GEORGIA MUSIC EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION
Dr. Bernadette Scruggs President Steve Tyndall Band Division Chair Evelyn Champion Orchestra Division Chair present the
2010 GEORGIA ALL STATE BANDS AND ORCHESTRAS conducted by
Robert Sheldon Nola Jones Sue Samuels
David Waybright Bruce Dinkins
Rebecca MacLeod Randal Swiggum Michael Alexander
HOSTED BY The Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools Thomas B. Lockamy, Jr. Ed.D., Superintendent Ken Hudlow, Performing Arts Specialist
ALL STATE MIDDLE SCHOOL ORCHESTRA Rebecca MacLeod, Conductor James Barket, Organizer
Brook Green Suite
Prelude Air Dance
Déjà vu
Carold Nunez
Revenge of the Double Bass Romanian Folk Dances
Gustav Holst
Joseph Reinhagle Arr. Michael Allen I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII.
“Jocul Cu Bâta” “Brâul” “Pe Loc” “Buciumeana” “Poarga Românească” “Mărunţel” “Mărunţel”
Béla Bartók
Dr. Rebecca MacLeod is an Assistant Professor of Music Education at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro where she specializes in string pedagogy. Prior to joining the faculty at UNCG, she was the assistant artistic director and conductor of the Tallahassee Symphony Youth Chamber Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra in Tallahassee, Florida. A native of Pennsylvania, she taught elementary, middle, and high school orchestra in Hollidaysburg and Beaver, Pennsylvania. She was formerly chair of music activities at Beaver Area High School, where she was recognized as the Pennsylvania and Delaware American String Teacher’s Association “Spotlight Teacher” for the 2000-2001 school year. She is published in the Journal of Research in Music Education, Journal of String Research, International Journal of Music Education, Bulletin for the Council of Research in Music Education, and the Florida Music Educator’s Journal. Her research on at-risk string programs, vibrato technique, and music perception has been presented at the Music Educator’s National Conference, American String Teacher’s National Conference, North Carolina Music Educators State Conference, and the Florida Music Educator’s State Conference, respectively. Dr. MacLeod received her undergraduate degree from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and her MME and PhD from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. She continues to serve on the faculty of the high school summer music camps at Florida State University, Northwestern University, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is a frequent guest conductor and clinician throughout the United States.
ALL STATE MIDDLE SCHOOL BAND Robert Sheldon, Conductor Helen Saile, Organizer Joseph Hasty, Percussion Coordinator
The Klaxon
Henry Fillmore Edited by Frederick Fennell
Three Georgian Vignettes Pony Express Appalachian Morning Rampage!
Robert Sheldon Chris M. Bernotas Robert Sheldon Todd Stalter
Robert Sheldon has taught instrumental music in the Florida and Illinois public schools, and has served on the faculty at Florida State University where he taught conducting and instrumental music education classes, and directed the university bands. As Concert Band Editor for Alfred Music Publishing, he maintains an active composition and conducting schedule, and regularly accepts commissions for new works. Sheldon received the Bachelor of Music in Music Education from the University of Miami and the Master of Fine Arts in Instrumental Conducting from the University of Florida. An internationally recognized clinician, Sheldon has conducted numerous Regional and All-State Honor Bands throughout the United States and abroad, is Conductor of the Prairie Wind Ensemble in residence at Illinois Central College, and teaches Composition at Bradley University. The American School Band Directors Association has honored him with the Volkwein Award for composition and the Stanbury Award for teaching, and the International Assembly of Phi Beta Mu honored him with the International Outstanding Bandmaster Award. He has also been a twenty-twotime recipient of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publisher's Standard Award for his compositions in the concert band repertoire. Mr. Sheldon has been the topic of articles published in The Instrumentalist, Teaching Music and School Band and Orchestra Magazine, and is one of eleven American wind band composers featured in Volume I of Composers on Composing Music for Band.
ALL STATE MIDDLE SCHOOL BAND
Nola Jones, Conductor Audrey L. Murphy, Organizer Dennis Naughton, Percussion Coordinator Air Waves March
Joseph Olivadoti
Acceptance
Andrew Poor
In the Forest of the King Moscow, 1941
Pierre LaPlante Brian Balmages
Joy Revisited
Frank Ticheli
Crystal Moon
Larry Clark Dr. Nola Jones is the Director of Bands and Assistant Professor of Music Education at the University of Tennessee Martin where her responsibilities include conducting the UTM Wind Ensemble and Concert Band, serving as director of the UTM Skyhawk Marching Band and Pep Band, and teaching undergraduate courses in conducting and music education. Prior to this appointment, she served as the Associate Director of Bands and Assistant Professor of Music Education at Northern Arizona University. A native of Mississippi, Dr. Jones has enjoyed a successful career as a middle school and high school band director in Mississippi and Tennessee, where her bands consistently received all superior ratings in concert, sight-reading and marching.
Dr. Jones maintains an active schedule as a guest conductor, adjudicator, and clinician for concert and marching bands, and has appeared throughout the United States as well as Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, and Singapore. At the request of MENC: The National Association for Music Education, she was the Director of the 2010 US Army All-American Band. She has held positions on the Executive Board of Middle Tennessee State Band and Orchestra Association and as a state chair for the National Band Association. Dr. Jones' professional affiliations include Music Educators National Conference, Tennessee Music Educators Association, Tennessee Bandmasters Association, West Tennessee School Band and Orchestra Association, National Band Association, College Band Directors National Association, Phi Beta Mu, Sigma Alpha Iota, Tau Beta Sigma, and Kappa Kappa Psi. Dr. Jones actively adjudicates for Drum Corps International, Bands of America, and Winter Guard International, having judged numerous Regional, National, and World Championships for these organizations. Dr. Jones received the Bachelor of Music Education degree from Mississippi State University and the Master of Music Education degree from Mississippi College. She received her Doctorate of Musical Arts in wind band conducting from the University of South Carolina where she was a student of Dr. William J. Moody.
ALL STATE NINTH AND TENTH GRADE ORCHESTRA Randal Swiggum, Conductor Kelly Taylor, Organizer
Kaiser Walzer (Emperor Waltz)
Johann Strauss, Jr.
A London Symphony Ralph Vaughan Williams IV. Andante con moto-maestoso alla marcia-Allegro-Epilogue Huapango
José Pablo Moncayo Randal Swiggum is Music Director of the award-winning Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra, and was named “Conductor of the Year” by the Illinois Council of Orchestras in 2008. The EYSO has distinguished itself for innovative programming and artistic excellence, as well as for a comprehensive approach to repertoire and rehearsals. The 2009-10 season, Sonic Cathedral, explores the relationships between music and architecture. It will feature in-depth study and performance of works by Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Mendelssohn, Handel, and Jennifer Higdon as well as Shostakovich Symphony No. 1 and the Brahms Requiem. Swiggum also serves as Education Conductor for the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, one of America’s most acclaimed regional orchestras, working closely with their Education and Artistic Departments to design education and community engagement programs. He is responsible for creating and conducting their annual Young People’s Concerts each spring, as well as developing teacher guides and supporting materials for students.
Over the years, these acclaimed concerts have been praised by teachers and beloved by students for their imaginative approach in getting young people excited about symphonic music. Drawing upon a long career of teaching young people, Swiggum has created concerts like Dvorak in America, Traveling Music, The Amazing Mr. Copland, Humor in Music, and Fascinating Rhythm, which takes on the challenge of isolating a single, abstract element of music and then looking at it in as many interesting ways as possible. These programs have distinguished the Elgin Symphony as a leader in presenting concerts for young listeners, and have resulted in invitations to create and conduct youth concerts with The Florida Orchestra, the Boise Philharmonic, the Aberdeen International Youth Festival, and the APAC Orchestra Festival in Seoul, Korea. This season he conducted the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, as well as many regional and festival orchestras. Swiggum has conducted successful concert tours in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, and throughout the U.S. His groups performed throughout Italy under the auspices of UNESCO, in Brazil as guests of the city of Rio de Janeiro and Intercultura Brasil, and with the Icelandic National Symphony in Reykjavik under the direction of Lukas Foss. He conducted the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra in Prague, Brno, Bratislava, Budapest, and Vienna. He is well-known to theatre audiences as a conductor of opera and musical theatre and has music directed over thirty stage works including the premiere of the Theatre X opera, Liberace. He created original music for celebrated director Eric Simonsen’s new production of Moby Dick for the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, named by TIME magazine as one of the 10 Best American Theatrical Productions of 2002. Swiggum has long been an advocate of “aiming high” with expectations for music education and youth. A leader in the Wisconsin CMP Project (Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance), he is the author of several books and numerous articles for teachers and musicians. He has served two terms on the Youth Orchestra Board of the League of American Orchestras. He makes his home in Madison, Wisconsin, where he also conducts the Madison Boychoir, and is a Ph.D. dissertator in musicology.
ALL STATE CONCERT HIGH SCHOOL BAND Sue Samuels, Conductor Andrew Poor, Organizer John Herndon, Percussion Coordinator
Fairest of the Fair Fantasy on a Theme by Sousa Esprit de Corps Tribute Folk Dances
John Philip Sousa Edited by Fennell Andrew Boysen, Jr. Robert Jager Travis Cross Dmitri Shostakovich Edited by H. Robert Reynolds
Sue Samuels is the Director of Bands at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her responsibilities include teaching and administering the Marching Blazers, the Wind Symphony, and the Blazer Band, as well as teaching courses in conducting and music education. Since Ms. Samuels arrived in Birmingham, the bands at UAB have continued to grow and thrive under her direction. The Marching Blazers, with more than 200 members, continue to wow the crowds with contemporary sights and sounds. The UAB Wind Symphony performs at least 2 concerts per semester at the Alys Stephens Center, and the group continues to perform the very finest literature available for the contemporary wind band. UAB annually hosts more than 200 high school band performers at the All-Star Band Festival each fall and more than 600 young musicians at the annual Middle School and High School Honor Band festivals each December. The Blazer Band performs throughout the winter at home basketball games, and also accompanies the teams to the Conference USA and NCAA Tournaments. In addition, Ms. Samuels has created the UAB Community Wind Symphony, a group of interested amateur musicians of all ages who perform 3 concerts a year. Ms. Samuels is a strong advocate for chamber music and for music education and actively supports the UAB Clarinet Choir, Blazer Woodwind and Brass Quintets, and all other facets of instrumental music at UAB. Ms. Samuels’ teaching experience prior to her arrival at UAB includes 12 years at Lassiter High School in Marietta Georgia, 1 year as Assistant Director of Bands at the University of Georgia, and 2 years as Director of Bands at WT Woodson High School in Fairfax, Virginia. Under her direction, all bands she conducted received straight superior ratings at festivals over her 14-year career as a high school band director. In addition, the bands at both Lassiter and Woodson performed at the Bands of America National Concert Band Festival, and the Lassiter Band won the 1998 Marching Band Grand National Championships. A native of Columbia, South Carolina, Ms. Samuels attended Furman University in Greenville where she obtained a Bachelors Degree in Music Education. Ms. Samuels has also been educated at Georgia State University in Atlanta, where she completed the Master of Music Degree in Instrumental Conducting and at the Eastman School of Music. Ms. Samuels is frequently invited to serve as a clinician, conductor, adjudicator, and guest speaker throughout the country. She is a member of the Music Educator’s National Conference, the College Band Directors National Association, and the National Band Association.
ALL STATE ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH GRADE ORCHESTRA Michael Alexander, Conductor Whitney Tinley, Organizer
Overture to "Candide" blue cathedral Symphony No. 5 4th movement
Leonard Bernstein Jennifer Higdon Dmitri Shostakovich
Michael Alexander is the Orchestra Director at Kennesaw State University and serves as the Music Director of the Cobb Symphony Orchestra and Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestras. He has also served as Music Director of the Green Bay Youth Symphony Orchestras and as the Orchestra Director at Ripon College. Active as a guest conductor, he has conducted in Europe, Australia and at various places in the United States, including a subscription performance with the Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra in 2002, the Maikop Symphony Orchestra and the Novgorod String Orchestra in Russia , the Bacau Philharmonic in Romania and the Catania Music Festival in Italy in 2003. In the summer of 2004 and 2009 he served as Music Director for the Madison Savoyards Opera Company and in 2007 as guest conductor of the Illinois Valley Symphony Orchestra. He has also appeared as a guest conductor four times with Summer Music Clinic Orchestra at the University of Wisconsin and with the 2003-2006 Maud-Powell Music Festival Orchestra in LaSalle. In 2009, the KSU Orchestra was invited to perform at the Georgia Music Educators Association Annual In-Service and hosted and performed at the 2010 National Conference of the College Orchestra Directors Association. In the summer of 2003 he completed his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in orchestral conducting. While at UW, he studied with David E. Becker and served as an Assistant Conductor with the Symphony and Chamber Orchestras and UW Opera. Previously he has served on the faculties at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Dedicated to music education, for two years, Mr. Alexander also conducted the Orchestra at Verona Area High School outside of Madison, Wisconsin; served on the artistic staff of the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra; and has contributed articles to the Teaching Music Through Performance book series. In 2006 he was the conductor for the Cobb County Honors Orchestra.
ALL STATE SYMPHONIC HIGH SCHOOL BAND Bruce Dinkins, Conductor Myra Rhoden, Organizer Marcus Rayner, Percussion Coordinator
Festival Fanfare March Second Essay
Roger Nixon Samuel Barber/George Schneider
Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann
Robert Jager
Italian Rhapsody
Julie Giroux
An educator for more than 30 years, Dinkins' groups have been heard at the Southern Division Music Educators National Conference, the Southern Regional College Band Directors Association/National Band Association conference, the Bands of America National Concert Band Festival in Chicago and Indianapolis, and invitational music festivals at the University of Kentucky, the University of Florida, the University of Southern Mississippi, the University of South Florida and the University of South Carolina. In 2000, his band performed at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic and he has the distinction of being the only four time recipient of the honor band award for the National Adjudicators Invitational Festivals. Dinkins attended the University of Tampa, the New England Conservatory, the Juilliard School, the Florida State University, and the Harvard University. Before joining the faculty at Bowie High School, he was a member of the faculties at Irmo High School in South Carolina, North Gwinnett High School, Emory University, Georgia State University in Georgia and Florida Community College Jacksonville. He has performed with the Atlanta Chamber Orchestra, the Macon Symphony Orchestra, the Jacksonville Symphony and the Florida Orchestra. His orchestra conducting experience includes Conductor/Music Director of the Memphis Youth Symphony, the South Carolina Youth Philharmonic and twenty four years as a conductor at the prestigious Sewanee Summer Music Festival in Tennessee where he has conducted the Cumberland Orchestra and the Philharmonia.
ALL STATE SYMPHONIC HIGH SCHOOL BAND David Waybright, Conductor Kenneth Beard, Organizer Todd Wilson, Percussion Coordinator
Candide
Bernstein Beeler version
Southern Harmony
Don Grantham
Asphalt Cocktail O Magnum Mysterium Pictures at an Exhibition
John Mackey Lauridson/Reynolds Mussorgsky/Hindsley
Dr. David A. Waybright received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees at Marshall University and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in orchestral conducting from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He taught initially at Wahama High School in Mason, West Virginia and since that time has served as Director of Bands at Ferrum College, Plymouth State College, and Director of Bands and Orchestra at McNeese State University. Dr. Waybright is currently Director of Bands at the University of Florida, where he holds the rank of professor and is the head of the conducting area. He directs the wind symphony and supervises the band program and the graduate and undergraduate conducting curricula. Dr. Waybright is in demand as a guest conductor and clinician with wind bands, orchestras, and choirs, and has appeared in that capacity in most of the 50 states, throughout Europe, Asia and Australia. He has held residencies at many of the nation's leading music schools. In addition, he is active in the commissioning and performance of new music and has won the praise of composers such as Dana Wilson, Michael Torke, Donald Grantham, John Corigliano and Leslie Bassett for his interpretation of their works. There are many recordings available featuring the University of Florida Wind Symphony under his direction. Dr. Waybright is an elected member of the American Bandmasters Association where he serves on the Board of Directors and is a lifetime member of the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles. He is also a member of the College Band Director's National Association, Music Educators National Convention and Florida Music Educators Association. Ensembles under his direction have performed invited concerts at conferences sponsored by all of those organizations. Dr. Waybright is also a member of Pi Kappa Lambda and an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha, Tau Beta Sigma and Kappa Kappa Psi. He is a National Arts Associate honorary of Sigma Alpha Iota.