatter. sessions that we could all benefit from a good thing), and you can use it as an attending, regardless of our amazing opportunity to develop another The annual Alabama CMENC Summit concentration. musical skill such as playing a is on the books for Saturday, October secondary instrument or even 29 from 9AM until 3 PM at the I would also like to take this rehearsing the group. University of Montevallo. Breakfast opportunity to encourage all of you to and lunch will be provided, and more get involved in your musical When times get tough, and you start details regarding featured speakers and community outside of your degree doubting your choice to pursue a career registration procedures will be sent to program. Most of the cities and towns in music education, go sit in a chapter advisors very soon. I hope to that house our great universities have community group. It will be a great see more future music educators than civic musical groups such as reminder to you that we are not just ever before at the Summit, and I am community bands and community teaching a skill that goes away after very excited about this great event. choirs. I want to encourage all of you to high school or college, but we are get out there in the community and be cultivating a passion that will stick with in these groups. I have the unique many for the rest of their lives. I hope to privilege of conducting a community see all of you on October 29! 18 October/November 2011

Audition and Interview Weekends for Prospective Music and Theatre Majors November 11–12, 2011 February 3–4, 2012 February 4–5, 2012 Forms and additional information are available at arts.samford.edu 205-726-4524 [email protected] Samford University is an Equal Opportunity Educational Institution/Employer. Produced by Samford Office of Marketing and Communication ala breve 19

Elementary/General Division Beth Davis, President Why do elementay ways in music class. Students, who resist AMEA Presidents music teachers show in other places, participate and are not Past to Present up day after day and behavior problems in music class. These do what they do? students comprise many colors, shapes, 1946 Yale H. Ellis Without a doubt, there sizes, languages, and abilities. In this age 1948 Walter A. Mason are many and varied answers to such a of testing pressure and economic stress, 1950 Vernon Skoog question; however, high salary, easy we elementary music teachers must 1952 John J. Hoover workload, optimum conditions, and being remember the reason we do this job 1954 Lamar Triplett members of a highly respected profession everyday is for our students. 1956 Carleton K. Butler certainly will not to be the popular 1958 Mort Glosser answers. On the other hand, there is The elementary/general division is here 1960 Wilbur Hinton making joyous music with students, to support elementary music teachers in 1962 Lacey Powell, Jr. hearing preschoolers match pitch and, their quest to keep students the focus of 1964 G. Truman Welch seeing the sparkle in a fourth grader’s their daily work. We have a website full 1966 Jerry Countryman eyes when he or she gets a brand new of information available to you. Check 1968 Floyd C. McClure recorder. Additionally, there is watching out the AMEA website. I trust many of 1970 Jerry Bobo an English language learner participate you joined your colleagues for the fall 1972 Frances P. Moss and smile, hearing the question “Is today workshop on October 8. And, I look 1974 George Hammett music day?” as you walk down the hall, forward to meeting all of you in 1975 Frances P. Moss receiving smiles, high fives, and hugs at Montgomery January 19 – 21, 2012, for 1976 S. J. Allen the end of class are just a few of the many the annual in-service conference. Please 1978 W. Frank McArthur, Jr. answers that race through my mind. Why take advantage of this support. 1980 Paul Hall do elementary music teachers show up 1982 Lacey Powell, Jr. day after day and do what they do? We I paraphrase the lyrics to a popular 1984 Johnny Jacobs do it for the students. country song and say, “To the world you 1986 Merilyn Jones We teach for students who, despite their may be just another teacher, but to at least 1988 Ronald D. Hooten disability, raise their hand in the middle one student, you quite possibly could be 1990 Ken Williams of class just to clap and read the Heart the world.” Keep up the good work. 1992 Dianne Johnson Chart rhythm perfectly. Students, who Keep your students at the center of what 1994 James K. Simpson struggle to understand and are hesitant in you do everyday. Make music and enjoy. 1996 Johnnie Vinson other classes, participate in a myriad of 1998 Michael Meeks 2000 John McAphee, Jr. 2002 Tony Pike 2004 Becky Rodgers 2006 John Baker 2008 Pat Stegall 2010 Steve McLendon 20 October/November 2011

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AMEA 2012 Keynote Speaker Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser Tim Lautzenheiser is a well-known name in the music education world as a teacher, clinician, author, composer, conductor, consultant, and, above all, a trusted friend to anyone interested in working with young people in developing a desire for excellence. His career involves ten years of successful college band directing at Northern Michigan University, the University of Missouri, and New Mexico State University. During this time Tim developed highly acclaimed groups in all areas of the instrumental and vocal field. Following three years in the music industry, he created Attitude Concepts, Inc., an organization designed to manage the many requests for workshops, seminars, and convention speaking engagements focusing on the area of positive attitude and effective leadership training. He presently holds the Earl Dunn Distinguished Lecturer position at Ball State University. Tim also is the Executive Director of Education for Conn-Selmer, Inc. His books, produced by G.I.A. Publications, The Art of Successful Teaching, The Joy of Inspired Teaching, and Everyday Wisdom are bestsellers in the educational world. He is also co-author of Hal Leonard's popular band method, Essential Elements. Tim is a graduate of Ball State University and the University of Alabama. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree from VanderCook College of Music. Additional awards include the distinguished Sudler Order of Merit from the John Philip Sousa Foundation, Mr. Holland's Opus Award and the Music Industry Award from the Midwest Clinic Board of Directors. 2012 Conference Hotels The following hotels have offered blocks of rooms for the AMEA conference at discounted rates. The cutoff date is December 19, 2011. Renaissance Montgomery Hotel at the Convention Center Homewood Suites by Hilton Conference Hotel (334) 272-3010 (334) 481-5000 1800 Interstate Park Drive, Montgomery, AL 201 Tallapoosa St., Montgomery, AL $109 - Complimentary breakfast $119.00 - half off parking ($5.00 per day) 20% spa discount Country Inn & Suites Hampton Inn Downtown Montgomery (334) 277-4142 (334) 265-1010 10095 Chantilly Parkway, Montgomery, AL 100 Commerce St., Montgomery, AL King bed for $69.99, two Queen beds for $79.99 Across the street from the Renaissance $109.00 - $129.00 free hot breakfast buffet, Complimentary Breakfast Complimentary valet parking, free wifi Comfort Inn & Suites Fairfield Inn and Suites (334) 532-4444 (334) 260-8650 10015 Chantilly Parkway, Montgomery, AL 8970 EastChase Parkway, Montgomery, AL King bed for $69.99, two Queen beds for $79.99 $79.00 - free hot breakfast Complimentary Breakfast Hilton Garden Inn (334) 272-2225 4600 Interstate Park Drive, Montgomery, AL $99 w/breakfast $89 without breakfast 22 October/November 2011

FAME F A M Euture labama usic ducators Open to High School Juniors and Seniors Thursday, January 19, 2012 9:00 A.M. - 4:30 P.M. Renaissance Montgomery Hotel at the Convention Center Application and $20 registration fee are due postmarked no later than January 7, 2012 Student_____________________________________________________________ Grade ____________________ Nominating Teacher _____________________________________________ MENC # _________________________ School Name ____________________________________________________________________________________ School Address __________________________________________________________________________________ Teacher Phone ________________________________ Teacher Email ______________________________________ Publicity Waiver This student participates in (circle all that apply): Band Chorus Orchestra I give AMEA permission to take photos of FAME attendees and use the ______________________________________________ Signature of Student photos for publicity purposes. By this authorization, I understand and agree that no participant shall receive remuneration and that all rights, title and interest to the photos and use of them belongs to AMEA. _______________________________________________ Signature of Parent if Student is under 18 Enclose $20 Registration Fee Make checks payable to AMEA The FAME program includes many important topics for students considering a career as a music educator. A highlight of the 2012 program will be a session by Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser Lunch will be provided by AMEA Mail this application, along with the $20 registration fee, to: Pat Stegall, AMEA Past President Muscle Shoals High School 1900 Avalon Avenue Muscle Shoals, Alabama 35661 Postmark Deadline: January 7, 2012 ala breve 23

Higher Education Division not currently submitted for publication Timothy Phillips, President elsewhere, either in its entirety or in part. 4. Authors should comply with APA for you to share your vast knowledge of ethical standards (www.apa.org/ethics/ your particular area of expertise with our code2002.html) and institutional and readers. federal regulations in the treatment of human subjects. 5. Quantitative Greetings fellow collegiate educators of As always, if you have any suggestions manuscripts must conform to the Alabama, as to how we can improve the HED area Publication Manual of the American of AMEA, please don’t hesitate to contact Psychological Association (5th ed., I hope you had a nice summer and that me. The AMEA Board meets periodically 2001). Nonquantitative and historical your school year is off to a good start. to discuss all facets of our organization studies may conform to APA style or to Very soon, we’ll be gathering together at and I am happy to bring any issues to the The Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed., the Renaissance Hotel and Convention table for you. I appreciate your continued 2003). Authors may not mix styles within Center in Montgomery for the 2012 support. a manuscript. 8. Authors should submit Alabama Music Educators Conference. I four copies of typed, double-spaced look forward to seeing you there. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS manuscripts, which normally should not exceed 20 pages, along with an abstract This year we have structured the HED The Ala Breve is seeking submissions of of approximately 150 words. Authors events at the conference primarily around research articles for the Summer 2012 should also submit 4 to 6 keywords Friday. Some HED events will take place “Special Research” Edition to be relating to their article’s content. Type on Thursday, but we’re considering published during the summer, 2012. size should be no smaller than 12 points Friday to be the “unofficial” HED day. Submissions may consist of quantitative, (double-spacing should include 28 points On this day, we’ll have the most HED qualitative, descriptive, historical, total for a line of text and the following presentations, the recital, the business philosophical, or any other kind of line). Figures and drawings should be meeting, and the mixer. I hope this will accepted research conducted by camera-ready. 9. To preserve the author’s make it possible for many of you to university faculty and/or active anonymity in the review process, the attend these events. I know schedules are practitioners. The deadline for the manuscript should not reveal the author’s particularly packed, especially near the submission is May 1, 2012. Submission identity or institutional affiliation. The beginning of a semester. Guidelines (adapted from the Submission author’s name, address (including e-mail, Guidelines of Update: Applications of if available), and institutional affiliation At this year’s AMEA conference, we will Research in Music Education) 1. should appear only on a separate cover have an opportunity to feature many Manuscripts must be research-based. 2. sheet. Manuscripts not conforming to this small chamber ensembles in the many Manuscripts may present a single stipulation will be returned. 10. lobbies of the Convention Center in research study or a review of the Manuscripts should be addressed to: Dr. between events. If you have an interest in literature. 3. Articles should be unique Carl Hancock, University of Alabama having your group perform, either student and not published elsewhere. In School of Music, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487. or faculty, please let me know. Our only accordance with the Code of Ethics, request is that ensembles be on the soft submitting a manuscript indicates that it end of the dynamic spectrum, due to has not been published previously and is noise bleed throughout the building. Lori Ardovino will be sending out a request for performers for this, as well as for the HED recital, soon. Applied music professors: please consider submitting an article for Ala Breve. The “Call for Submissions” at the end of this update is really directed toward any of you who would be interested in publishing in a peer reviewed format. Simply put, this just means that your article will be selected by a review committee prior to publication. It is an excellent opportunity 24 October/November 2011

Opera theatre | September 1-4 Band Day | September 17 HONOR CHOIR | October 1 BANDs OF AMERICA (BOA) REGIONAL | October 8 “Contest of champions” | October 15 New Music Ensemble | October 18 “Tuba-ween” | October 28 Holiday extravaganza Concert | December 4 Scholarship auditions 2012 February 24 -25 March 2-3 To view entire season listings, visit our website at music.jsu.edu ala breve 25

Campus Connections News and Happenings from Alabama’s Colleges and Universities Colleges and universities are encouraged to submit newsworthy material and announcements for publication in Ala Breve Auburn University Music Education degrees to schedule an Dr. Michael Hix, Assistant Professor of audition through our website at: Music/Voice, completed a summer research The Music Department at Auburn www.auburn.edu/music. Audition dates are: study at the Akademie der Kuenste in University is thriving. We are the recent Feb. 9, 11, and 25, 2012. Contact the Berlin, Germany. He will present a Lecture recipient of a grant funded by the Provost’s Department of Music at 334-844-4165 if Recital for the College Music Society Office and the College of Liberal Arts for you have questions about our degree National Conference (Virginia) and at the the purchase of an extensive inventory of programs or offerings. American Musicological National new brass, percussion, strings, and Conference (San Francisco) in October. woodwind instruments. Additionally, with War Eagle! funding from the College of Liberal Arts, Dr. Diane Orlofsky, Professor of we purchased 15 new upright and 4 grand The John M. Long School of Music – Music/Director of Choirs, presented an pianos for practice rooms and studios. In Troy University invited session and led a music reading September we celebrated the opening of the session at the Alabama ACDA Summer brand new AU Band Pavilion by the AU We are once again grateful to AMEA for Celebration. She also co-produced a CD Marching Band Field and launched the providing this opportunity to share with her university jazz vocal ensemble campaign to raise funds for a new facility to information with our music colleagues and frequency (release set for fall, 2011). house the entire band program. More music students across the state. The John M. information about this project can be found Long School of Music has 37 faculty Dr. Tim Phillips, Assistant Professor of on the AU Bands website: members who are world-class teachers, Music/Clarinet, performed at the http://band.auburn.edu/. scholars, conductors, composers, and International ClarinetFest at California State performers. These folks are active music University (August). At this festival, Dr. We welcomed Dr. Josh Pifer, piano, in the professionals whose knowledge and skills Phillips and Dr. Jackson premiered Five first issue of Ala breve this fall. I am also are recognized daily by our students in the Poems of Emily Dickinson composed by delighted to welcome two additional new classroom and regularly by our music School of Music colleague Dr. Traci faculty members this academic year at profession. Selected recent/upcoming Mendel. Additionally, Dr. Phillips chaired Auburn. Ms. Lisa Caravan, Instructor of faculty activities follow: a committee of 25 clarinet professors and String Music Education joins the Music and orchestral performers from around North Curriculum and Teaching Departments to Dr. Adam Blackstock, Assistant Professor America in reviewing the festival. lead the development of a string program at of Music/Percussion/Assistant Director of Auburn. She is completing a doctorate at Bands, will present a master class and recital Robert W. Smith, Professor of the Eastman School of Music and will teach at Ithaca College and a recital at Indiana Music/Music Industry, served as clinician cello and bass, work with Tiger Strings, AU University in November. He will also and coordinator for the Bands of America Orchestra, and other related classes in both present a solo performance at the Percussive Summer Symposium at Ball State Departments. In conjunction with music Arts Society International Convention in University. Additionally, he composed education faculty in the Department of Indianapolis as well as perform in a original music for the 2011 touring Curriculum and Teaching, we are chamber ensemble and a 50-member production BLAST, the Tony Award- experiencing growth in the Tiger Strings marimba orchestra. winning musical theatre production and has program and look forward to continued been commissioned by the United States Air development in that area. Dr. Larry Blocher, Professor of Force Band to write a new work (premier in Music/Director, will present a clinic at the 2012). Mr. Michael Pendowski joins us as Midwest International Band and Orchestra Instructor of Saxophone and Jazz. He will Clinic in Chicago (December). Dr. Hui-Ting Yang, Lecturer of lead the Jazz Ensembles, teach applied Music/Piano, performed a Lecture Recital saxophone, and work to build the saxophone Dr. Carla Gallahan, Associate Professor of at the College Music Society International and jazz areas. He is also completing the Music/Education, will present at the College Conference in Seoul, South Korea (July). doctorate at the Eastman School of Music. Music Society National Conference She will present a Lecture Recital with Dr. Michael’s extensive experience in jazz, (Virginia) in October. Hix at the College Music Society National education, and arranging brings an exciting Conference (Virginia) in October. new dimension to the music program at Dr. Margaret Jackson, Assistant Professor Auburn. We are excited about the growth of of Music/Ethnomusicology, will present at Dr. Mark Walker, Associate Professor of opportunities for jazz musicians. the American Folklore Society National Music/Director of Bands, had his book, The Conference (Indiana University), the Art of Interpretation, accepted for In the Auburn Department of Music, we are Alexander von Humbolt German Scholars publication by GIA in Chicago. proud to offer an intimate and nurturing Networking Conference (New York), and a atmosphere that provides opportunities for Lecture Recital for the American Festival events, scholarship information, individual attention and regular Musicological National Conference (San audition times, and additional concert dates performance for students. Our department is Francisco) in October. She will also present are listed on our website. 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AMEA 2012 Clinicians Mr. Randall Coleman is currently the Associate Director of Bands and Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Alabama where he serves as the conductor of the Alabama Symphonic Band, the Associate Conductor of the Alabama Wind Ensemble and the Associate Director of the “Million Dollar Band.” He also teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting and wind band literature classes. Mr. Coleman is also the Coordinator of the Crimson Music Camps held each summer at the University of Alabama. Prior to his appointment to the faculty at the University of Alabama, Mr. Coleman enjoyed a successful 25 year career as a high school band director and supervisor in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Music Education at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama, and the Masters of Music Education degree from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Coleman holds membership in the Music Educators’ National Conference, the College Band Directors National Association, the National Band Association, Phi Beta Mu International Bandmasters Fraternity, the Alabama Music Educators Association and the Alabama Bandmasters Association. Erin Colwitz, a native of Wisconsin, received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Minnesota. She later completed the Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Southern California in choral music. Dr. Colwitz studied conducting with William Dehning, David Wilson, Magen Solomon, and Claire McCoy. In Minnesota, Dr. Colwitz was a full-time vocal and general music teacher at Centennial Middle School. As a professional singer, Dr. Colwitz was contracted to sing with the Dale Warland Singers in 1999. She can be heard on three of their albums, one of which was nominated for a Grammy: Dominick Argento’s Walden Pond (2003) on Gothic Records. Dr. Colwitz is currently the Director of Choral Activities at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. She conducts the Chamber Choir and Concert Choir, teaches Dr. Colwitz is frequently a guest conductor, contest adjudicator and choral clinician throughout Alabama. She also serves of the Alabama ACDA board.Dr. Colwitz lives in Jones Valley with her husband, Dr. William Dehning, an accomplished conductor, Emeritus Professor, and published author, and their very silly golden retriever, Sam. Sandra Dackow earned the Bachelor of Music, Master of Music and the Ph.D. from the Eastman School of Music of The University of Rochester. An Aspen Conducting fellow in 2001, she was also awarded the Silver Medal in the 2001 Vakhtang Jordania/New Millennium International Conducting Competition in Kharkov, Ukraine. She is currently serving as Music Director of the Hershey Symphony Orchestra in Pennsylvania and is a former Music Director of the Ridgewood Symphony Orchestra in New Jersey. A Native of East Paterson (Elmwood Park), New Jersey, Dr. Dackow has conducted bands and orchestras in the schools of Glen Rock and East Brunswick, New Jersey, and served as Supervisor of Music for the Ridgewood NJ public schools. An annual ASCAP award winning arranger, Dr. Dackow has generated over seventy published works for orchestras and is an author of the Orchestra Expressions curriculum. She is active as a guest conductor, adjudicator and clinician across the nation and Dr. Dackow currently serves as President-elect of the Conductors Guild, an international organization. Dr. Grant Dalton is an Assistant Professor of Music at Samford University where he is responsible for all areas of percussion education. He holds a bachelor of science degree from Lipscomb University in instrumental music education, and he has a master’s and doctorate in percussion performance from The Ohio State University. Dr. Dalton regularly performs with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra as a utility percussionist. He is the first call percussionist with the Birmingham Broadway Series, and he plays with Opera Birmingham and the Alabama Ballet. He is also the president of the Alabama chapter of the Percussive Arts Society. Dr. Rollo Dilworth is Associate Professor of Choral Music Education at Temple University’s Boyer School of Music in Philadelphia, PA. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in choral music education, he serves as conductor for the University Chorale. Prior to his appointment at Temple, Dilworth served as Director of Choral Activities and Music Education at North Park University in Chicago, IL for 13 years. Dr. Dilworth holds degrees from Case Western Reserve University, University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Northwestern University. Dilworth has written and/or arranged over 150 choral works that are currently in print. He frequently serves as a guest conductor and/or clinician for honors, festival and all-state choirs throughout the United States and abroad. Dilworth is an active member of the Music Educators National Conference (MENC), the National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM), the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), and Chorus America. He is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), and currently serves on the Pennsylvania ACDA State board as Director of Student and Youth Activities. ala breve 29

AMEA 2012 Clinicians Michelle Murphy DeBruyn is Assistant Professor of Voice at Columbus State University’s Schwob School of Music, currently teaching studio voice and vocal pedagogy. Michelle received both her MM and DMA from the Eastman School of Music. An active recitalist, she has recently appeared in several states as well as abroad in several locations in Taiwan. Michelle has twice won the State level National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Artist Award and continued to the national semi-finals in 2006. She is also the recipient of the NATS Emerging Leaders Award in 2010. Robert Murray is the Associate Professor of Trumpet at Columbus State University. He has been a soloist and clinician at conferences in the United States and Europe. Dr. Murray will host the 2012 International Trumpet Guild Conference at the Schwob School of Music in Columbus, Georgia. Among his performing credits are the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and the Oregon Symphony; he has served as principal trumpet with the Owensboro Symphony, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Mineria in Mexico City and was a member of the Dallas Brass. He received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of North Texas. Associate Professor of Flute at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University, Dr. Andrée Martin has performed at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, the Seattle Flute Fair and the National Flute Association Convention. She has performed throughout the U.S., Japan, Canada, Mexico and Europe and has been published in Flute Talk and the Flutist Quarterly. Her students have won the MTNA Georgia State Woodwind Senior and Young Artist divisions, the Atlanta Flute Club Competition, the Mid South College Masterclass and High School Competitions, the Florida Flute Fair Masterclass Competition, and the Artist International Competition (NY). Tiffany English is the music specialist at Sugar Hill Elementary School in Gwinnett County, GA. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Music Education from The University of Georgia, a master’s degree in Early Childhood Education and a specialist degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Piedmont College. Tiffany has completed Master Level Orff Schulwerk training and Level I Kodaly training. Tiffany has been selected as Teacher of the Year in 1997, 2001, and was named the 2007 Gwinnett County Teacher of the Year. Tiffany conducted the Atlanta Area Honor Orff Ensemble at the Birmingham, AL and Charlotte, NC National AOSA Conferences. Tiffany is the current Region IV representative for the National Board of Trustees, AOSA. Gene Fambrough is Assistant Director of Bands and Assistant Professor of Percussion at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He directs the Percussion Ensemble, Steel Band, Drumline, Electro-Acoustic Percussion group, the Blazer pep band, and serves as assistant conductor of Wind symphony and Symphony Band. He holds music degrees from the University of Georgia (Music Education), East Carolina University (Performance), and the University of Alabama (DMA, Performance). Prior to his appointment at UAB, he spent three years in public school education at Oak Grove High School in Bessemer, Alabama. His professional affiliations include the Percussive Arts Society, Music Educators National Conference, Kappa Kappa Psi, and Pi Kappa Lambda. He is sponsored by Pearl/Adams Instruments, Sabian Cymbals, Innovative Percussion sticks and mallets, Evans drumheads, and Black Swamp Percussion. Dr. Gregg Gausline is Associate Director of Bands at The University of Georgia where he is the conductor of the UGA Wind Symphony, teaches courses in advanced conducting, and is chair of the conducting area. Prior positions include Director of Instrumental Studies at Indiana/Purdue University-Fort Wayne and Director of Bands at The University of Tennessee- Martin. He has guest conducted in Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ireland, Singapore, and throughout the eastern United States. Dr. Gausline is published in the journals for the National Band Association and World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, School Band and Orchestra Magazine, Keynotes Magazine, and several publications offered by GIA publications, Inc. Commissioning projects include works by Michael Torke, Joel Puckett, James Syler, Daniel Bukvich, and Rob Smith. He received the Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Miami in Coral Gables and taught in the public schools of Florida. 30 October/November 2011

AMEA 2012 Clinicians Originally from the “Show-Me” state of Missouri, Greg Gilpin resides in Indianapolis, IN. He is a graduate of Northwest Missouri State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Vocal Music Education, K-12. Greg is a well- known, ASCAP award-winning choral composer and arranger with hundreds of publications to his credit. He is also in demand as a conductor for choral festivals, all-district and all-state choirs and is a member of MENC and ACDA. As Director of Educational Choral Publications for Shawnee Press, Inc., Greg oversees creation of the educational music products for this distinguished publisher. At home in Indianapolis, Greg is busy as a studio musician and producer in the recording industry. These projects include commercial jingles, CD projects, Broadway and Disney. He has worked musically with Ray Boltz, Bill and Gloria Gaither, Sandi Patty, David Clydesdale as well as principal pops conductor, Jack Everly and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. All-State Show Choir Clinician - Paul Gulsvig taught vocal music for 33 years, and retired in 2006 from Onalaska High School in Onalaska, WI, where he taught for 28 of those 33 years. Paul has begun a new career with a new company, More Than Music. Paul’s new career includes serving as retreat presenter, show doctor, motivational speaker, as well as conducting leadership and in-service workshops for school districts. He has assisted a wide variety of schools, including elementary, middle and high schools, college and graduate programs. He also serves as a show choir adjudicator and clinician. His expertise has taken him to Alabama, Florida, Kansas, Ohio, Illinois, Connecticut, Iowa, Nebraska, Arizona, South Dakota, Indiana, and Michigan, as well as his home state of Wisconsin. He is most proud of his three children who have college degrees in music. Two are choral conductors while the third is publishing a new show choir magazine called “Bus Talk Magazine.” In his spare time you will find Paul on the golf course, working out at the fitness center, or spending time with his grand twins, Hailey and Riley. All-State Show Choir Choreographer - Santana Shelton is the newest addition to the Auburn University Tiger Eye Instructional Staff and she serves as the Instructor to the TE Danceline. Ms. Shelton's love for music and dance began at an early age, so she began in both music and dance lessons around the age of three. She was apart of the Tallassee High School's Concert and Marching Band where she served as the Head Majorette. Ms. Shelton is a graduate of Alabama State University with a degree in Theater Arts and a minor in Psychology. While at ASU she was a member of the Mighty Marching Hornets Band the Stingettes Danceline, Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity, the ASU Concert and Gospel Choirs, the Dramatic Guild, Elite Models, Eclectic Dance Co., and the Dean's List. She's served as choreographer, clinician, and adjudicator for several high school and college dancelines, cheer squads, majorette lines, and show choirs. She currently works as choreographer to Tallassee High School show choirs and All State Show Choir Auditions. Craig Hurley is the music specialist at Ford Elementary School in Cobb County, Georgia where he teaches general music to kindergartners through fifth graders. In 2009, Craig was fortunate enough to serve as a writer for the Georgia Performance Standards for Elementary General Music. He has presented sessions for the 2011 GMEA In-Service Conference and the Coastal Empire Orff Chapter. He has supervised several student teachers from Shorter College and received his level 1 Orff training at the University of Georgia. Prior to teaching at Ford Elementary, Mr. Hurley taught at South Hall Middle School in Hall County and Kingston Elementary School in Bartow County where he was named teacher of the year in 2002. Mr. Hurley is also the conductor of the Spivey Hall Young Artists, the training He has participated in the Creating Artistry workshop with Henry Leck and the Indianapolis Children’s Choir. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education from Shorter College with an emphasis in voice, where he studied with Dr. Martha Shaw. He also holds a Master’s of Early Childhood Education from Berry College. Craig lives with his wife, also a music teacher, and 3 children in Cartersville, Georgia. Erik Janners, Director of Music at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is internationally recognized as a conductor, scholar and performer. Dr. Janners holds degrees in percussion performance form Alma College and the University of Utah. He also earned the degree Doctor of Musical Arts in Wind Conducting at the University of Alabama. Prior to his arrival at Marquette, Dr. Janners served as Director of Bands at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada, and at Saint Xavier University in Chicago, Illinois. In his present position at Marquette, Dr. Janners conducts the wind ensemble, pep bands, and jazz ensemble. In addition, as Director of Music he oversees all aspects of the music program. Aside from his work at Marquette, Dr. Janners serves as the conductor of the Milwaukee-based Knightwind Ensemble, and has had numerous articles published in the Instrumentalist magazine, as well as in Canadian Winds, the national periodical of the Canadian Band Association. He is in high demand as a conductor and clinician within the US and Canada. ala breve 31

AMEA 2012 Clinicians Marvin E. Latimer Jr. is currently Assistant Professor of Music Education and Director of the University Chorus at the University of Alabama. He received a BME and MME from Wichita State University and a PhD in Music Education with honors from the University of Kansas. Dr. Latimer taught secondary choral music in Wichita, Kansas and served as Assistant Professor of Music Education and Director of the Women’s Ensemble at Wichita State University prior to his appointment at Alabama. In addition to his work in education, he has been active as Church Choir Director, Community Choir Director, Performer, Music Theater Director and Producer, Technical Director, and Scenic Designer. Dr. Latimer has published research in Choral Journal, Contributions to Music Education, International Journal for Research in Choral Singing, Journal of Research in Music Education, and Journal of Historical Research in Music Education. His professional distinctions consist of numerous state, national, and international choral convention presentations and performances. He currently serves as the ACDA President Elect and is the Organizational History Subcommittee Chair of the ACDA Research and Publications Committee. Dr. Latimer is the founding editor of a Choral Journal column focused on the ACDA International Archives for Choral Music. Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Ian Loeppky is an Associate Professor and Director of Choral Activities at the University of North Alabama since the fall of 2003. His studies began at the University of Manitoba, continued at the University of Minnesota, and finished at the College- Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati. He has also studied with Helmuth Rilling, Dale Warland, Frieder Bernius, Martin Isepp, Charles Bruffy, and Bobby McFerrin. He is a member of the American Choral Directors Association, the Music Educators National Convention, the National Collegiate Choral Organization, the Alabama Vocal Association, the International Federation for Choral Music, Phi Mu Alpha, and Pi Kappa Lambda. He has worked as a singer, scholar, conductor, clinician, adjudicator, and arranger in Canada, the United States, and Portugal. He directs all four choral ensembles at UNA and teaches undergraduate and graduate choral conducting, choral techniques, and graduate choral literature. In addition, he directs the choir at Trinity Episcopal Church, is founder and artistic director of Florence Camerata, and is in demand as a clinician and adjudicator throughout the region and internationally. He conducted the premiere performance of Haydn’s The Creation in Varna, Bulgaria. He is a frequent contributor to the Choral Journal and the Alabama Reprise. Diane Orlofsky is an experienced choral conductor and music educator who is best known in the state of Alabama for her work with pre-service music educators. As a music education methods specialist at TROY University, she has published many articles on teacher education, and her book, REDEFINING TEACHER EDUCATION: The Theories of Jerome Bruner and the Practice of Training Teachers, was published by Peter Lang Publishing in May, 2002. Orlofsky is an active clinician, conductor, and researcher and has held numerous national and regional positions of leadership within MENC and ACDA. She was named an American Fellow in 1997 by the American Association of University Women. She is also the recipient of numerous teaching and research awards while at TROY, including the Ingalls Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching, The Phi Kappa Phi Distinguished Scholar award, Outstanding Music Alumni award for Wright State University, and the A.A.T.E. Outstanding Teacher Education award. Terry Ownby is in his twentieth year of teaching instrumental music in the Muscle Shoals School system. He holds both a Bachelor of Music in Music Education and a Master of Arts in Education from the University of North Alabama. The Muscle Shoals Middle School Symphonic Band was a featured performer at the Alabama Music Educators Associations 2001 convention. He was a guest conductor with the Muscle Shoals High School Symphonic band at the Alabama Music Educators Associations 2003 convention. Mr. Ownby is also active as an adjudicator, clinician, arranger, as a marching band drill designer throughout the Southeast, and served as the camp coordinator for the W.C. Jazz Music Camp from 1999-2007. Mr. Ownby currently serves as the Recording Secretary for the Alabama Bandmasters Association and is the past Chairman of ABA District III. He is a five time member of Who’s Who Among Americas Teachers, listed in Who’s Who in America for 2005, and was nominated for the 2004 Disney Hand Teacher Awards for creativity in teaching. He is the recipient of the National Band Associations “Citation of Excellence” for his contribution to bands and band music. Terry and his wife, Laura, have two children; Emily Lee and Elizabeth Lauren. Sean Powell is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Music Education at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University. He received the Doctor of Education in Music Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign and has taught in the public schools of Tennessee. His research specialty is music teacher education. Articles by Dr. Powell have been published in the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, the Journal of Music Teacher Education, and the Journal of Band Research. 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AMEA 2012 Clinicians Chester B. Phillips is the associate director of bands and director of athletic bands at Georgia State University in downtown Atlanta. His primary responsibilities include conducting the Wind Orchestra, establishing and directing the Marching Band and directing the Basketball Pep Band. Before receiving the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in wind conducting at the University of Georgia, he taught public school in Georgia for nine years. He regularly serves as a clinician and guest conductor for bands across North America and is a visual designer and adjudicator for marching bands throughout the Southeast and Midwest. He serves as an adjudicator for Festivals of Music, Music for All, Bands of America, and Drum Corps International. Alabama Honor Choir Clinician - Dr. Rosephanye Dunn Powell serves as Professor of Voice at Auburn University. She holds degrees from The Florida State University (D.M. in vocal performance, University Fellow), Westminster Choir College (M.M. in vocal performance and pedagogy, with distinction), and Alabama State University (B.M.E., summa cum laude). Prior to her tenure at AU, Dr. Powell served on the faculties of Philander Smith College and Georgia Southern University. Dr. Powell has been hailed as one of America's premier women composers of choral music. She has an impressive catalogue of works published by some of the nation's leading publishers. Additionally, Dr. Powell is commissioned yearly to compose for university choruses, professional, community and church choirs, as well as secondary school choruses. Dr. Powell was a recipient of the “Living Legend Award” presented by California State University African Diaspora Sacred Music Festival in Los Angeles. She was listed in the first edition of the international publication Who Is Who in Choral Music . And, she has been included in Who's Who Among America's Teachers and Outstanding Young Women in America in recent years. Dr. Powell is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), the College Music Society (CMS), the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) and the Music Educators National Conference (NAfME). Jim Tinter is a composer, clinician, publisher and retired public school music educator from Medina, Ohio. He has presented dozens of workshops for MENC, AOSA, The American Recorder Society and The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. His five publications have received rave reviews from American Recorder, and the Jazz Education Journal as well as from teachers and students in the U.S., Canada and Taiwan. Jim’s dynamic and interactive presentations incorporate moving, singing, and playing instruments, in addition to an inspiring and entertaining multi-media presentation with audio and video clips of his students in action. Rebecca Warren is in her 32st year of teaching. She is the associate Band Director at Mandan Middle School. During her career Mrs. Warren has served as the Director of Bands at 3 high schools in Alabama with her final position being at Ft. Payne High School. She served two terms on the Board of the ABA and served as Vice-President and President-elect of that organization. She also served as President of the Alabama Music Educators Association. While serving as President she founded the FAME-Future Alabama Music Educators program. In addition to her teaching duties Mrs. Warren serves as a clinician, guest conductor, adjudicator, and in-service leader. She has served on the summer faculties of Troy University, Auburn University, and Wallace College. She has presented clinics in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Dakota, and at the Mid-West International Band and Orchestra Clinic. Dr. Matthew Wood is Assistant Professor of Low Brass at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama. He received both a BM and MM from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a DMA from the University of Texas-Austin. Before moving to Auburn, Dr. Wood was an active performer, educator, and clinician in both the Austin and San Antonio areas. He performed with San Antonio-based BrassFX and the Austin City Brass as well as with the Austinbones trombone quartet. During his time in Austin, Dr. Wood served on the faculty of the Austin Chamber Music Center and the Texas Brass Camp. His principal teachers are Nathaniel Brickens, Professor of Trombone, University of Texas-Austin and Timothy Myers, Principal Trombone, St. Louis Symphony. Husband and wife team, Joseph and Andrea Coleman, have been teaching music for the past 20 years. He is the music specialist at St. Anthony Catholic School in Madison, MS and she is the Artistic Director and Founder for Cantabile Youth Chorale. Andrea is the current president of the Mississippi Music Educators Association and Joey is the president of the Mississippi Orff Chapter. ala breve 33

AMEA 2012 Clinicians Dr. Benny Ferguson serves as the President of SDNAfME (formerly SDMENC). He is a Past President of the Georgia Music Educators Association and the Georgia chapter of Phi Beta Mu International Bandmasters Fraternity. He recently retired as Director of Bands at Young Harris College. Prior to his tenure at Young Harris College, Dr. Ferguson served as Director of Visual and Performing Arts for the Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools for 10 years. He was a member of the administrative team that founded the Savannah Arts Academy in 1998, a dedicated visual and performing arts public high school. He holds the B.A. in Music Education from Newberry College, the M.M. in Trumpet Performance from the University of South Carolina, and the Ph.D. in Music Education from North Texas State University. Currently the Director of Bands at Tuscaloosa County High School in Northport, Alabama, Jed Smart has been teaching in the state public school system for the past decade during which his bands have received the highest ratings in the concert and marching mediums. He holds degrees from the University of Alabama (BSEd), Troy University (MSEd), and Boston University (DMA). Smart is a two time recipient of the National Band Association Citation of Excellence and is affiliated with several professional and civic organizations. Recently, Smart was named by Tuscaloosa Magazine as one of the Six Most Intriguing People in the Tuscaloosa Community. Jed makes his home in Aliceville, Alabama with his wife, Abby, and daughter, Waverly Mae. AMEA Governing Board Meeting Minutes August 27, 2011 Montgomery Renaissance Hotel, Montgomery, Alabama The AMEA Governing Board met at the Renaissance Hotel in New Business Montgomery, Alabama on August 27, 2011. The meeting was called to order at 10:05 a.m. by AMEA President Steve McLendon. Present at The MENC Southern Division meeting will be held in Atlanta, GA on the meeting: Steve McLendon, Garry Taylor, Karen Hickok, Carla September 11-12, 2011. The AMEA Division Presidents were Gallahan, Sara Womack, Tim Phillips, Jane Powell, Dakota Bromley, encouraged to attend the leadership session. Moya Norlund, John Cooper, Beth Davis, Pat Stegall, and Julie Hornstein. President McLendon was contacted by the National Association of State Boards of Education regarding the position of Alabama The minutes of the June 16, 2011 meeting of the AMEA Governing Superintendent of Education requesting recommendations of qualified Board were read by Recording Secretary, Carla Gallahan. The minutes individuals for the position. President McLendon asked the Board to were approved as read. contact him with recommendations. The financial report was presented by Garry Taylor and discussed. The President McLendon is contacting the universities regarding CMENC report was approved as presented. in an effort to increase participation. Steve McLendon and Garry Taylor reported that they attended Music AMEA Officer elections will be held this year. The Nominating Education Week in Washington, D.C. and participated in sessions and Committee Chair is Chuck Eady and committee members will be discussions on music advocacy and the influence of MENC on our state selected in the near future. The Board made a motion to approve the and the profession. They met with our Senators and feel we are well expense for online voting with the upcoming AMEA elections (Cooper, represented at the national level. Both Senators expressed their support Womack). The motion passed. for the arts. A discussion occurred on eliminating individual division and district Officer, Representatives, and Division Reports may be viewed online checking accounts. Each Division needs 501C3 status. by visiting our website, www.alabamamea.org President McLendon expressed interest in Garry Taylor, Executive Old Business Director of AMEA, attending one other SDMENC state’s music education conference per year to gain information and ideas in order to Online registration for AMEA Conference – the Board discussed ideas be more progressive in our approach to the AMEA Conference. After to improve the registration process at the 2012 Conference. There will discussion, a motion was made (Stegall, Womack) for Mr. Taylor to be a credit card reader and a designated table for college student attend an additional state music education conference. The motion registration. Assistance is needed with college student registration. passed. Recording contract proposals were distributed and reviewed. ProCat 2012 AMEA Conference Planning occurred. will be recording the events of the 2012 AMEA Conference. AMEAAward nominations were distributed, reviewed, and voted upon. The next meeting of the AMEA Governing Board will be held on Award winners will be announced at the 2012 AMEA Conference. Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 6:00 p.m., at the Renaissance Montgomery Hotel. FAME (Future Alabama Music Educators) – the Board asked District Chairman to encourage participation. Junior and senior level high President McLendon adjourned the meeting at 2:08 p.m. school students interested in majoring in music are encouraged to Respectfully submitted, participate. Carla Gallahan, AMEA Recording Secretary 34 October/November 2011

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In Memoriam Billy “Doc” G. Walls, Auburn University The eldest son of four children born to director of Music Ministries at Church Professor of Music/Director of Bands Viola Queen Jones Tucker and John Alfred Street Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Emeritus and Music Education Instructor Tucker, his parents later adopted six America and Center Grove United attained perfection September 13, 2011. additional children. Richard's childhood Methodist Church in Huntsville. He was a Born January 28, 1934, Bill was preceded years were spent in Jamaica, Queens and member of Church Street CPCA, where he in death by his father Elsie, mother Iva, Babylon, Long Island. He confessed his served as an ordained elder, pianist, and brother Joe “Tommy.” Survivors belief in Jesus Christ at an early age and organist and member of E.D. White Men's include wife Kim Curley Walls, sons Bill joined Brooks Memorial United Fellowship. He also coordinated and and Ed, daughter-in-law Kristen, Methodist Church. He graduated from directed many musical programs and grandsons Brandon and Austin and Newtown High School, a school for the events. Richard was a member of Alpha thousands of prior students from Auburn musically gifted, in Elmhurst, Queens, Phi Alpha fraternity, Delta Theta Lambda University, University of Texas at San where he was signaled out to provide chapter; the Most Worshipful Prince Hall, Antonio, Florida State University U.S. music for special events, such as a Mason of Grand Lodge of Free and Navy School of music, and the Auburn, graduations. His baccalaureate and Accepted Masons of Huntsville; and Phi AL community. A native of Naples, TX, professional degrees in piano, voice, vocal Mu Sinfonia fraternity. He held Bill was a long-time resident of Lake pedagogy and conducting were earned at professional memberships in AEA, Martin and a member of Red Ridge Westminster Choir College in Princeton, ACDA, MENC and NATS.A dependable United Methodist Church in Dadeville, N.J. His career in music began at Rust tower of strength has left us. A giant AL, where he enjoyed his four cats, bird College in Holly Springs, Miss., as a sequoia has fallen. He leaves a legacy watching, yoga, teaching music to professor of voice and music theory. He befitting a man of elementary education students, visiting joined the music faculty at Alabama his vision and classes at Loachapoka elementary school Agricultural and Mechanical University in convictions. He and a life-long passion for the trombone. 1967, where he served as director and lives on through all He held music education and music accompanist of the university choirs, of the lives degrees from Baylor University, interim music department chair and touched by him. he Manhattan School of Music, and Florida assistant professor of music. His areas of was true to his State University, served in the 4th Army concentration and expertise were piano code and his God. Band at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, and voice. Richard was university organist TX and performed as a professional for Alabama A&M University, as well as Richard Franklin trombonist. Dr. Walls was affiliated with Tucker Auburn University departments of music and curriculum and teaching for 50 years. Whether you sing in the choir, dance in a musical theater production, play an instrument in a band, have a passion for opera, or lead worship for your church, the University of Mobile Center for Performing Arts has the program for you! t
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THE AUBURN UNIVERSITY BANDS ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE 21ST ANNUAL H B FAUBURN UNIVERSITY SYMPHONIC ONOR AND ESTIVAL FOR GRADES 9-12 FEBRUARY 9-11, 2012 FEATURING SPECIAL GUEST COMPOSER AND CLINICIAN SYMPHONIC WINDS GUEST CONDUCTOR JEFF JOHN BIANCHI CASAGRANDE TIGER BAND GUEST CONDUCTOR EAGLE BAND GUEST CONDUCTOR FEATURES  ‡7KUHH)HVWLYDO+RQRU%DQGV  ‡&RQFHUWVE\\WKH$86\\PSKRQLF:LQGVDQG-D]]%DQG  ‡0DVWHUFODVVZLWK$8$SSOLHG0XVLF)DFXOW\\  ‡5HFHSWLRQIRU'LUHFWRUVDQG&KDSHURQHV  ‡*DOD)HVWLYDO)LQDOH&RQFHUW  ‡6FKRODUVKLS$XGLWLRQVIRU+LJK6FKRRO6HQLRUVZKRSODQWRPDMRULQPXVLF Deadline for nomination forms: November 30, 2011 For more information regarding Festival, please visit our WEBSITE: BAND.AUBURN.EDU ala breve 37

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AMEA 2012 Performers The Saks High School Band is dedicated to musical excellence. Beginning and intermediate band are offered to students in grades 6 and 7 at Saks Middle School. The High School Band consists of students 8th grade through 12th grade. Accomplishments of the band include: all superior ratings at District and State Alabama Bandmasters Association’s Concert Band Competition and Assessments from 2004 through 2010; all superior ratings at marching band contest in Georgia and Alabama, including Best In Class and First Place in Division One in the Covered Bridge Marching Festival in 2004 and 2010, The Mud Creek Marching Festival in Hanceville, AL in 2005, the 2006 Southern Classic Marching Contest at Jacksonville State University, Concourse of Champions in Oxford, AL in 2007, and the Dixie Jubilee Jam Contest in Weaver, AL 2008,2009, & 2010. Several Saks Band graduates continue to further their musical knowledge at a college level as music majors and band members. Many students in the band participate in ABA solo and ensemble events. The Concert Band was honored to be selected to perform at the 2007 AMEA In-service Conference. The Jazz Band has performs at several functions in the community including performing at Ross Bridge C. C. for the State P.E.O. Convention in May 2011. Working each day to embrace the tangible and intangible benefits of musicianship, the Saks Band is inspired by these inspirational words of Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act but a habit” The Concert Choir is the premiere choral ensemble at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The choir has developed an outstanding reputation across the United States and Europe in a short amount of time. Most recent activities include a premiere recording of K. Lee Scott’s Gloria for MorningStar Publications, the ACDA Collegiate Choral Festival, and premiere performances in New Orleans, La. Past performances include the 2008 NCCO Conference in Cincinnati, OH., the AMEA Winter Conference in 2008, and the 2006 Southern Division Convention of ACDA. The choir has also performed in international choral competitions, including the Fleischman International Trophy Competition in Cork, Ireland and the 34th annual Florlilege Vocal de Tours in Tours, France. The Boaz Intermediate School Honor Choir was formed in 2006. It is an auditioned group of fourth and fifth grade students. The group rehearses once a week after school. This choir presents an annual Spring and Christmas Concert as well as performs at various local events throughout the school year. They have performed in conjunction with the Gerhart Chamber Music Festival since 2007. The group currently has 72 members and is under the direction of Miriam Richey. ala breve 39

AMEA 2012 Performers Bottenfield Middle School is located in Adamsville, Alabama. The Choral Department consists of 217 students and four choirs: 6th Grade Choir, 7th & 8th Grade Girl’s Choir, 7th & 8th Grade Boy’s Choir, and 7th & 8th Grade Mixed Choir. All members are required to be proficient in music theory as well as in performance. Many students are also honor students and participate in many extra- curricular activities inside and outside of school. The 7th and 8th Grade Mixed Choir has consistently received superior ratings at district and state level choral performance assessments. The choir has also competed in festivals in Atlanta, Orlando, and Panama City Beach for the past several years earning top ratings. The Hillcrest High School Percussion Ensemble is entering its second year as a formal group. The ensemble is comprised of 9th – 12th grade students who are motivated by playing great literature and displaying their passion for music outside of the concert band setting. Students in the ensemble have had experiences performing in the Midwest Clinic, CBDNA Southern Division Conference, All-State Convention, and various honor bands around the state. The Hoover “First Edition” Jazz Band is under the direction of Mrs. Sallie Vines White. First Edition performs at many school and civic functions throughout the school year. Membership in the group is by audition. The group’s instrumentation consists of 5 saxophones, 5 trombones, 5 trumpets, full rhythm section and a vocalist. The group performs a variety of music from the big band era and today. They do numerous performances for a wide variety of venues. The First Edition Jazz Band has received national recognition through its selection as a finalist in the Savannah Music Festival Swing Central Jazz Contest for the past 4 years. As part of this festival, they have had the opportunity to have clinics with internationally known artists and clinicians. These artists have included Wycliffe Gordon, Marcus Printup, Jason Marsalis, Jim Ketch, Leon Anderson, Jack Wilkins, Terrell Stafford, and others. Wycliffe Gordon, Marcus Printup, and Leon Anderson have all come to Hoover High School to do intensive on-site clinics with the group. Prior to their selection to Swing Central they were selected into the North Texas Jazz Festival and also received Superior ratings for 6 years in a row at the Loyola Jazz Festival in New Orleans. The group is regularly represented in the Alabama All-State Jazz Band. In 2011, nine members of First Edition were represented in the Alabama All State Jazz Bands. The Etowah Youth Orchestras was founded in 1990 to provide the students of Northeast Alabama with major musical and educational experiences through training, development, and performance. The EYO has presented concerts throughout the United States and abroad, including Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln and Kennedy Centers for the Performing Arts, Manston and Stratford-Upon-Avon in England, and San Jose and San Ramon in Costa Rica. The EYO has become nationally recognized for its performances of contemporary music and has been recognized with the receipt of eleven ASCAP Youth Orchestra Awards, and an additional ASCAP Award for American Programming on a Foreign Tour. 40 October/November 2011

AMEA 2012 Performers The Liberty Park Middle School Symphonic Band is comprised of all 7th and 8th grade band students at Liberty Park Middle School in Vestavia Hills, Alabama. The ensemble, consisting of eighty-six musicians, is unique because it meets as four different “sectional” classes each school day, allowing for a more individualized approach to the music. The symphonic band has consistently received superior ratings at the Alabama Music Performance Assessment since the school opened in 2008 and has been noted by judges as having a “powerful” and “well-blended” sound. Under the direction of Travis Bender, the band program at LPMS has grown to include over one hundred forty musicians in a school population just under five hundred. The majority of band students at Liberty Park participate in additional music activities outside of school including Solo and Ensemble Festival, All- State, and various honor bands. The University of Alabama in Huntsville Chamber Choir began as a student-run ensemble in the early 2000s. It was created by a group of young and ambitious music majors and non-majors seeking to expand their knowledge of the choral repertoire. By 2005, the ensemble became a legitimate part of the choral program at UAHuntsville, specializing in a cappella music from all time periods. Erin Colwitz became their conductor in fall of 2008. Currently, the UAHuntsville Chamber Choir is the elite, most highly selective choir on campus. This group also serves as ambassadors for the University—often performing at University functions. They also appear regularly at local high schools in order to recruit and attract new singers to the program. They specialize in very difficult music, primarily unaccompanied. Most recently, they appeared on UAHuntsville’s New Music Festival, premiering new works by Curtis Lindsay (UAH student) and Julian Bryson (Huntsville music teacher). They plan to tour Los Angeles this spring. The Auburn University Symphonic Winds, conducted by Director of Bands and Professor of Music, Dr. Rick Good, is the premier performing ensemble of the Auburn University Bands. A select group of 55 players, the Symphonic Winds perform a broad and diverse repertoire of standard and contemporary band literature along with occasional transcriptions. In recent years, this group has performed numerous times for Alabama Bandmasters Association events, and has undertaken tours within the southern region of the United States each spring. Of special note, the ensemble applied and has been accepted by the United States – China Cultural and Educational Foundation to The People’s Republic of China for a ten- day performance tour, March 2012. Membership in the AU Symphonic Winds is by audition and is open to any Auburn student regardless of major. ala breve 41

AMEA 2012 Performers Prattville High School, located in Prattville, Alabama, proudly supports the 250 students who perform in the Prattville High School Band. Band students who perform in the Concert Band, Symphonic Band, and the Wind Symphony complete a rigorous audition process and are selected based on talent and skill. The Prattville High School Wind Symphony is comprised of the fifty- one best instrumentalists in the Prattville High School Band. In just six years since its establishment, the Wind Symphony has developed a tradition of excellence. The group has consistently received “Superior” ratings at the Alabama District and State Festivals, and has proudly earned “Superior with Distinction” ratings at the ABA MPA in 2010 and 2011. Over 100 members of the Wind Symphony have been selected as individual participants in numerous university honor bands, the District Honor Band, and the All-State Honor Band. Additionally, all members of the ensemble who have participated in the ABA Solo and Ensemble Festival have received “Superior” ratings. The members of the Prattville High School Wind Symphony combine their skill and leadership with their love of music to reach their full potential as an ensemble and as individual representatives of their school and community. The Jacket Sing-Sations Elementary Choir is made up of 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students from all four elementary schools in the Oxford City School System in Oxford, Alabama: Coldwater Elementary (K-4), DeArmanville Elementary (K- 4), Oxford Elementary (K-4), and C.E. Hanna Elementary (5-6). Auditions are held each spring. The choir began in 2008 under the direction of music teachers Lorraine Busby and Kristina Sisco. The group was created to give Oxford’s elementary students the opportunity to continue their education in music reading and performance skills beyond their weekly 30 minute music class. The choir began with 45 members in the 4th and 5th grade and has grown into a 70 member choir, with 6th grade being added this year. The Jacket Sing-Sations perform for various community and school system events throughout the year. The 4th grade members attend the AMEA Elementary Music Festival annually. The 5th graders attend the Jacksonville State University Honor Choir annually. The 6th grade choir members will add solo and ensemble to their annual events this year. The Jacket Sing- Sations rehearse once a week after regular school hours. They perform a variety of choral literature and styles. Gulf Shores High School is located in the lower portion of Alabama and has long been known as Alabama’s premier vacation getaway. Enrollment at Gulf Shores High School typically is around 800 students. The Gulf Shores Symphonic Winds is in its sixth year under the direction of Tim Brannan. During those six years the band has grown from less than 30 members to 115 this year. During that time the band has never received less than a superior rating at any festival or competition attended. The band has traveled to Orlando, Hawaii and will be traveling to New York this spring to participate in the St. Patrick’s Day parade. Mr. Brannan collaborates with fellow director Ryan England to teach at Gulf Shores High School, Gulf Shores Middle School, Gulf Shores Elementary School, Orange Beach Elementary School and Swift Consolidated School. 42 October/November 2011

PRE-REGISTRATION FORM LAST NAME ______________________________ AMEA In-Service Conference FIRST NAME______________________(for badge) January 19-21, 2012 MENC ID#_________________________________ Renaissance Montgomery Hotel at the Convention Center, Montgomery, Alabama Please enclose a copy of your card. Home Address: __________________________________ ____________________ ______ _______ (City) (State) (Zip) Home Phone: ______________________________ Email: __________________________________ School Name: ______________________________________________________________________ School Address: _________________________________ ____________________ ______ _______ (City) (State) (Zip) School Phone: ______________________________ Cell: ___________________________________ Primary Division Affiliation: (check only one) _____ABA _____AVA _____ELEM _____AOA _____HED _____CMENC Other Division/s Affiliation: (check all that apply, or none if only one division affiliation) _____ABA _____AVA _____ELEM _____AOA _____HED _____CMENC Please tell us if you are: _____Clinician _____Conductor of a performing group at the conference _____Retired _____Guest Performer Current Members, Clinicians, First Year Teachers CMENC Members Conductors Pre-Registration $30.00 Pre-Registration $80.00 Pre-registration $65.00 (On-Site Registration $35.00) (On-Site Registration $90.00) (On-Site Registration $75.00) Non-Member Alabama Retired Members Spouse* or Guest* of Music Teacher AMEA Member Registration Complimentary Registration $15.00 Pre-Registration $185.00 (On-Site Registration $195.00) *may not be a music teacher TOTAL AMOUNT PAID $____________ MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO AMEA A fee of $35 will be charged for returned checks No Purchase Orders Accepted. Check or Credit Card Only To pre-register with a credit card go to www.alabamamea.org through January 10, 2012 ************************* Mail form and check by Jan. 10, 2012 to: *********************** AMEA, 1612 Second Avenue SW, #181, Cullman, AL 35055 Important: Forms and payment received after Jan. 10 will be held at the registration desk for onsite registration. Do not send forms or payment to the above address after Jan. 10, 2012! THANK YOU! Your conference packet will be ready at the registration desk in the Renaissance Montgomery Hotel. Your receipt will be in your packet at the conference. ******************************************************************************************************************************************** Please do not fill in the information below. This is for AMEA bookkeeping ONLY Personal Check # _________________________ School Check # ______________________ Membership verified and payment receipted by: ________________________________ Date: ____________________ ala breve 43

2012 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Wednesday, January 18, 2012 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. AMEA Governing Board - Renaissance, Riverview 2 8:15 p.m. Steve McLendon, Presiding ABA Governing Board - Renaissance, Riverview 2 John Cooper, Presiding AVA Governing Board -Renaissance, Riverview 4 Jane Powell, Presiding CMENC Governing Board - Renaissance, Riverview Boardroom Dakota Bromley, Presiding AOA Governing Board -Renaissance, Riverview 3 Clay McKinney, Presiding Thursday, January 19, 2012 7:30 a.m.- 9:00 a.m. AMEA Leadership Breakfast - Renaissance, Ballroom B Guest Speakers: Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser & Benny Ferguson, SDMENC President 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Conference Registration - Renaissance Registration Lobby 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. All-State Show Choir Registration - Renaissance, Exhibit Hall A 9:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Alabama Honor Choir Registration - Renaissance, Exhibit Hall B 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. All-State Show Choir Rehearsal - Renaissance Exhibit Hall A 9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. AOA/CMENC/ELEM Interest Session - Renaissance, Alabama Ballroom A Improvisation: Take the Fear Out - Jim Tinter, Clinician AVA Interest Session - Renaissance, Alabama Ballroom CD 12 Simple Rehearsal Tips for a Better Middle School Choral Experience- Greg Gilpin, Clinician ABA Interest Session - Renaissance, Alabama Ballroom E What is Lab Band and How Do I Start One? - Terry Ownby, Clinician FAME Welcome and Introduction - Renaissance, Montgomery Meeting Room 5 Session with Benny Ferguson, SDMENC President 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Alabama Honor Choir Rehearsal - Renaissance, Exhibit Hall B 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Keynote Address - Renaissance, Montgomery Performing Arts Center (MPAC) Choosing Excellence is Easy: Maintaining it is the Key to Success - Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser 11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. FAME Luncheon - Renaissance, Starlight Foyer 1:00 p.m. - 1:50 p.m. ABA Concert Session - Renaissance, MPAC Hoover 1st Edition - Sallie Vines White, Conductor ELEM Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom A Are You Hip as a 4th Grader? - Jim Tinter, Clinician HED Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom B How to Improve Your Conducting When There Isn't Time to Work on It - Chester Phillips, Clinician 44 October/November 2011

1:00 p.m. - 1:50 p.m. CMENC Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom CD Rehearsal Technique According to the Twelve Commandments - Erin Colwitz, Clinician 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. AOA Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom E 1:50 p.m. - 2:20 p.m. Assessment Strategies for the Instrumental Ensemble Classroom - Sean Powell, Clinician 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 2:20 p.m. - 3:10 p.m. FAME Session - Renaissance, Montgomery Meeting Room 5 Leadership is a VERB, it requires ACTION - Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser, Clinician 3:15 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. 3:25 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. All-State Jazz Bands Registration - Renaissance, Montgomery Meeting Room 7 4:15 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. All-State Show Choir Rehearsal - Renaissance Exhibit Hall A 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Alabama Honor Choir Rehearsal - Renaissance, Exhibit Hall B Visit Exhibits - Renaissance, Exhibit Hall C All-State Jazz Bands Rehearsals Gold Band - Renaissance, Montgomery Meeting Room 7 Silver Band - Renaissance, Montgomery Meeting Room 1 Middle School Band - Renaissance, Riverview Meeting Room 1 AVA Concert Session - Renaissance, MPAC Bottenfield Middle School Mixed Choir - Sherrell Huggins, Conductor ELEM Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom A A Whole Lot of Hullabaloo! - Greg Gilpin, Clinician ABA Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom B Essential Elements 2000 - Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser, Clinician AOA, CMENC, HED Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom CD Use of the iPad in Musical Lessons and Rehearsals - Grant Dalton, Clinician FAME Session - Renaissance, Montgomery Meeting Room 5 Why Teach Music? - Panel Discussion ELEM Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom A Choral Expressions for the 2-Part Choir - Greg Gilpin, Clinician ABA, CMENC Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom B Got Band? No Wind Ensemble - No Problem! - Becky Warren, Clinician AVA Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom CD Ours Is A Calling - Paul Gulsvig, Clinician AOA, HED Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom E Performance Psychology in the Classroom - Erik Janners, Clinician FAME Wrap-up - Renaissance, Montgomery Meeting Room 5 ELEM Concert Session - Renaissance, MPAC Boaz Intermediate School Honor Choir & Oxford Elementary Jacket Sing-Sations AOA Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom A How to Play and Teach Beginning Jazz Improvisation - Jim Tinter, Clinician ABA, AVA Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom CD Breathing Efficiently: Improving Tone Quality in Instrumental and Vocal Performance Ensembles Michelle Debruyn, Andree Martin & Robert Murray, Clinicians ala breve 45

5:45 p.m. - 6:45 p.m. ELEM Board Meeting - Renaissance, Montgomery Meeting Room 5 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. All-State Jazz Bands Rehearsals - Montgomery Meeting Rooms 7 & 1, Riverview Meeting Room 1 7:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. AMEA Concert Session - Renaissance, MPAC Presentation of AMEA Honor Roll Benny Ferguson, SDMENC President UAB Concert Choir - Brian Kittredge, Conductor Prattville High School Wind Symphony - Rob Cothran, Conductor All-State Show Choir Rehearsal - Renaissance Exhibit Hall A Alabama Honor Choir Rehearsal - Renaissance, Exhibit Hall B Friday, January 20, 2012 8:00 a.m. - 8:50 a.m. ABA Business Meeting - Renaissance, Ballroom B John Cooper, Presiding AOA Business Meeting - Renaissance, Ballroom E Clay McKinney, Presiding 9:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. ABA Concert Session - Renaissance, MPAC Liberty Park Middle School Symphonic Band, Travis Bender, Conductor AOA Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom B JW Pepper Presents New Orchestra Music AVA, ELEM Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom CD Maintaining Diversity: A Survey of Multicultural Choral Literature - Rollo Dilworth, Clinician CMENC, HED Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom E Free AND Fantastic, Cheap AND Classic: the World of Choral Public Domain Library - Ian Loeppky, Clinician 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. All-State Show Choir Rehearsal - Renaissance Exhibit Hall A Alabama Honor Choir Rehearsal - Renaissance, Exhibit Hall B 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. All-State Jazz Bands Rehearsals - Montgomery Meeting Rooms 7 & 1, Riverview Meeting Room 1 9:50 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Visit Exhibits - Renaissance, Exhibit Hall C 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. ABA Concert Session - Renaissance, MPAC Gulf Shores High Symphonic Band - Tim Brannon, Conductor ELEM, AVA Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom A Reading Session of Chorals at All Levels - Greg Gilpin, Clinician AOA Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom CD Teacher Preparation Curricula: Do We Teach Them What They Need to Know? - Marvin Latimer, Clinician CMENC Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom E Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? Positive Classroom Management for Your Music Classroom Diane Orlofsky, Clinician 12:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. Phi Beta Mu Luncheon - Renaissance, Ballroom B 1:00 p.m. - 1:50 p.m. AOA Concert Session - Renaissance MPAC Etowah Youth Symphony Orchestra - Michael Gagliardo, Conductor 46 October/November 2011

1:00 p.m. - 1:50 p.m. ABA Concert Session - Renaissance, Ballroom CD Hillcrest High School Percussion Ensemble - Nick Smith, Conductor 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m.- 5:30 p.m. ELEM Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom A 1:50 p.m. - 2:20 p.m. That's the Ticket! Classroom Management Strategies that Really Work! (Part 1) - Tiffany English, Clinician 2:20 p.m. - 3:10 p.m. CMENC Interest Session - Renaissance, Montgomery Meeting Room 5 3:25 pm. 4:15 p.m. 1st Year Teacher Panel Discussion 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. HED Research Poster Session - Renaissance, Exhibit Hall Prefunction Area (Lobby) Alabama Honor Choir Rehearsal - Renaissance, Exhibit Hall B All-State Jazz Bands Rehearsals - Montgomery Meeting Rooms 7 & 1, Riverview Meeting Room 1 All-State Show Choir Rehearsal - Renaissance Exhibit Hall A Visit Exhibits - Renaissance, Exhibit Hall C ABA Concert Session - Renaissance, MPAC Saks High School Concert Band - Gene Inglis, Conductor ELEM Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom A That's the Ticket! Classroom Management Strategies that Really Work! (Part 2) - Tiffany English, Clinician AOA Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom B Alfred Publication’s Orchestra Expressions - Sandra Dackow, Clinician (with the Etowah Youth Orchestra) AVA Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom CD The Middle School Chorus: Recruitment, Rehearsals and Repertoire - Rollo Dilworth, Clinician CMENC Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom E Assessment - Panel Discussion HED Interest Session - Renaissance, Montgomery Meeting Room 5 Slide Technique for Young Trombonists - Matthew Wood, Clinician ABA, CMENC Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom A 10 Gems for Great Rehearsals - Gregg Gausline, Clinician AOA Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom B Hands On Conducting - Sandra Dackow, Clinician (with the Etowah Youth Orchestra) AVA Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom CD Conducting the Choral Art Song: How Text Informs Tone and Gesture - Rollo Dilworth, Clinician HED Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom E Quality of Sound for the Percussionist - Gene Fambrough, Clinician ELEM Business Meeting - Renaissance, Montgomery Meeting Room 5 Beth Davis, Presiding AVA Concert Session - Renaissance, MPAC UA Huntsville Chamber Choir - Erin Colwitz, Conductor ELEM Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom A Creating Composers: Ideas and Activities to Help Each K-5 Student Unleash Their Inner Composer Craig Hurley, Clinician ala breve 47

4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. AOA Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom B Rehearsal Techniques - Sandra Dackow, Clinician (with the Etowah Youth Orchestra) HED Performance Session - Renaissance, Ballroom CD ABA Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom E From Chalkboards to Tablet Computers: Strategies for Implementing Technology from the Podium - Jed Smart, Clinician 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. All-State Jazz Bands Rehearsals - Montgomery Meeting Rooms 7 & 1, Riverview Meeting Room 1 6:30 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. Alabama Honor Choir Dress Rehearsal - Renaissance, MPAC 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. AMEA Concert Session - Renaissance, MPAC Presentation of Awards Alabama Honor Choir - Rosephanye Powell, Conductor Auburn University Symphonic Winds - Rick Good, Conductor Saturday, January 21, 2012 7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. All-State Show Choir Dress Rehearsal - Renaissance, MPAC 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. ELEM Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom A Be My Neighbor (Part 1) - Joey & Andrea Coleman, Clinicians AVA Business Meeting - Renaissance, Ballroom CD Jane Powell, Presiding ABA Business Meeting - Renaissance, Ballroom B John Cooper, Presiding AOA Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom E Tempo Press Reading Session - Sandra Dackow, Clinician 9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. ELEM Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom A Be My Neighbor (Part 2) - Joey & Andrea Coleman, Clinicians ABA Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom B Dealing With Difficult Parents in Your Program: Soothing the Savage Beast - Randall Coleman, Clinician AOA Interest Session - Renaissance, Ballroom E Writing and Arranging - Sandra Dackow, Clinician 9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. AVA Concert Session - Renaissance, MPAC All-State Show Choir - Paul Gulsvig, Clinician; Santana Shelton, Choreographer 9:30 a.m. 10:15 a.m. All-State Jazz Bands Warm-up - Montgomery Meeting Rooms 7 & 1, Riverview Meeting Room 1 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ABA Concert Session - Renaissance, MPAC All-State Jazz Bands (Middle School, Silver, and Gold Bands) ACDA Business Meeting - Renaissance, Ballroom E 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. AMEA Governing Board Meeting - Renaissance, Riverview 2 Steve McLendon, Presiding Keep Your NAfME Profile up to date! It’s as easy as 1-2-3 1. Visit the NAfME website, www.NAfME.org 2. Sign in with your email address and NAfME membership # 3. Click “Member Services” AMEA uses contact info from the NAfME database to send the Ala Breve and E-Newsletters. Don’t miss out! 48 October/November 2011

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The Auburn University Bands are pleased to announce The 3rd Annual Auburn University Symphonic Honor Band Festival for junior high/middle school students (grades 6-9) February 2-4, 2012 Special guest conductor and composer along with Matt Conaway Audrey Murphy guest conductor February 4-6, 2010 Connie Hammond guest conductor Chris Walker guest conductor Deadline for nomination forms: November 30, 2011 FEATURES * Clinic sessions with Matt Conaway * Host concert by the AU Concert and Jazz Bands * Gala Festival Finale Concert SPECIAL GUEST CONCERTS BY: Pizitz Middle School Band directed by Kim Bain Lovinggood Middle School Band directed by Joseph Heiberger BAND.AUBURN.EDU 50 October/November 2011