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JANUARY 2013

NJMEA Conference Issue

The Official Magazine of the New Jersey Music Educators Associationa federated state association of National Association for Music Education

King’s Singers To Perform At February Conference!

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

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Volume 67, No. 2 http://www.njmea.org JANUARY 2013

20 The ABC’s Of Special Ed, by Maureen Butler

28 Higher Education And The Young Guitarist Part I, by Thomas Amoriello & Matthew S. Ablan

34 The New Jersey TI:ME Tech Expo: First In The Nation, by Marjorie LoPresti, VJ Manzo and Rick Dammers

36 O Passo: A Brazilian Approach To Music, by Tom Mullaney

39-46 The New Jersey Music Educators Association State Conference Preview

45 Tom Voorhis Named Master Music Teacher, by Beverly Robinovitz

47 Why Teach Music?, by Marissa Silverman

52 Is Conducting Technique Over-Rated?, by Thomas McCauley

54 Introduction To Music Therapy, by Dorita S. Berger

Advertisers Index & Web Addresses ......71Board of Directors ................................68Division Chair News ......................... 6-18Editorial Policy & Advertising Rates .....70From The Editor .....................................4In Memoriam .......................................66Past-Presidents ......................................70President’s Message ............................. 2-3Resource Personnel ...............................69Round the Regions ......................... 62-65

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NJMEA CONFERENCEFebruary 21 - 23, 2013

East Brunswick, NJ

2013 NAfME EASTERN DIVISION CONFERENCEApril 4-7, 2013Hartford, CT

2013 NAfME NATIONAL CONFERENCE

October 27-30, 2013Nashville, TN

Region Jazz Ensembles .....................56-57Middle School Concert Band ................58Middle School Choral ...........................59NJ Honors Jazz Choir ......................60-61NAfME Membership ............................64

ATTENTION MEMBERS:Please go to nafme.org to record email and address changes.

HAPPY NEW YEAR NJMEA!

As I sit down to write this, it is just after Thanksgiving and we are still rebounding from the storm that dis-rupted our lives and challenged our spirits this Fall.

The cancellation of the NJEA statewide professional development convention and the consequent cancelation of the NJMEA All-State Concerts in both Atlantic City and Newark were situations that we never had to face before. I know that there are so many heartbroken students and disappointed parents and teachers who were affected by the decisions that needed to be made for all involved. Trust me, no one feels more disappointed than I do in having to cancel All-State.

ALL-STATE ORCHESTRA & CHORUS 2012At the time of printing this TEMPO issue, we are currently

polling the 2012 Mixed Chorus and Orchestra with a possible re-scheduling option. The Executive Board and Procedures Committee members for choral and orchestra have met and discussed numerous options for rescheduling that covered possibilities from November to June. Every option was on the table and we discussed all foreseeable conflicts and heard individual concerns.

As you read this you will already know what was decided, but right now, it is my hope that the majority of our Chorus and Orches-tra will be able to reschedule their 2012 All-State concert for the first weekend in June. If in polling our groups, we find that there is not a sufficient response to commit to that proposed date, then we have no other choice but to cancel the 2012 All-State concerts for good.

US ARMY ALL-AMERICAN MARCHING BANDDuring the Fall, three New Jersey band students au-

ditioned and were selected for the US Army All-American Marching Band. It was a pleasure to attend each of their selection ceremonies. Congratulations to the following

students and their directors: •CaitlinFenning,WestDeptfordHighSchool- Thomas Kershaw, Director •MaritzaBullock,WinslowTwpHighSchool- David Parkhurst, Director •LowellPerkins,WarrenHillsRegionalHighSchool- Jason Graf, Director

The U.S. Army All-American Bowl is the premier high school football game in the nation. Produced by All American Games, this Bowl features the nation’s top high school senior football players and marching musicians. A student selected as one of the 125 U.S. Army All-American Marching Band members receives an all-expenses-paid trip to San Antonio, TX to march in the halftime performance of the All-American Bowl at the Alamodome on Saturday, January 5, 2013.

FEBRUARY CONFERENCEWe are in full swing gearing up for the 2012 NJMEA State

Professional Development Music Conference at the East Brunswick Hilton from February 21-23, 2013. We are continuing the success-ful full three day conference with the Thursday Academy format that began last year. NEW to the Academies this year is the first Choral Academy.

The Collegiate Academy will run all day on Saturday, Feb. 23rd and will be led by State Collegiate Advisor, Rick Dammers from Rowan University and the State Collegiate Officers.

Among our guests to the NJMEA Confer-ence will be our illustrious National President, Nancy Ditmer! Nancy E. Ditmer, NAfME President and Board Chair for 2012-2014, is currently the Director of Bands and Professor of Music Education at the College of Wooster, Ohio, and has been a respected and devoted leader in music education for many years.

For almost a decade, Scott Lang has been educating and entertaining audi-ences of all ages through his workshops and keynote presentations. As a nation-ally known leadership trainer for the past seven years, Scott works with some of

President’s MessageKEITH HODGSON609-317-0906

[email protected]: http://www.njmea.org

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America’s top ensembles and conducts over 100 workshops annu-ally. In addition to Scott’s student-centered speaking engagements, he maintains an active clinic schedule with professional education organizations on both regional and national levels. He is also the author of “Leadership Success,” “Leadership Travel Guide,” “Leader-ship Survival Guide,” and “Leader of the Band.”

One of the world’s most celebrated ensem-bles, The King’s Singers have a packed schedule of concerts, recordings, media and education work that spans the globe. They champion the work of both young and estab-lished composers and,

whether singing Tomkins or Takemitsu, Bach or Bublé, are instantly recognisable for their spot-on intonation, impeccable vocal blend, flawless articulation of the text and incisive timing. They are also consummate entertainers: a class act with a delightfully British wit.

Please plan on joining us in East Brunswick in February for one of the best State Music Conferences in the country. Pre-Register Online… www.NJMEA.org

EASTERN DIVISION CONFERENCEHARTFORD, CT

The Eastern Division Conference is held every two years and is hosted by a local state Music Educators Association. The 2013 Conference will take place from April 4-7, 2013 at the Connecticut Convention Center, 100 Columbus Boulevard, Hartford CT.

Congratulations to the two New Jersey choirs that were selected to perform in Hartford in April. The “Nutley Concert Choir” under the direction of Michael Cundari and the “Morris Knolls Concert Choir” under the direction of Michael Semancik.

Registration information and conference details can be found on the Eastern Division website: http://www.nafme-eastern.org

PROGRAM ADVOCACYLastly, but most importantly, please promote your programs!

Remember it is 100% about student achievement! It takes a lot of extra time, but promotion of not only your concerts and events as well as what you and your students are doing in the classroom everyday NEEDS to be shared with your parents, administration and community. Empower the students to help you... develop this role through greater participation and involvement of your TRI-M Music Honor Society. Remember... curriculum, observations, assess-ment, standards, student growth models do not need to be dirty words. EMBRACE IT ALL!

If I can be helpful in any way, please do not hesitate to call me at 609-317-0906. Have a great 2013!

Looking Ahead…NAfME NATIONAL CONFERENCE: NASHVILLE, TN October 27-30, 2013

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BE INSPIRED: Study with faculty from the New York Philharmonic,

Philadelphia Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera and New Jersey Symphony.

BE CHALLENGED: Music conservatory training within New Jersey’s

flagship public research university.

BE ENGAGED: Over 15 performance ensembles with opportunities

to perform in New York City and abroad.

UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE DEGREES INCLUDE:B.M., B.A., M.M., M.A., A.D., PH.D., D.M.A. AREAS OF STUDY:CLASSICAL PERFORMANCE, COLLABORATIVE PIANO, COMPOSITION, CONDUCTING, JAZZ STUDIES, MUSICOLOGY, MUSIC EDUCATION

Plus: Summer Camps | Extension Division | Non-Degree Courses | Online Courses

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Hurricane Sandy really did a number on all of us this past October. The NJEA Convention and all of its activities

were cancelled for the first time since World War II. The All-State activities were cancelled and we are still trying to see if something can be done as I write this. Many of our membership suffered severe dam-age because of the storm and our prayers are with them. We were without power for over nine days and many people had none for a longer period.

Now we look forward to the future which will contain our annual NJMEA Conference as well as the All-State Bands and Women’s Chorus con-certs. We are once again featuring the world famous King’s Singers as our Friday night entertainment. This group is a “must see” for every music teacher and it is included with your conference registration of $150 or more. The conference will begin with five “academies: elementary; choral; technology; wind band; and jazz/marching band. The confer-ence on Friday and Saturday will feature some of the finest clinicians in the country. The informa-tion concerning the conference starts on page 39 of this issue and contains all of the sessions which were confirmed as of October 16, 2012 and more have been aded since then.

We hope you will plan to stay over night and join us in our evening activities.

Room rate is based upon hotel availability until 1/22/2013.

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Editor’s MessageThomas A. Mosher

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Website: http://www.njmea.org

The King’s Singers


BE INSPIRED: Study with faculty from the New York Philharmonic,

Philadelphia Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera and New Jersey Symphony.

BE CHALLENGED: Music conservatory training within New Jersey’s

flagship public research university.

BE ENGAGED: Over 15 performance ensembles with opportunities

to perform in New York City and abroad.

UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE DEGREES INCLUDE:B.M., B.A., M.M., M.A., A.D., PH.D., D.M.A. AREAS OF STUDY:CLASSICAL PERFORMANCE, COLLABORATIVE PIANO, COMPOSITION, CONDUCTING, JAZZ STUDIES, MUSICOLOGY, MUSIC EDUCATION

Plus: Summer Camps | Extension Division | Non-Degree Courses | Online Courses

WWW.MASONGROSS.RUTGERS.EDU

Past-PresidentWilliam McDevitt

856-794-6800 [email protected]

Random Thoughts

In a recent “Random Thoughts”, I addressed some of the comments that we received after our February Conference. In this ramble, I would like to give some insight into the workings of the NJMEA Board of Directors.

For the last decade, the NJMEA Board of Directors (BOD) has been working under a different model than previous Boards. There are basically two Boards: the Executive Board (EB) and the Full Board (FB).

The EB is the decision making body of NJMEA. This group consists of the President, President-Elect, Past-President, and the 4 Region Presidents. Included on the Board in an advisory capacity, but not as voting members, are the Executive Secretary and TEMPO Editor. This group meets every month except July. Most of the membership has no idea of the amount of material that is covered in a meeting. Along with that material comes healthy discussion, with many bringing their own opinions and the opinions of their particular constituents to the table. Everything that is done by NJMEA is approved by the EB. Approvals include All-State Conductors and programs, recording & photography contracts, payment of bills, performance venues and contracts, and many other items that concern the day to day running of our organization.

The FB consists of the EB and all of the people that you see listed in our TEMPO every issue. The individuals on the FB each have a responsibility. Some of them oversee the running of our All-State Ensembles, some run Festivals, and others work on Conferences or other as-pects of music in our schools. Each individual on the FB has a daunting task with the position to which they have been appointed. Sometimes, I don’t know how they are able to do all that they do, and maintain the rest of their lives. For example, Marie Malara, our Conference Chair, begins working on a new conference on the Saturday evening that a conference ends. She works behind the scenes the entire year then comes to the January EB meeting with the entire conference set-up for last minute review. We never see the work that she does, but we know that it is constantly happening. The same goes for all of the other members of the FB.

I am always amazed as I look at our NJMEA calendar and see how much happens under our watch. Conferences, concerts, festivals, work-shops, meetings, auditions, and numerous other events occur every month.

Sometimes, the EB is needed to make a quick decision, in which case, we cyber-vote. After long email discussions, we send email votes on emergency items. This happens for several reasons. Sometimes, things happen after an EB meeting that need approval before the next meeting. Other times, the weather forces changes that need approval. That brings us to this past November’s All-State. A week before Hurricane Sandy hit, we didn’t even know that she was brewing; but two days afterwards, we all knew that she had been here. The pictures of the devastation were incredible. It was hard to believe that some of the pictures were from New Jersey.

After allowing things to settle for a few days, phone calls started happening. Initially, concerns were going in every direction, from whether we would have a few students missing in Atlantic City, to whether Atlantic City would be open, to whether the NJEA Convention would hap-pen, to whether we would be holding the November All-State at all. The members of the EB, Joe Cantaffa – COJ Chair, and our November Performance Chairs Kathy Spadafino (Choral), Susan Meuse (Orchestra), and Jeff Lesser (Jazz) spent many hours on the phone and correspond-ing through emails as the situation developed. It was decided that a face-to-face meeting was needed to have a better discussion.

A dozen NJMEA members met in Toms River on the Friday night after the storm. Some of them did not have power yet in their own houses, and yet they came to be a part of the discussion. I love having many voices at the table because the best solutions come when individuals work off of the thoughts of others. Keeping the best interest of the students in mind, a plan was made to cancel Atlantic City, and postpone the rehearsals another week to prepare for the concerts at NJ PAC. At that point, I don’t think that anyone at the table knew how long the recovery from Sandy was going to take. Add to that a Nor’easter that flew across the State the following Wednesday, and well, history has been written.

While we always had in the back of our heads the knowledge that there would be many disappointed students because of the cancellation, the safety and physical and mental well-being of our students was always at the front of our heads.

What amazed me through this whole process was that everyone involved did their job with the highest professionalism for the good of the NJMEA. I would like to personally thank Debbie Sfraga for the countless hours that she spent on the phone trying to make the plans work. I would also like to thank Keith Hodgson for his leadership throughout the ordeal. The students and teachers in the State should be proud that these two are here working for you.

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President ElectJoe Jacobs

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The Journey is the Destination

This is the time of year many school music departments are focusing on concerts, recitals, festivals and auditions. These performances and auditions may be viewed as the culmination of the efforts by students and teachers for the current semester or academic year. Directors are focused on showcasing the musical ability and talent of their students in front of parents, ad-ministrators, clinicians, and guests. In the quest to present the perfect performance we sometimes may forget the importance of the musical journey that was necessary for our students to give a performance or to have a successful audition.

How many times have you heard the expression “Teaching to the Test?” Educators are usually dismayed when their com-petency and the ability of their students are dictated by a single state test. Teaching to the test is not a very popular slogan but unfortunately it has become a reality for many of our colleagues. Pressure from school administrators, government officials and concerned parents has made the state test a benchmark of student achievement and teacher assessment.

Some music educators may be inadvertently teaching to the concert. When we focus all of our attention on a particular performance we could be limiting our students in their musical experiences. Our commitment as music educators is to cre-ate, develop and deliver a sequential based music curriculum to our students. This can be challenging if the ensemble only rehearses three selections a semester.

Few people like reading the same book every week. It can be very boring. The reader is already familiar with the story but they may not have examined the book in detail. Exploring the plot, themes, morals, characters, historical aspects and messages are a few items that can help the reader better understand the book. Ensemble directors and private teachers should delve into the music that their students will perform by having their students investigate a particular musical composition. The young musicians will enjoy researching the composer and the history of the piece. This is also a great opportunity to study musical form, thematic development, ensemble balance and intonation.

Very few will dispute that there is more to education than the state test. The state test can be an important ingredient in assessing our students’ education in certain areas of specific subjects. Just as our concerts and auditions are important, they do not always measure the musical knowledge that our students have attained that semester. Have we failed as music educators if a concert has not lived up to expectations because of students’ illness or a school scheduling conflict? If a student auditions for a region or state ensemble and is not accepted does that we mean we failed as educators? Obviously the answer is no. The end result should be what the students have learned in preparing the music. The process of achieving a successful musical experience for our students is our goal as music educators.

We should also examine our own personal journey in continuing to be highly proficient and outstanding music educators. This quest should never end. There are always new techniques, materials, and resources that can be incorporated into our daily instruction. For us to provide our students with the best possible music education we must continue to grow as educators. It is all about professional development. Speaking of professional development, the upcoming NJMEA conference is a wonder-ful opportunity to share and gather new ideas and strategies that impact our students and programs. The various performing ensemble and clinicians are sure to motivate and inspire. The NJMEA February Conference should be the destination for all New Jersey music educators. Hope to see you there!


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Administration Ronald P. Dolce732-574-0846

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Happy New Year from the New Jersey Music Administrators Association. It is hard to believe that half of the school year is almost over. We hope that you had a restful winter break from school and the hectic concert season. The association has already sponsored two successful workshops for our membership. Our first workshop held in October, “Benchmark Assessment Tools in Music- Roundtable Discussion” is a beginning of a yearlong series of workshops dedicated to the new evaluation procedures that we are beginning to deal with for the coming school year. This first workshop was facilitated by Linda King from the Westfield Public Schools and Peter Griffin from the Hopewell Valley Regional School District. Our second workshop held on December 7th. was entitled, “Current Status of Music Teacher Evaluation”. Retired Supervisor of Music from the Cherry Hill Public Schools, Joe Akinskas was the facilitator.

Our general membership meetings are held this year at the Rutgers Club at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. The meetings begin at 10:00 a.m. with hospitality beginning at 9:30 a.m. Please check our website at njmaa.org.

As we continue our workshops to help our members to understand and facilitate the new evaluation procedures, Bob Pispecky, Supervisor of Music from the Edison Public Schools will present a workshop, “Smart Music as a Tool for Assessment” on February. 1st, 2013. If you are not familiar with SmartMusic and the value of it as an assessment tool, you should attend and get some great information about it from Bob.

At the NJMEA Conference in February, our members will continue to share their knowledge as they present workshops that will benefit the experienced administrator and teacher as well as those new to the profession. Several of our workshops will be held on Friday, February 22nd and as part of the College Day on Saturday, February 23rd, 2013.

In addition, the NJMAA will sponsor their annual “Welcome Breakfast” and “Job Fair.” All supervisors are cordially invited to attend our informal breakfast at 8:30 A. M. on February 22nd at the NJMEA Conference and join us for some early morning nourishment, meet some old friends and make some new ones. You never know who might show up from our national organization so please attend all of the NJMAA sponsored workshops on February 22nd and 23rd.

NJMAA continues to reach out to the Supervisors, Program Directors, Administrators (e.g. Principals, Assistant Principals, and De-partment Chairs), Directors and Coordinators of Music to become active members of the association. Sharing knowledge and experiences strengthens the state of our arts programs. Coming together gives us an opportunity to better understand issues, concerns and the diversity of the arts programs in our state.

Come join us. Check our website at NJMAA.org for more information and become a member.

Band PerformanceAl Bazzel


Greetings from the Band Division. We hope you are having a great school year. There are a few dates of importance coming up soon. Auditions for All-State Band will be held at JP Stevens High School on Saturday, January 19th. The snow date will be Sunday, January 20th. All-State Orchestra woodwinds, brass, and percussion are also selected based on the results of these auditions. Peter Bauer is our auditions chair. We would like to thank the administration at JP Stevens for allowing us to use their facilities, and Andy DeNicola and John Zazzali for hosting auditions again this year.

The All-State Band first rehearsal will be held at South Brunswick High School on Thursday, January 31st from 5:00-9:00pm. Please remind your students who are selected to the ensembles to bring the required paperwork and payments to this rehearsal. Special thanks to the administration at South Brunswick and to Mark Kraft and Donna Cardaneo for hosting the first rehearsal. continued on page 12


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The All-State Band weekend will be held February 21-23 in New Brunswick, with the concert taking place at NJPAC in Newark on the 23rd at 3:00pm.

Bruce Yurko is our All-State Solo Chair. Any suggestions for solos to be added to the list should be submitted to Bruce or your region representative before January 17th, and must include a rationale and a copy of the sheet music as part of the proposal.

All-State Band Procedures Committee members from each region are; Region I - Lewis Kelly, Gregory Mulford and Mindy Scheierman; Region II - Jules Haran, Mark Kraft, and Brian Toth; Region III - Ed Cook, Deb Knisely and John Stanz.

We would like to take a moment to acknowledge Bruce Yurko on the performance of his composition “Red Tail Skirmish” at The Mid-west Band and Orchestra Clinic on Wednesday, December 19, 2012. The piece was commissioned and performed by the United State Air Force Ceremonial Brass. Congratulations Bruce!

Just a reminder; there is still time to join the consortium for the New Jersey All-State Bands’ 75th Anniversary commemorative piece by Dana Wilson. Individuals and organizations that contribute a minimum of $500.00 will receive a complete set of the score and parts as well as performance rights for their ensemble. For more information and consortium form please contact Lewis Kelly at [email protected].

The Procedures Committee will be meeting during the NJMEA Conference on Friday, February 22nd at 5:45pm. We hope to see you there.

Choral PerformanceKathleen Spadafino

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Welcome to a new year! I’m sure we are all glad to look forward to normalcy in our homes and schools. This past fall has had a major impact on our lives, and the Choral Procedures Committee and I hope you are all recovering.

NJMEA has been severely challenged as All-State Mixed Chorus and Orchestra had both of their November concerts - in Atlantic City at the NJEA convention, and then at NJPAC, canceled. Heroic efforts to get new rehearsal dates and housing just ran into too many conflicts and problems. Many, many thanks to our managers, Judy Verrilli and Sue Belly, for answering literally hundreds of emails with questions from anxious directors, students and parents. Joe Cantaffa, our coordinator and Keith Hodgson, president of NJMEA, also worked tirelessly in the midst of much confusion and setbacks. As we go to press, NJMEA is still looking into alternatives for the Mixed Chorus/Orchestra experience, but no decision has been made. These problems have been unprecedented, and everyone involved with the All-State Mixed Chorus is deeply sorry for the loss to our students. Our conductor Art McKenzie, accompanist Anthony Rafaniello and Choral Procedures members all were working hard towards another fabulous concert, and I hope that you all appreciate the time and effort that everyone has put into this situation.

Other NJMEA activities have continued, however. NAfME All-Eastern Chorus members have been chosen for their concert at the Eastern Division Conference in Hartford, CT on April 4 – 7, 2013. Governor’s Award nominees were auditioned and four members were selected to receive the award this year. They are: Lauren Magsaysay (Livingston HS); Matthew Lynn (Westfield HS); Augustine Glazov (Montgomery HS); and James Forrestal (Cranford HS). Congratulations to these talented singers and their choral directors!

Our All-State Chorus journey continues as well. Our All-State Women’s Chorus, will perform at NJPAC on Saturday, February 23 as part of the NJMEA convention. The girls are enjoying their repertoire and their conductor, Lucille Kincaid. Please join us at the convention and their concert.

Soon it will be time to prepare your students for the 2013-2014 NJ All-State Chorus auditions! The director packet, student packet and audition requirements packet will be available at www.njmea.org by mid January. Please read all information carefully and take note of all deadlines. Also, make arrangements to serve as a judge if you haven’t done it in the past 4 years. Dates are April 13 and April 20 - contact me if you’re not sure. Many thanks to those who volunteer every single year! All of our students gain much from the audition experience every year, and acceptance into All-State Chorus has helped many programs continue their level of excellence. I look forward to seeing you at the auditions!



Opera FestivalStevie Rawlings


The future state of the NJMEA All-State Opera Festival is safe, having fortunately held the auditions on October 26th at Paramus HS, prior to the “Sturm and Drang” of the century. Over forty vocalists auditioned for Metropolitan Opera singers, Wendy White and John Hancock. “It is thrilling to hear so many fine, young singers performing this literature”, said the judges over and over again. Fifteen soloists, two duets and one large ensemble earned a featured spot on the Opera Festival Concert program, held on November 17th at 3p at Paramus HS. All who auditioned performed in three opera choruses; “The Humming Chorus” from Madame Butterfly by Puccini; “Va, Pensiero” from Nabucco by Verdi; and “Libiamo” from La Traviata by Verdi, conducted by sponsoring directors. Three operatic orchestral offerings by the Paramus String Orchestra joined by All-State orchestra players, rounded out this most exciting festival event. Congratulations to the following award winners:

•HighestScoringMale-MichaelKirkland,WestfieldHS, Governor’s Award•HighestScoringFemale-SarahKorath,RiverDellRegionalHS,Governor’s Award•SecondHighestOverallScore-ChristianDavakis,RiverDellRegionalHSSpecial Commendation •HighestScoringSmallEnsemble-DuetbySarahKorathandJaneSpadaccini,RiverDellRegionalHS,Madame Paunova Small

Ensemble Award, “Governor’s Award”•HighestScoringLargeEnsemble-The“Prem1ers”Paramus HS, Francesca P. Kubian-Geidel Large Ensemble Award, (Governor’s Award) •HighestOverallScore -Michael Kirkland, Westfield HS C. Scripps Beebee Scholarship Award

The Opera Festival Workshop day began at 9:30 am with a Voice Master Class by internationally acclaimed lyric tenor, Ronald Naldi. Naldi has brought his art to the stages of the Metropolitan Opera, Verona Opera, Opera de Camera of Rome, L’Opera Francais, New Jersey State Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Salzburger Landestheater. He holds a BM and an MM in voice from Indiana University. Interest-ingly and fortunately for us, Naldi was a participant in the NJMEA Opera Festival “many” years ago and won the C. Scripps Beebee Scholar-ship Award as a high school tenor. He later returned “in the sixties” as a guest artist to perform in the festival concert. This year, he shared his knowledge and expertise by presenting the young singers with a Voice Master Class, addressing their specific, prepared arias. Ronald Naldi is an extraordinary example of the fulfillment of the mission of the NJMEA All-State Opera Festival: providing an arena for young singers to study, hear and experience performing operatic literature on a high level.

“Kudos” and “Bravissimos” to Claudette Peterson (Master of Ceremonies), David Kline (Videographer) Mike Kallimanis (Audition Chair) and Francesca Kubian (Festival Accompanist) for their tireless, unflappable expertise and dedication.

Orchestra PerformanceSusan Meuse


Happy New Year! I’m sure we are all looking forward to starting a new year and moving on from a difficult fall. I know that many people have had a long and difficult recovery from the unexpectedly devastating storm. On behalf of the Orchestra Procedures Committee, I hope that you and your families are safe and sound. Our hearts go out to those who lost so much.

Unfortunately, the impact of the storm resulted in the cancellation of the November All-State Orchestra and Chorus concerts. Despite a great effort on the part of the Procedures Committees and the NJMEA Board, we were not able to reschedule and perform last fall. As I am writing this, NJMEA is still working on another performance opportunity for these continued on page 14




groups, but there is no final decision yet. All the decisions are being made with the students in mind. Thank you so much to Keith Hodgson and the NJMEA Executive Board for working so hard to try to keep the All-State experience intact for these students. Thank you to Coordi-nator Joe Cantaffa for your efforts to work with everyone to make the best decision. Thank you also to the All-State Orchestra staff for all of your hard work through this difficult time: managers Mike Kallimanis and Laura Kearney and percussion coordinator Chris Janney. Thank you also to our conductor, Maestro John Yaffé for rehearsing these students so well, and being so understanding throughout this time.

Now we look forward to the New Year and new All-State groups coming together. This year the orchestra auditions will be held on Satur-day, March 16. I am looking forward to seeing all of the orchestra directors there as usual! After the auditions, we will have the new All-State Orchestra and All State Intermediate Orchestra selected. I’m sure we are all looking forward to hearing the 2013 All State Orchestras!

Retired Music EducatorsChristine Sezer570-756-2961

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Best Wishes to all for a Happy and Heathy New Year!

In spite of a very difficult November due to the hardships suffered by many as a result of hurricane Sandy, I hope all your holidays were still filled with peace and special times with friends and family.

The mentoring program that we began last year continues - it gives us the unique opportunity to share all our years of knowledge, talent and experience and off advice with educators who may seek it -especially the young teachers who often times are at a loss when faced with certain situations or problems they don’t know how to cope with or just need advice or help. There are a variety of catagories listed on our website - if you are interested in being part of the mentoring program (and you certainly should be, your expertise and knowledge is really important and very valuable) please contact me with the catagories you would like to mentor. Your name, phone number and email will be added to the catorgories listed on our website. Teachers would contact mentors listed on our website and discuss their situations/problems/needs for advice with the mentors. I think we could make a difference in assisting many teachers. Many times experience is the best way to solve unique situations and problems that may arise in the life and times of a music educator. I’m sure with all of our many years of teaching we have all had our share of those “unique situations” that we had to solve with no one to help us or advise us. so please become a part of our mentoring program! You may contact me by phone (570)756-2729; (570)756-2961 or email [email protected] to let me know the catagories you would like to mentor- I need your name, phone number and email for our website.

We would like to thank Bill Workinger for his many dedicated years of service on the NJRMEA Executive Committee. We sincerely appreciate his sharing his time, knowledge, experience and expertise. We would also like most sincerely thank Altha Morton for her years of sharing her time, talent and experience and dedicated service as NJRMEA Secretary. Both Bill and Altha will remain as mentors on our mentoring catagory listing. We welcome Kathy Spadafino as our next NJRMEA President-Elect and also our new Secretary. Kathy has many years of much knowledge, expertise and experience and she and Beverly Robinovitz, our next NJRMEA President will certainly make a great team (my term will end July 1st).

Hopefully we will see you at our General Membership meeting at the NJMEA Conference on Friday February 22, 2013. The meeting is usually 10:15 a.m. Check your conference booklet for exact time and place. We will also have our “2013 Master Music Teacher Award” presented at the luncheon to Tom Voorhis. As always Marie Malara has planned a GREAT conference -so please don’t miss it!

Other dates to put on your calendar are: Wednesday , March 6, 2013 at12 noon which is an executive board meeting at the Seville Diner, in East Brunswick; and Wednesday, May 15th which is a general membership meeting at 10:00 a.m at the House-by-the-Sea; Ocean Grove.

I look forward to seeing you in East Brunswick at our NJMEA State Conference!



Summer Workshop CoordinatorJoe Akinskas

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Summer Workshop VI

I am pleased to announce that Summer Workshop VI will take place on Tuesday, August 6, 2013 on the campus of the College of New Jersey in Ewing.

Presenters needed: Our early deliberations are focused on presenting extended-concentrated sessions in all areas. If you are interested in developing a session, please complete and return the presenter request form, via email, to [email protected] or [email protected], on or before April 1, 2013.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank last year’s presenters who truly exemplify the high level of talent we are fortunate to have in New Jersey, and are willing to share their talents and techniques with our statewide constituency. Take a minute to access our website, www.njmeasummerworkshop.com, to scan the pictures which reflect an enjoyable and productive day. At the conclusion of the previous workshop, participants were asked to respond to an online program survey. The workshop committee utilizes the timely responses as the basis for development of the next event. I would like to share some of the survey responses with you to help generate topics for the next event, as well as view the commentary by our participants.

We look forward to developing the next workshop with your help. Think summer!

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6. In what respect(s) was the workshop most productive for you?

•Thereadingsessions.WENEEDMORECHOIRSTOSHOWCASEWENEEDTOSEEWHAT’SGOODINTHISSTATE.•Ireallybenefitedfromthepercussionworkshops.Igotalotofgoodideasforteachingmypercussionistsandmaintainingmy

equipment. I also got some new activities for my general music class. I really enjoyed the Drum Circle.•TheworkshophelpedmegetsomeinstructionalideasforanewsubjectareathatIwillbeteaching.•Ilikeinteractingwithcolleaguesthroughoutthestate.Itrytoscheduleworkshopsformyselfthatarediverse,sothatIcanlearnthat

much more and branch out. The workshop is evolving each year in its diversity of topics and approaches. I really appreciate that aspect of your vision in the planning each year.

•SinceI’llbeteachinginstrumentalmusicinthefallasanewassignment,itwashelpfultoattendtheworkshopsforinstrumentsI’mlessfamiliar with.

•Verymuchenjoyedtheformat,my1stsummerworkshop;•Theworkshopsofferedwereinlinewithmy(new)teachingassignments,andinspiredmetostrayfromthefamiliar.•The“_____fortheNon-_________”classesweregreat.Ievenwenttotheoneformyowninstrumentsectionandlearnedvaluable

tips!•IstillneedhelpwithlearningabouttechnologyandhowIcanincorporateitintotheprogramwithatinybudget.ThisiswhereIget

the most suggestions for free or low cost materials and software. •Ifoundtechnologytobethemusthelpful.Thepresentersdidaverygoodjobinpresentingalotofinfoinalimitedamountoftime.•Asawaytoconnectwithcolleaguesandreinvigorateteachingwithnewideas.•Exchangedideas,restructuringdifficulties,budgetingproblems,andcommonproblemsfacingusallasweteachmusicgenerallynow

instead of specifically.•Ilikethemixoftopicsavailableintheindividualsessions.IcanbrushuponskillsasIseefit.•Thereweretwoactually:InfusingLiteracyintotheMusicProgram,andtheMSreadingsession.

-I’m always happy for the reading sessions. I invariably come up with at least a piece or two for my library. -I appreciate as well the tech workshops, particularly considering the rapid changes that continually take place in this area.




•IaminterestedinmusictechnologyandwantedtogetsometipsonhowtousemyIPad in the General music classroom. •Ienjoyedthetimedevotedtonetworking.•Thetechnologysessionswereinnovativeandinformative.•Thesessionsinmymainarea(choral)wereinformativeandhelpful.•Istuckmostlytotechnology(andattendedtherevitalizinggeneralmusicworkshopbecauseIknewthatthepresenterwouldbetalking

about GarageBand with middle school). I felt that the first GarageBand workshop was useful for helping attendees become familiar and comfortable with the program. However, I was hoping to learn more about using GarageBand in a classroom setting - either lesson plans or managing individual projects, etc. I really felt the iPad workshop was great - just good information sharing - really helpful!

•Themostvaluableinformationcamefromworkshopsininstrumentalareaswhicharenotmyforte,eg.brassfornon-brassplayers,percussion for non-percussionists, etc.

•Readingsessionsandhandsontechwerethebest!StuffIcouldreallyuse.•TheGarageBand hands on “play” time was most useful--I learned more than I knew before about how to manipulate the software, i.e.

adding tracks and loops. My students have access to iMacs and MacBooks so I will definitely use this newfound skill. Thank you!•TheiJam was useful in that my students have access to iPads at school and I needed to experience the virtual instruments before school

started as I do not personally own an iPad.•IuseSmartBoards on a daily basis and will also use the info. from that session.•Ilearnedmanypracticalideastoimplementintheclassroomrightawayreadingmusicandlearningaboutvocalpercussion.•Ienjoyedhavingawidevarietyofworkshops.Iwasgladtoseethattherewereworkshopsbeingofferedinalllevels.Ienjoyedhearing

the “Rock and Roll Chorus!”•TheiPad workshop was wonderful - I got some great app ideas I know I’ll use in the classroom. All of the sessions and presenters were

great.•Iamcurrentlylookingforajobandbeingabletokeepintheloopastowhatishappeninginmusiceducationaswellasbeingableto

obtain new skills is a huge help for me.•TheworkshopwasmostproductiveformebecauseIacquiredmorelessonideasthatenhancetheteachingofstudentsthatmayhave

special needs. The workshops also inspired me, as I facilitate musical experiences in the classroom, to continue investigation and utilization of the ever growing technological tools.

•Gavemeinsightsinhowtobeabetterteacher.Gavemesomenewideasinwhattoteach.Gavemearenewedenergyandexcitementfor the new year. Chance to meet with colleagues and discuss similar experiences.

•Inadditiontoidentifyingtheissuesandsubjectofeachworkshop,thepresentersactuallysharedideasandsuccessfultips.Sometimespresenters spend too much time identifying the concept without offering workable solutions.

•Addressedveryspecificproblemsininstrumentalteaching,Gotapointerfromeachsession.•Informationwithrelevant,supportedwithhandoutsandreferences,questionswereaddressedandspeakerswereprofessional,creative,

supportive and delightful.•Greatnewideas--andremindersofthingsIalreadyknewbuthadn’tbeenusing.•Listeingtocolleaguesandhearingtheirexperiences.•I’malwayslookingfornewideas&waystoteach.Icameawaywithanewbagoftricks!•Youdidafabulousjoborganizingandexecutingthesummerworkshop!IlearnedsomanythingsIcanbringbacktotheclassroom.I

love Summer Workshop! Thank you!•Networkingandrefreshingnewideasforthenewschoolyear.

7. In your opinion, what area(s) of information is/are needed?

•StateStandards.Moregroupscomingin.•Ican’tthinkofany.•Technique,toneproduction.Problem-solvingareasforinstrumental.Challengesforsmallsizeddistrictsandperforminggroupswith

gaps of instruction.•IwishthatmorepeoplewouldattendthisfabulousofferingofNJMEA.Pleaseadvertiseyoursummer2013workshopsthiscoming

winter at the February 2013 conference! Is there a way we can (as attendees today) advertise your efforts to our circle of colleagues in our neighboring districts? I suppose I wish your attendance was staggering, because you guys do such a super job!

•Moretechnology,assessmentideasandinformation,NJcorecurriculumstandards,cross-curricularideas.•PleaseprovidewaterasabeverageoptioninthemorningandthatisreallytheonlythingIfeltwaslacking.



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their year. I went to another summer workshop and we were able to buy anything that we saw at the sessions. •Informationabouttheimpactofnewteacherevaluationsystem.(Perhapsincludethisasakeynotesessionthateveryonecanattend).•Iwashopingforworkshopsonelementarychoral/developingyoungvoices.Ihaveyoungchoirsandwouldliketohavesomemore

information for working with that age group. The choral reading sessions seemed interesting but geared toward an older student population.

•MoreJoeCantaffaworkshops!He’sawesome.•Morehands-onwiththeSmartBoard.•Icoulduseaworkshoponmotivatingmiddleschoolstudents,eitheringeneralmusicorinjoiningchorus.•Moreontechnologyusesinchoralrehearsals.•Nextyear,itwouldbehelpfultoknowwhatageleveltheclassesarebeinggearedtowards.Ifounditveryhardtojudgebaseduponthe

name of the class. •IwouldlovetoseeanElementaryChoralmusicreadingsession.•I’dliketoseemoreofwhatcanbedonewithyoungerspecialneedsstudentsparticularlyPre-Kthrough1stgrade.•Themusicreadingsessionscontainedtoomuchholiday/Christmasmusic.Thatshouldbeseparate.•Asessiononmusictheaterforchildren,puttingonshows/choreography/staging/designcouldbeoffered.•Wouldhavelikedamiddleschoolreadingsession-conductingtips.•Moretimetoshareexperiences.•Maybemoregeneraled.workshopsforthebeginningofschool,i.e.activitiesforthefirstmonth.

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CP - Cerebral Palsy This is a term that encompasses chron-

ic, or life-long conditions resulting from injury to specific parts of the brain (cere-bral) and affecting body movement (palsy). Children may have stiff and difficult move-ment (Spastic Cerebral Palsy); involuntary and uncontrolled movement (Athetoid Cerebral Palsy); problems with balance and depth perception (Ataxic Cerebral Palsy); or a combination of any of these symptoms (Mixed Cerebral Palsy). Additionally, the part of the brain that controls muscle tone is affected, so children may have increased, decreased, or fluctuating muscle tone. Your school’s occupational and physical thera-pists will evaluate students with CP, and can help you accommodate the physical needs of your students.

E/BD - Emotional and Behavioral Disorders

The term “behavioral disorder” is sometimes preferred to the more negative sounding “emotional disorder.”

According to IDEA, children with E/BD exhibit:

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•Aninabilitytobuildormaintainsatisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers

•Inappropriatetypesofbehaviororfeelings under normal circumstances

•Ageneralpervasivemoodofunhappiness or depression

•Atendencytodevelopphysicalsymptoms or fears associated with personal or school factorsThe student with behavior disorders

cannot simply “behave,” so be sure to have realistic expectations, to follow the guide-lines set forth in the IEP, and to network with relevant staff members for guidance.

FAPE - Free and Appropriate Public Education

Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 guarantees that all students with dis-abilities be educated in an appropriate set-ting, either in the student’s home district or in another placement. It may be appropriate for a student to be in the regular education classroom, a special education classroom, or some combination of those, in addition to receiving any needed related services such as speech therapy, occupational and physical therapies, etc.

IDEA - The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

This federal law that was originally passed in 1990 has been reauthorized in 1997 and again in 2004. It ensures the rights of special education children to ob-tain necessary services in an educational set-ting, and regulates early intervention, spe-cial education, and related services provided by states and other public agencies.

IEP - Individualized Education Program – This document is a legal, binding agreement between parents, school districts, and a student’s school setting if outside the home district. A student’s IEP will dictate the modifications and accommodations that are necessary to maximize the student’s learning potential.

Each year the case manager, parents, and teachers meet to update the IEP; every three years, a full evaluation of the student takes place to determine both that the student still requires special services and if the needs of the student are being met in his or her current placement. If you have questions about a particular student, the IEP is an excellent place to obtain information.

LD - Learning DisabilitiesThese describe a group of processing

disorders that are neurologically based, and are related to reading, writing, math, or memory skills. There are several different types, all of which may impact your music students’ abilities to learn:

•Dyslexia–Astudentwiththislanguage-based disability may have difficulty understanding song lyrics, worksheets, tests, and other written material.

•Discalculia–Achildwhohasdifficulty grasping math concepts may also have trouble with such activities as reading music and learning fingerings.

•Disgraphia–Thiswritingdisabilitycan affect a student’s ability to write rhythmic and pitch notation, form letters, or write within a specified space.

•AuditoryProcessingDisorders–This does not refer to a hearing loss, but to a deficit in the brain’s ability to process, remember, and understand what is heard.

•VisualProcessingDisorders–Similarly, this does not refer to a vision loss, but to the brain’s ability to make sense of what is seen. Students may have a hard time copying what is seen, writing in correct order, and keeping their place as they read.

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The Many Benefits of Music Education

Tips to Share with

Parents wield extraordinary influence over local princi-pals, school boards, and other decision makers. Encour-age them to become involved in the advocacy process and make a significant difference in the quality of their child’s music education program.

Parents

Here are some simple, time-effective ways parents can assist their child’s school music educators:

Access the Status Quo• Study the ways that music education

develops creativity, enhances coopera-tive learning, instills disciplined work habits, and statistically correlates with gains in standardized test scores.

• Speak with your local school board about your desire to have a strong music education for your child.

• Find out if music classes in your schools are taught by teachers certified in the arts; see to it that arts specialists are required by policy.

Communicate Effectively• Speak at meetings of your school board

about the importance of supporting music education with funds for teacher training, equipment and supplies, and music-related activities.

• Be in touch with local music teachers on a regular basis.

• Ask yourself why your children need high quality music education. Be able to articulate the answers to teachers, administrators, and other parents.

• Take part in your school’s music booster organization.

• Make certain that your local media give adequate coverage to the accomplishments of your school’s music program.

Schools that have music programs have signifi-cantly higher graduation rates than those without music programs (90.2 percent compared to 72.9 percent).

On average, students in music performance scored 57 points higher on the verbal and 41 points higher on the math section of the SAT than did students with no music participation.

Visit www.nafme.org for more Parent Resources.


The Many Benefits of Music Education

Tips to Share with

Principals and school boards have the ability to substantially aid music educators in their quest to enrich children’s minds through music. Fostering a strong music program will help them achieve their goals as a leader in the education commu-nity, and, most of all, will aid the growth and de-velopment of children in their school.

Your Principal

Here are some simple, time-effective ways principals can assist their school’s music educators:

Create and Foster an Environment of Support• Study the ways that music education

develops creativity, enhances coopera-tive learning, instills disciplined work habits, and correlates with gains in standardized test scores.

• Make clear that all students, not just the gifted, talented, or affluent, de-serve the opportunity to achieve high levels of skill in music.

• Provide adequate funding for instru-ments and music education materials.

• Make certain that your school has a fully staffed faculty of certified music teachers.

Communicate Constructively• Make statistical studies and research

supporting the value of music educa-tion available to other administrators and school boards.

• Ask music advocates to speak at PTA and community meetings, or ask your music teacher to set up performances to keep the education community apprised of students’ achievements.

• Encourage music teachers to support their cause by writing articles in local newspapers, professional journals, or by blogging online about the value of music education.

• Share your students’ successes with district colleagues. Include articles in school and district newsletters to communicate the value of music in a student’s education.Visit www.nafme.org for more

Principal Resources.


Higher Education And The Young GuitaristPart I - Classical Guitar

By Thomas Amoriello and Matthew S. AblanFlemington Raritan School District

[email protected]

In recent years the guitar has come to prominence in middle and high school music programs, but many music educa-tors are ill-prepared to offer guidance to young guitarists

wishing to continue their studies on the university level. Many mu-sic educators are qualified to offer advice to band, orchestra, and choir students but lack the appropriate information about guitar because they themselves are not “main stream” players. Thus, a good deal of music educators are not as well-versed in the “guitar culture” as someone whose sole focus has been on the instrument.

When a student is considering studying guitar at the university level, there are several styles to choose from: classical, jazz and contemporary guitar. Each of these playing styles corresponds to that particular style of music (as the name implies) and has a unique way in which that style is approached. This article is the first of three which will identify for music educators what students can expect when pursuing guitar studies on the collegiate level. It is set in a table format allowing one to easily compare and contrast guitar studies in 2 and 4 year college music programs and inform how such educational programs differ from conservatory training. Future articles will approach guitar studies from the jazz and contemporary viewpoints. For a more in-depth explanation of the “basics” when applying to college music programs please consult the October 2011 TEMPO article; Some Items To Know When Auditioning For A

Music Program For Higher Education, by Lawrence De Pasquale. De Pasquale outlines areas of the audition process such as ear training, keyboard skills and written theory, which all potential music students should be familiar with.

The article presented here focuses on classical guitar studies. Classical guitar has a historic repertoire from the Renaissance Period to Modern Day “classical” and is a style of playing defined by the use of a nylon string acoustic guitar by which the strings are plucked with the fingers. In recent decades the guitar has surged in popularity and most college and university music programs have adopted the classical guitar as an instrument of study. Once considered simply a “folk instrument” the guitar has earned a place beside instruments like the violin and piano in the halls of higher learning.

To gain insight from different areas of higher educational clas-sical guitar instruction, we interviewed three instructors: Stanley Alexandrowicz from Cumberland County Community College in Vineland, NJ; Jerry Willard from The State University of New York at Stony Brook in Stony Brook; NY, and Jason Vieaux from The Cleveland Institute of Music in Cleveland, Ohio. Each was asked about their program and what a university level player might antici-pate, with the focus related to undergraduate studies with an empha-sis on the performance major.

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School Name Cumberland County Community College

The State University of New York at Stony Brook The Cleveland Institute of Music

(Music Conservatory)

Degree Type Associate of Arts Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of Music in Guitar Performance

& Years to Complete 2 years 4 years 4 years

Estimated Annual Cost $110 per credit $7,560 $40,300

(Tuition & Fees Only) (in-county) (in-state tuition)

$120 per credit $18,180

(out-of county) (out-of state)

Classical Guitar Instructor Stanley Alexandrowicz Jerry Willard Jason Vieaux

Artist Webpage www.stanleyalexandrowicz.com www.jerrywillard.com www.jasonvieaux.com

About The TeacherPerformer/Scholar in the field of 19th Century Romantic Guitar music

Accomplished player of many fretted instruments including: the arch lute, Renaissance lute, Baroque guitar and 19th century guitar

Co-founder of the guitar department at The Curtis Institute of Music

Commissioned and/or premiered over 100 Contemporary works for guitar

Author of 14 publications and transcriptions for classical guitar 11 commercial recordings

Performs regularly as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral soloist

4 commercial recordings 1st prize winner 1992 GFA International Guitar Competition

Averages 25-30 concert engagements per year

Performs regularly as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral soloist

Naumburg Foundation top prize winner

Expert in guitar ergonomics and advanced pedagogy

Performer/Scholar of Renaissance and Baroque music

1995 Artistic Ambassador of the US to Southeast Asia

2 commercial recordings Averages 50-60 concert engagements per yearPerforms regularly as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral soloist

Opened online school - the Jason Vieaux School of Classical Guitar™ - video lesson curriculum

Expected Level Of Playing AbilityApplied Guitar (guitar as principal instrument) has variety of skill levels

Undergraduate students of varied skill level generally taught by teaching assistant

High level of musical and instrumental accomplishment

Instructor will occasionally take on very talented undergrads


GuitarInterview/audition to assess musical background & instrumental performance skills

2 pieces from standard repertoire 3 pieces of contrasting style

Audition Major/Minor scales Major/Minor scales

Requirements Sight reading at basic level Slur Studies

Sight reading

Short interview with instructor

Non-Guitar Audition Requirements

Interview to access background in music theory, ear training, sight reading and music history

1 hour exam in rudimentary music theory & musicianship Music theory exam

Ear Training exam

Eurhythmics exam

Guitar Related Activities Weekly lessons Weekly lessons Weekly lessons

Coaching’s in chamber music and ensemble playing

Guitar Workshop: combination of ensemble playing & guest artist masterclasses

Weekly seminar class

Guitar Pedagogy class

Guitar Literature class

Ensemble performances

Ensemble coaching’s

Outreach performance opportunities

Visiting guest artist masterclasses

Graduation Requirements Perform for a music faculty jury at the end of each semester

Perform for a music faculty jury at the end of each semester

Full length recitals required during Junior & Senior years

apart from normal class load Recitals not required, but suggested Recitals not required, but strongly encouraged

Recitals may incorporate chamber & solo repertoire

Music Business Course(s) Not Applicable Not Applicable No “official course”

Seminar class can be a vehicle to talk about the music business

It is important that students wishing to study classical guitar at the university level have a rudimentary understanding of what the style encompasses. Students should appreciate and enjoy clas-sical music and the repertoire associated with the guitar (see list-ing below), have familiarity with various classical guitarists (current and past), know the terminology associated with it, and ideally have some experience playing the style before embarking on studies in college.

Suggested Method Books And Repertoire For College Level Classical Guitar Studies:

• Bridges:Preparatory Guitar Repertoire and Studies by The Carnegie Hall Royal Conservatory Achievement Program For Guitar, Volumes 1-8

• Collected Works For Solo Guitar by Heitor Villa-Lobos.• FernandoSor:The Complete Studies, Lessons, and Exercises for

Guitar, Edited by Brian Jeffery

• Guitar Works I (with 20 Etudes) (Guitar Solo). By Leo Brouwer

• Julio S. Sagreras Guitar Lessons: Books 1-6 (English and Spanish Edition)

• MatteoCarcassi:25 Etudes for Guitar, op. 60, edited by Brian Jeffery

• MauroGiuliani:Complete Giuliani Studies – Compiled and Edited by David Grimes

• The Solo Lute Works of Johann Sebastian Bach: Edited for Guitar by Frank Koonce


Once students begin their search for schools to attend and teachers to study with, it should be expected that the audition pro-cess, expected skill level for entrance, and programs themselves are not aligned in the same manner. Moreover, one can expect that not all university level instructors are the same as they each possess dif-ferent areas of musical expertise, teaching abilities and levels in career status.

From the information gathered it is of little surprise that con-servatory studies are more intensive than most colleges. There is a high expectation of playing ability and musical skill, set prior to enrollment because the nature of conservatories is to emphasize performance. Moreover, because of the emphasis on performance conservatories offer guitar specific classes which are part of a “guitar curriculum” and require recitals in order to graduate. These intensive studies do come at a premium, as conservatories will tend to be more expensive than local or state schools.

Guitarists with lesser experience (musical or playing ability) may wish to begin studies at a two year college as entrance require-ments are less stringent than conservatories or four year schools. Two year colleges are a good place for a student to “dip their feet” and see if pursuing guitar performance is ideal for them. Four year colleges offer students a “middle ground” as there is an expected level of play-ing ability and musical skills prior to acceptance into the program. Guitarists study in the music department and take lessons with ei-ther the primary instructor or their graduate assistant. Music depart-ments tend to offer less guitar specific classes because faculty may not be full-time and/or there may not be funding available.

Given the access to the Internet there is no lack of informa-tion available to students seeking quality teachers. Students should research potential teachers by attending concerts, listening to record-ings and reading articles written by those they would like to study with. It is also highly recommended that students schedule a few lessons with potential teachers prior to enrollment to gauge their instructional approach and to see if personalities “gel.” Furthermore, students should schedule lessons with several different teachers and compare approaches. If this is not logistically or financially possible, then at least schedule a few lessons with a former pupil of the teacher in question. Moreover, it may be possible to study “online” with a teacher as is the case with Jason Vieaux. Vieaux has partnered with a leading music technology company called ArtistWorks™ to create the “Jason Vieaux School of Classical Guitar™” where subscribers submit videos of their playing (or questions) to which he can re-spond in kind. Additionally, there is an entire curriculum of video lessons for students online.

The pursuit of guitar studies on the collegiate level is a chal-lenging and worthwhile experience for a young musician. Yet they should be aware that playing the instrument will not be their only obligation; there is a normal class load as well as courses required for all music majors. Time management skills are of the utmost impor-tance to ensure a regular practice routine. However, in the end, the experience and lessons learned will create a well-rounded musician.

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Thomas Amoriello is currently teach-ing General Music/Guitar Class & Chorus at Reading Fleming Intermediate School in Hunterdon County. He is a graduate of Rowan University and Shenandoah Conser-vatory. He was an adjunct guitar instructor at Cumberland County College from 1999-2005. He has presented guitar workshops for various music organizations including the NJMEA, Guitar Foundation of Amer-ica and Philadelphia Classical Guitar So-ciety. He is proud to endorse The Guitar Wheel, D’Addario Strings and Guitar Picks by Steve Clayton, Inc. You can learn more about Tom by visiting www.tomamoriello.com

Matthew S. Ablan is an elementary music educator in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is a graduate of SUNY Stony Brook and The Cleveland Insti-tute of Music as well as holding a Masters in Music Education from Case Western Reserve Uni-versity. Ablan’s list of teaching credentials include having served as adjunct instructor of classical guitar studies at Allegheny Col-

lege in Meadville, PA and maintaining a successful private guitar studio for close to two decades. Most recently he was a guest lecturer at the 2012 Guitar Foundation of America International Festival and Competition in Charleston, SC. For more information about Matthew please visit: www.matthewablan.com

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During a discussion at the 2009 NJ TI:ME in-service, the NJ TI:ME member-

ship struck upon a new idea: to shift the chapter’s focus from teachers to students. While the chapter has continued to part-ner with NJMEA to provide technology in-service support at both the February conference and August in-service, the pri-mary chapter event has become the Stu-dent Music Tech Expo. Following the suc-cessful opening acts of the 2011 and 2012 Expos, the 3rd Annual New Jersey Music Tech Expo will be held on May 17, 2013.

The Music Tech Expo is a science fair style event, focused upon student works. The day also includes guest presenters, a performance showcase for electronic mu-sic ensembles, and hands-on music tech-nology playgrounds. While the festival is adjudicated, the primary focus of the event is sharing and celebrating students’ creative work in a supportive environ-ment. The development of this type of event represents a maturing step for the technology-based music class movement, as we seek to support student work, much as we do for student in performing en-sembles through festivals and honor en-sembles. The extensive participation in New Jersey each year, as well as the de-velopment of events in other states based upon the New Jersey model, demonstrates the need for this style of event.

One major thrust of the event was to allow students to showcase their indi-vidual creative efforts and receive critical feedback regarding their submissions. Five categories were created for student

submissions that were received through the NJ TI:ME online portal a few weeks before the event. When the submission time concluded, professional musicians and educators from NJ served as adjudi-cators by logging into the site and provid-ing individual feedback for each project submission which involved, in most cases, listening to audio recordings, or viewing videos. The projects received numerical grading and comments within several categories including Creativity and Crafts-manship. They were then ranked accord-ing to the grades, and award certificates were created for the top three creative works in each category. The project cat-egories and criteria for submission were:

1-Original Composition Original compositions were created

using technology including works for tra-ditional and/or electronic instruments. Compositions prominently illustrated creative use of technology. Projects incor-porating use of prerecorded loops were not considered in this category.

2-Covers, Remixes & Loop-Based Projects

This category included arrangements/recordings of pre-existing songs, song samples, and projects incorporating a combination of original material and prerecorded loops. Projects demonstrated originality in musical choices and creative use of technology.

3-MultimediaWorks in this category demonstrated

the convergence of music with more than one discipline. This may have included art/photography, video, broadcast jour-nalism, digital storytelling and so on. Works did not need be original compo-sitions, but should have reflected creative use of technology.

4-Applied TechnologyThe projects were distinctive proj-

ects that utilize technology for a specific purpose. Works may have included the creation of new electronic musical in-struments, interactive music systems, software projects to aid in composition, performance, and music instruction, and more. Projects were asked to be self-con-tained for a simple demonstration within the showcase.

5-Production/Engineering Students entering this category dem-

onstrated their skills in production or engineering created within a digital au-dio workstation (DAW). This category was adjudicated on-site during the expo with students being provided prerecorded stems from a recording that they were asked to create, mix and engineer into a finished creative work. Individuals and teams of up to 4 students were permitted to enter this category.

As a result of the project submissions, an integral component of the tech expo was to showcase these works in a gallery of sorts. As students arrived at Montclair State University (MSU) on the day of the

The New Jersey TI:ME Tech Expo:First In The Nation

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expo, they were grouped according to their school, and given a schedule of the activity grid for the day which included presentations, workshops, and, of course, the showcase of student projects. Through the course of the day, groups moved with their teachers through several rooms in which NJ TI:ME members volunteered to give lectures and presentations, hands-on workshop activities, and provide individual feedback to students regarding their projects. The event culminated in MSU’s Leshowitz Recital Hall with each student and their teachers celebrating the adjudicated results for each project submission.

Since the goal of the Student Music Tech Expo is to showcase student creativ-ity, student submissions reflect the stu-dents’ ages and grade levels. Elementary and middle school projects can be original compositions intended as ringtones, sam-pled-sounds remixes, and original com-positions created and recorded by small groups rather than individuals. High school students’ projects typically are cre-ated by pairs and individuals. These proj-ects tend to be greater in length and struc-tural sophistication. Many high school multimedia projects are cross-curricular, using video and music to represent his-torical events as well as artistic and liter-ary figures.

Student submissions to the Music Tech Expo are all uploaded to a central website. Submissions can be as short as 15-30 seconds (ringtones), and as long as 5 minutes for original compositions and remixes. Audio files are compressed to mp3’s, and multimedia projects are en-coded as .mov or .m4a files.

Projects are adjudicated in advance of the event. Our slate of adjudicators includes professional composers, performers, and college professors. Projects are rated on structural and creative elements. At the Expo, students are awarded certificates for their work reflecting Gold, Silver and Bronze ratings, and receive their scores and comments from the adjudicators. Best-in-Show awards are granted within each submission category. Especially

fun for the students is the “Overall Best Project” award—student attendees cast their votes after their time at the exhibits.

Important information for the 2013 Student Music Tech Expo:

Friday, May 17, 2013 9:30 -1:30 at Rowan University

Open to students in grades 3-12Project Categories: Original Composition

Covers, Remixes & Loop-Based Projects

Multimedia, Applied TechnologySchool Sounds RemixProduction/Engineering

Email [email protected] to receive registration information and detailed instructions.

We hope to see your students there!

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Play the following excerpt on the piano. What are the rhythmic challenges here?

Were you able to maintain a steady beat throughout this piano montuno? If so, how did you accomplish that? Did you have to do something specific to help you “keep track of the beat?” If not, why? Did you use your body? Can you feel “where” the beat is without using your body? Most importantly, how did it sound when you played it? Did it groove? Did it sound like salsa?

Here we have several notions to consider: (1) That we must know “where” the

beat is if we want to properly play an offbeat. (2) That we can rely on our bodies to

provide important musical information; in this specific instance, to help us know the location (or position) of each beat, and

(3) That performing music “properly” involves more than playing what is on the page. For example, the musician playing this excerpt must deal with more than just the duration of each quarter note in mea-sures 2, 3, and 4 if he/she wants to play this properly. Duke Ellington’s saying, “It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing!” re-minds us that proper execution of the stylis-tic nuances of any musical genre will make or break a musical performance.

These ideas are some of the fundamen-tal concepts of O Passo. O Passo (The Step) is an approach to musicianship where the body is used in specific ways to construct and deepen musical ability and musical un-derstanding. In O Passo, the walking step and body are used in patterns that change with meter to create a map of musical time. The Brazilian musician and music educator Lucas Ciavatta, created O Passo in 1996. It is

O Passo: A Brazilian Approach To Musicby Tom Mullaney

Quibbletown Middle School, [email protected]

http://www.gettysburg.edu/academics/conservatory/admissions/audinfo/


used by musicians and music educators throughout Brazil, and has been widely adopted as a main approach to musi-cianship and music education there. O Passo is also growing in France and the United States, because the concepts and mechanisms at work within O Passo ap-ply to a diversity of musical genres, from the Afro-Cuban salsa excerpt above, to Brazilian samba and Bach.

The purpose of this article is to introduce O Passo as an approach for strengthening musical foundations. A single definition of O Passo can be dif-ficult to deliver, despite any O Passo teacher’s finest attempts. This is because O Passo is alive, organic, and constant-ly evolving. In Rio de Janeiro, O Passo teachers meet regularly with Lucas to re-fine and expand upon O Passo musician-ship and pedagogy. Several teachers in France and the United States are part of this dialogue as well. Furthermore, en-actment of O Passo is multidimensional. It includes movement, body percussion, singing, drumming, group activities and individual practice exercises. Addi-tionally, professional Brazilian musical ensembles like Bloco d’O Passo, Bloco do CEAT, and Bloco do Sargento Pimenta are constantly discovering new musical possibilities through the use of O Passo in rehearsal and performance. Conse-quently, O Passo is, but is not limited to:

(1) an approach toward strengthen-ing musical foundations in rhythm and sound to increase musical autonomy,

(2) a specific tool to use for solving musical problems, and

(3) a musical philosophy that val-ues specific concepts as essential compo-nents of good music making.

A thorough written description of O Passo, here within this article, is impos-sible. A discussion of O Passo Principles and Pillars alone would require much more space. More importantly, the es-sence of O Passo is not in words, but in bodily action. In O Passo, embodied cognition (the notion that the body can learn on its own, separate from intellec-tual processes) is essential. First we do

things with the body, then move toward naming and writing (which reflects the same Pestalozzian principle of sound be-fore sight that anchors other methodolo-gies such as Orff, Kodaly, and Suzuki).

You can learn more about O Passo by visiting the website at www.opasso.com.br/. The entire method is con-tained in the Portuguese text O Passo: Music and Education, 2nd edition. Lucas will bring the English translation of the book with him on his visit to the United States in July, 2013. The book will be available through OPUS (O Passo in the United States), the organization dedi-cated to the practice and advancement of O Passo in the United States.

OPUS currently meets in Princ-eton, NJ. Meetings consist of training in O Passo musicianship and pedagogy, organizational planning, and SKYPE conferences with Lucas. OPUS is spon-

soring several workshops in 2013. These include presentations at the NJMEA State Conference in February, 2013, and the NAfME Eastern Division Con-ference in Hartford, CT in April 2013. Additionally, OPUS is co-sponsoring Lucas’ trip to the United States in July, 2013, when he will teach Summer Seminar courses through the Office of Continuing Education at Westminster Choir College of Rider University, in Princeton, NJ. For more information about OPUS, email OPUS Head Con-tact Tom Mullaney at [email protected].

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NEW JERSEY MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATIONSTATE CONFERENCE

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Listed are the workshops scheduled to be presented throughout the conference as of October 16, 2012. They are in no particular order and additions will be made on the NJMEA website.

The final schedule of events including: workshop day, time, room and hotel assignments will be available on the website as of February 1, 2013.

www.njmea.org

NJMEA ACADEMIESTHURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2013

The Thursday Academies are an excellent opportunity to learn from world reknown clinicians. Due to the success of last year’s Academies we will be adding a choral component to the current offerings. The Elementary

Classroom, Technology, Wind Band, Marching Band/Jazz Band and Choral Academies will present methods and materials which will inspire you to get back in the classroom and do great things!


NJMEA Conference Featured Entertainers

The King’s SingersThe King’s SingersDavid Hurley CountertenorTimothy Wayne-Wright CountertenorPaul Phoenix TenorChristopher Bruerton BaritoneChristopher Gabbitas BaritoneJonathan Howard Bass

One of the world’s most celebrated ensembles, The King’s Singers have a packed schedule of concerts,

recordings, media and education work that spans the globe. They champion the work of both young and established composers and, whether singing Tomkins or Takemitsu, Bach or Bublé, are instantly recognisable for their spot-on intonation, impeccable vocal blend, flawless articulation of the text and incisive timing. They are also consummate entertainers: a class act with a delightfully British wit.

During 2012, The King’s Singers will perform across the globe in some of the world’s most famous concert halls, including the Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall and the Berlin Philharmonie. Their concert schedule will take them to Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, the US and Canada, Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, Switzerland and Finland.

With a discography of over 150 recordings, The King’s Singers have garnered both awards and significant critical acclaim, including a Grammy® in 2009 for their studio album Simple Gifts on Signum. Always deeply committed to new choral music, they have commissioned over 200 works from prominent contemporary composers, including Richard Rodney Bennett, Berio, Maxwell Davies, Ligeti, Lukaszewski, Penderecki, Rutter, Takemitsu and Tavener. Their latest album, High Flight, includes works commissioned by The King’s Singers from Eric Whitacre and Bob Chilcott. It was recorded in the USA with the renowned Concordia College Choir and released in Autumn 2011 on Signum. Other recent Signum releases include Swimming Over London, which combines some of the group’s favourite numbers with new songs and arrangements; a world premiere recording of Pachelbel’s Music for Vespers with Charivari Agréable; and a DVD of Christmas repertoire released for December 2011.

The King’s Singers have an extraordinary history of television appearances. A favourite of The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, they performed with them for the Winter Olympics and appeared in their 2008 Christmas concert, which was broadcast on PBS across the US to a combined live audience of 80,000 and is available on DVD. Following their televised performance at the 2008 BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall, London (also available on DVD - awarded a Midem International Classical Award in January 2010), they have appeared on BBC breakfast television and performed frequently on Songs of Praise.

In addition to their sell-out concerts worldwide, The King’s Singers share their artistry through numerous workshops and masterclasses, and by publishing prodigious quantities of sheet music: at present, they have over two million items in circulation through their publisher, Hal Leonard. Their arrangements are sung the world over by school and college choirs, and by ensembles both amateur and professional.


The End Is The Beginning-The Science Of Reverse Planning

Clinician: Joseph Akinskas, Past President, NJMEA.Sponsored by: NJMAA.

Celebrate With Music! A Reading Session For Mixed Choirs

Clinician: Sally K. Albrecht, Alfred Music Publishing Co, Inc.

Sponsored by: Alfred Music Publishing Co., Inc.

Back To Basics: Steps To Establishing Solid Rhythm, Intonation & Tone From The Beginning

Clinician: Jeremy Woolstenhulme, Hyde Park Middle School, Las Vegas, NV.

Sponsored by: Neil A. Kjos Music Co.

Just Add Kids! New Elementary Music And Materials Clinician: Sally K. Albrecht, Alfred Music Publishing Co, Inc.


Cellos & Basses Are From Mars, Violins & Violas Are From Venus - Low Strings Workshop

Clinician: Jeremy Woolstenhulme, Hyde Park Middle School, Las Vegas, NV.


Razzle Dazzle: The Best Of Broadway And The Movies

Clinician: Sally K. Albrecht, Alfred Music Publishing Co, Inc.


Effective Programming For Jazz Ensemble - A New Music Reading Session

Clinician: Jeffrey Haas, Ridgewood High School, Ridgewood, NJ.

Sponsored by: NJAJE, Hal Leonard Corporation, Alfred/Belwin Jazz, Kendor Music, Doug Beach Music, Sierra Music Publications, Walrus Music, SmartChart Music , and CL Barnhouse Co.

Assisted By: NJAJE Big Band.

Instrumental Music - Beginner To Professional - A Step By Step Approach

Clinician: Paul Andrew Balog, Retired, Brick, NJ.

Where The Boys Are! Recruiting, Engaging, And Retaining Those Tenors And Basses

Clinician: Cris Bass, Retired, Marlton, NJ.

Engaging Focus And Awareness Through The Choral Warm-Up

Clinician: Maximillian Esmus, Tabernacle United Methodist Church, Erma, NJ and Cristin Chalton, Collingswood High School, Collingswood, NJ.

Transitioning From Music Student To Music TeacherClinician: Robert Pispecky, Edison Public Schools, Edison, NJ.

Sponsored by: NJMAA

The Classical Player’s Guide To JazzClinician: David Demsey, William Paterson University; Jeffrey Kunkel, Montclair State University.

Assisted By: William Paterson University Jazz QuartetSponsored by: NJAJE

Vocal Transformation For Secondary School ChoirsClinician: Cris Bass, Retired, Marlton, NJ.

Getting Out Of The Rut….Ideas For Introducing A New Song To Young Singers

Clinician: Tom Shelton, Westminster Choir College, Princeton, NJ.

Don’t Just Warm-up! It’s Not Just Concert F Anymore! Parts I & II

Clinician: Tom Bennett, University of Houston, Retired, Spring, TX.Assisted By: Claudia Taylor Johnson High School Wind Ensemble, San Antonio, TX.

Fundraising For Music Teachers: What They Never Taught You In College!

Clinician: Phil Blackman, P&B Fundraising, Inc.Sponsored by: P&B Fundraising, Inc.

That Funky DrummingClinician: Bob Bloom, Willington, CT.

Student Teaching 101: Skills, Strategies, & SuccessClinician: Kimberly H. Councill, Bucknell University, Selinsgrove, PA.

In Sync With InclusionClinician: Kimberly H. Councill, Bucknell University, Selinsgrove, PA.

Intonation, Tone, And Other Flute Challenges For Middle School And High School Flutists

Clinician: Karen Demsey, William Paterson University, Paterson, NJ.

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Acronyms For Music Educators: PLC & EE4NJ: What They Are And Why You Need To Care

Clinician: Vincent S. Du Beau, Delsea Regional High School District, Franklinville, NJ.

Rhythm: EVERYONE Can Read And Become Proficient!

Clinician: Kevin Fuhrman, Fuhrman Music, Minneapolis, MN.

Middle School Band Reading SessionClinician: Tom Connors, Kean University, Union, NJ.Assisted By: NJ Intercollegiate Concert Band.

Orff On A BudgetClinician: Amelia Garbisch, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

The Orff Schulwerk Choral Rehearsal In Secondary Education

Clinician: Amelia Garbisch, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

Music Student To Music Teacher: Nail Down That Job! Successful Strategies for Interview Success

Clinicians: Peter J. Griffin, Hopewell Valley Regional School District, Pennington, NJ; Robert Pispecky, Edison School District, Edison, NJ.

Sponsored by: NJMAA.

Unique Rounds And Partner SongsClinician: Joanne Hammil, Watertown, MA.

New Music For The Elementary ProgramClinician: Kathy Hart, Léman Manhattan Preparatory School, NYC.

Hymns In Wind Band Music: A Resource GuideClinician: John Hendricks, III, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.

Step Up With Spotlight On Music ©2011Clinician: Michael J. Hudson, McGraw-Hill Education.

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How To Make Your Chamber Music Program FlourishClinician: Ellis Jasenovic, Hackettstown, NJ.Assisted By: The Garden State Saxophone Quartet, Hackettstown, NJ.

Saxophone Switch Hitting: Change The Concept Not The Mechanics

Clinician: Jeremy Justeson, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown, PA.

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Percussion Ensembles For The Non-Percussive Band Director

Clinicians: Mark Kadetsky & Jim Battersby, Fernwood Avenue Middle School, Egg Harbor Township, NJ.Assisted By: Fernwood Avenue Middle School Percussion Ensemble, Egg Harbor Township, NJ.

Teaching Musical Keyboards In The Classroom Clinician: Judy Kagel, JBK Music Publishing.

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Performance Career Blueprint: The Step By Step Guide For The Emerging Performing Artist

Clinician: Adria Firestone, NJCU, Jersey City, NJ.

A New Approach In Secondary Music Theory Instruction

Clinician: Alyssa Kassler, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY.

Differentiated Instruction In The String ClassroomClinician: Betsy Maliszewski, West Orange Public Schools, West Orange, NJ.

O Passo: A Multisensory Approach Toward Musicianship

Clinician: Tom Mullaney, Quibbletown Middle School, Piscataway, NJ.

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Critical Mistakes To Avoid When Building Or Renovating Your Music Facility

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Crafting A Purposeful Warm-up For Your Young BandClinician: Bruce Pearson, Neil A. Kjos Music Co.


Inspire Excellence In Your Young Band: Achieve The Most In Every Lesson

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Rehearsal Techniques For The Middle School BandClinician: Christopher Pinto, Northern Burlington County Regional Middle School, Columbus, NJ.Assisted By: Northern Burlington County Regional Middle School Wind Ensemble, Columbus, NJ.

New To The iPad? Ideas For The Classroom And Rehearsal Hall

Clinician: Daniel Schultz, J.P. Case Middle School, Flemington, NJ.

The One-Button Fix And Basics Of Audio And Projector Setup

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Preparing Your Ensemble For Expressive PerformanceClinician: Robert Sheldon, Alfred Music Publishing Co., Inc., Van Nuys, CA.


Fix It Now! Developing Ensemble Skills For More Effective Rehearsals & Successful Performances

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Teaching Music ListeningClinician: Marissa Silverman, John J. Cali School of Music, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ.

Best Of Silver BurdettClinician: Roxanne Skuse, Pearson Silver Burdett.

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Using The Savant Syndrome To Work With Non-Savant Students With Special Educational Needs

Clinician: Erika St. Denis, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY.

The Frenzied Instrumental Conductor’s Guide To Score Preparation

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Music Theory OnlineClinician: Andrew Surmani, Alfred Music Publishing Co., Inc., Van Nuys, CA.


Rehearsing With Open Ears: Developing Strategies To Really Hear Your Choir

Clinician: Christopher B. Thomas, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ.Assisted By: Rowan University Concert Choir, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ.

Boomwhackers – The Big Band For The Baby BudgetClinician: Jim Tinter (Retired), Medina, OH.

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Are You As Hip As A 4th Grader?Clinician: Jim Tinter (Retired), Medina, OH.


Beginning A Dynamic Recorder ProgramClinician: Jim Tinter (Retired), Medina, OH.


How To Plan Your Future In The Music BusinessClinicians: Eugene Tournour, Northeast Territory AFM;Dorian Parreott, President of Local 399 AFM, Past President, NJMEA.

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Introducing Vocal Jazz To A Choral ProgramClinician: Stephen Bishop, Burlington Township High School, Burlington, NJ.Assisted By: Burlington Township High School Jazz Singers

Music And The Art Of JournalingClinician: William Trimble, Wenonah School, Wenonah, NJ.

Alternative Methods For Recruiting New Singers Into Your High School Choral Ensemble

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Froggie Went A Courtin’, Cat’s In The Cradle And Love Song: Using Ballads In Your Music Classroom

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Take Note! Cross-Curricular Collaboration Using Social Studies And Science

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Demystifying The Double Reed; Maintaining Successful Double Reed Players In Your Ensemble

Clinician: Mark Snyder and Christopher Wickham, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.


Differentiated Instruction For Students With Special Needs

Clinician: Debbie Lynn Wolf, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

Smart Starts For Young Children: The “Music Effect” On The Brain

Clinician: Diane Persellin, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX.

Understanding Performance AssessmentClinician: Debbie Lynn Wolf, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

Teaching Auxilliary PercussionClinician: Domenico E. Zarro, Felician College.

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Are We there Yet?: Improving Musical Expression Of Students In The Band And Orchestra Rehearsal

Clinician: David Zerull, Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA.

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This Shall Be For Music: Inspiring Young SingersClinician: Sally K. Albrecht, Alfred Music Publishing Co, Inc.


Crank Up Your Classroom With QuaverMusic.comClinician: Graham Hepburn, QuaverMusic.com, Nashville, TN.

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Tools For The Young SingerClinician: Leslie Adler, Springfield Community Children’s Chorus, Springfield, NJ.

How To Prepare Your Students For A Successful Choral Audition

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Movement In The Choral Rehearsal For Expressive And Engaging Singing

Clinician: Jennifer Sengin, East Brunswick High School, East Brunswick, NJ.

Sound 10, Looks 3 Comes To A 65 - How To Merge Music And Movement

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I Wouldn’t Do That If I Were You Too! - What College Did Not Tell Me About Marching Band

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Designing An Exciting And Effective Marching Band Program - From Concept To Competition

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Making Marching Band A Moving Experience For Your Students

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How To Have A Well Rounded Band ProgramPresider: Larry Markiewicz, Bridgewater-Raritan High School, Somerset, NJ.Panel: John Zazzalli, JP Stevens HS; Brian Toth, East Brunswick HS; Lewis Kelly, West Orange HS; Marc DeNicuolo, Edison HS; and Adam Warshafsky, Montgomery Twp. HS.

Conducting Technique RevisitedClinician: Shelley Axelson McCauley, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ.

A Reading Session Of Grade 4-6 Literature For High School Band

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Choosing Appropriate Literature For High School Wind Bands

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Elementary And Middle School Band Teaching Techniques

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South Brunswick High School Wind EnsembleDirector: Mark Kraft

Burlington Township High School Jazz SingersDirector: Steven M. Bishop

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School Wind Ensemble

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Hopewell Valley Central High School Chamber Singers

Director: Matthew Erpelding

Imperial Brass “British Brass Band”Director: Lawrence C. Markiewicz

Kawameeh Middle School World Music Drum Ensemble

Director: Richard Grennor

Rowan University Wind EnsembleDirector: John Pastin

Westminster Choir College “Warblers”Director: Kelsey Rose

Rutgers University Wind EnsembleDirector: Kraig Williams

Garden State Saxophone QuartetDirector: Ellis Jasenovic

NJ Intercollegiate Jazz Band

NJ Intercollegiate Concert Band

All State Symphonic Band & Wind EnsembleAll State Women’s Choir

Tom Voorhis is presently the Di-rector of Choirs at Ridgefield Memorial High School, Ridge-

field, NJ and is a graduate of Rowan Uni-versity. He has been a vocal music teacher for the past 28 years and has been on staff at Ridgefield for the past 25 years where over one half of the student population has performed in one of his performing groups. Tom curently directs four of the choirs in Ridgefield, which have continuously re-ceived superior and first place ratings at

festivals and competitions throughout the United States. His choirs have also per-formed on local, public and national televi-sion, at the New Jersey Teacher’s Conven-tion and at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City. Over 1000 of his students have been selected for New Jersey honors ensembles since he began at the high school in 1996.

Voorhis has previously conducted the Bergen County Chorus Middle School Chorus (1999), the Bergen County High School Chorus (2003, 2013), the Northern New Jersey Junior Regional Chorus (2002, 2011), the North Jersey High School Cho-rus (2007) and the Central Jersey High School Chorus (2012). He is the Past President of the Music Educators of Bergen County where he has also managed for 16 of their choirs. He is also a member of the NJ All-State Choral Procedures Committee and has been the rehearsal conductor for NJ All-State Mixed Chorus on two occasions. In 2009 he directed the New Jersey All State Mixed High School Chorus.

Tom is a freelance composer and ar-ranger and has been published by Shawnee Press, Warner Brothers, Hal Leonard and Lawson Gould among others. He started his career as a music teacher with the Ber-

gen County Special Services School District and continues to work each year with the learning disabled. The Northern New Jersey Newspaper Association has stated he is “An innovator in teaching the special learner.” He adjudicates workshops on including the special learner in the music classroom and issues in music education, has written nu-merous journal articles on music education techniques and has instructed other school districts in implementing curriculum for their music programs.

He has been a conductor with “Ameri-can Music Abroad Voices Tour of Europe” for four years, has also been a guest conduc-tor at the Lincoln Center “Messiah Sing-in”, has been a choral ensemble judge at many national competitions and has been sought after to workshop numerous collegiate per-forming groups. He has been selected for “Who’s Who of America’s Teachers” and “Who’s Who in America” along with receiv-ing the Governor’s Teacher Award and the Lifetime PTA Membership Recognition in the Ridgefield School District.

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Students of music education are invariably asked to provide a “philosophy statement,” in

which they are told to extoll their beliefs of the “why” for music education. As a part of my coursework, I ask my students (both undergraduate and graduate) to consistently revisit the questions: Why teach music? and What is the nature and value(s) of music education? I engage daily in this exercise myself. As such, I thought it was appro-priate to share my answers to these serious questions. Know that what follows will be altered again and again. But, this is how it should be. A “philosophy statement” should not be a static, once-and-for-all document that hangs on the wall to be dusted and ad-mired. It needs to be reformulated often. Though, despite this indeterminacy, it’s valuable to share such thinking, as doing so helps to promote further thinking. Here lies the purpose of what follows. If after reading this (very) brief “philosophy statement” you find yourself thinking about your own an-swers to these questions, then I consider my thinking useful. And, if after reading these thoughts, you find yourself challenging my thinking, then that, too, is useful.

Why teach music? I find when I ask this question, I begin by answering it from a personal perspective. I teach because I must: I know no other way of creating a mean-ingful professional and personal life. Why? Because teaching is much more than the or-derly transmission of knowledge and skills. Teaching is a creative and transformative process – for my students and myself. On one hand, I work to insure that my students learn by approaching music from a variety of critical perspectives; on the other hand, I work to insure that I learn from my stu-dents by welcoming their ideas, reflections, and criticisms in our classes. Teaching in this mutually constructive, respectful, and

empathic way is the basis of my transforma-tive teaching philosophy.

As an educator and musician, I believe I have a responsibility to nurture each stu-dent’s emotional, social, cultural, personal, and artistic health and well-being. To para-phrase philosopher Clive Beck, education is for life, not just for “job getting”; educa-tion is for my students’ lives in the present and future. I aim to give my students’ lives meaning, purpose, joy, and direction.

Following philosopher Richard Pring (2001)1, I believe teaching is “an activity in which the teacher is sharing in a moral enterprise”: namely, the initiation of people into an ethical and empathetic way of see-ing and being in the world… “of relating to others in a more human and understand-ing way” (p. 106). From this perspective, I center my professional focus on the lives of people-learning-music and on people grow-ing through musical participation. Another term useful in this connection is “artistic citizenship” (see Elliott, 20122). Permit me to explain this concept a little further.

I teach music and music educators because I believe it is in our society’s best interests that we enable our students to con-ceive themselves as creative individuals, and artistic citizens. Indeed, we must not over-look the importance of enabling our music students to develop musical replies to social, moral, and political dilemmas by enabling them to create musical expressions that serve the needs of citizens in their schools and communities. Becoming a musical art-ist for citizenship requires all the myriad skills and understandings that make up mu-sicianship. It also requires the disposition to act with a deep awareness of music’s power to move, bond, and heal others, and to mo-tivate people to act for social justice.

I am a teacher of future musicians and music educators because, in part, I want to

help future generations to reclaim a demo-cratic purpose for music. How? We need to be the kind of artist-educators who can en-able students to create beautiful music in a wide variety of styles and, simultaneously, to enable them to express their social ideas and commitments via musical performanc-es and compositions. In fact, many classi-cal, jazz, rock, and folk musicians have done the same for decades (e.g., Rostropovich, Barenboim, Marsalis, Bono, Seeger, and so forth). So why not music students, too? In-deed, our students should not see the world as it is, but as it could be. And music is the perfect tool that can empower people to be community-minded artistic citizens.

Because education and music are so-cial-cultural practices, they are always in flux. That said, there are several basic life-goals that people across time and cultures have always sought and that teachers should seek to achieve in education and music: self-growth, fellowship, happiness, health, wisdom, identity, and community. Across all times and cultures, countless people have sought and satisfied these life-goals in and through musical participation. As a music educator, I am proud to be one small part of this noble endeavor.

(Endnotes)1 Pring, R. 2001. Education as

Moral Practice. Journal of Moral Education, 30:2, 101-112.

2 Elliott, D.J. 2012. Music Educa-tion as/for Artistic Citizenship. Music Edu-cators Journal. 99:1, 21-27.

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The great conductor Wilhlem Furtwangler once said, “Under some conductors, the Berlin

Philharmonic can sound like a village band. Under others, a village band can sound like the Berlin Philharmonic.” As hyperbolic as this statement may seem on first reading, Maestro Furtwangler’s point is well taken. Why is it that some conductors can elicit remarkable sounds from an otherwise less-than-capable ensemble, and others can not seem to evoke those same sorts of sounds from highly advanced performers?

At first glance, the answer does not seem to have anything to do with conduct-ing technique. We have all been witness at some point to a performance where the per-son on the podium appears to be a master of physical gesture while the sounds made by the ensemble bear little or no resemblance to those gestures. We have also seen and heard performances where the conductor is so physically limited that it is almost im-possible for a listener to watch without be-coming distracted; yet the ensemble sounds wonderful. In fact, if one were to view a recorded performance of Maestro Furtwan-gler, one could argue that he possessed very little discernable conducting ‘technique’ by today’s standards.

Before we go any further, it must be un-derstood that an effective rendering of any piece will only be possible if the conductor brings impeccable musicianship and open-ness to the podium. There is no substitute for musicianship, preparation, or sincerity.

So, if it isn’t technique alone, what is the ‘thing’ that successful conductors have that others do not? The answer I believe lies in the successful conductor possessing two important attributes:

1. A loud, specific, clearly defined version of the piece burned into their imaginations resulting from careful study and meticulous preparation.

2. Possessing the tools, which include gestural, verbal, and pedagogical, that are necessary to realize the above vision of the piece.The only substantial way of obtaining a

specific, clearly defined version of any work is through careful, constant study. There are as many ways to internalize a score as there are people who internalize them but, regard-less of the methods used, the outcome must always be the same; The conductor must be able to hear her/his version of the piece ‘loudly’ inside before stepping onto the po-dium for the first rehearsal. The method I currently use to internalize a score comes from Mallory Thompson of Northwestern University with whom I had the privilege to study during my doctoral residency.

The method consists of three distinct levels: Discovery, Imagination, and Inter-nalization.

Discovery

This level of study includes:•Becomingfamiliarwiththecomposer

through books, articles, and recordings.

•Becomingfamiliarwithothercompositions the composer was working on before, during, and after the composition of the piece to be studied.

•Fullyanalyzingthepieceintermsofform, phrases, thematic material, use of instrumentation, and harmonic content.

Once the above is complete, I begin the second phase of the process.

Imagination

It is here that we begin to imagine what the composer wants from us. This phase in-cludes:

•Tryingto‘hear’thepieceinternally.Try to hear not only pitches and rhythms, but the timbre of the instruments as well. It is best to try to hear small sections at first.

•Tryingdifferent‘versions’ofeachphrase or section. Play it on your instrument, play it on piano, sing it. Try to form a strong internal ‘image’ of the piece.

•Makingdecisionsbaseduponwhatwebelieve the composer wants.

•Writingthosedecisionsinthescore.

If you’re having a difficult time mak-ing decisions, try it one way this time and another the next. The important thing here is to MAKE A DECISION.

It’s also important here to talk about the use of recordings in the preparation of a piece. I try hard to never use a recording of a new work to learn it. The pitfalls here are many:

•Youcannothelpbeingconsciouslyor unconsciously influenced by a recording, particularly if you are a young conductor.

•Itisdifficulttofullydevelopastronginner ear by listening to a recording.

•Youwillneverfullydevelopyourmusical imagination by listening to a recording of the work you are trying to learn.

Is Conducting Technique Over-Rated?by Thomas McCauley

John J. Cali School of MusicMontclair State University

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That said, I do quite often listen to OTHER WORKS by the same composer. I do this to become more familiar with the musical language, the compositional tech-niques, and the musical personality of the composer. If I listen to a recording of a piece that I am studying, I will do so only AFTER I have completed the first two phases of this process. At that time I will try to listen to as many different recordings of the piece that I can to hear others’ thoughts about the work.

Internalization

After I have analyzed and imagined

the piece, I begin the final phase in the pro-cess. It is here that we truly begin to ‘learn’ the piece. I believe that no one can really ‘know’ anything until they have felt and experienced it for themselves. It is through the internalization process that real ‘know-ing’ takes place. This level includes setting a metronome at the prescribed tempo and trying to ‘hear’ as much of the piece as pos-sible. When I hit a ‘blank space’ in the mu-sic and am not able to hear most of what is there, I will isolate that section and practice it. The method here is not much different from the way in which many of us learned to practice our major instruments; extract a problem section, practice it slowly, and re-turn it to the whole.

The use of the metronome is vital. Our ‘conductor’ time is often very different from our ‘performer’ time. If you find that a sec-tion of a piece is difficult for you to hear, it will most likely be difficult for your group to play. These discoveries will assist you in your lesson planning. This internalization process helps the conductor to ‘hear’ and ‘feel’ the music as it proceeds in real time.

Try HARD not to move or ‘conduct’ when you are involved with any phase of this process. Moving while studying can, espe-cially in the beginning, lead us to believe we are doing and hearing things that we are not.

Imitation Of Great Conductors

And Teachers

We can only do what we ‘know’. We can really only ‘know’ what we feel. The teachers and conductors that pass through our lives influence us all. For most of us,

those role models are the reason we have chosen to spend our lives in music edu-cation. In the beginning, we all conduct and teach the way we were conducted and taught. This is natural and, depending upon who the role model was, can be very helpful. However, it is vital that we continue to seek out conducting and teaching role models who exhibit the highest standards of prepa-ration and performance, and to learn from them. This is a lifelong process. There is no finish line.

Conclusion Like all other techniques in music,

conducting is one of many tools a music educator needs to realize a composer’s inten-tions and to help show our students what is possible. We have a solemn obligation to choose the best literature available and to internalize it before our first rehearsal. Knowing only the surface level elements of any piece is much like an English Literature professor teaching a course in Shakespeare’s

“Macbeth” after only having read Cliffs-Notes. The teaching will lack depth, clar-ity, and meaning. Even the most refined, elegant conducting technique is only useful if it is used in the service of realizing a com-poser’s intentions and assists in showing our ensembles what is possible.

After almost twenty-five years of teaching at both the high school and uni-versity levels, and after all of the personal and professional struggles experienced, I would change almost none of those expe-riences from the first day until now. Those experiences have contributed to the person and musician that I am today. While it is clear that I still have a long way to go both personally and professionally, I love nearly every minute of it! We are all on the same road. Some of us have simply been on it longer than others. So while you are con-tinuing to improve as both a person and a professional, don’t forget to enjoy it! We are privileged to do what we do everyday. This is something I try never to forget. &

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Music has been a factor in healing for millennia, as far back as King David calming

the Pharaoh by playing harp and singing. We’ve all read about how Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford’s expressive language was restored through music therapy interven-tion. As a clinical profession with extensive training, clinical work, and pertinent cre-dentials, the formal music therapy profes-sion evolved in the 1940’s, when music was observed to ease PTSD and pain manage-ment for hospitalized war veterans. But the clinical work is not as simple as the above sub-title suggests. It reaches far beyond the iPod! Music-based treatment is becom-ing an inherent part of medicine, sciences, and education, able to treat and often re-lieve symptoms in diagnoses such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, Dementias, Post Traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD), Parkinson’s, and many psychiatric and physiologic diagnoses across the spectrum of human behavior.

Because music itself is so much a part of daily life, there is little understanding of music’s significance as a clinical, medical treatment, beyond just being recreational and entertaining. Despite its expanding growth among the clinical professions, pub-lic information about what is music therapy remains illusive. What is it? How does it work? What can be learned from music-based treatment about children and adults harboring various diagnoses that impede daily adaptive living? Despite its expand-ing growth among the clinical professions, public information and general knowledge about music therapy remains illusive.

Well, if music is so much a part of human experience, and is so therapeutic when one listens to a favorite tune or sym-phony, then what is music therapy? Unlike just “taking two CDs” for therapeutic in the moment enjoyment, recreation, paci-fication and relaxation, music therapy is a goal-directed continuous application of vari-

ous music elements (i.e., rhythm, timbre, har-mony…etc) as a treatment to alter, redirect, re-pattern, reorganize physiologic, cognitive and psycho-emotional issues. so that new and more functional behaviors (responses) can become permanent response norms. It is the clinical application of specific music elements that can pace an otherwise chaotic system (such as in ASD or ADHD), that can induce vocalization and language de-velopment or restoration, that can develop cognitive focus and attention, and more, in order to ultimately attain what is referred to as functional adaptation in the long-term.

To learn about and to understand what music-based treatment is, and how it is ap-plied in schools and other settings, could be a very valuable experience especially for music educators. In this age of “inclusion”, the role of music for special needs popula-tions included into typical music classes, often remains unclear and especially con-fusing for the educator. Music educators can adapt some of the clinical approaches in handling special needs students from learning how music-based clinicians handle physiologic, sensory, cognitive and behav-ioral problems. Many ideas and approaches from music therapy have been employed in music education classes. In addition, health-case providers, speech pathologists, occupation therapists, psychologists, social workers and school counselors can benefit from understanding physiologic function of special needs populations, and how the role of music in the treatment of children and adults with cognitive, sensory, language and behavioral deficits can better a situation. .For this reason alone, the music depart-ment of Kean University has instituted a new all-college course, “Introduction To Mu-sic Therapy”, to highlight how music is and can be, applied in educational and clinical settings.

As a profession, complete music thera-py training includes course work in music, psychology, humanities, physiology, educa-

tion, various methodological surveys, field-work experiences, and an extended intern-ship with populations of a student’s working preference. At the conclusion of music therapy training, a 5-hour examination is taken to attain official credentialing of MT-BC, Board Certified Music Therapist, pro-vided by the Certification Board For Music Therapy, located in the Washington, D.C. area. The American Music Therapy Associa-tion, a membership organization, supports, advises, and supervises university training protocols and holds regional and national conferences yearly, providing continuing education credits in order to maintain the MT-BC credential. In addition to MT-BC, several States in the U.S. have implemented additional credentials. New York State de-veloped the LCAT – Licensed Creative Arts Therapist – under which music therapy is included. This licensure requires a master’s level degree prior to sitting for the state ex-amination.

In addition to intensive training, music therapy treatment and research is now un-dertaken throughout the world, including the US, Eastern and Western Europe, Aus-tralia, South America, Middle and Far East, yielding extensive literature, researched in-formation, and knowledge on the impact of music in medicine, psychology, science, and education. Many secondary schools across the country include music therapy treatment, along with OT, Speech, and PT in the schools. Hospitals and Institutions also include music therapy as additional treatment for patients, especially for pain management, cancer survivors, and persons with neurophysiologic disorders such as Al-zheimer’s, Parkinson’s, strokes, comas, and various childhood diagnoses including Au-tism Spectrum Disorders, Rett’s and Down syndromes, and others.

“Introduction To Music Therapy” (Take Twp CDs And Call Me In The Morning©) introduces the profession of music therapy to students and professionals

Introduction To Music Therapy(Take Two CDs And Call Me In The Morning©)

by Dorita S. BergerAdjunct Faculty, Kean University, Union, NJ

[email protected]


in all areas of study, including not only mu-sicians and music education people, but also classroom teachers, psychologists, doctors, sociologists, nurses, allied clinicians such as speech pathologists, occupation and physi-cal therapists, sports medicine, biomedical engineers and scientists, as well as parents and caretakers of patients with PTSD, au-tism, brain trauma, dementias, and much more. There is no music background essen-tial to learning about how music is applied clinically, but this course can surely bring out very interesting physiologic informa-tion about human function and why and how music, whether therapeutic or clinical therapy, can become a useful resource in education and clinical work.

This all-university , and communi-ty-interest course requires NO MUSIC BACKGROUND or pre-requisite, and is available to any interested students, from any discipline, within and outside of Kean University. Its catchy sub-title above informs that information will be obtained about the clinical role and uses of music, as well

as various physiologic aspects of diagnosed populations. The information is valuable for teachers, allied clinicians, health-care professions, care-givers, administrators, and general public. The course begins this com-ing spring semester (2013), and will be held on Wednesdays, January 23rd through early May, at 4:30 - 7:15 pm. Course meeting time has been specially designed to accom-modate working professionals (teachers, etc) who are interested in taking the course. It is a 3-credit course that includes lec-tures, videos, field-visit assignments, book and journal literature report assignments, guest speakers, hands-on experiential music therapy-based activities exemplifying how music is applied in various treatment cir-cumstances, and weekly journal documen-tation of assigned and sundry topics. Four texts are required. In addition, a resource bibliography, music therapy websites, PDF files of pertinent articles and papers, will be provided. There are no ‘formal’ examina-tions given in the course. Grades are based upon consistent attendance, weekly “at-

tendance marker” submissions as assigned by instructor, timely completion of various reports and research assignments, field ob-servations, and class participation. Many professional music educators are seeking ad-ditional training in music therapy in order to better understand the special needs child, and how their own role as music educator can help yield creative adaptive behaviors.This course is recommended for any inter-ested person, and especially for music edu-cators.

We at Kean University look forward to sharing information about music and music therapy. Information may be obtained from the Music Department, by phoning 908-737-4330. Meanwhile, do take two CDs, continue to enjoy music in your life, and to providing music to children and their fami-lies. See you in the Spring.

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Music learning should be a part of the education of every student, not just the privileged few. Give a Note Foundation has a goal of raising $1 million to help spread the joy of music study to underfunded and underserved areas of the United States. Each year from 2013 to 2016, we’re asking every NAfME Collegiate and Tri-M chapter to raise at least $200 toward this goal.

Help us share the wealth that music education brings to those whose lives it touches. The Give a Note Foundation Fundraising Toolkit, found online at http://giveanote.nafme.org/toolkit/ can help your Tri-M or NAfME Collegiate chapter get things rolling. All the elements are downloadable and printable.

Questions about any aspect of the campaign can be directed to Jennifer Gray Schleining via phone at 571-323-5957, or e-mail [email protected].

If you’d like to make a tax-deductible contribution at any time, go to www.nafme.org and click on the “Donate” tab on the top banner. You can also go straight to the page at https://giveanote.nafme.org/donate.

Thank you for making music a part of your life and the lives of others!

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2013 Region Jazz EnsemblesJunior Jazz Ensemble Audition Requirements (Grades 7 - 9)

All Solo Etudes, Scales, Applications, and Locations may be found on the NJAJE Website:www.njaje.org

***IMPORTANT DATES FOR ALL REGIONS*** Audition Date: Monday, March 18, 2013 Rehearsals: March 25, April 8 (4 - 8 PM) April 12 & 13 (9 AM - 3 PM) Concert: April 14 (3 PM)

***Audition Requirements for ALL INSTRUMENTS***

• SOLO - All students are required to prepare the solo listed below in its entirety. Note new solo editions!All Solo etudes may be downloaded from the NJAJE Website: www.njaje.org

• SCALES / STYLES - Saxes, brass, piano, guitar, and bass students are required to prepare the scales listed below. Scales are listed in WRITTEN pitch. All scales should be played in a swing style. Drummers are required to demonstrate the ability to keep time in the styles listed below.Scale sheets & basic drumset patterns may be downloaded from the NJAJE Website: www.njaje.org

• SIGHT READING - All students are required to perform a short excerpt never previously seen. Students will be given 30 seconds to look over the piece before playing.

All Saxophones:*Required solo: NJAJE Junior Saxophone Etude No. 3A NEW EDITION!*Scales [ALL SCALES MEMORIZED]: Alto/Bari : G & D Blues - 2 Octaves, A Blues - 1 octave. G & A Dorian mode - 1 octave, D Dorian mode - 2 octaves. Tenor : C, D, & G Blues - 2 octaves. C & D Dorian mode - 2 octaves, G Dorian mode - 1 octave.

Trumpet:*Required solo: NJAJE Junior Trumpet Etude No. 3A NEW EDITION! *Scales [ALL SCALES MEMORIZED]: Blues & Dorian mode C, D, & G - 1 octave.

Trombone:*Required solo: NJAJE Junior Trombone Etude No. 3A NEW EDITION! *Scales [ALL SCALES MEMORIZED]: Blues & Dorian mode C, F, & Bb - 1 octave.

Piano:*Required solo: NJAJE Junior Piano Etude No. 3A NEW EDITION! *Scales [ALL SCALES MEMORIZED and 2 HANDS]: Blues & Dorian mode C, F, & Bb - 2 octaves.

Guitar:*Required solo: NJAJE Junior Guitar Etude No. 3A NEW EDITION! *Scales [ALL SCALES MEMORIZED]: Blues & Dorian mode C, F, & Bb - 2 octaves.

Bass:*Required solo: NJAJE Junior Bass Etude No. 3A NEW EDITION! *Scales [ALL SCALES MEMORIZED]: Blues & Dorian mode C, F, & Bb - 2 octaves.

Drums:*Required solo: NJAJE Junior Drum Etude No. 3A NEW EDITION! *Styles [ALL STYLES MEMORIZED]: Swing (slow w/brushes, medium w/sticks, fast w/sticks), Jazz Waltz,

Shuffle, 8th Note Rock, 16th Note Rock (Funk), Latin (Samba). Students must be able to play 2, 4, & 8 bar phrases with a fill at the end of each phrase.

*Free Improvised Solo included as part of the solo etude. Students should demonstrate creativity, technique, and musicality.


2013 Region and All State Jazz EnsemblesSenior Jazz Ensemble Audition Requirements (Grades 9 - 12)

All Solo Etudes, Scales, Applications, and Locations may be found on the NJAJE Website:www.njaje.org

***IMPORTANT DATES FOR ALL REGIONS*** Audition Date: Monday, March 18, 2013 Rehearsals: March 25, April 8 (4 - 8 PM); April 12 & 13 (9 AM - 3 PM) Concert: April 14 (3 PM)

***Audition Requirements for ALL INSTRUMENTS***• SOLO - All students are required to prepare the solo listed below in its entirety. Note new solo editions!All Solo etudes may be downloaded from the NJAJE Website: www.njaje.org

• SCALES / STYLES - Saxes, brass, piano, guitar, and bass students are required to prepare the scales listed below. Scales are listed in WRITTEN pitch. All scales should be played in a swing style. Drummers are required to demonstrate the ability to keep time in the styles listed below.Scale sheets for all instruments may be downloaded from the NJAJE Website: www.njaje.org

• IMPROVISATION - All students are required to play an improvised solo demonstrating creativity, technique, & musicality.*Saxes, brass, piano, guitar, and bass students must improvise a solo over 2 choruses of Blues in F or Bb concert using the Jamey Aebersold “New Approach to Jazz Improvisation, vol. 1.” Student will pick a card to determine key.*Drum improvisation is included as part of the solo etude.• SIGHT READING - All students are required to perform a short excerpt never previously seen. Students will be given 30 seconds to look over the piece before playing.

Saxophones:* Required solo: NJAJE Senior Saxophone Etude No. 3A NEW EDITION! NOTE - Bari Sax: Students will play the entire saxophone etude using the bottom lines in the ossia section.* Scales [ALL SCALES MEMORIZED]: Alto/Bari: C, G, D Blues - 2 octaves, A Blues - 1 octave. G & A Dorian & Mixolydian modes - 1 octave. C & D Dorian & Mixolydian modes - 2 octaves. Tenor: F, C, G, D Blues - 2 octaves. G Dorian & Mixolydian modes - 1 octave. F, C, D Dorian & Mixolydian - 2 octaves.

Trumpet: * Required solo: NJAJE Senior Trumpet Etude No. 3A NEW EDITION! NOTE - Lead Trumpet: Students will play the entire trumpet etude using the top lines in the ossia section. * Scales [ALL SCALES MEMORIZED]: C, D Blues - 2 octaves; F, G Blues - 1 octave. C Dorian & Mixolydian modes - 2 oct.; D, F, G Dorian & Mixolydian modes - 1 oct.

Trombone: * Required solo: NJAJE Senior Trombone Etude No. 3A NEW EDITION! * Scales [ALL SCALES MEMORIZED]: Bb, C Blues - 2 octaves; Eb, F Blues - 1 octave. Bb Dorian & Mixolydian modes - 2 oct; C, Eb, F Dorian & Mixolydian modes – 1 oct.

Bass Trombone:* Required solo: NJAJE Senior Bass Trombone Etude No. 3A NEW EDITION! * Scales [ALL SCALES MEMORIZED]: Bb, C Blues, Dorian & Mixolydian modes - 1 octave (begin below the staff.) Eb, F Blues, Dorian & Mixolydian modes - 2 octaves (begin below the staff.)

Piano:* Required solo: NJAJE Senior Piano Etude No. 3A NEW EDITION! * Scales [ALL SCALES MEMORIZED and 2 HANDS]: C, F, Bb, and Eb Blues, Dorian, & Mixolydian modes - 2 octaves.

Guitar:* Required solo: NJAJE Senior Guitar Etude No. 3A NEW EDITION! * Scales [ALL SCALES MEMORIZED]: C, F, Bb, and Eb Blues, Dorian, & Mixolydian modes - 2 octaves.

Bass:* Required solo: NJAJE Senior Bass Etude No. 3A NEW EDITION! * Scales [ALL SCALES MEMORIZED]: C, F, Bb, and Eb Blues, Dorian, & Mixolydian modes - 2 octaves.

Drums:* Required solo: NJAJE Senior Drum Etude No. 3A NEW EDITION! * Styles [ALL STYLES MEMORIZED]: Swing (slow w/brushes, medium w/sticks, and fast w/sticks), Jazz Waltz, Shuffle,

8th Note Rock, 16th Note Rock (Funk), Latin (Samba). Styles must be memorized. Students must be able to play 2, 4, & 8 bar phrases with a fill at the end of each phrase.


2013 NJMEA MIDDLE SCHOOL CONCERT BAND FESTIVAL APPLICATION

Please Print Clearly – (as it should appear in program and on plaque)

Name of Performing Group:

Director’s Name:

School Name:

School Address: Town: Zip:

School Phone: ( ) School Fax: ( )

E-mail Address:

Home Address: Home Phone: ( )

Number of Performing Students: Grade Level(s) (circle) 5 6 7 8 9

Rehearsal Schedule (length, time of day, rehearsals/week)______________________________________________

Your Program: Title Composer/Arranger

Warm-up Selection:

1st Adjudicated Selection: 2nd Adjudicated Selection:

Date and Site Selected: (Please indicate 1st and 2nd choices) ( ) Monday, May 13, 2013 at Rowan University, Glassboro

( ) Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at Summit Middle School, Summit

( ) Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at Freehold Twp HS, Freehold We can arrive by: We must depart no later than:

Each band will have a 20 minute warm-up time prior to their performance. Stage time will be approximately 30 minutes including set-up, performance and exit. Performance selections are of the director’s choice. Clinicians’ recorded and written critiques will be made available; in addition, clinicians will speak with band members following the performances as time allows. A participation plaque will be awarded to each band. Ratings will be given upon request. You may bring your own lunches. All bands are encouraged to listen to the other ensembles perform. Mutual respect for all performances is absolutely necessary.

Non-refundable application fee: $125.00 per performing ensemble. NO cash or purchase orders, please. A CHECK payable to NJMEA must accompany the application. Include a copy of your MENC Card (showing date).

Application deadline: Friday March 22, 2013 (or when space has been filled) Your MENC card here:More information will be mailed upon receipt of your application. Return all applications to: Christopher Pinto c/o Northern Burlington Co. Reg. Middle School 180 Mansfield Road East Columbus, NJ 08022

Please direct any questions to: Chris Pinto, Festival Coordinator at [email protected]


The 60th Annual Junior High/Middle School Choral Festival Application Form

School Name: School Phone:

School Address: City: Zip:

Director’s Name : Home Phone :

Home Address: City: State: Zip:

Email:

NAfME Membership #: Expiration Date:

Name of performing group:

Voicing: Number of singers:

Number of rehearsals per week: Please check the appropriate category below:

(during school: (evening): (before school): (after school):

Will participate at Rowan University, (South Site) April 24, 2013: 9:30 - 1:30 pm:

Will participate at Rutgers University, (North Site) May 22, 2013: 9:30 - 1:30 pm:

We can arrive at: We must depart no later than:

Proposed Program(Time limit: Not to exceed 10-12 minutes, no more than 3 titles)THIS SECTION MUST BE COMPLETED AT THIS TIME!

Please Print or Type Legibly

Selection (Maximum of 3) Complete Name of Composer/Arranger Voicing

1.

2.

3. (If any of the above titles are folk songs, please indcate country or region of origin)

FEE: $125.00 per group (non-refundable) FESTIVAL DATES: (Limited to the 1st TEN (10) Groups on each date)

DEADLINES: Monday, March 18, 2013 for Rowan University Wednesday, April24, 2013 Monday, April 22, 2013 for Rutgers University South Site: Rowan University TIME: 9:30 am - 1:30 pmSEND TO: Donna Marie Bechtold, Registrar William Davies Middle School Wednesday, May 22, 2013 1876 Dr. Dennis Foreman Drive North Site: Rutgers University Mays Landing, NJ 08330 TIME: 9:30 am - 1:30 pm EMAIL: [email protected]

FESTIVAL HOST: Larry DePasquale, Rowan [email protected]

Other information including directions and schedules will be mailed.

ALL INCOMPLETE FORMS WILL BE RETURNED!MAKE CHECK PAYABLE TO NJMEA (Do not send cash)

CHECKS MUST ACCOMPANY ALL REGISTRATION FORMS Purchase Orders Are NOT Accepted

BE SURE TO INCLUDE A PHOTOCOPY OF YOUR NAfME CARD


THE 2013 NEW JERSEY HONORS JAZZ CHOIR

VOCAL AUDITION REQUIREMENTSAPPLICATION CAN BE DOWNLOADED FROM NJAJE WEBSITE

WWW.NJAJE.ORG Audition Date: Monday, May 6, 2013

IMPORTANT DATES FOR ALL REGIONS Audition Date: Monday, March 18 4:00 - 7:00 PM Rehearsals: Monday, March 25 & April 8 4:00 - 8:00 PM Fri. & Sat. April 12 & 13 10:00 - 3:00 PM Concert: Sunday, April 14 3:00 PM

VOCAL AUDITION REQUIREMENTS

1. Sing high and low major scales and a chromatic scale: Use the syllable “ah”, quarter note at m.m.=80. Descend first on low scale Soprano High Scale G Low Scale A Chromatic F-C Alto High Scale Eb Low Scale F Chromatic C-G Tenor High Scale Ab Low Scale C Chromatic F-C Bass High Scale Eb Low Scale F Chromatic C-G

2. Sing back a variety of pitches given on tape using the syllable “ah”:

3. Sing back several short 4 to 6 note rhythmic melody given on tape, using the syllable “bah”, re-articulated on each note.

4. Sing the following melody, unaccompanied. Change the key to suit your vocal range.


5. Sing the following melody using your own choice of scat syllables, unaccompanied. Change the key to suit your vocal range.


I hope to see everyone at our General Membership Meeting on Friday at the NJMEA Convention in New Brunswick. The meeting will take place on Friday, February 22 at 11:45 pm

in the Tower. It would be great to see everyone there!Our Division Chairs are always looking for help. Our ensembles

are looking for sites and managers for the upcoming year. Every year I host the Intermediate Auditions and the first rehearsal and it does wonders for my program. I have parents volunteer to sell refresh-ments and my program makes some money, my students have the opportunity to observe the Region Band and Orchestra rehearsals and they are inspired when they hear the quality of these ensembles. Additionally, my students are excited to volunteer and gain valuable community service for CCD and Scouts. If you are interested in host-ing or volunteering, please don’t hesitate to contact me at: [email protected]

Additionally, I would like to thank the many volunteers who help to make our Region function efficiently. I would like to thank (I apologize if I forgot anyone):

•ChrisFinneganforrunningourConcertoCompeition•BrianTothforagreatjobwithorganizingtheHighSchool

Band and Orchestra Auditions•HillaryColtonandBarbaraRetzkofororganizingtheHigh

School Choral Auditions •NinaSchmittererfororganizingtheIntermediateChoral

Auditions •MegSpatzandDaveRattnerfororganizingtheIntermediate

Band and Orchestra Auditions. It is my main mission to improve communication between

the Executive Board and the membership. I have been sending out e-mails regarding many Region II items. If you have not seen any of these e-mails, please contact me at [email protected]. Additionally, please take the time to like the Central Jersey Music Educators Association on Facebook and @TheCJMEA on Twitter.

Jeff Santoro-President ElectThis Spring, we will be holding elections for three of the posi-

tions on the CJMEA Executive Board. We’re looking for members who are interested in serving on the board in one of these capacities; President Elect, Secretary and Treasurer

The positions of Secretary and Treasurer are two year terms (Ju-ly-June). President Elect is a two year term, followed by two years as President and two years as Past President. Our region has a long tradition of dedicated members who have given their time to serve on our executive board so that our students have a meaningful region experience. Please consider joining us so this tradition can continue.

Interested members should send a letter of intent to [email protected] no later than March 1, 2013.

High School Band-Brian [email protected]

Happy New Year! Welcome back from your break. I hope you’re ready for the excitement of the next few months as you prepare for more concerts, festivals, musicals, and trips.

Many thanks go out to Andy and John at JP Stevens for their hard working as hosts of our region auditions. Please put January 13th on your calendar for the Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band Concert. Once again, the concert is at Montgomery HS starting at 3pm. Admission is free with your NAfME membership card.

It’s not too late to apply for a performance at the 2013 CJMEA Concert Band Festival. Applications are due in mid-February and can be found on cjmea.org. The festival is at South Brunswick High School on March 18-20th.

High School Chorus-Hillary [email protected]

The CJMEA Region II Choral Division is so proud of the choirs we produce. Nicholas McBride from Clearview Regional High School and Patrick Hachey from Roxbury High School gave our stu-dents a musical experience that they will never forget. Thank you, gentleman.

Barbara Retzko once again served with Hillary Colton as one of the audition managers. Our choral managers were again Judy Virrilli and Sue Belly both of Woodbridge Township Schools. These ladies have been our high school chorus managers for many years. Thank you so much for your service to CJMEA.

Our rehearsal and concert hosts were Karen Gorzynski of Somer-ville High School; Sister Dolores Margaret of Immaculata High School; Barbara Retzko from Rutgers University; and Jennifer Alagna and Adam Good from Monroe Township High School.

We are always looking for new volunteers. We are so grateful to have the same managers and hosts every year but I’m sure that they wouldn’t mind letting a new person take over. Could that new person be you?

High School Orchestra-Kawika [email protected]

Thank you to all who helped out with making the region Or-chestra Festival a success. The students performed exceptionally well and the performance was top rate. If you have any suggestions on improving region orchestra please do not hesitate to email me.

Please keep your students informed of the All-State audition timelines by checking the NJMEA website. Wind, brass, and per-cussion students should return their All-State audition applications to the audition chair indicated on the form that they received dur-ing the region Orchestra Festival. All-State orchestra auditions for high school and intermediate string musicians take place on Satur-day, March 16th. Information concerning All-State auditions can be found at www.njmea.org.

Thanks and good luck with the rest of your school year. I hope to see you all at the convention in February.

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Intermediate BandCeleste Zazzali and Meg Spatz

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It’s that time of year again: Intermedi-ate Region Band Auditions are coming up on Saturday, January 26th. By this time, your students who are planning to audition have already turned in their registration forms and are hopefully working hard with their final preparations. (Late applications are to be post-marked by January 11th. For questions about On-Site Registration, please write Meg Spatz at [email protected]) This year’s Intermediate Region Band conductor, Sal Fossa from Woodrow Wilson Middle School in Edison, has a fantastic program planned that your students will grow from and love to perform.

Elementary band directors should start thinking about Elementary Honors Band. The event will be held in Rahway on May 4th. Three bands representing all experience lev-els from 4th-6th grade will gather to rehearse and perform on this one Saturday. Prior to the big day, students will receive music in the mail so they can practice and prepare. It is an excellent way to challenge your advanced students, so stop by the CJMEA website and consider filling out an application. Questions about the event can be directed to Celeste Zazzali at [email protected].

The Elementary & Intermediate Band Festival will be held over three dates in April and March. Bring your young ensemble to Monroe or Freehold for an experience which includes a performance opportunity, adju-dication, a brief clinic with the judges, and the chance to hear other ensembles from the area. Check the CJMEA website for more in-formation and the application.

We invite you to get involved: come to a rehearsal, run a sectional, usher at a concert…There are many ways to enhance your profes-sional experience and benefit your students by becoming more involved with CJMEA!

Intermediate Chorus-Nina [email protected]

CJMEA is excited to share two upcom-ing opportunities for elementary teachers and elementary students. Lindsay Jackson will be presenting a workshop on Active Mu-sic Making in the K – 5 music classroom on Saturday, January 26. This session will focus on vocal development, movement, and con-versational solfege. Please see the CJMEA website for registration information.

The Treble Honors Choir, conducted this year by Jason Tamashausky, is for stu-dents in grades 4 through 6, and will take place on April 20th. Teachers will be able to

nominate outstanding students to take part in this group. Please check the website as in-formation will be available shortly.

The CJMEA Region II Intermediate Choir, conducted by Jennifer Jenkins, is off to a great start. Please keep current with au-dition sites and rehearsal information on the CJMEA website. The concert will take place at Monroe Twp. High School on Sunday, March 17th at 4:00 pm. Please come and support your students!

Intermediate Orchestra-Penny [email protected]

I am so excited to announce the 2013 Intermediate Orchestra conductors for CJMEA. For the Intermediate Symphonic Orchestra we have Chris Finnegan who currently teaches in the East Brunswick Township school district. Also from East Brunswick, we have Susan Meuse for the In-termediate String Orchestra. I welcome their talents and can’t wait until this Spring to see them in action.

If anyone is willing to host our ensem-bles, we are in desperate need of rehearsal sites. We have a different, new and improved rehearsal schedule where the orchestras will be rehearsing together. Please see the sched-ule on www.cjmea.org. Remember, a caf-eteria and gym will suffice. The Symphonic Orchestra has approximately 132 performers and the String Orchestra has approximately 70 performers. Please email with any ques-tions.

Percussion-Yale [email protected]

I hope everyone has had a great school year thus far. Region II percussion is having its finest year yet. We have our region percussion ensembles coming up and I am thrilled that two of the finest percussion educators in our state will be conducting. Gary Fink will lead the High School Region Ensemble and Marty Griffin will lead the intermediate ensemble. CJMEA was represented once again at this year’s Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) this November. This is the largest gathering of percussionists and percussion teachers in the world. Looking ahead to the spring, there will be percussion ensemble festivals and days of percussion to be announced. I am still looking for a manager for the intermediate percussion ensemble. If you are interested or know someone who might be, percussionist or non-percussionist, please email me ASAP. I am looking forward to continuing to share with our membership news regarding the latest trends in 21st century percussion education.

The time of this writing was dur-ing the week after New Jersey was in Hurricane Sandy’s dev-

astating path. I heard a report that a few people in some southern states were thank-ful that Hurricane Sandy did not hit them. In the next breathe they also said, “It’s about time those folks up north got it instead of us.” I was shocked, to say the least. No one wishes for a storm; where it strikes is all up to Mother Nature. Some have suffered terrible losses; hopefully you have recovered and put your lives back in order as best you can. The Storm of the Century certainly did us in here in New Jersey. But we don’t wish these kinds of things on anyone.

Rehearsals, concerts, festivals, it’s all happening for you and your students! Are you involved? Have you ever conducted an honors ensemble? Ever managed a group? Ever hosted a rehearsal or concert? As a nor-mal part of our jobs, we do these things every day. However, the ensembles that the region and state offer provide an even higher level of musicianship for our students given that the best performers are accepted. If these pro-grams are eliminated due to lack of teacher involvement, who loses? Our students! Not too long ago, Region I Past President Donna SanGiovanni stated that if every teacher vol-unteered for an activity at least once during their teaching career, we could very easily get the job done. I reiterate the same, so have you ever…It seems that things got tougher just a few short years ago concerning find-ing school facilities and teachers willing to host concerts and rehearsals. We need you to keep our profession moving upward. The basic level of involvement is sponsoring stu-dents and attending auditions. We need you to step up to the next level. Visit our web-site, apply to conduct a group or contact a division chair and offer to manage or host an event. We set the tone for the future of Music Education in the state by what we do for our students, the real future of our pro-fession. See you at the NJMEA Convention!

Mike Kallimanis, President

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Band DivisionMatthew Spatz and Gregory Mulford

Band Division Co-Chairs

The high school auditions will be held Saturday, January 5, 2012 with a snow date of Sunday, January 8, 2013, at Paramus HS. We would like to thank Mark Donellan and Paramus HS for hosting and to the band audition chair, Jeff Brown from Bergenfield HS.

The High School Region Band Concert will take place at Randolph HS, January 27, 2013, at 3:00 pm. Glen Adsit, Director of Bands and Associate Director of the Instru-mental Studies Division at The Hartt School, will be conducting the wind ensemble and Lewis Kelly, Director of Bands at West Or-ange HS, will be conducting the symphonic band.

The Junior High School auditions will be run Saturday, February 2, 2013. The junior high school battery percussion audi-tion will continue to combine the snare and traps requirements. This year the junior high school snare drum rudiments have been re-duced. Please print off a new copy for you and your students.

Our Third Annual NJSMA Chamber Ensemble Concert will take place Wednes-day, February 27, 2013 at the Shea Center for Performing Arts of William Paterson Univer-sity. Start time is 7:00 PM. The concert will consist of the region’s top high school band students performing chamber literature. Fea-tured will be the following ensembles and coaches:

Chamber Winds - Mark Donellan, Paramus HS

Flute Ensemble - Max Taylor, Vernon Twp. HS

Clarinet Ensemble - Richard Summers, Pequannock Twp Schools

Saxophone Ensemble - Paul Cohen, William Paterson University

Brass Ensemble - Brian McLaughlin, West Milford HS

Percussion Ensemble - Erik Lynch, Verona HSThe annual NJSMA high school con-

cert band festival will be held March 19 at Verona HS, March 20 at Bergenfield HS, and March 21 at Mount Olive HS and Ran-dolph HS. On both March 20 (Bergenfield) and March 21 (Mt. Olive and Randolph) there will be separate day and evening times for the festival. The junior high school band festival will take place Thursday, April 18, 2013 at Randolph MS and Westwood Reg. Jr./Sr. HS. Please check the NJSMA website for details and performance applications.

The NJSMA Elementary Honors Band Festival will be Saturday, May 4, 2013, at Columbia HS in Maplewood. Fifth and Sixth graders from North Jersey who have been nominated by their directors will re-hearse during the morning and present a concert in the afternoon. The festival will be a one-day event and the sponsoring teacher must be in attendance the day of the festival. This is a wonderful opportunity to feature young musicians as they grow and develop in their musical experiences. All student nomi-nations will take place electronically. Check the NJSMA website for details.

Directors who would like to suggest new high school or junior high school solos for future auditions are encouraged to do so. The process for having a new solo considered is to contact the band chairs and provide a copy of the music for them. Your suggestion will be submitted to a committee for review (All-State Band Procedures for high school solos) and added to the list if deemed appropriate. Region I All-State Band Procedures Repre-sentatives are Lewis Kelly, West Orange HS; Gregory Mulford, Bergenfield School Dis-trict; and Mindy Scheierman, Millburn HS.

Choral DivisionStephanie Quirk and Austin Vallies

Choral Division Co-Chairs

The Choral Division is pleased to an-nounce the conductors for the 2013 High School Region Honor Choirs. Heather Buchanan, from the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University, will conduct the Mixed Ensemble and Leslie MacPherson, director of choirs at Northern Valley Regional HS at Demarest, will con-duct the Women’s Chorus. Wilbur Baker, New Jersey City University, will be directing the Junior High School Mixed Ensemble. At the time of this writing, we are in the final stages of securing a conductor for our Junior High School Treble Chorus.

High school honor choir auditions will take place Saturday, January 5, 2013, at Para-mus HS. The junior high school honor choir auditions will take place Saturday, February 2, 2013, at Clifton HS. All audition mate-rials are available on the NJSMA website, www.NJSMA.com. Thank you to Michelle Digaetano and Deana Larsen for kindly vol-unteering to be our audition managers again this year!

High school choral rehearsals will again be at Kinnelon HS, and will return for the concert at Secaucus HS in their beauti-ful performing arts center. The junior high school evening rehearsals will be at Memorial MS in Fair Lawn, where George Glock has

been hosting for several years. We are grateful to him and the district of Fair Lawn for vol-unteering their time and hospitality. At this time, we do not have a site for the all-day re-hearsal, dress rehearsal, or concert (March 1, 2, 3). We also do not have managers for the Junior Region Chorus. If we do not have a site host for these dates, or managers, by Jan-uary 5, unfortunately, we will not be able to run our Junior High School Honor Choirs.

Our annual high school choral festival ran November 27th through the 29. Thank you to Viraj Lal, our festival coordinator, Matthew Swiss, Randolph HS, Barbara Kl-emp, Chatham HS, and Lisa Bagley, West-wood Reg. Jr./Sr. HS, for graciously hosting. Also thanks to adjudicators John Leonard, Patrick Gardner, Lucille Kincaid, Barbara Retzko, and Amanda Quist!

We need your help! If you are interested in hosting an event or managing an ensem-ble, please e-mail Stephanie Quirk or Austin Vallies at [email protected] and [email protected]. We would hate to see events canceled due to the lack of volunteers for these groups. We look forward to your par-ticipation.

Orchestra DivisionNate Lienhard and Michael Holak

Orchestra Division Co-Chairs

The Region I Orchestra Division is ex-cited to announce the events for 2012-13! Our guest conductor for the high school or-chestra will be Ken Lam, orchestra director at Montclair State University, resident conduc-tor of the

“Brevard Music Center” in North Caro-lina and the artistic director of the Greater Baltimore Youth Orchestra. Kim Chiesa, from the Randolph Township School Dis-trict, returns with a few years of managing experience to once again handle this impor-tant role.

Our guest conductor for junior high school orchestra will be Karen Pinoci. She is co-founder and associate conductor/director of the New Philharmonic of New Jersey, and also music director of the New Sussex Sym-phony and the Essex County Summer Play-ers. Mary Daly, from West Morris Mendham High School and a former orchestra division chair, will ably manage the junior orchestra this year. Her expertise will help in train-ing these young musicians in the rules and regulations of future Region and All-State ensembles.

The high school concert will take place Sunday, February 10, 2013. The junior high school concert is set for Sunday, March 10, 2013. The Region I Orchestra Division fol-


lows the scale and solo repertoire require-ments of the All-State Orchestra. Please check the region or state website for further details. All accepted region orchestra string members will receive concert music prior to the first rehearsal. A string reseating audition on the concert repertoire will take place at the second rehearsal. The solo scores from the initial audition will be combined with the repertoire scores to determine the new seating.

We hope your school year is going well. Please contact us if we can assist you in any way. We always need site hosts for concerts and rehearsals as well as sectional coaches for strings, winds and percussion. Check the dates in the Region calendar and contact us to sign up.

The SJBODA will bring in the New Year with two very excit-ing concerts. On Sunday, Janu-

ary 6th we will present our Orchestra and String Ensemble concert at Rowan Uni-versity. This is the 59th anniversary concert for the Orchestra which will be conducted by Michael Oberstein. The Junior High String Ensemble will be conducted by Judy Barnett (Washington Twp. HS). The man-ager for the Orchestra will be Deb Knisely (Cinnaminson HS). The following Sun-day, January 13th the Wind Ensemble and the Symphonic Band conducted by Paul Tomlin (Clearview Regional HS) and Deb Knisely (Cinnaminson HS) respectively will perform in the 67th anniversary concert at Rowan University. The managers for the Symphonic Band are Tom Rafter (Private Teacher) and Jon Grill (Toms River HS North). The managers for the Wind En-semble and the String Ensemble have not been announced at this time.

These concerts would not be possible without the commitment and dedication of our colleagues. Deb Knisely (Cinnamin-son HS), Chris Adams (Rush Intermediate School) and Phil Senseney (Southern Re-gional Schools) did an outstanding job in providing our students with a positive audi-tion experience. Gail Posey and John Stanz provided an excellent facility for our stu-dents, parents, and membership at the audi-tions which were held at Eastern Regional HS. We would also like to acknowledge our new string coordinator, Glenn Motson (Gloucester City HS) and our new percus-sion equipment manager, Christopher Jan-

ney (Haddonfield HS). The first rehearsal for these ensembles

was held at Cinnaminson HS and hosted by Deb Knisely. Deb did a wonderful job in meeting the needs of our students. The young musicians also benefited from the ef-forts of Nichole DelNero (Toms River HS South) our Senior High Band Coordinator.

The Junior High Band auditions will take place on Saturday, January 26th at Southern Regional Middle School. Jenni-fer Hodgson and Phil Senseney will be our hosts. Audition information is available on our website. Tony Scardino (Indian Mills MS) and Joe Jacobs (Ventnor MS) are the Junior High audition chairs. Calvin Spen-cer (Monongahela MS) is our Junior High Band Coordinator. The concert will take place on March 3rd at Fernwood Ave. MS in Egg Harbor Township. Mark Kadetsky and Dominic Scalfaro will be our concert hosts. Keith Hodgson will host the rehearsals at Mainland Regional HS.

The 6th annual Chamber Ensemble Concert will take place on Thursday, Feb-ruary 14th. Keith Hodgson (Mainland Re-gional HS) is our Chamber Ensemble Co-ordinator and concert host. The Mainland TRI-M Music Honor Society Chapter will also be our host for this event. Scott Mc-Carron (Delsea Regional HS) will coach the saxophone quartet. The coaches for the brass ensemble, string ensemble, woodwind quintet, and percussion ensemble will be announced at a later date

Registration forms for our 19th annual Concert Band Festival are available on the SJBODA website. The festival, coordinated by Mike Armstrong (Deptford Township HS), will take place on Monday, March 18th and Tuesday, March 19th at Rowan University. Rick Dammers, John Pastin and the Rowan University Wind Ensemble will sponsor this event.

The 21st annual Elementary Honors Band Festival will take place on Saturday, May 4th at Absegami HS. Jonathan Porco will be our host. Our coordinators are Christine Macaulay (Cherry Hill Schools), David Fox (Thomas E. Bowe School), and Bill Trimble (Wenonah ES). Registration forms are available on the website.

The SJBODA Winter Meeting will take place on Friday, January 11th at 10:00 AM at Rowan University. All members are encouraged to attend. Please continue to check the website, maintained by Scott Mc-Carron (Delsea Regional HS), for the lat-est SJBODA updates. The SJBODA phone number is 609-457-0590.

Joseph Jacobs

Secretary, SJBODA

The South Jersey Choral Di-rectors Association (SJCDA) Board of Directors has been

very active the last few months preparing for our upcoming festivals and concerts.

Our Senior High Chorus conductor, Kahlil Gunther of Woodstown High School, and our Junior High Chorus conductor, Pamela Barnes of Egg Harbor Township High School, have already begun rehears-ing and bringing energy and great ideas to our students - not to mention a wealth of knowledge and experience. Their diverse and challenging programs can be viewed at our website: www.sjcda.net. We are proud to have them on board!

At this busy time of year, SJCDA has many people to thank for their generous help and support. Kahlil Gunther, of Wood-stown High School, once again did an out-standing job hosting our November 17th auditions. Our gracious rehearsal host is Kendra Cancellieri of Lenape High School. Katherine Akinskas of Eastern Regional High School will host the Junior/Senior High Festival on January 26 and 27, 2013. Lawrence DePasquale of Rowan University will conduct, and Donna Marie Berchtold will host the Elementary Festival on March 2, 2013 at Hess Performing Arts Center in Mays Landing. Thank you so much to our hosts for volunteering their time and their buildings!

The SJCDA Executive Board looks forward to some very busy but exciting and productive months.

Art McKenzie, PresidentSouth Jersey Choral Directors Association

Overbrook Senior High School

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Thomas A. Finetti

Thomas A. Finetti, 66, of Nutley, passed on Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012, at the St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston.

Finetti was born in Newark and resided in Nutley for 37 years. He received his M.A. (1972) and Ph.D. (1988) in Music and Pia-no Performance from New York University. His performance career as soloist and ac-companist in the metropolitan area spanned over 30 years.

Thomas was also a dedicated teacher who shared his passion for music with his students. He served as choral director at Belleville High School for 38 years and was also an adjunct professor at Fairleigh Dick-inson University and Kean University.

Pasquale LaNeve

Born in Paterson, LaNeve lived in Totowa for most of his life. He was a music teacher for the Garfield Board of Education. He also played trumpet with the Tony Neg-lia Band and was a member of Musicians Union Local No. 248. He was a parishioner of Holy Angels R.C. Church, Little Falls, where he served as an usher as well.

Harry L. Madole

Harry L. Madole, age 77, of Tafton, PA died Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012 at Wayne Me-morial Hospital in Honesdale, PA. Madole was born January 5, 1935 in Lancaster, PA and was the son of the late Sheridan and Eltrudea (Hampton) Madole. He went to Trenton Public Schools and attended Phila-delphia Musical Academy. Graduating from Trenton State College in 1957, he then at-tained a Master of Arts Degree majoring

in Conducting and Composition. Harry taught first in the Tinton Falls Schools of NJ for nine years, developing an eighty voice choir, an eighty-five piece band and a string program. In addition, he taught as an adjunct professor at Trenton State and founded The Shore Intermediate Band and Orchestra Association. He directed numer-ous musical groups and dramatic produc-tions, while active as a professional musician himself. The highlight of his career came when he became Director of Music at Point Pleasant Beach High School in NJ where he remained until his retirement in 1991. He started a Jazz Program there which from 1969-1990 placed among the top in NJ each year and won state and regional rec-ognition. He developed a cultural students enjoyed week-end visits with high school bands in Maine and New England. Perfor-mances at many concerts, footballs games, parades and community functions won ac-claim from area leaders, every principal un-der which he served, community members and music teachers in other areas. He was recognized for his community leaderships. He was selected to conduct All South Jersey Region Band, All State Jazz Ensemble and at the Garden State Arts Center. He founded the Greater Point Pleasant Area Commu-nity Symphonic Band which combined the talents of high school students, adults and alumni. At the First Presbyterian Church of Manasquan and locally, he and his wife combined talents for many vocal, instru-mental and dramatic productions. Madole has been recognized by many of his previous students who credit him for contributions as a teacher, friend and mentor in their lives.

Louis Angelo Mondanaro

Louis Angelo Mondanaro, 60, of Bay-onne passed away peacefully on Sunday Oc-tober 28, 2012 at the Jersey City Medical Center. Louis was born in Jersey City and spent most of his life in Jersey City and in

Bayonne. He was a music teacher for the Jersey City Board of Education for over 30 years, teaching at Dickinson High School. He was a member of the NJ Education As-sociation and the Jersey City Education As-sociation. He also was a 1978 Alumni of NJCU, Jersey City.

Constance Anne Ziobro

Constance Anne Ziobro, 58, of Piscat-away, N.J. passed away on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012, at her home. Born in Plainfield, NJ, Constance resided in North Plainfield, NJ, before moving to Piscataway, NJ, in 1991. Ziobro was a graduate of Piscataway High School, Class of 1972, and Montclair State College, Class of 1976 with a bachelor’s de-gree in music education. A music teacher with the Piscataway Board of Education, she taught at the Arbor Elementary School in Piscataway, NJ, before her retirement. She had also formerly worked as a computer programmer/analyst for NJ Bell.

Janice A. Weitzell

Janice A. Weitzell (nee Pellegrino), 60, passed away peacefully in her home Sunday morning, Nov. 11, 2012. Janice was born in Orange, NJ, and raised in West Orange, NJ. She lived in Toms River, NJ, and Lake Worth, Fl, before moving back to New Jer-sey. Janice was a graduate of Westminster Choir College. and was a music teacher in the Toms River school system until her retirement. Janice loved music and sang at many venues in the area. While living in Florida, she was an officer of the Opera So-ciety of Palm Beach.

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IN MEMORIAMThis column salutes the lives and careers of recently departed colleagues. It is the way NJMEA and NJRMEA can express appreciation for the work that they have done and the lives that they have touched. We mourn their passing and salute their contributions, which are the basis for music education in the state of New Jersey.

If you know of the passing of any music educator, please contact:Christine Sezer at 570-756-2961or [email protected]

(Please send obituary notices from your local newspaper concerning music teachers from New Jersey who have passed away. It is not possible to keep track of all the newspapers in the state and your help is needed.)

Rooted in Tradition, Energized by InnovationEducating Teachers Since 1916

- For high school sophomores, juniors, seniors, parents, & teachers- Features small group sessions and masterclasses- Offers a mock audition and faculty performance

Apply to the Department of Music at TCNJ2012-2013 Audition Dates

Wednesday, November 14th 2012 Wednesday, January 23rd 2013Wednesday, January 30th 2013 Saturday, February 9th 2013

Monday, February 18th 2013

For audition information and workshop registration materials:[email protected] - tcnj.edu/[email protected] - tcnj.edu/music

The Department of Music is an accredited instituional member of theNational Association of Schools of Music as well as a collegiate member of NAfME,

the National Association for Music Education.

TCNJ Tops US News & World Report’s List of Best Colleges

The College of New Jersey is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.

ANNUAL AUDITION WORKSHOPSaturday, November 10th 2012

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Rooted in Tradition, Energized by InnovationEducating Teachers Since 1916

- For high school sophomores, juniors, seniors, parents, & teachers- Features small group sessions and masterclasses- Offers a mock audition and faculty performance

Apply to the Department of Music at TCNJ2012-2013 Audition Dates

Wednesday, November 14th 2012 Wednesday, January 23rd 2013Wednesday, January 30th 2013 Saturday, February 9th 2013

Monday, February 18th 2013

For audition information and workshop registration materials:[email protected] - tcnj.edu/[email protected] - tcnj.edu/music

The Department of Music is an accredited instituional member of theNational Association of Schools of Music as well as a collegiate member of NAfME,

the National Association for Music Education.

TCNJ Tops US News & World Report’s List of Best Colleges

The College of New Jersey is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.

ANNUAL AUDITION WORKSHOPSaturday, November 10th 2012

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President, Keith HodgsonMainland Regional [email protected]

Past-President, William McDevittVineland High [email protected] x2539

President-Elect, Joseph JacobsVentnor Middle [email protected]

Executive Secretary-TreasurerDeborah SfragaOcean Township [email protected]

Communications (TEMPO/Web)Thomas A. Mosher, [email protected]

NJSMAPresident, Michael KallimanisWaldwick Middle [email protected] 201-370-0423

CJMEAPresident, Andrew VeissSo. Plainfield Middle [email protected] x378

SJCDAPresident, Art McKenzieOverbrook High [email protected] 856-767-8000 x3044

SJBODAPresident, John StanzEastern Regional High [email protected]

AdministrationRonald [email protected]

AdvocacyNick [email protected]

Band Festivals/Classroom MusicNancy ClasenThomas Jefferson Middle [email protected]

Band PerformanceAlbert BazzelWinslow Twp. Middle [email protected]

Choral FestivalsDonna Marie BerchtoldWilliam Davies Middle [email protected] x1013

Chorus PerformanceKathy Spadafino, [email protected]

Chorus/Orchestra/JazzJoseph CantaffaHowell High [email protected]

Collegiate ChaptersRick DammersRowan [email protected]

ConferencesMarie MalaraSayreville Middle [email protected]

Higher EducationLarry DePasqualeRowan [email protected]

Music IndustryRon BeaudoinMusic & Arts [email protected]

Opera FestivalStevie RawlingsParamus High [email protected] x3069

Orchestra Festivals/PerformanceSusan MeuseHammarskjold Middle [email protected]

Retired Music EducatorsChristine [email protected]

Urban Music InitiativeSuzanne M. KaneWest Side High [email protected],nj.us

NJMEA 2012-2013 Board of Directors

Executive Board Appointed Members

Region Executive Members


NJMEA RESOURCE PERSONNELArea of Responsibility Name Email AddressAdministrative Matters .....................................................Keith W. Hodgson ....................................................keithhodgson1@mac.comAll-State Band Coordinator ...............................................Donna Cardaneo .......................................................... [email protected] Chorus, Orchestra & Jazz Coordinator ................. Joseph Cantaffa ................................................. [email protected] COJ Committee ...................................................... Dick Smith ......................................................... [email protected] COJ Committee .....................................................Jack Rowland ...................................................... [email protected] Business ........................................................... Deborah Sfraga ............................................................debnjmea@aol.comBand Procedures Chair ........................................................Matthew Spatz ..............................................matthew.spatz@millburn.orgChoral Procedures Chair .................................................. Kathleen Spadafino ............................................................kspadeb@aol.comCollegiate Student Volunteer Coordinator ............................Michael Saias ...........................................................saiasm@hotmail.com Composition Contest ........................................................Robert Frampton ..................................................rtframpton@comcast.netJazz Procedures Chair ............................................................ Jeff Kunkel .............................................................drkunk@comcast.netMarching Band Festival Chair ............................................. Nancy Clasen .................................................... [email protected] ....................................................................... Deborah Sfraga ............................................................debnjmea@aol.comMiddle/Jr. High School Band Festival .................................... Chris Pinto ...................................................... [email protected]/Jr. High School Choral Festival ............................ Larry De Pasquale .................................................... [email protected] .............................................................................. Nancy Clasen .................................................... [email protected] Historian ................................................................Nick Santoro ............................................................nb1331@quixnet.netNJMEA Solo & Ensemble Festival ...................................... Nancy Clasen ..................................................... [email protected] State Conference Exhibits Chair ............................ Nancy Clasen ..................................................... [email protected] Society for General Music .............................................. Nancy Clasen .................................................... [email protected] State Conference Committee .................................Ron Beaudoin .................................................rbeaudoin@musicarts.comNJMEA State Conference Manager ......................................Marie Malara ............................................................ [email protected]/ACDA Honor Choirs ........................................... Deborah Mello ................................................................dmello@nac.netNJMEA Summer Conference .............................................Joseph Akinskas............................................. [email protected] Convention-NJEA .............................................. Nancy Clasen ................................................... [email protected] Festival Chair ........................................................... Stevie Rawlings ............................................... [email protected] Procedures Chair .................................................. Susan Meuse ..................................................... [email protected] ......................................................................Carol Frierson-Campbell ................................... [email protected] with Special Needs ...............................................Maureen Butler ........................................................mbutler@mtlakes.orgSupervisor of Performing Groups ............................................ Joe Jacobs ................................................................jjacobs@veccnj.orgTri-M.................................................................................. Keith Hodgson .................................................keithhodgson1@mac.com

REPRESENTATIVES/LIAISONSTO AFFILIATED, ASSOCIATED AND RELATED ORGANIZATIONS

American Choral Directors Association ................................................................................................................................................Governor’s Awards for Arts Education ................................ Stevie Rawlings ............................................... [email protected] Association for Jazz Education .......................................... Jeff Kunkel ........................................................... [email protected] .............................................................................. Keith Hodgson .................................................keithhodgson1@mac.comMusic Industry ....................................................................Ron Beaudoin .................................................rbeaudoin@musicarts.comNJ Music Administrators Association .....................................Ron Dolce .............................................................. [email protected] Retired Music Educators Association ............................. Christine Sezer ......................................................... [email protected] TI:ME ........................................................................... Rick Dammers ....................................................... [email protected] Arts Society ........................................................ Dominic Zarro ...................................................DEZarro@optonline.net

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Executive Secretary-Treasurer .............................................. Deborah Sfraga .......................................................... [email protected] - TEMPO Magazine ............................................. Thomas A. Mosher .......................................................tmosher@njmea.orgWeb Master (njmea.org) .................................................. Thomas A. Mosher .......................................................tmosher@njmea.org


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