Volume 27 Number 1 A Quarterly Publication of Quinlan & Fabish Music Company Fall 2013 Back to School Reading Sessions Hit the Mark! Special thanks to our hosts at Lakeveiw Junior High-Tom Tedeschi & Brian Ohlsen for hosting our annual reading sessions in August. Our special guest conductors were sponsored by Hal Leo- nard Publishing and masterfully com- pleted four hours worth of music in three hours!! Our orchestra clinician, Soo Han, led an impressive group of orchestra direc- tors from the Chi- cago area. Mr. Han is a composer and the director of orchestras at Car- mel HS in Indian- apolis. Hal Leonard also sponsored our guest band conduc- tor, the legen- dary Johnnie Vinson. In addition to having hun- dreds of pieces published, Johnnie re- cently retired as director of bands at Auburn Univer- sity. He opened the session cleverly Chicagoland Outstanding Music Educator Awards The Class of 2013 Page Four & Five The "New Excellent" Rating in Music Teacher Evaluation Incorporate key teaching strategies into your rehearsal lessons that will demonstrate to evaluators that music is an essential component of a comprehensive education and that you are an Excellent" teacher. On Saturday, October 26th, we will host a special workshop in our Burr Ridge con- ference center about a topic of growing impor- tance to Music Educators in our area. Join educators Bill Jastrow and Charles (Chip) Staley of IPSD 204 for a pres- entation and discussion on the impact of the Charlotte Danielson evaluation sys- tem on music education, your class- room, and your teaching career. Saturday, October 26th 9:30-11:30AM Reservations are required for this special workshop. To register, con- tact your QF school rep, call 630.654.4111 or sign-up on line by visiting www.qandf.com Special Music Educator Workshop: with a strong Southern drawl by an- nouncing that he is from L.A….Lower Alabama!! Some comments from participants in- cluded: “New teacher here! Getting used to it all still. Thanks for the great ex- perience.” David Petersons - Wheaton Christian Grammar School “Thank you. As always a great way to start the year.” - Dan Holhut - Fred Rogers Magnet Academy in Aurora Thanks for hosting this! Very help- ful...Lisa Rose – Herrick MS Thank you so much – such a useful workshop!...Karen Banaszewski – Ad- dams JHS At the end of the sessions, a raffle was done for participants to select a piece from the collection played that day. Everyone left with a prize! Following the morning reading sessions, partici- pants were invited to our QF store in Burr Ridge for a delicious bar-be-que lunch and an opportunity to meet and greet the clinicians. More photos on page fourteen.
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Volume 27 Number 1 A Quarterly Publication of Quinlan & Fabish Music Company Fall 2013
Back to School
Reading Sessions
Hit the Mark!
Special thanks to our hosts at Lakeveiw Junior High-Tom Tedeschi & Brian
Ohlsen for hosting our annual reading sessions in August. Our special guest conductors were sponsored by Hal Leo-nard Publishing and masterfully com-pleted four hours worth of music in
three hours!! Our orchestra clinician, Soo Han, led an
impressive group of orchestra direc-tors from the Chi-cago area. Mr. Han is a composer and the director of orchestras at Car-mel HS in Indian-apolis.
Hal Leonard also sponsored our guest band conduc-tor, the legen-dary Johnnie
Vinson. In addition to having hun-dreds of pieces p u b l i s h e d , Johnnie re-cently retired as director of bands at Auburn Univer-sity. He opened the session cleverly
Chicagoland Outstanding
Music Educator
Awards
The Class of 2013 Page Four & Five
The "New Excellent" Rating in Music
Teacher Evaluation
Incorporate key teaching strategies into your rehearsal
lessons that will demonstrate to evaluators that music is an essential component of a
comprehensive education and that you are an Excellent" teacher.
On Saturday, October 26th, we will
host a special workshop in our Burr Ridge con-ference center about a topic of growing impor-tance to Music Educators in our area. Join educators Bill Jastrow and Charles (Chip) Staley of IPSD 204 for a pres-entation and discussion on the impact of the Charlotte D a n i e l s o n evaluation sys-
tem on music education, your class-room, and your teaching career.
Saturday, October 26th
9:30-11:30AM
Reservations are required for this special workshop. To register, con-tact your QF school rep, call 630.654.4111 or sign-up on line by visiting www.qandf.com
Special Music Educator Workshop:
with a strong Southern drawl by an-nouncing that he is from L.A….Lower
Alabama!! Some comments from participants in-cluded: “New teacher here! Getting used to it all still. Thanks for the great ex-perience.” David Petersons - Wheaton Christian Grammar School “Thank you. As always a great way to start the year.” - Dan Holhut - Fred Rogers Magnet Academy in Aurora Thanks for hosting this! Very help-ful...Lisa Rose – Herrick MS Thank you so much – such a useful workshop!...Karen Banaszewski – Ad-dams JHS
At the end of the sessions, a raffle was done for participants to select a piece from the collection played that day. Everyone left with a prize! Following the morning reading sessions, partici-pants were invited to our QF store in Burr Ridge for a delicious bar-be-que lunch and an opportunity to meet and greet the clinicians. More photos on page fourteen.
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“Mi Casa es Su Casa” By George Quinlan, Jr.
Latin families have an expression that translates “My House is Your House”. Since opening our new facilities in Burr Ridge and Montgomery, we have wel-comed different groups to QF hosting their meetings and events in our confer-ence rooms. Recently, we hosted an Illi-nois ASTA board meeting, focus groups for Hal Leonard and Rico, the new QF Advisory Board, and most recently a workshop with Bob Phillips & Dr. Peter
Boonshaft sponsored by Alfred Music.
This fall we’re delighted to host several IMEA Master Classes at QF to assist high school performers prepare for IMEA auditions. See page Four for spe-cial presentations with Flutist-Dr. Cate
Hummel, Oboist-Margie Arito, and Trombonist-Luke Malewicz. And, we are excited to host a special educator workshop with Bill Jastrow & Chip
Staley concerning the Danielson evalua-tion system.
We would like to thank the following hole sponsors of the Rhodes Classic: Al-fred Music, American Way, Americanea-gle.com, Anthem Mu-sical Instruments, Arcos-Brasil String Instruments, ARS Technology, Blatti
Avia t ion, Buffe t , Cannonball , CliftonLarasonAllen LLP, Concord, Conn-Selmer, CSC-Shen, D’Addario, DANSR, Devries Roofing, Director’s Showcase, DJR Cleaning Service, Dolan & Murphy, Eastman Music Company, Edgewood Commercial Real Estate, Ge-meinhardt, Grasso Graphics, Hal Leo-nard, Harris-Teller, Howard Core, Insur-ance Plans Agency, Jupiter, Krusinski Construction, Pearl, Resort Meetings Consortiaum, Scribes Inc., St. Louis Mu-sic, VanderCook Alumni Association, Vic Firth, West Suburban Bank, West Suburban Wealth Management, Wood-creek Builders, and Yamaha. With their help we were able to raise over $10,000 for the Rhodes Library Fund at Vander-Cook College of Music.
Southwest Suburban Location: 6827 High Grove Blvd.
Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527 630-654-4111
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Joining the fun at the Rhodes Classic is Ray DeVries (DeVries Roofing), Mike
Svanascini (americaneagle.com), Clar-
marie Keenan (VCM), George Quin-
lan, Cam Stasa (VCM) and Herman
Knoll (Hal Leonard).
Music Trades magazine produces an annual listing of the Top 200 Music Re-tailers in the United States. Our com-pany was ranked in the Top Twenty in the USA and the leading family-owned school music specialist in the US.
NAMM honors a listing of the Top 100 dealers in the nation at the annual Sum-mer NAMM show in Nashville. QF was again recognized in this out-standing group of retailers.
Sousa-Palooza was a great hit at the Daley Center in June as part of the Make Music Chicago Festival. Dr.
Richard Fischer of Concordia Univer-sity led the band through a variety of Sousa marches to the delight of the audience. Join “Make Music Chicago” in 2014 on the Summer Solstice.
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Stork Report…Jennifer
Melugin and husband Bryan had a beautiful baby girl, Elise Marie
Melugin born August 10th, 8lbs 8oz.. Jennifer
is the band director at Harvest Christian Academy in Elgin. Congratulations to Kingsley Tang (band director at Francis Parker School in Chi-cago) and his wife on the birth of their first child, Oliver Jameson Tang, born on Friday May 24th 2013 at 1:39am weighing in at 8lbs 3oz Sarah Miller, orchestra director at Culver School in Niles, and her husband, Travis, welcomed a baby girl, Helen
Rose, on June 21st. Congratulations to Kristin DeBoer of Homewood Dist 153 on birth of Alaina
Rae DeBoer May 28th at 10:03AM
weighing a healthy 8 pounds 1 oz. Wedding Bells…Erin Hansen, Or-chestra director at Richmond Int. School in St. Charles was married in Las Vegas this past summer and is now Mrs. Erin Zomchek. Congratulations to Kevin & Maggie
Dobbeck on their recent wedding. Kevin teaches band at Westfield Com-munity School in Algonquin. What a summer for these cou-ples!...Chris Bajek, new band director at Zion Dist 6 and Kristin (Kellner)
Bajek, new band director at Gavin Central, were married on June 29. Dion Morales, new orchestra director at Chippewa MS in Des Plaines, and Devon (Reedy) Morales, new head orchestra director at Lane Tech College Prep, were married on July 27. Congratulations to Lindsey Basset new MS band director in Harvard District 50. We would additionally like to wish Lindsey joyful congratulations on her marriage to Steve Boyette on June 8th. New husband, new job…what a won-derful year!! New faces, New places…Amber
Feigel has been named as the Band Director at Ridgeland 122 School Dis-trict. The school district was able to restore their band program after several years being taught after-school on a fee basis...Great News!! Please welcome Jessica Boese as the new music teacher & band director at
Sandridge School in Chicago Heights. Congratulations to Kevin Carroll who is the new Orchestra Director at Rolling Meadows High School.
Matt Becker returns to the Chicago area to lead the band program at Memorial JHS in Lansing following the retirement of David Allie.
Congratulations to Brooke Atlas who begins her teaching career joining An-
thony Camarda at Marlowe Middle School in Huntley.
Jonathon Bogue was recently named the new Director of Bands at Willowbrook HS, following the retirement of William
Gilmer. Stacie Milostan is the new orchestra director at Sandburg MS joining Heather
Knight & Rico Vazquez.
Mark Dreyer is the new band director at Central Junior High in Evergreen Park. He also assumes the responsibility for the beginners in four elementary schools within Evergreen Park. Best wishes! Congratulations to recent Vandercook College of Music graduate, Jamie
Steinberg who begins her teaching ca-reer as the new Orchestra Director at Cooper Middle School in Wheeling fol-lowing the retirement of Ann Rapp.
Best wishes to Rick Rohde who has joined Nick Konwerski at Huntley High School to co-direct the growing band program there. Lornetta Hooks has passed on the baton to Megan Hoff Muscato at Gower ele-mentary in Burr Ridge. Megan joins Steve Pittman & Jen Kolze in continu-ing the fine musical traditions in the Gower district. Congratulations to Austin O’Brien who begins his teaching career as band direc-tor at St. Patrick High School in Chicago. Austin is a recent graduate from Elm-hurst College.
Send news about your school music program for our next issue to [email protected]
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In Oswego Dist. 308, Chris Werve joins Dan
Harrison at Thompson JHS & Meghan Fulton
at Plank JHS. Jessica
Corry is the new Assistant Director of bands at Traughber JHS in Oswego and Stevan Rexroat is the new Assistant Director of Bands at Oswego East HS. Congratulations to Jakub Luba who begins his teaching career at Park Cam-pus school in Grayslake Dist. 46. He will be assisting Megan Ames, teaching les-sons, ensembles and general music classes in the district. Jakub recently graduated from Augustana Kerry Rea will be returning to Harrison School in Wonder Lake to teach K-5 general music and 5-8 grade bands. Kerry was able to temporarily fill in last fall and presented the December concert at Harrison. Following a successful stint as student teacher, Dan Kent was hired as the new elementary Band Director for Indian Springs District 109. A few updates in Dist. 300...Amanda
Christenson now teaches at Lakewood School Lincoln Prairie Elementary. Adam Brown is now the band and or-chestra director at Lake in the Hills Ele-mentary, Jackie Pendola is the new band director at Algonquin MS, and Heather
Roberts joins both the band and orches-tra staff at Dundee-Crown High School . Matt Janus is now at Eisenhower in Darien. Best wishes, Matt! A few staffing changes and additions in Indian Prairie Dist. 204 as well...Neuqua Valley HS added Emily Binder (Band) and Krista Halvorson (Orchestra) to their staff and Waubonsie Valley HS added Mark Duker (Band/Department Chair) & Daryl Silberman (Orchestra). Metea Valley HS added Robin Sack-
schewsky (Orchestra), while Bethany
Luga joins the staff at Fischer MS and Scullen MS has added Regina Kazda
(Orchestra) to their staff. Melissa
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Master Classes at QF IMEA audition preparations
Flute - Dr. Cate Hummel
Monday-September 16 - 6:30 to 8:00PM - Burr Ridge Monday-September 23 - 6:30 to 8:00PM - Mt. Prospect Monday-September 30 - 6:30 to 8:00PM - Montgomery
Trombone - Luke Malewicz Wednesday-September 25 - 6:30 to 8:00PM - Burr Ridge
To register, call 1-800-63-SOUSA or visit
www.qandf.com $12 per student - limited enrollment per session
2013 Chicagoland Outstanding
Music Educator Awards On June 11th, several outstanding educators were honored with the annual presentation of the Chicagoland Outstanding Music Educator Awards. The “Class of 2013” was nominated by their peers and selected by a panel of previous winners of this prestigious award.
Our special guest speaker for the evening was Charles Staley, Fine Arts Chair at Neu-qua Valley HS and founder of ArtSpeaks 204, an innovative community-based Arts Advocacy organization. Following the opening remarks, each 2013 winner provided comments and thanks to their colleagues, mentors, administration, and
friends. We were delighted to see several administrators attend the celebration too. As the evening progressed, it was time to recognize the winner of the 2013 John Paynter Lifetime Achievement award. David Allie has been the director of bands at Memorial JHS in Lansing for a generation. The band program has been nationally recognized for excellence for many years and Mr. Allie retired in the Spring of 2013. The Chicagoland Outstanding Music Educator awards began in 1989. Over one hun-dred teachers have been recognized since it’s inception. A few years ago, we initiated the Michiana Outstanding Music Educator awards. The Class of 2013 was included Sandy Carnall, Jeff Hatfield, Karen Hershberger, Karen Braden, Ed King, Alan
Mitchell, and Steve Peterson. Congratulations to all the winners for their outstanding contributions to Music Education in our area.
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2013 Chicagoland Outstanding Music Educator
Award Winners
Lornetta Hooks
Gower District 62
Melissa Schoonover
Washington JHS
Joliet
Don Devany
Matea Valley HS
Stacy Williams-Jackson
Lincoln Way Central HS
David Allie
Recently Retired - Memorial JHS - Lansing, IL
2013Paynter Lifetime Achievement Award
Proudly displaying his Paynter Award
and the Painter Award compliments of Ed Jones (IGSMA)
George Andrikokus
Indian Trail MS
Addison
Mark Corey
Addison Trail HS
Jeff Muraida
Dirksen JHS
Joliet
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Schwolow (Band) and S t e p h a n i e L e i n (Orchestra) have joined the staff at Gregory MS, and Peterson Elementary will have Mary Mandel
teaching orchestra. Brian Everson is the new band director in Palos Hts. Dist 128. Best wishes! Congratulations to Sam Harris who be-gins his band directing career at UIC Col-lege Prep, joining Steve Sanders who recently added duties to his band direct-ing as the school’s Fine Arts chair.
Best Wishes to Gretchen Pearson is the new orchestra director at Hinsdale MS Dist 181. Congratulations to Juan Torres (recent Vandercook College of Music graduate) who begins his band directing career at Johnson College Prep on Chicago’s south side. Michael Bielecki joins Ryan Flowers in Blue Island Dist 130. Congratulations to Juan Torres (recent Vandercook College of Music graduate) who begins his career at Johnson College Prep on Chicago’s south side. Nicole Krzebiot is the new elementary orchestra director at Churchill School in Homewood Dist 153. Natalie Scharf & Maia Fredman were recently named as the new band directors at Gemini Dist. 63 in Niles. Homecoming...George Andrikokus joins Bill Winters in Bensenville Dist. 2. George is an alumnus of the band pro-gram in Bensenville! Ashley Etzkorn was named as the new Orchestra teacher at MacArthur JHS in Prospect Heights. Congratulations to Tobin Langridge
who was named as the new Orchestra Director at Hoffman Estates HS, joining the Music department with Bob Erickson
& David Orlicz.
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Thompson, Director of Bands at North-western University, the Northshore Con-cert Band is now in its 58th year. The band has been nationally recognized as one of the premier concert bands in the country, and performs many educational and outreach activities to promote music education and high-quality wind music. For more information about the North-shore Concert Band please visit: www.northshoreband.org
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Jennifer Silverstone-
Page was selected as the orchestra director at Niles North HS. Con-gratulations, Jennifer! Let’s Welcome Andy
Sturgeon & Jerry Shelato, the new band tandem teaching at Mundelein HS. After a long stint at MHS, Adam Gohr
has joined the outstanding staff at Liber-tyville HS. Congratuations! Vince Genualdi has joined the staff at-Freedom MS in Berwyn as band direc-tor...best wishes! Sara Kumpula will direct the band Big Hollow MS. All the best, Sara! A few changes at Vernon Hills HS...following the retirement of Frank
Lestina, Jason Heath & Robert Reilly
will direct the orchestras and Drew Rus-
sell was named Fine Arts Coordinator. Please welcome Michael Duggan, or-chestra director at Barrington MS-Station Campus.
who starts her teaching career assisting Brian Logan at Wheeling HS.
Kenwood Academy has started an Or-chestra program led by Ernestine Flem-
A few changes in Des Plaines Dist. 62...Nicole Krampien will direct the Plainfield School orchestra and Matt
Rutherford the Iroquois Community School orchestra. Dave Tribley has joined the staff at Warren HS. Congratulations, Dave! Best wishes to Johnny Untch, new band director at Antioch Community HS Scott Lindstrom will be filling in for Terri Plohr at Hawthorn Townline School band, while she is on a maternity leave. Christopher Aust has accepted a posi-tion at Serena Hills Elementary School in Flossmoor School District 161 teach-ing K-5 general music. The new director at McKinley JHS in South Holland is Sally Friederich-
Congratulations!! The new band director is Chris Darwell at Hurley School-Chicago. Congrats! Congratulations to Emily Malamud
Indian Prairie District 204 was among the school districts named as Best Communi-ties for Music by SupportMusic.com of the NAMM Foundation. Matea Valley HS accepts this recognition at a special concert presentation. Principal, Jim
Schmid accepts on behalf of the students.
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First impressions are lasting impressions…
From the first notice sent home to the first day of class, you are creating an im-portant impression in the mind of the parents about your band or orchestra pro-gram. For decades we have been refining the steps for a successful recruitment. We can assist in every step of the way.
Starting with our initial planning meeting, we work together to implement proven successful techniques based on sound educational procedures. We have motivational videos and listening tests, can assist with instrument demonstra-tions, and help interview students to match their attributes to a good instrument choice…keeping instrumentation concerns a priority!
Effective communication with prospective parents is vital. We have a library of well-written flyers, letters, and brochures to introduce this important opportunity to families. Preparation for your parent meeting includes everything from handbook preparation to managing the traffic flow and staffing the event for minimum waiting in lines...we live in a drive-through world-parents expect and deserve efficiency!
Our rental program offers parents an affordable opportunity to get their child involved in music. Rental forms are parent
friendly...no small print, no hidden costs. Only top quality name brands from Yamaha, Conn-Selmer, Eastman Strings and Winds, Jupiter, Accent, Cannonball, Gemeinhardt and others are used - we believe quality is vital for a beginning student. Parents can sign up at the meeting, stop by one of our stores, order by phone, or use our website to rent an in-
strument for their child. Our Director Profile Database is an internal tool we use to insure that your students will re-ceive the right method books and supplies you recommend whichever method they choose. Instruments are delivered on site or delivered to school with a sturdy ID tag that includes computer printed information (student name, address, phone, school, account number, instrument serial number) accompanied with a delivery sheet roster of students and instruments for reference. Each instrument is care-fully inspected, placed in a clear plastic bag with books and supplies and delivered to school in time for your first lesson! Through our professional affiliations, we partner with you to try to improve student retention. Materials from the Music Achievement Council and NAMM are available from your QF rep.. Be sure to get your copy of “A Practical Guide for Recruitment and Retention” ($14.95 value) at no charge. You’ll also want to see “First Per-formance” by Sandy Feldstein - available for band or orchestra. This “turn-key” beginning demonstration concert com-
bines fun and an educational opportunity for parents as well as a chance for a school administrator to become involved with your program! These retention tools have proven results!
tor at South Shore International College Prep. District 140 in Tinley P a r k w e l c o m e s Bryan Tipps, student teacher from DePaul,
for the fall quarter joining Mark
Hodges, Ray Forlenza, & Mike
Szczasny.
At Lincoln School in Calumet City, the new band director is Karen Craig.
Have Band, Will Travel…Andrew
Creigh recently announced that the Marist HS Band is going to the Gator Bowl over the New Year Holidays. The Hersey HS Band under the direction of Scott Casagrande performed throughout Italy on their tour in June. Marching Festivals…Wheeling HS and Director of Bands, Brian Logan will host the annual Chicagoland Marching Band Festival on Saturday, September 21, 2013. This year the University of Illinois Marching Illini will be perform-ing! Special recognition...Congratulations to Kurt Gros, Chris Jenkins & Dave
Tribley of Warren Township High School in Gurnee for their Symphonic Band 1, being selected to perform at the National Concert Band Festival held in Indianapolis in March 2014.
To order, call 1-800-63-SOUSA, visit www.qandf.com or ask your QF rep
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Band-O-Rama is an annual event in St. Charles District 303 to celebrate the completion of beginner’s first year in band. Photo below shows the Band-O-Rama band directed by Joe Blomquist.
Siblings and parents are invited to per-form as well. Fellow Dist 303 educator, Michele Oswalt joined the fun on trom-bone!
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Steve Thomas, band director at Grays-lake MS will be adding the Grayslake Central HS Jazz Ensemble to his duties. Congratulations and kudos to you Mr. Thomas! Congratulations to QF rep, Greg John-
son winner of the Wisconsin State Champion Cow Chip Tossing competi-tion with a winning toss of 162.4 feet!! Karen Kurtz, Westlake Christian Acad-emy, spent three weeks in New Zealand on the north island. They took a heli-copter tour that showed the area thermal features and also some of the places where the movie "The Hobbit" was filmed. The pilot was one of the 10 heli-copter pilots who helped in the filming of both Hobbit movies. They landed on and toured Tarawera and White Island volcanos. White Island is an active vol-cano that just had a small eruption a few weeks ago. In between all that, they also watched Orewa high school's combined music and drama departments dress re-hearsal for an upcoming competition
son Halberstadt (Woodstock Dist. 200) Next concert is Sunday, November 17th at Libertyville HS. Justin Kvedaras has joined the staff at Vandercook College of Music as the Director of Outreach and Ensembles. Lauren Kehl & Paul Graham and the Chicago Heights Bands are performing at the Chicago Heights Sister Cities Fest. They also reinstated their summer pro-gram and now includes a jazz band. Argo had a team of B&O students par-
Kirk Hickman of Lincoln-Way North HS participated in "Jazz at Lincoln Cen-ter" in New York City. Hickman, Direc-tor of the Marching Band, Director of Summer Band and the Jazz Band Direc-tor for Lincoln-Way North, attended the four day Band Director Academy at JALC from June 28 to July 1. The driv-ing force of the JALC organization is Wynton Marsalis. The Director of the Academy is Professor Ronald Carter, one of Hickman's teachers from NIU. This year was Big Band Rehearsal Tech-niques was the focus. Kirk is pictured with jazz pianist & MSU professor Reggie Thomas.
ticipate in the Bridgeview Relay for Life event in July named "Marching for a Cure"), and raised $3,000 for the Ameri-can Cancer Society reports directors Devin Godzicki & Megan Corkins.
Following his 10th concert tour to Europe with the Music Dept. from Buf-falo Grove HS, director Ed Jacobi was featured on the cover of SBO magazine recently. Ed continues to be Master of Ceremonies at the Haufbrau Haus in Rosemont as well...thus the Alp Horn
and Lederhosen!
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Lloyd Palmiter, our String Specialist, brings extensive knowledge to our company stemming from his twenty years experience teaching orchestra and
cello, serving as clinician and consultant for musical instrument and educational
organizations, and countless hours of working with students and parents to assist in
selecting the best instrument for their needs. He visits all store locations regularly
and is available by appointment to individually help you and your students find just
the right instrument. You’ll see Lloyd at conferences of IMEA, MENC, ASTA, Vio-
lin Society of America, and at the International Exhibition of violinmakers in Cre-
mona, Italy, where he will be scouting to bring you the best quality instruments
available from all over the world! Travels to the countries of origin and hand select-
ing the instruments and bows to be included in our showrooms make our instruments
among the best available today. We maintain a vigilant effort to assure our customers that Quinlan and Fabish Strings are always known for their
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Without the exceptional participation by the public school orchestra directors of Chicagoland (including our friends from Michigan and Indiana who made the trip into Chicago!) the concert would never had been the success it was. I extend my
most sincere thanks to you all. The posi-tive effect of the day went well beyond what I ever envisioned and continues because many people felt inspired from your efforts. One audience member wrote to Rush Hour: “It turned the day into a Holiday event like Fourth of July - A downtown community event which was uplifting.” The Rise and Shine Orchestra was the string orchestra portion of PLAY THE PLAZA, which was a major piece of the Make Music Chicago event sponsored in Chicago by RushHourConcerts. Rush Hour organizers placed the count of or-chestra participants at an amazing num-ber of seventy-five! The Daley Plaza personnel had to keep bringing out sec-
tions of stage plat-forms as more and more performers arrived. It was an exhilarating experi-ence for me as you all arrived and just (as I knew you would) made it hap-pen! Who else could pull such an event off like this, but you-all! As it turned out, hav-ing a rehearsal at
9:00AM worked to our advantage. During our rehearsal, hundreds of people walked by on their way to work, stopped for a moment and said a few kind words to Rush Hour organizers about their appre-ciation for our presence. One judge enter-ing the Daley Building said, “We need this here everyday so people entering this building relax and decompress as they enter”. Thanks, your Honor! Maybe not everyday, but, we’ve been invited back next year! So, mark you calendar. JUNE 21 – always on the Solstice no matter what day of the week. CSO cellist, Brant Taylor, made this comment after playing with the Rise and Shine Orchestra. He said, “It reminded me of when I did, and, why I fell in love with playing my cello in the first place.” Thanks Brant! Thanks, Paul Phillips! Thanks, Blair Milton. You all have so often offered you time and energy to sup-port public school orchestras and we will never forget it. You inspire us all!
Whether it is a string orchestra again or if we go full orchestra (working on that option), we’ll be playing either to string version or the full orchestra version of Hoedown from Rodeo! That plus other gems we know and love. Our tribute this year to Merle Issac pro-vided a special moment for Bennet
Schumacher, who is going to begin playing bass this year in his school or-chestra and was our guest con-ductor for the Apollo Suite. Those of you who were there will appreciate this: Remember how I was holding his arm at the wrist to move him in the con-ducting patterns? Well, by the time we got to the da Capo section back to the “bouncy 2 beat pattern”, he separated his arm and took over conducting on his own with full command. I was laughing inside as his baton conveyed the style, mood, and tempo for the group. What a
cool moment. I was telling George Quinlan (our prin-cipal percussionist *ahem*) about how I wanted to do something for the orchestra directors for their participation in Rise and Shine and we came up with a FEAST of a plan. For schools only, we will have instruments offered at special “garage sale” pricing. You deserve a boost and we will have a HUGE cornu-copia of instruments and bows for you to select from. Plan your budget now, you will benefit greatly. And, thank you, thank you, thank you. Sincerely. lp
It’s back-to-school season and that means new band methods and new con-cert band, orchestra and marching music. This season Kjos brings us two new methods. Rhythm Basics is a rhythm method written by Wendy Barden. This book is a supplemental workbook loosely based on the string orchestra method String Basics. This method
strives to challenge students to expand their understanding of rhythms and use a higher level of think-ing when working through any rhythm. The method is se-quential and often refers back to
rhythms learned previously in the method, keeping each new rhythm and concept fresh in the students mind. Rhythm Basics focuses on rhythms commonly found in middle school and early high school compositions. Stu-dents will feel challenged without feel-ing overwhelmed. While this book is written as a supplement to, and loosely based on, a string method, it is a rhythm workbook allowing students of any in-strument to use it effectively. It truly does allow any young musician to be-come a rhythm master. The other new method from Kjos this year is Technique and Musicianship, the third book in the Tradition of Excel-
lence series. This band method is de-signed for students who have completed the second book of any band method. Students go beyond learning how to play their instruments, into learning how to play music by focus-ing on technically
challenging exercises. These exercises
include scales, thirds and arpeggios; ex-ercises for technique, articulation and intonation. Melodious etudes and ex-cerpts from classical repertoire and full band chorales in 16 major and minor keys round out this complete 3rd method book. This method goes above and be-yond techniques books of the past by placing the emphasis on specific musical skills and offering options for differenti-ated learning and instruction. With sepa-rate books for flute, oboe, bassoon, clari-net clarinet, bass, alto clarinet, alto saxo-phone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxo-phone, trumpet, trombone, baritone bass clef, baritone treble clef (coming soon), tuba and percussion, this method is per-fect in a private lesson, small group or whole band setting. As students start to learn their instru-ments and how to play music, teacher’s look towards the first concert. Alfred Publishing has release Light Concert
Collection, in the Accent on Achieve-ment family. This collection is a com-pilation of 22 full arrangements origi-nally composed by John O’Reilly and Mark Williams. O’Reilly and Wil-liams are well known for their young band compositions and that is what you will find in this collection. This collection is perfect for the begin-ning or second year band. The works in this collection correspond exactly to the Accent on Achievement methods, mak-ing the pieces found within accessible and fun to all students. This is a great tool in teaching performance through concerts as students will easily recognize the writing styles of both O’Reilly and Williams. For students in their second and third
years of playing, Hal Leonard has brought forth another great folio to keep students engaged and practicing on their own time. 12 Smash Hits has a separate book for flute, clari-net, alto sax, tenor sax, trumpet, horn, trombone, violin, viola and cello. Each folio contains music students hear on the radio and will quickly learn to play on their instrument. Making the music easy to recognize and easy to play, stu-dents will get the instant gratification of being able to play their favorite song. Songs in this folio include “Ho Hey”, “I Knew You Were Trouble”, and “Some Nights” by artists such as The Lumi-neers, Taylor Swift and fun.; as well as nine others. This folio will keep stu-dents playing for hours. Last year brought us a powerful movie about one of America’s most recogniz-able presidents: “Lincoln”. The music composed by John Williams (and re-coreded by our own Chicago Symphony Orchestra!!) was a key ingredient in making this such a powerful movie, as the music is powerful even on its own. Hal Leonard has released William’s soundtrack under the title Lincoln, ar-ranged by Jay Bocook. Arranged for the concert stage, students and audi-ences will experi-ence a range of mu-sic from poignant and understated to spirited and buoy-ant. The music will take players and l i s t ene r s a l ike through the highs and lows that were experienced in the movie, and in life.
Amanda Jennings is a bassoonist and a
former band director. As print music
buyer for Q&F, she has the opportunity
to preview every new publication. She
will keep you up to date on the latest
new issue music and happenings in the
publishing world!
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Highlights from “Back to School” Reading Sessions in August.
Special thanks to our hosts, Tom Tedeschi and Brian Ohlsen of Lakeview JHS-Downers Grove!
