Spring Bulletin No. 230 - January 2007 - The Iowa High School ...

concerning concert etiquette to the All-State Festival Program. This announcement will be provided bystudents in the All-State ensembles and funded by TMC Transportation. PASSEDMARCHING BAND FESTIVAL: The registration report was presented and explained. This year’sevent experienced an overall increase in participation by 8 bands. The weather for both dates could nothave been any better. The director outlined a concern with some of our sites experiencing an increasingnumber of bands requesting special performance times. IHSMA past practice was to require any bandnot appearing in their classification to appear “for comments only”. The Director was instructed to drafta policy and send to Marching Band Affairs committee and site managers for input and bring it to theJanuary Board meeting.SHOW-JAZZ CHOIR/JAZZ BAND FESTIVAL: The director provided Jazz Band Sight-readingspecifications as developed by the composers currently providing sight reading materials for IHSMA.MMS (LETTOW/KUEHNER) to drop the possibility of an Eb Blues chart, increase composerhonorarium to $750 per chart, and change the standard instrumentation used to 5 Saxophones, 4Trumpets, 4 Trombones, Piano, Bass, Vibraphone, Drumset, and Guitar. PASSED MMS(MERZ/KUEHNER) to establish a $500 per year budget to maintain the existing charts bringing theminto compliance with the established specifications. PASSEDSOLO/SMALL ENSEMBLE FESTIVAL: The director praised the work of the Iowa Girls’ HighSchool Athletic Union in establishing a Girl’s State Indoor Track meet date that was not in conflict withthe IHSMA Class 3A Solo/Small Ensemble Festival.LARGE GROUP FESTIVAL: The director provided an update on the progress of the LiteratureRecording Project for Grade 2 literature on the IHSMA Required Literature List for Concert Bands.DAG CONCERNS and other concerns not covered by the agenda: David Heupel expressed concernwith the practice of handing a sheet of All-State accepted students out to the directors to communicate totheir students rather than posting them on the wall. He also expressed concern over the number of newteachers in his district. He also expressed concern over the level of literature required for 2 nd choirs atthe IHSMA Large Group Festival. Tom Gerking reported several small concerns and suggestions forchange with the All-State procedures and site management. Jim Fritz reported that he would like to seeIHSMA provide guidelines for appropriate pay for accompanists. John Long inquired about theavailability of a list of mentors for new teachers and concern over the notification provided to host sites.He also encouraged the development of a listing of music teachers looking for employment. Don Struvereported concern over the level of training and awareness given to judges who are judging the “new”Class 1A. He provided a recommendation to allow neighboring schools to audition together for All-State for schools that can’t find two singers from their own school to audition together. He provided asuggestion that the scores be announced for the State Marching Band Festival after Class 1A and 2A andthen again after Class 3A and 4A have completed. This would be a presentation with the drum majorsfrom each participating school on the field. He also reported many directors wishing to allowSmartMusic accompaniments for Solo/Small Ensemble.ASSOCIATION CONCERNS: Director Greiner made the committee aware of a new product calledMusic Pad Pro that has some copyright challenges that will need to be addressed. Those in attendanceprovided a review of sessions attending and topics found at the National Federation Summer Meetingheld in Orlando, Florida this past June. The board was canvassed for topics they would like to see atthis next summers meeting. The director reported 70 adjudicators attended certification sessions thispast August and September and that 35 New Directors attended the New Director Orientation meetings.47