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THE SCORE SHELBY COUNTY SCHOOLS News From Across the State The Shelby County Schools partnership with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra was in the spotlight on February 5, 2015, as 1500 elementary students were able to attend the orchestra’s annual Young People’s Concert (YPC). Not only were the students able to attend this live arts performance, but their teachers involved them in arts integrated learning through the curriculum unit which is a big part of the YPC experience. Additionally, each YPC participating school will receive an up close and personal orchestral experience with two MSO pre- and post-concert educational ensemble visits. We are very glad that this partnership and collaboration between SCS and the MSO continues over the years to provide our elementary students with this rich live arts experience. The Idlewild Performing Recorder Ensemble from Idlewild Elementary, Memphis, TN, under the direction of Allen Moody, Orff music teacher at Idlewild, was one of the children’s performing ensembles at last fall’s American Orff-Schulwerk Association’s National Professional Development Conference in Nashville, TN. The Idlewild Performing Ensemble has a history of excellence in music making. Students are selected on the basis of audition and school-wide behavior. Members meet before school to rehearse for their various performances and are routinely selected to participate in All-West Choral and All-City Orff ensembles in Memphis, TN. Allen Moody from Memphis, TN, received his B.M. in Music Education from the University of Memphis in 2009. He completed his Orff levels at the University of Memphis as well. He is an Orff Music Specialist with Shelby County Schools and co-hosted the First-Timer’s Orientation at the Denver Conference in 2013. The Orff Music Program of Shelby County Schools (SCS) hosts an annual Orff Music All-City Concert. The All-City Concert is a district wide Orff music teacher collaboration to prepare students to perform together after having rehearsed their own individual vocal, instrument, and dance assignments separately at their own schools. The students come together for two days of rehearsal before the free and open to the public concert. Last year’s April 3rd concert, themed Snapshots of Sound, cochaired by Orff Music specialists, Scharion Bradley, Macon Hall Elementary, and Elisabeth Lay, Lincoln Elementary, was performed to a packed house at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts. Over 325 SCS 4th and 5th grade students sang, danced, played recorder, guitar, and Orff pitched and un-pitched instruments to accompany themselves as they performed favorites from past All-City concerts. Each All-City concert is a multicultural Shelby County Schools program and this year’s May 7th concert, All-City 2015: Our World, Our Song, cochaired by Orff Music specialist, Lynn Bivens, Shady Grove Elementary, and Maria Spence, Shelby Oaks Elementary, will be no exception. The selections for All-City 2015: Our World, Our Song include the processional, Man in the Moon/ Dance Song; the Netherlands folksong, Sarasponda; a rousing medley of Camp Songs; the Japanese folk song, Sakura; the Spanish folk song, There’s a Fiesta; a fun children’s song, Safari; the Earlene Rentz choral piece, I Want Two Wings; and the Finale, Proud Mary. This year SCS hosted a series of master classes and clinics with artists such as jazz educator Ronald Carter, Professor Emeritus at Northern Illinois University and renowned lyric soprano, Kallen Esperian. Overton High and Central High School Jazz bands were selected as finalists for the Savannah Swing Central National Jazz Band Competition. This is the second consecutive year Central has been selected. Overton High has been selected for the past three years, and this year placed 2nd nationally at the Competition. SCS is proud to have 65 schools with strings programs, and in October, over 100 students from across the district participated in an All-City concert, highlighting different genres of music from classical to rock. SCS continues to be involved with the Metropolitan Opera’s HD Live in Schools partnership as well as active partnerships with local arts agencies such as Ballet on Wheels featuring the Cordova High School Orchestra. Williamson County Schools In May, the 6th annual district wide ArtsFest will feature over 1,000 works of student art and many All-City performance ensembles with clinicians sucah as Dr. Ryan Fisher, Dr. Reginald McDonald, Dr. Albert Nguyen, and others. Additionally, Shelby County Schools has partnered with the Berklee College of Music City Music Network to present educational materials and resources to the film “Take Me to the River” which was made available to the music teachers in the Berklee City Music Network and the “Amp Up” music teachers in New York City. 12 | TENNESSEE MUSICIAN | 2015 | VOLUME 67, NO. 2
WILLIAMSON COUNTY SCHOOLS Greetings from Williamson County Schools! Students and teachers in WCS music programs have been busy this year. We were excited to send 20 students to All-State Choir and 21 in All-State Band and Orchestra with well over 200 attending the regional Mid-State performances. Four WCS students were selected to perform with the National Honor Choir, National Honor Band, and National Honor Orchestra as well. As the district’s music programs have continued to grow, we have been fortunate to be able to add two full time band directors and several part-time elementary music specialists. Band and orchestra directors from across Williamson County Schools and Franklin Special School District collaborated to present their annual Honor Band Middle Tennessee State University TENNESSEE and Festival Orchestra performance. The band features some of the county’s finest middle and high school student musicians. Students who were nominated by their band director got to audition for a spot in this prestigious ensemble. Those who were selected gathered to rehearse the day before the concert under the direction of a guest clinician. The event is completely teacher driven and has been a tradition in the county for over 10 years. The festival orchestra was premiered in 2014 as our county has continued to add string programs and teachers. WCS is particularly excited to announce its 2nd Annual district-wide Fine Arts Festival sponsored by the Williamson County Association of Realtors Good Works Foundation and hosted by the Factory at Franklin. The event will feature four stage areas sponsored by Mathnasium and Franklin Synergy Bank from which students in kindergarten through high school will perform from 10:00 in the morning until 6:00 in the evening. Events will include jazz bands, concert choirs, elementary mass choirs, Orff ensembles, show choirs, orchestras, and a percussion ensemble. This event serves to spotlight the talent, achievements and importance of arts education in our schools. The fact that the event is sponsored by a Realtors foundation, a bank, and a math tutoring company highlights how the community recognizes strong music and arts programs as an integral part of educating the whole child, improving our schools and attracting businesses to a community East Tennessee State University MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY The MTSU School of Music is pleased to announce exciting happenings this year. MTSU’s Wind Ensemble recently premiered “The Master’s Hand,” composed and conducted by Timothy Mahr in memory of Joseph T. Smith. Additionally, NAXOS issued EARTHRISE, a new Wind Ensemble CD, Reed Thomas, conductor and David Loucky, trombone soloist. MTSU students performed winning student works at the NAfME conference and won snare and ensemble awards at this year’s PASIC. The Knoxboro-Bones, student trombone quartet, presented concerts in six Knoxville area schools. Recent faculty activities include H. Stephen Smith, voice, performing with the Memphis Symphony; guitarist Bill Yelverton performing at Mississippi State University and Wofford College; and Michael Parkinson directing the Kansas All- State Jazz Band. MTSU’s Brass Quintet performed with Belmont and Vanderbilt quintets, premiering Tri-Star Fanfare by Jamey Simmons. Cedric Dent and TAKE SIX were recently inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Don Aliquo, Michael Linton, Matt Lund, Paul Osterfield, and Jamey Simmons each have new CDs in release. Among recent alumni achievements: Tracey Phillips won the Dove award for Instrumental Album of the Year; Steven Malone directed the NBC production of PETER PAN LIVE; Jesus Santandreu is resident composer for the Beijing Wind Orchestra; singer Seth Carico, is performing with Deutsche Opera; jazz alumni returned to present a big band concert directed by John Duke. Finally, the Master of Music degree is now official at MTSU with NASM approval. Visit mtsumusic. com for more information. EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY Dr. Christian Zembower, Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Music at ETSU, has been accepted to present at two separate band conferences in the future. He will be presenting “Singular Successes: Contributions to the Wind Band Idiom” at the March, 2015 College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) National Conference in Nashville, hosted by Vanderbilt University; and also at the July, 2015 World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE) International Conference in San Jose, California, hosted by San Jose State University. Dr. Zembower’s presentation is based on a research article that will be published in the Fall, 2014 volume issue of the WASBE Journal on the same subject area and title as the upcoming presentations. The article/presentations are based on research of eleven composers who were all very successful in their compositional output in other genres, but only contributed one (published) work to the wind band idiom. Tennessee Music Education Assocation | 13
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