The Titan View - Northview High School

The Titan View Volume 9, Issue 1
The Northview High School Chamber Orchestra,
under the direction of Timothy J. Aucoin, has been
selected to perform for The Midwest Clinic, an International
Band and Orchestra Conference. The
performance will take place in Chicago, Illinois on
Friday, December 17, 2010.
The Midwest Clinic, which began in 1946, exists to
raise the standards of music education, to develop
new teaching techniques, to assist in the dissemination
of instrumental music educational information,
to examine, analyze, and appraise literature
dealing with music, and to hold clinics, lectures,
and demonstrations for the betterment of music
education. The conference is attended by more
than 15,000 musicians and music educators each
year and is the largest convention of its kind in the
world. Upon receiving the news of the orchestra‘s
invitation, Northview Principal Pam Spalla stated,
Orchestra Director
Timothy J. Aucoin
―Like many, I view an invitation
to perform at the Midwest
Clinic to be an honor
reserved for only the finest
student ensembles and,
thus, am thrilled to celebrate
this memorable
event with them.‖
The December performance
will mark the Northview
Chamber Orchestra‘s
second appearance at the
Midwest Clinic. The last
performance was in 2004,
in only the third year of the
school‘s existence. This
helped to bring national recognition
to the fine quality of
the program. Since that time, Northview High
School has added two more orchestras and has
only increased the depth of the fine performances
throughout the year.
In addition to its regularly scheduled concert performances,
the orchestras have performed at regional
festivals, Disney World and Universal Studios,
school and community events, and were a
featured performer at the Georgia Music Educators
Association Conference in Savannah, Georgia in
January of 2004 and again in 2008. The Northview
Chamber Orchestra represented the State of Georgia
in Austria and the Czech Republic for "Mozart:
2006" - a 250th Celebration. In December of 2009,
the orchestra was the featured performer for the
opening session of the National School Board Association
Conference in Chicago. The program
includes four string orchestras, a symphonic orchestra,
and a chamber ensemble component
which provides music for events throughout the
year. In addition, a Jazz Strings group was implemented
to give students an opportunity to participate
in an alternative styles setting. We also offer
AP Music Theory to support the entire music program.
Program selections for the upcoming Chicago performance
include works by Peter Tchaikovsky,
Felix Mendelssohn, Thad Jones, and Richard
Myers - among others. Also, the orchestra will feature
a new jazz composition for string orchestra by
Tim Aucoin entitled, ―Stringin‘ At The Juke Joint.‖
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