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State Library of Queensland Band Exhibition 2013

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Bands are an integ­ral part of Queensland’s cul­tural memory, and in May 2013 State Lib­rary of Queens­land will launch a major exhib­i­tion about Queens­land bands. The exhib­i­tion will explore bands through­out Queensland’s his­tory, and will cover all sorts, includ­ing march­ing bands, brass bands and pipe bands, folk and bush bands, jazz and dance bands, and rock bands.

The role of State Lib­rary is to col­lect and pre­serve Queens­land his­tory for the future, and we need your help to col­lect resources relat­ing to Queens­land bands. Early research for this excit­ing exhib­i­tion has iden­ti­fied sig­ni­fic­ant gaps in our col­lec­tion which we would like you to help us fill.

If you have any items relat­ing to any Queens­land band of any type, from colo­nial times to the present, and you would like to donate to the State Lib­rary, please con­tact the Queens­land Music Coordin­at­ors [con­tact details are below]. Items to con­sider donat­ing include pho­tos, film foot­age, pro­grams, posters, leaf­lets, play­bills, con­cert tick­ets, mem­ber­ship lists, sound record­ings, sheet music, and any other related memorabilia.

Many of us have been involved in a band of some type, and have enjoyed both the music and the social and com­munity life they offer. Oth­ers have been band fans. Whether you are a band mem­ber or a band fol­lower, the Queens­land Music Coordin­at­ors would like to hear from you. All items donated to the State Lib­rary are pre­served in archival con­di­tions to ensure their avail­ab­il­ity for cur­rent and future gen­er­a­tions of Queenslanders, as well as research­ers from around the world.

Robyn Hamilton
Queens­land Music Coordin­ator
robyn.hamilton@slq.qld.gov.au
07– 3840 7839

Laurel Dingle
Queens­land Music Coordin­ator
laurel.dingle@slq.qld.gov.au
07–3840 7835

ANBOC2012 update

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ABODA QLD is host­ing the Aus­tralian National Band and Orches­tra Con­fer­ence in 2012. The ANBOC2012 pro­gram is designed for con­duct­ors of school and /or com­munity con­cert band, stage band and orches­tras of all levels.

Ses­sion top­ics to include: con­duct­ing mas­ter classes, for­ums to explore rep­er­toire, rehearsal tech­niques and instru­ment pedagogy

The con­fer­ence will be led by inter­na­tional and Aus­tralian clini­cians and will fea­ture per­form­ances by some of the country’s lead­ing ensembles.

Inter­na­tional Headliners

Craig Kirch­hoff
Pro­fessor of Con­duct­ing and Dir­ector of Bands
Uni­ver­sity of Minnesota

Dr Richard Miles
Pro­fessor of Music and Dir­ector of Bands
More­head State Uni­ver­sity
Editor, Teach­ing Music­Through Per­form­ance in Band
Sponsored by GIA Publications

Dr Joanne Erwin
Pro­fessor of Music Edu­ca­tion (Orches­tra)
Ober­lin Con­ser­vat­ory
Sponsored by Hal Leonard Australia

Early Bird (closes 12 April 2012
$450 Con­fer­ence
$40 Del­eg­ate Band *

Nor­mal Rate
$500 Con­fer­ence
$40 Del­eg­ate Band *

* Del­eg­ate Band, con­duc­ted by Craig Kirch­hoff USA com­mences rehears­als 9am Wed 4 July with per­form­ance on open­ing night (Thur 5 July)

All Con­fer­ence attendees to be fin­an­cial ABODA mem­bers. Day rates will be released through the ANBOC2012 web­site. Accom­mod­a­tion and meals not included.

Loc­a­tion
St Laurence’s Col­lege
Edmund Rice Per­form­ing Arts Centre
82 Stephen’s Road
South Bris­bane QLD

Register from 20 Janu­ary 2012 at www.anboc2012.com

Keep check­ing back for updates …

New Facebook Group

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Dear ABODA National,

The Aus­tralian Band and Orches­tra Dir­ect­ors Group is up and run­ning on Facebook–go and ‘like’ it so that you can join in the con­ver­sa­tion about Aus­tralian music making …

Please invite friends who are in the industry and would enjoy the conversation.

Check out the Aus­tralian Band and Orches­tra Dir­ect­ors Group …

Jemima Bunn
Aus­tralian Band and Orches­tra Dir­ect­ors’ Asso­ci­ation (ABODA)
ABODA National Pres­id­ent
ABODA Vic­toria Vice Pres­id­ent
Mel­bourne Wind Ensemble
Ph: 0438 511 877

While you are on Face­book don’t for­get to ‘like’ ABODA QLD’s page to keep up-to-date with all the Queens­land pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment opportunites.

Members Survey Results 2010

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Late in 2010 all mem­bers of ABODA QLD were invited to par­ti­cip­ate in an online sur­vey. This sur­vey sought to col­lect data that could be used to help shape future ABODA QLD events and pro­jects. We had 51 respond­ents from a mem­ber­ship base of about 100. Respond­ents were almost equally divided between male and female. A review of years teach­ing exper­i­ence revealed a rep­res­ent­a­tion from just begin­ning a career through to 30+ years! Res­ults to Ques­tion 6 indic­ated that ses­sions: “Rehearsal Ped­agogy” and “Con­duct­ing Mas­ter class Work­shops,” as well as hav­ing “Guest Conductor(s) avail­able to rehearse mem­bers’ ensembles” had the strongest sup­port (see Table 1 for more details).

Table 1.

Per­cent­age of respond­ents who agreed or strongly agreed that they would attend these ses­sions.
95% Rehearsal Ped­agogy
90% Con­duct­ing Mas­ter class Work­shops
89% Guest Con­ductor avail­able to rehearse mem­bers’ ensembles
84% Read­ing Days for Con­cert Band (New Rep­er­toire)
79% Instru­ment Repair Work­shop
78% Instru­ment Ped­agogy – Per­cus­sion
76% Instru­ment Ped­agogy – Wood­wind
75% Read­ing Days for Con­cert Band (Stand­ard Rep­er­toire)
75% Con­duct­ing School (multi-day)
75% Mentor Pro­gram
75% Instru­ment Ped­agogy – Brass
74% Sur­vival Work­shop for Music Edu­cat­ors
68% Vis­it­ing Com­poser Even­ings
65% Read­ing Days for Stage Band (New Rep­er­toire)
57% Read­ing Days for Stage Band (Stand­ard Rep­er­toire)
41% Instru­ment Ped­agogy – Strings

Click here to down­load the com­plete sur­vey results.

Among the ini­ti­at­ives being under­taken by ABODA QLD in 2011-12, that are in part based on the res­ults of this sur­vey, is a three-week Queens­land res­id­ency by Dr. Mark Fonder (Ithaca Col­lege USA). This res­id­ency will include pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment events in Bris­bane, Towns­ville and Rock­hamp­ton focus­ing on Rehearsal Ped­agogy and hav­ing a con­duct­ing mas­ter class com­pon­ent. In addi­tion, there are 10 days set aside for Mark to guest conduct/rehearse ensembles of all levels.

Commission Consortium

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The Aus­tralian Band and Orches­tra Dir­ect­ors’ Asso­ci­ation Queens­land is proud to announce the inaug­ural ABODA QLD Com­mis­sion­ing Consortium—a unique oppor­tun­ity for ABODA QLD mem­bers to have a say in the rep­er­toire of the future. It is very dif­fi­cult for schools to afford com­mis­sions on their own. A con­sor­tium pools your money with that of people from other schools and ensembles and makes it pos­sible for dir­ect­ors to share with their stu­dents the com­mis­sion­ing of a new work, as well as the joy of per­form­ing the premiere of the work in their area. ABODA QLD hopes the com­mis­sion­ing pro­ject will become a yearly activity—a tan­gible sign of the work of ABODA QLD to pro­mote our profession.

Com­poser

We are happy to announce that Brian Hogg will be the com­poser of our first con­sor­tium. Brian is well known to all Aus­tralian band dir­ect­ors and is cur­rently the Cre­at­ive Arts Dir­ector for The Sal­va­tion Army East­ern Vic­toria Divi­sion. His well-known and highly regarded com­pos­i­tions for band include Llwyn Onn, In Still­ness, The New Anzacs, The Stone Guest and Fan­fare and Pro­ces­sional.

Dif­fi­culty level

The com­mis­sioned work will be grade 3 stand­ard and 3½ minutes long, inten­ded for the major­ity of sec­ond­ary school ensembles. It will be scored for stand­ard con­cert band instru­ment­a­tion and is inten­ded to have an empha¬sis on emo­tional con­tent and artistic merit.

Cost

Total cost to be a mem­ber of the 2011 ABODA QLD Com­mis­sion­ing Con­sor­tium is $250.00. Each par­ti­cip­at­ing school will receive a full score and all parts in PDF format, allow­ing you to print as many parts as your ensemble requires.

Time frame

The com­pos­i­tion is sched­uled to be delivered to con­sor­tium mem­bers in July 2011.

Premiere per­form­ances

The world premiere will be per­formed by the Wind Sym­phony at the Mary­bor­ough Con­fer­ence Gala Con­cert in early July 2011; how­ever, each first per­form­ance by a par­ti­cip­at­ing ensemble is con­sidered a premiere. The names of all par­ti­cip­at­ing schools (or com­munity ensembles) and their dir­ect­ors will be prin­ted on the cover page of the conductor’s score. Con­sor­tium mem­bers will receive exclus­ive per­form­ance rights to the work for six months after the premiere.

What you need to do now

Please down­load the form and send it to:

ABODA QLD
Com­mis­sion­ing Con­sor­tium 2011
c/o 17 Redgum Close
Bridge­man Downs QLD 4035

An account will be for­war­ded to you.

Craig Dabel­stein
Chair of the Com­mis­sion­ing Pro­ject 2011
ABODA QLD

Army Band Open Day

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Sat­urday 19 March 2011, 10.00am

After the huge suc­cess of last years Open Day con­duc­ted by the Aus­tralian Army Band Bris­bane at Gal­lipoli Bar­racks, Enog­gera, Sat­urday 19 March 2011 from 10.00am till 1.00pm, has been ‘locked in’ for another Open Day this year. It is hoped that this year’s event can be even big­ger and bet­ter than before!

Regis­tra­tion is essen­tial
Tel: 07 3332 5905 or 13 19 01
Wmail: aab.brisbane@defence.gov.au

Regis­tra­tions close: 11 March 2011
Min­imum musical stand­ard is 5th Grade AMEB and above.

Thank you

A R Pil­grim (Alan)Sergeant
Open Day Coordin­ator
Recruit­ing Cell
Aus­tralian Army Band Bris­bane
Tel: (07) 3332 5934
Mobile: 0406 451645
Fax: (07) 3332 5928
alan.pilgrim@defence.gov,au

Grainger Museum re-opens

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The long-anticipated re-opening of the Grainger Museum (Mel­bourne) to the pub­lic took place on Sunday 17 Octo­ber 2010. Vis­it­ors can again tour the rich and extens­ive col­lec­tion that doc­u­ments the life and times and interests of the remark­able Percy Grainger. The museum’s cur­at­ors have put together a com­pel­ling new suite of exhib­its that prom­ise to fas­cin­ate and intrigue. For more inform­a­tion visit: http://www.grainger.unimelb.edu.au/

A Concise History of the Wind Band

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Whether used for per­sonal ref­er­ence or as a text for a class in the his­tory of the wind band this book is the most com­pre­hens­ive single-volume his­tory of the wind band ever writ­ten. This volume draws on the author’s multi-volume His­tory and Lit­er­at­ure of the Wind Band and fol­lows the devel­op­ment of the wind band through the civic, court, church and mil­it­ary per­form­ances of the Ancient World through the nine­teenth cen­tury. Writ­ten by Dr. David Whit­well and edited by Craig Dabelstein.

Dr. David Whit­well is a gradu­ate (‘with dis­tinc­tion’) of the Uni­ver­sity of Michigan and the Cath­olic Uni­ver­sity of Amer­ica, Wash­ing­ton DC (PhD, Musi­co­logy, Dis­tin­guished Alumni Award, 2000) and has done post-graduate study at the Uni­ver­sity of Vienna and has stud­ied con­duct­ing with Eugene Ormandy and at the Akademie fur Musik, Vienna. Prior to com­ing to North­ridge, Dr. Whit­well par­ti­cip­ated in con­certs through­out the United States and Asia as Asso­ci­ate First Horn in the USAF Band and Orches­tra in Wash­ing­ton DC, and in recit­als through­out South Amer­ica in cooper­a­tion with the United States State Depart­ment. David Whit­well stud­ied con­duct­ing at the Akademie für Musik, Vienna, with Hans Swarowsky, and with Eugene Ormandy. He has con­duc­ted res­id­ent ensembles in Aus­tria, Switzer­land, Israel, Japan, Wales, Eng­land, Ger­many, The Neth­er­lands, Bolivia, Peru, Korea, Taiwan, Rus­sia and the United States, among them the Phil­adelphia Orches­tra, Seattle Sym­phony Orches­tra, the Czech Radio Orches­tras of Brno and Brat­is­lava, and The National Youth Orches­tra of Israel.

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Sydney Music Education Conference

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To All Musical Directors/Band Organisers/Music Teachers

Regis­tra­tions are still being accep­ted for the SBF Sydney Music Edu­ca­tion Con­fer­ence to be held at St Mary’s Cathed­ral Col­lege Sydney on 19–21 Janu­ary 2011. Be part of an excit­ing new devel­op­ment in Sydney’s music scene.

Presenters to include:
Dr Randy Nav­arre (Pres­id­ent, North­east­ern Music Pub­lic­a­tions, USA)
Shaun Dor­ney Fel­low of the Uni­ver­sity of South­ern Queens­land
Peter Ward­robe Edu­ca­tion Man­ager — Sibelius Aus­tralia and NZ
Ger­ald Stein­mann Pro­fes­sional per­cus­sion­ist
David Coit Lead Trum­pet Navy Band Sydney Detachment

Click on the link below for an online regis­tra­tion:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dGl3UUZUaUNpYTl5RlhUZ2lYSVBlTHc6MQ#gid=0

Click here to down­load a flyer: 2010 Flyer

www.schoolbandfestival.org.au

Funding for Hubs

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The ABODA QLD Man­age­ment Com­mit­tee has set aside a $1500.00 allow­ance to sup­port activ­it­ies in each of the ABODA QLD Hubs.

To access this fund­ing exist­ing Hubs just need to sub­mit a pro­posed PD ses­sion to the Man­age­ment Com­mit­tee  – as per the Hub guidelines – and stip­u­late the use of some or all of the allow­ance in the budget. We envis­age that this fund­ing will sup­port events that lead to an increase in ABODA QLD mem­ber­ship in the hub area.

Don’t have a hub in your region – then start one! Click here for Hub Guidelines. This fund­ing can also be used to fund PD events that serve to launch new hubs.

We’re look­ing for­ward to your receiv­ing your proposals.

Lewes Ped­dell

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