Volume 29 Number 1 A Quarterly Publication of Quinlan & Fabish Music Company Fall 2015

Doc to Appear

with QF All-Stars

We are proud and excited to announce that the legendary Doc Severinsen will be performing in a special event in No-vember.

Heeeeere’s Johnny!” That lead-in, fol-lowed by a big band trumpet blast, was the landmark of late night television for three decades. The ‘Johnny’ was Johnny Carson, the announcer was Ed McMahon and the bandleader was Doc Severinsen. Beginning in October 1962, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson ruled the night air for thirty years and the band, composed of the best LA musicians, “rocked the house” every night led by Doc’s virtuosic trumpet solos.

The Q&F All-Star Concert Band will accompany Doc in a concert on Friday, November 20th. This invitational event will feature student musicians from local area high schools and a professional Big Band - just like the good old days of the Tonight Show!! Doc’s appearance is provided in cooperation with S.E. Shires Company (a division of Eastman Music Co.), maker of the Destino 3 Trumpet that Doc plays!

Save the Date! Details are not finalized yet, but your QF Rep will keep you post-ed on this exciting event as the date draws closer!

Paul Edmund-Davies and the

“Mission Possible” Tour

How often have you enjoyed the music from these movies—Star Wars, Harry Potter, Mission: Impossible-Rogue Na-tion? Did you realize that this music was performed by the London Sympho-ny Orchestra? The Flute solos were performed by Paul Edmund-Davies, principal flutist for over 20 years. Mr. Edmund-Davies will perform in several locations, sponsored by QF and North Bridge Flutes. In Fort Wayne, he will present an interactive flute event for all ages and stages at Bishop Dwenger HS on November 11th and at Valparaiso HS on November 12th.

North Bridge Flutes is a professional flute maker in the Boston area. These flutes feature a Sterling Silver head joint handmade in the USA, by flute arti-san Chris McKenna. For over 30 years, Chris has been crafting some of the fin-est flute head joints available. The McKenna head joint is designed and crafted to be both responsive and flexi-ble offering superb projection and con-trol, making it easier to hit high notes and perform at softer volumes.

Coming Soon...Chicago’s New

Professional Flute Shop!

See Page Nine

Summer Reading

Sessions

Hit the Mark!

Dozens of educators invested a morning to read through a lot of new music for string orchestra and young band. The event was held at Lincoln MS in Plym-outh, IN on July 10th. A special thanks to Bryan Ames & Lisa Wallyn for host-ing this event. A FREE piece of music was given to everyone as a thank you for their participation... See more photos on Page Five.

Hal Leonard provided two outstanding clinicians for the event. Dr. Charles Menghini, President of VanderCook College of Music led the band reading session and noted composer, Robert Longfield conducted the orchestra!

“Had a great time – great conductor” Kirsten Miller/St. Michael-Plymouth

“Lots of fun and a good way to experi-ence lots of music!” – Susan Walker-

LaSalle Academy-South Bend

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Mishawaka, IN Location: 130 West Edison Road Mishawaka, IN 46545

574-293-6332

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Fort Wayne, IN 46808 260-482-9669

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Lafayette, IN 47904 765-543-0515

Southwest Suburban Chicago: 6827 High Grove Blvd Burr Ridge, IL 60527

630-654-4111 Fax: 630-522-0331

Northwest Suburban Chicago: 59 W. Seegers Road

Arlington Hts., I847-253-5592 Fax: 847-253-1761

Fox Valley Location: 299 Montgomery Road

Montgomery, Illinois 60538 630-906-6595

Fax: 630-897-5256

Michigan Location: 5719 St. Joseph Avenue Stevensville, MI 49127

269-429-6232 Fax: 269-429-6250

row-left to right: Nick Averwater, Doug

Lady, Steve West, Governor Hucka-

bee, Rick Young, and me. Seated are

Bill Harvey, Joe Lamond, & John

D’Addario. The mission of the council is to provide resources and tools for Re-cruiting and Retention of Instrumental

Music Students and Teachers.

Thanks to Susan Ellington & Lloyd Kirkpatrick, I had wonder ful exper i-ence “trying” to conduct the Elkhart County Symphony on June 13th. As part of the fund-raising event, I was able to help raise some money and, although I didn’t win, we had a lot of fun com-

plete with a selfie moment and a prank

phone call on the podium!!

Music Trades magazine produces an annual listing of the Top 200 Music Re-tailers in the US. Our company was ranked in the Top 25 in the USA and the leading family-owned school music spe-cialist in the US. NAMM honors a list-ing of the Top 100 dealers in the nation at the annual Summer NAMM show in Nashville. QF was again recognized in this outstanding group of retailers. We

are humbled.

Sousa-Palooza was a great hit once again in Millenium Park on June 21st as part of the Make Music Chicago Festival. Dr. Richard Fischer of Concordia University led the band through a variety of Sousa marches to the delight of the audience. The Rise ‘N Shine orchestra was conducted by David Eccles of

VanderCook College of Music.

“Memories of a Lifetime”

By George Quinlan, Jr.

Twenty-Seven years ago, in 1988, the QF All-Star Concert Band performed with Doc, conducted by our founder, George Quinlan, Sr. We are honored to once again bring this great opportunity to stu-dents in the area on November 20th.

The Maury Rhodes Golf Classic was also successful, raising over $11,000 donated to Rhodes Library at VanderCook College of Music. We would like to thank the fol-

lowing hole sponsors of the Rhodes Classic: American Way, An-them Musical Instru-ments, Arcos Brasil-String Instruments, ARS Technology, Backun Musical Ser-vices, Buffet Musical Inst., Cannonball Mu-

sical Instruments, Clifton Larson Allen LLP, Codabow, Conn-Selmer, D'Addario, Devries Roofing, Director's Showcase, Dolan & Murphy, Gemeinhardt, GIA Pub-lishing, Grasso Graphics, Hal Leonard, Harris-Teller, Hobson Heating & Cooling, Howard Core, Insurance Plans Agency, Jupiter, Kjos, Maher Publication, Mike Balter Mallets, Scribes, Simon Plumbing, St. Louis Music, Tri-tech, VanderCook Alumni Association, West Suburban Bank, Woodcreek Builders, and Yamaha. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!

The Music Achievement Council, part of the NAMM Foundation, held our annual meeting in Iowa City in July. To our sur-prise, Mike Huckabee joined us for a few hours. Regardless of his positions on po-litical issues, he continues to strongly sup-port Music Education for all children. The photo below of the council includes (back

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Stork Report…Congrats to Nick DeJar-lais, director of Hammond Mor ton Band on the birth of a new baby boy - Aiden - 8lb 4oz - born on July 28!

Nick Bobay (St Vincent) and his wife Joelle are expecting their fir st baby this coming January!

Congrats to Heather Kasselman -

Westville band on the birth of her 2nd child Alexander Aug 20th. Healthy baby boy weighed in at 7lb 14oz

Wedding bells…Zach Kohl-

meier (Hicksville HS) got Mar-ried! Zach & Angie Kohlmeier were married in July.

New faces, new places…Jessica Bouma is the new director of orchestras at Wil-lowcreek MS in Portage. Jessica graduat-ed from Indiana Univ. as a violin perfor-mance major.

Daniel Weinberg was announced as the new Prairie MS band director-congratulations!

Rick Merrick joins the staff in Michi-gan City as the new director of bands at Michigan City HS. Best Wishes, Rick!

A warm welcome to Justin Makarewicz, the new director of bands at Dowagiac Community Schools. Justin is a recent graduate of Western Michigan University

and did his intern teaching at Jennison Community Schools in Grand Rapids, MI. Welcome Justin!

Ryan Thomson has been hir ed as the new orchestra director at Memorial Park MS in Ft. Wayne.

Jackie Nason, formally of Snider HS, has taken a director position at New Castle.

Kavin Ley (Former Q&F FW staff-er) has accepted the Elementary Music position at North Side/South Side Ele-mentary in Kendallville.

Alice Brown has been appointed Di-rector of Instrumental Music at Career Academy and Success Academy in South Bend. Alice received her mas-ters in bassoon performance from Northwestern University and a masters in music education from Northern Illi-nois. She coached winds and brass for the Chicago Youth Symphony Orches-tra and was a band director in Chicago for 6 years. Congratulations and wel-come to the area Alice!

Jacob Grabill has been appointed band director at Northwood Middle School and assistant director at North-wood High School. He graduated from Bethel College where he is also the drumline director.

Welcome Amanda Lester as the new band director at Oregon Davis Schools. She is a saxophonist from Poseyville Indiana and is a graduate of Ball State. For the past 3 summers she worked with the Monroe Central Jr/Sr high school track show band.

Farewell to violinist Martha Bradberry as the orchestra director at St. Joseph Grade School for the past 15 years. Martha never slows down and will be graduating in cello performance in May 2016. She has built a strong program at St. Joe and will be missed by all. Thank you for all your years of service Martha!

Welcome Amanda Malone as the new band and choir director at Argos Schools. She attended John Glenn Schools under the direction of Dan

Fortlander and graduated from Indi-ana University in South Bend. Amanda is a flute player and plays in the Michia-na Concert band. Congratulations!

Let’s welcome Nick Lieto as the new band director at LaVille Schools. He is a graduate of Western Michigan University and plays the flute. He left a teaching position in Nebraska and has now re-turned to the Midwest. Welcome back and congratulations Nick!

Eastside Jr Sr HS (Butler IN) has a new Band Director—Adam Strong. Con-grats!

After 8 years of supervising and teaching in the Notre Dame Bandlink program, Notre Dame Assistant band director, Ali-son Thigpen will be moving on to other duties on the staff of the Notre Dame Marching Band faculty. Assistant band director Justin McMannus will be replac-ing her and is now in charge of the pro-gram that reaches out to local Catholic schools with a band mentoring program.

Best wishes to Heritage Jr Sr HS new Band & Choir Director , Josiah Pfenning.

Congratulations to Zach Myers! He has taken over duties as head band director at John Adams High School. Zach is a flut-ist and graduate of VanderCook College of Music and Notre Dame and has been teaching in South Bend since 2009.

Welcome back to the area David Seel. David is the new director of bands and choirs at Triton Jr Sr High School. He has spent the last several years teaching in Texas and he and his wife Lori are returning to the area to be closer to their Grandchildren. David is a horn player and was the assistant band director at Adams HS with Dawn Forsythe and di-rected bands at LaSalle Academy with

Susan Walker.

Congratulations to Rebecca Gamble! She is the daughter of Dennis & Marcie Gam-ble and graduated with honors from Miami of Ohio University. Rebecca plays the clarinet and is now the new band director at Upper Scioto Valley Schools in McGuffey, Ohio.

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Welcome Adam Emeigh as the new band direc-tor at Clay Inter-mediate Center. He is a tubist from Detroit, and graduated from Central Michigan Uni-versity. Adam

taught in Texas for 5 years and the last year was spent teaching in Japan.

Dale Kokot is the new assistant band director at Riley High School with Jeff Gorman. He will also be directing the bands at Marshall Intermediate Center. Dale is a fine saxophonist and plays a mean accordion!

Welcome Janel Balbo as the new orchestra director at St. Joseph Grade School. She began playing at the age of 5 and was trained in the traditional manner as well as Suzuki. She has worked for 11 years at teaching Suzuki and joined St. Joe HS with Martha Bradberry a couple years ago. With Martha retiring Janel is now totally in charge of the program

Pierre Moran MS Orchestra Director Kyle Miller and Discovery MS Orchestra Director Anne Tschetter will be guest conductors for the INASTA All Region Festival for Central Region at Avon MS South.

Becky Snider has joined J imtown JH/SH School as Assistant Band Director. Becky is a graduate of Goshen College and is a flute player. Welcome Becky!

Elliot Smith is the new band director at Taft MS in Crown Point. Elliot is replac-ing Troy Webdell who is taking over the orchestra director position at the same school. Good Luck to both of you!

Congratulations to Jim Hensley! Jim is the new band director at Wheeler Middle School in Crown Point

Best wishes to Isaac Brinberg, who joined Discovery MS as Assistant Band Director. Isaac is a graduate of IU and plays tuba.

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Rocco Duranti has joined Goshen Middle School as Assistant Band Direc-tor. Rocco is a euphoniumiist and gradu-ate of Bolling Green State University.

Joining the Elkhart Community Schools as the West Side MS Orchestra Director and Memorial HS Orchestra Assistant Director is Jim Keranen, having previ-ously taught orchestra at Mishawaka HS. Congrats!

Concord HS Percussion Specialist Ben Runkel will also be joining Goshen College this Fall as Adjunct Professor of Percussion. In addition to his duties at Concord HS and Goshen College, Ben has still found time to plan a perfor-mance of Mark Ford’s “Stubernic Fanta-sy” with Windiana and to give a clinic at Valparaiso University on November 19th. Congratulations Ben!

Laura Alonzo has taken on the role of Band Director for Trinity Lutheran School in Elkhart. Laura has previously taught General Music at Trinity. Con-gratulations Laura!

Let’s welcome Heather Marshall, who has joined Grissom MS as their new band director. Heather previously taught at Huntington North.

Robert McMahan is the new band director at Eastbrook Community Schools near Marion, IN. Robert re-placed Amy Day, who retired this spring, and Sam Crum, who is now the full time choral director at Eastbrook. Robert graduated this spring from Indi-ana Wesleyan University.

Jon YuhaszPratt is the new assistant band director at Parkside MS in Jackson, Michigan. Jon will be team teaching with Kevin Krieger. Jon did his student teaching with Joel Shaner at Jackson HS, so he is not a stranger to the Jackson Public Schools fine band program. Best of luck to Jon at Parkside Middle School.

Robert Wilson was named as the new band director at Columbia City HS. Co-lumbia City is in Whitley county west of Fort Wayne. Best of luck to Rob!

6th Annual Michiana Outstanding

Music Educator Awards

Continuing the tradition, six outstanding educators were honored for excellence at a luncheon following our reading sessions in July. These winners will join our Blue Ribbon selection committee to select future winners.

The “Class of 2015” was selected from dozens of nominations by peers in our Spring issue of Quarter Notes.

Junior High/MS Division

Jim Swartzlander

Ann Marie Tschetter

Murray Weaver

HS/College Division

Steve Barber

Martin Becker

Pete Collins

Robert Longfield was our guest speaker for the event. Well known as a composer and arranger, Bob shared some great stories of his long career in education.

Since the nominations and selections are done by fellow music educators, the awards are very meaningful to the recip-ients. Each recipient shared some thoughts with the audience.

The Michiana Outstanding Music Edu-cator Awards program is part of a full day of educator events sponsored by QF. The day began with Band & Or-chestra reading sessions, followed by the awards luncheon, and finally the Maury Rhodes Classic golf outing.

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CLASS OF 2015

Michiana Outstanding Music Educator

Award Winners

READING

SESSION

FUN

JULY 10

Yes, that’s Paul Phillips of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra!

Jim Swartzlander

Northside Elem.-East Noble Anne Marie Tschetter

Discovery MS

Steve Barber

Homestead HS Martin Becker

Grace College Pete Collins

LaPorte HS

Murray Weaver

Discovery MS

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Thaine Campbell has accepted the position as interim band director at Huntington North HS. Thaine retired as the Marching Vikings head director four years ago,

but was asked to return to his position for the fall semester, during which time the school will look for a new permanent director. Welcome back Thaine!

The new director at the Thea Bowman Leadership Academy in Gary is Zack Sadlo. Zack is a Ball State Graduate. Best Wishes!

Congratulations to Tim O’Rourke! Tim takes over the duties as band & choir director in the North Judson/San Pierre Schools.

The new director at West Central is Jen-na Wojdula. She’s from Central Michigan University and currently lives in Three Oaks, Michigan.

Congratulations to Joel Good! Joel is the new Director of Bands at Rossville Jr/Sr HS.

Please welcome Skylar Aichinger, the new band director at Clinton Prairie Jr/Sr HS. A 2014 graduate from Ball State University, Skylar will be taking over the reins from Jim Bertucci who retired at the end of the 2014-15 School Year. Good Luck Skylar!

Congratulations to Matt Berg! Matt is the new Director of Bands at Attica Jr/Sr HS.

Lindsay Knee is the new band direc-tor at North White. Lindsay is a Low Brass Player and a graduate of Ball State University.

Don Isaacs has been hired as a new part-time director in the Lafayette Cath-olic School System. Gayle Daning will be teaching the MS and HS bands and choirs. Don will be working in the two elementary schools, St. Boniface and St. Lawrence.

Marching band festivals….The Bluff-ton HS band, led by Jim Bueter is host-

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ing their annual march-ing band invitational show on Saturday Sep-tember 12th.

Bryan Munoz and the East Noble HS band

will host their annual marching band show Saturday September 19th.

The Dekalb HS, led by Terry Fisher, is hosting their annual marching band show Saturday, September 26th.

Northrop HS and director, John VanPat-ton successfully hosted their fir st "gear works" clinic this past June. The Cavaliers Drum & Bugle Corps worked with over 75 HS students from around the area.

Northwest HS will be hosting the Dis-trict 8 MSBOA District Marching Band Festival. The festival will be held on Saturday, October 17th. Bryan Mangi-avellano is the host director . Nor th-west HS is near Jackson, Michigan.

Homestead HS will be hosting two marching festivals this fall. The first, their annual Fall Festival of Bands Marching Band Invitation, will be held on October 3rd. Over 20 bands will be in attendance. The 300 member Home-stead Spartan Alliance Band will be marching in exhibition at the end of the festival. The second festival will be the ISSMA District Marching Band Festival. to be held on Saturday, October 10th. The host directors are Steve Barber &

Brad Wadkins.

Winners of the Rhodes Golf Classic 1st Place prize (with a score -6 below par 66) was Thaine Campbell - Huntington Retired, Keith Rudolph - Penn HS Re-tired, Bill Leather - Penn HS, Chris Paulson - Penn HS. They received tro-phies & a free round of golf provided at no charge from Swan Lake Golf Club.

Several directors from the area per-formed in Chicago at Symphony Center as part of the South Shore Orchestra including Jessica Bouma-Willowcreek Orch, Julie Plant-Liberty Int Band, Erin Gerig-Liberty/Westchester Int Orch on Aug 21st.

Emilie Grondin has the pleasure of seeing her former student Austin Hun-tington being appointed pr incipal cel-list with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra at the age of 21. The Hunting-ton family moved to the South Bend area at the time so they could be closer to Emilie as he was taking lessons from her.

Kayli Savage directed the “Hoosier Girls State” band this summer hosted at Trine University. Kayli is the band direc-tor at Prairie Heights Schools.

The Memorial HS Crimson Command, led by Kurt Weimer, marched in the In-dy 500 Parade.

West Lafayette Marching Band under the direction of Don Pettit & Clayton Henady per formed at the Indiana State Fair Band Day during the daytime competition and also earned the oppor-tunity to compete in the evening compe-tition as well.

Bryce Cone per formed at the Middle-bury Summerfest this August with his two bands, Dang!, and Neville’s Diary. Dang! performs cover tunes and Neville’s Diary performs all originals written by Bryce. The bands consist of Northridge faculty and students. You rock Bryce!

Mike Brown took the Westview HS Band to the Indiana State Fair and had an excellent performance this summer. This is the 24th year they have per-formed at this event.

The Northridge High School marching band under the direction of Brad Zook, Bryce Cone & Micah Detweiler per -formed at the Middlebury Summerfest this August.

Congratulations to winners of the 2015 “All Music Award”. Fairfield HS and Andrew Muth (3 years in a row), John Glenn HS and Dan Fortlander, Bryan Ames and Plymouth HS 13 years run-ning and Eric Criss Northwood HS.

Bill Leather and the Penn Advanced Jazz Band, Steve Peterson and Concord Jazz 1 and Tom Cox and the Goshen

Jazz Band performed at this year’s Elkhart Jazz Festival.

The Bishop Noll band had a very active year in 2014-2015. The band now 53 members strong, completed a band tour of the city of Chicago performing con-certs at the Adler planetarium, Field Museum and Science and Industry. The band in 2014-2015, won awards in ISSMA marching competition, jazz band, string ensemble and concert band. In addition a dozen band students were gold medalists in ISSMA solo and en-semble competition. The band also marched in many large parades includ-ing the Chicago Columbus day and St. Patrick's Day parades as well being ac-cepted the 4th year in a row to march in the Chicago McDonald's Thanksgiving Day parade seen from coast to coast. The band is held a summer band camp for elementary school students this sum-mer. For info please contact Rocco Cari-oto at r car ioto@bishopnoll.org

On July 23rd, Quinlan & Fabish Music in Lafayette, sponsored the Lafayette Citizen’s Band Concert by handing out cookies and water to the attendees. We served around 250 patrons.

Several directors from the Lafayette School Corp made the trip to Plymouth, IN to participate in our Summer Reading session including Jeff Parthun of Te-cumseh MS, Pat Murphy & Margot Marlett of Lafayette Jeff and Tecumseh Orchestra. During the Summer Reading Session the group had the privilege to play three of Jeff Parthun’s arrange-ments.

In July, Caitlin Benner, Lafayete Q&F customer service rep, and her husband Caleb moved into their new house.

After being out of his band room for two years due to a tornado, Tom Eisan is enjoying his new band room this year at Southwestern MS.

Delphi Marching Band under the direc-tion of Jay Dennison, performed at the Indiana State Fair Band Day and had their best finish ever. Congrats!

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Lloyd Palmiter, our String Specialist, brings extensive knowledge to our company

stemming from his twenty years experience teaching orchestra and cello, serving as

clinician and consultant for musical instrument and educational organizations, and

countless hours of working with students and parents to assist in selecting the best

instrument for their needs. He visits all store locations regularly and is available by

appointment to individually help you and your students find just the right instru-

ment. You’ll see Lloyd at conferences of IMEA, MENC, ASTA, Violin Society of

America, and at the International Exhibition of violinmakers in Cremona, Italy,

where he will be scouting to bring you the best quality instruments available from all

over the world! Travels to the countries of origin and hand selecting the instruments

and bows to be included in our showrooms make our instruments among the best available today. We maintain a vigilant effort to assure our customers

that Quinlan and Fabish Strings are always known for their value and quality.

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vironments”. Again, Eastman innovates to help school music programs tonally! BRAVO! Quinlan and Fabish has ordered this very new bass and we are excited to see it and hear it. Initial trials are encour-aging. This will be our Sebastian Mohr Level 5 bass and is available in sizes from 1/8 through 7/8. The retail price is $5750 and the school price is much less. Stay tuned for more info on this bass and other new offerings from Eastman. Though not pictured, the bass will include a standard adjustable bridge and Helicore string set.

In June the Bass Convention was held at Colorado State University and among the highlights was a Master Class conducted by our own CSO Principal Bassist, Alex Hanna. Alex has earned the respect of the entire CSO as his playing and musicianship have become

known. If that weren’t enough, he is one nice guy and a fantastic teacher too. One thing that impressed me was how he kept the students he was coaching at ease and he was able to make suggestions which each student was able to accom-plish in the time given. Genuine and beautiful teaching.

Another major accomplishment at the Bass Convention was that several luthiers in attendance coordinated their

efforts to build a bass within a week. In fact, into the second day, they had accom-plished enough on

the bass that the started a second bass. Our own Andrew Hassell was part of that team! Bravo, Andrew!

The Back to School read-ing sessions this summer were fantastic. Thanks to

those of you who attended. Our string enrollment surpassed the band for the Illinois session. Wooo Hooo! WE ARE ON THE MARCH! Wait, maybe not. Marching band is not our thing! Re-member Woody Allen and the marching cellists?

It’s been a great summer and it’s going

to be a great school year! Good luck to

you all and I look forward to seeing you

all throughout the year.

THIS COULD BE THE START OF

SOMETHING BIG

Eastman Strings is offering a new bass model which shows promise to help school bass purchases attain a stable bass with superior tone. As Sarah Merkelbach of Eastman Strings puts it, “We noticed that one consistent problem with basses is that the ribs of carved bass suffered the most damage given the type of use basses experience in a school setting. By using laminated wood for the ribs yet retaining the carved spruce top and carved maple back, we are putting more tone quality in a bass which is more stable in school en-

The Music Achievement Council is a co-sponsor of an ex-citing new project from Scott Lang. His team is excit-ed to present Be Part of the Orches-tra, a menu of high quality tools to help orchestra

directors attract as many students as possible to their program. Earlier “Be Part of the Band” recruitment tools were met with huge success. Student recruitment is one of the most critical, yet often overlooked, parts of an orchestra director's job. With lim-ited time and dwindling resources, it's getting harder to effectively and efficiently communicate to students and parents what we already know: Band and Orchestra Are Life Changing Activities! For more information visit: bepartoftheorchestra.org

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What’s the Newest Thing in Step-Up Clarinets�

the Protégé Clarinet from Backun Musical Instruments!

Now Available in Grenadilla or

Cocobolo wood on our First Chair Rent-

al/Purchase Plan at $59 per month

including Maintenance & Replace-

ment coverage

We also stock the Protégé

bells and barrels!

Don Krug, Lewis Cass band director has started his final year of teaching. He has served the educa-tion world faithfully for 46 years. Congratula-tions!

The Benton Central HS Marching Band participated in the Indiana State Fair Band Day Competition directed by Mi-

chael Richardson.

Four Students from the Central Catholic Band Program in Lafayette participated in the DCI INpact Band in Indianapolis. The director is Gayle Daning.

The Attica Jr/Sr HS band participated in the Indiana State Fair Band Day Compe-tition in early August. The director is

Matt Berg.

The Elkhart County Symphony will per-form Saturday September 12th at the Lerner Theater.“Three Phantoms in Concert” featuring Craig Schulmann, Ciaran Sheehan & Gary Mauer who are well known for their role as Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera

Windy City Flutes (a new division of Quinlan & Fabish Music Co.) will be a destination point for serious flute per-formers with it’s debut later this fall. It will be a “specialty store within a store” focusing on professional quality flutes for high school, college, and profes-sional flutists. Windy City Flutes will include all the flutes currently available through QF, but much, much, more too!

Windy City Flutes is a collaboration with the flute professionals serving on the QF Advisory Board and Jenn Clark, manager of QF-Burr Ridge. For the last several years, the concept has been planned and is now ready to debut this fall. Look for flutes from some of the finest makers in the world, including:

“Bridging the Gap between Middle School and High School:

Tips for Ensuring a Seamless Music Education Experience”

A Panel discussion moderated by Marcia Neel featuring

Greg Bimm, Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser, Dr. Charles Menghini

and Terry Shade

Wednesday at Midwest Clinic - 5:00PM

The transition from middle school to high school that has been identified as being

the most crucial period in retaining music students. The key to successful retention

is ACTION. In this session, a number of strategies will be shared that successful

instrumental music educators and their constituents use to ensure a seamless tran-

sition from the first day that the student picks up the instrument through high

school graduation—and beyond.

Sponsored by The Music Achievement Council & the NAMM Foundation

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This fall Alfred Publishing starts begin-ning bands off right. “Thor’s Hammer”, composed by Patrick Roszell, is a grade 0.5, and was composed with the second half of the first year of band in mind. This piece depicts the Norse god, Thor, and his infamous hammer. The driving pulse throughout the piece set up recurring eighth notes in the high winds. This piece will give very beginning students the opportunity to sound large, strong and majestic, just like Thor and his hammer.

Looking forward a bit to the holiday season, FJH has intermediate string or-chestras set with “Bell Carol Rock”, arranged by Ryan Fraley. This piece is

based on “Ukrainian Bell Carol”, but Fraley has giv-en it a fresh, new rock mash-up sure to appeal to students. The piece is writ-ten with a drum set part and chime part for extra

color. This grade 2.5 will have audiences remembering your Christmas concert long after it has ended. Students will also appreciate the new sound of a traditional carol with it’s fun rock mash-up.

Kjos Music all about fun and learning this fall for young string orchestras. A piece perfect for your end of the concert for first year strings is “The Viking Longship”, composed by Raymond Brown. This piece cor re-lates Kjos’ String Basics, Book 1, introducing four-part ensemble playing and dynamics. The score also includes notes about the Vikings and their excur-sions and history, making this also a cross curricular piece. Much like a Vi-king, students will be off and exploring during their summer vacation. What bet-

ter ways to bid them adieu than this ex-citing, grade 1 adventure?

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be on an alien planet, sur-rounded by tiny aliens? Grand Mesa Music composer David Bobrowitz has,

and he has shared his vision with us in his composition, “Tiny Creatures from Planet XYZ”. An intermediate grade 2+, this piece is meant to transport you to that planet with tiny crea-

tures to see into their world and their movements. Intended as a fun and light-hearted concert piece, the percussion sounds are sure to delight. All players and audience will enjoy and remember this fun and different trip into the un-known.

Hal Leonard remembers slightly older players this fall with their release of two new band folios. “VH1’s 100 Greatest songs of Rock and Roll” is a folio spe-

cifically designed for clas-sic rock aficionados. Hal Leonard has released sepa-rate books under this title for flute, clarinet, alto sax-ophone, tenor saxophone, trumpet, horn, trombone,

violin, viola, and cello. The songs found in this book include: All Along the Watchtower • All Shook Up • American

Pie • Beat It • Blowin' in the Wind • Blue

Suede Shoes • Bohemian Rhapsody •

Born to Run • Bridge over Troubled Wa-

ter • California Dreamin' • Every Breath

You Take • Fire and Rain • Free Bird •

Gloria • Good Vibrations • Great Balls

of Fire • A Hard Day's Night • Hey

Jude • Hotel California • (I Can't Get

No) Satisfaction • I Heard It Through the

Grapevine • Imagine • Layla • Let It Be •

London Calling • Louie, Louie • Maggie

May • My Generation • Piano Man •

Proud Mary • Respect • Rock Around the

Clock • Roxanne • Smells like Teen Spir-

it • Stairway to Heaven • Stand by Me •

Sunshine of Your Love • Superstition •

We Are the Champions • When Doves

Cry • Yesterday • You Shook Me All

Night Long • and more. Chart Hits is a folio specifically designed with the pop/rock aficionados in mind. Featuring sep-arate books for flute, clari-net, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, trumpet, horn, trombone, violin, viola, and cello, the titles includ-ed are All About That Bass • All of Me • Happy •

Radioactive • Roar • Say Something •

Shake It Off • A Sky Full of Stars • Some-

one like You • Stay with Me • Thinking

Out Loud • Uptown Funk. This set of books also includes online audio access to play along or hear a demonstration.

The New Bennett Band Book, Book 2, arranged by Larry Clark and published by Carl Fischer, is also now available. The Bennett Band Books, published in

four volumes starting in 1923, were used to teach the march form and style to literally millions of young band musicians in the middle of the twenti-eth century. These de-lightful marches com-

posed by infamous march composer Henry Fillmore (using the pseudonym Harold Bennett) have been given new life by arranger Larry Clark. This second collection includes an additional twelve Bennett marches. Also included is a helpful march warm-up section com-posed by Larry Clark to help teach march form and style to young students. There is also the added benefit of a full, professional recording of each selection available for download from the Theo-dore Presser website. This is a valuable collection for any level band to use for marches at contest/festival performance or for sight-reading purposes.

Amanda Jennings is a bassoonist and

a former band director. As print music

buyer for Q&F, she has the opportunity

to preview every new publication. She

will keep you up to date on the latest

new issue music and happenings in the

publishing world!

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Dan Hough is our percussion specialist in Ft Wayne. A former percussionist and drum major with The Cavaliers Drum & Bugle Corps, he often consults with various high school bands and conducts Drum Major workshops. Dan specializes helping directors make wise choices for the percussion needs...and golf!

The Percussion Room

Wow, here we go again! School is back in session, and our schedules are as busy as ever. There’s a familiar comfort in getting back to the craziness of back to school, beginners, schedule changes, and of course marching band! I’ve included a quick reference guide for drum heads, just in case you don’t have a percussion instructor to refer to. The world of drum heads continues to evolve, yet many of the past standards continue to be the favorites.

Marching Drum Head Selection

Guide:

For Directors who don’t have the luxury of employing a Percussion Specialist, knowing what you need to achieve to-day’s modern percussion sound is a key. Below I have listed some of the most commonly used heads by many of to-day’s leading competitors.

Bass Drum Heads: Whether it’s Evans or Remo, both companies make a great product. Today’s bass heads now have built-in internal muffling rings, meaning no more

buying rolls of foam!

♦ Evans MXW Series (BD18MX1W) Single Ply head (2W for two ply), internal muffle ring, and individual muffle sections for customizing each size.

♦ Remo PowerMax series (PM1018MP) Similar to the Evans, but adds an internal center dot, and offers the option for a Crimp-Lock version for higher tension.

Snare - Top Heads: Snare heads have come a long way from 1987 when The Santa Clara Vanguard used the a proto-

type Kevlar head soon to be named the “Falam”. New fiber combinations have allowed for more durability and a surface not as hard on the hands and wrists.

♦ Evans Hybrid Series (SB14MHG) Softer feel, more sensitivity, good crossover head. Available in White, Black, and Grey

♦ Remo BlackMax / WhiteMax are offered in two versions besides col-or. Available with an additional un-derside coating when needed for top snare unit such as the Yamaha MTS series

♦ Evans MX Series (SB14MXW) Bright white in color, and similar to the Whitemax.

Snare Bottom Heads: Mylar bottoms continue to be a popular choice, especial-ly based on price. The new fiber-woven heads made, allow for more articulation & sensitivity… Plus they last a long time!

♦ Remo Falam bottom (KL0214SA)

♦ Remo Mylar Clear (SA0314TD)

♦ Evans MX5 bottom (SS14MX5)– Aramid fiber similar to Falam.

♦ Evans Hybrid bottom – 2 layers of ultra thin Mylar combined with high tensile Fibers.

Tenor Heads: As with many of us, opinion & preference rules many things. After all these years, Remo pinstripe heads continue to be the most often used marching tenor head. The high ten-

sions used with Tenor Drums now re-quire a crimp-locked model in the Remo family. Evans uses a variety of different designs that also withstands the rigors of tension.

♦ Remo Pinstripe (PS0310MP Clear or Black) 2 layers combined w/ an outer ring of fiber.

♦ Evans MX White/Black (TT10MXW) Two 7.5 mil plys of Mylar for rich sound.

♦ Evans System Blue (TT10SB1) Unique blend of material that pro-duces clarity.

Changing heads means needing a good drum key. Evans makes a great drill bit attachment for those late night head changing parties. Not for “tuning”, but an excellent time sav-er!

Dan’s “Public Safety Announcement”

Hey! Don’t foget your Ear Plugs either! (Etymotic – ETYPLUG) This is by far the most crucial time to engrain a habit in your percussionists. Yes, the front ensemble too. It’s also a great time to set an example, and where some your-self. YOU are in front of the ensemble more than any other, so protecting your long term hearing is health is crucial as well.

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