April 8th, 2010
Grimsley High School
Summer Arts Institute
- Forms due April 9th
- Will let you know the results soon.
All County Budget
- We need to save money as much as possible
- Nathan would like for us to find hotel that could sponsor our clinicians.
- Look for a Hotel Manager that might be able to arrange a donation of rooms for the 5 clinicians that are usually from out of town. We use 10 a year for all the music all counties.
- See if a hotel or other local business that can sponsor us for all our clinicians. GCS will broadcast the label of the company. Perpetuity- always rolling ads on the GCS channel.
- Tax deductible. Nathan has the tax id number.
- Hal suggested that maybe we could look for a company that could sponsor us. Just ask for the money to pay for the hotel rooms.
Willy Wonka Wind Auditions
- Coming up soon. Best players from your ensembles needed.
- Directors that would like participate will not have to audition.
Lead Teacher
- Ed is wiling to do it again next year.
- Ed was voted in again as lead teacher in the 2010-2011 school year.
Fruteland Jackson Clinic
- If you have missed a monthly meeting, or if you like to miss one:
- April 21st Fruteland Jackson will be at the Greensboro Culture Center for a clinic. This is an opportunity to remake a missed meeting or gain an extra .2 ceu credit.
All County 2011
- Elliot Del Borgo will be the high school clinician next year.
- At this year’s conference Ed talked to Mr. Del Borgo about being the clinician for GCS in 2011.
- The Directors voted earlier this year to get him as the clinician.
- His publisher is going to pay for his airfare.
- We booked him for April 13-14th , two days before spring break. Need to vote if we want to keep it that way or move it to the next week. It will still be on a Wed. and Thurs.
Open Discussion
- Stefan- Where does the end of grading period? March 28th
- Trent- That will be better because it is getting close to testing.
- Andy- Why can’t we do it April 6th and 7th?
- Hal- We are locked in for the 13-14th , we should contact him to see if the 6th and 7th worked so we can keep the same schedule. If it does then move it to the week before.
- Ed will email him and let us know the results.
- Hal put in form in a motion, it was seconded and voted to go with that motion.
Middle School Clinician Nominations
- Dr. David Teachout (15)
- Brian Otter (3) (6)
- Kyle Auman (20)
- Brad Oliver (3) (13)
- Cindy Wagner (9)
- Arris Golden (2)
- Heather Turner (10)
- Becky Bryant (1)
Nominations in order
- Kyle Auman
- Dr. David Teachout
- Heather Turner
- Cindy Wagner
- Brad Oliver
- Brian Otter
- Arris Golden
- Becky Bryant
Auditions
Auditions Host: 2010 Robin Spruill, Hairston Middle
Robin will do it again in 2011
Feb. 8th is the tentative date for All County Auditions 15th is the snow date
Site Host Responsibilities:
Provides rooms for auditions (scales, solo, and sightreading; may all be in same room or split for high volume instrument rooms), scoring room, registration tables, warm up areas, parking, and concessions.
High School Auditions Chair: Kenney Butler, SWHS
Middle School Auditions Chair: Stephanie, SWMS
Auditions Chair Responsibilities:
Put together audition music folders for rooms
Sight reading
Score sheets
Scoring – MS: Brad Haywood / HS: Ricardo Reed
Equipment- Percussion: Hal Bryant, Eastern HS
Clinic
Site Host: Stefan Stuber, Grimsley HS – Will also handle the recording
Middle School Clinic Chair: Kristen and Ashley Pacer
High School Clinic Chair: Secure the clinician: Ed Kimbrough
Program: Margie
Equipment- ?
Director Concessions- Juli Parker
Juli found an old memo from Robin Bursion, former Arts Curriculum Specialist for GCS, that stated guidelines for auditions that was sent to all directors and principals. The memo stressed the importance of Directors being able to leave school early to get to the auditions so they could have a meeting to stress the importance of professionalism while judging.
Nathan- This year there was a director that got up and started talking to students. We need to be a lot more professional.
Stephanie and Charles B. had a student that had an instrument that was broken and were faced with a situation where they didn’t know what to do. Ed. said that the judges should tell them to go to the runner and get it taken care of.
Kristen- Should we send out in mass emails the registrations before the auditions to let directors know who all is trying out to promote more to try out? Directors discussed that they disapprove of this type of email being sent.
Margie- Are we still going to have registration of day of.
Trent- Next year we shouldn’t have day of because of the time slot registration.
Kenny: Directors should do a better job explaining to parents the process of auditions. What happens when more sign up and people have later auditions and with many no shows?
Trent – We are trying to set up the order of auditions completely random and unbiased.
Ed- We just tried the audition time method to see if it worked. And we need to vote on if we are going to using next year.
Hal- Purpose to prevent students waiting 4-5 hours waiting to auditions.
Trent- We tried to put student teachers in judging rooms and some directors think that they should not judge at district.
Charles B.- Wants to make sure auditions are random.
Andy- Motions to pilot the audition time slot for middle and high school contingent that it is not a failure at district auditions.
Stefan- motion to table
Andy retracted.
Juli- CDBA meeting is May 4th. Since there were no clinics there will be plenty of discussion topics. Also one of the GCS directors is being nominated for award for excellence and we should all be there in attendance to vote for them.
Ed wants to table the jazz auditions / clinic
Stefan motions to have two bands again and have GCS directors direct the 2nd band.
Motion to have taped audition and send out notice to all directors that have students that participate.
Mr. Milton, HPC, is going record the Bb and F improvisation track that students can use for their audition
Jazz Auditions Chair- Chuck Capps
Jazz Clinic Host – Hal Byrant, Eastern HS
Jazz Clinic Chair-Chuck Capps
Guest Speakers
Jennifer Hance and Susan Gallimore from High Point and Greensboro City Arts
Directors
Provide programs for music students to build upon what you do in the music classroom
Greensboro Youth Brass – Dennis Askew
High School only 8-12
Concert is May 8th at Christ United Methodist N. Holden
He does well with helping students
No Fee
Greensboro Cultural Center 4 to 6 on Sundays
Piedmont Youth Jazz Ensemble
Chirs Hankens is directors
Has openings in Tpt, Tbone and Sax
Mondays at 7:30pm
No fees
Concert May 8th with the Brass Ensemble
Chris also does small combos
In the fall 2010
Percussion Ensemble
Mike Lassley
Middle and High School
Let them know what days would be good for rehearsal
5-8 PERCUSSION Camp in the end of June During the summer
Jennifer will send out information on that
They offer private instruction
Directors are interested in CEU credits for directors who participate in the Community Band
Feel free to contact either one of them. There opportunities are free or at little cost.
Ed- Has had many examples of students who have taken band all four years and has gotten full rides to college and one student who got into Harvard
Rodney- HS directors can you make available your auditions dates for marching band and band camps for the middle school directors?
Ed- Has students that are out of school several days because of band related events and wants us to think about moving all county band in the fall. He feels like our students are using All District auctions as a way of preparing for All County. We are getting taken over by other counties and we need to do better.
Hal made motion to adjourn.
