& News From Our Division Chairs
Band Performance Al Bazzel
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The NJ Band Procedures Committee would like to congratulate the two ensembles selected to perform at the 2014 NJMEA
Conference as part of the Wind Band Academy: Mahwah High School Symphonic Band, Jeffrey Bittner, director, and West Orange High School Wind Ensemble, Lewis Kelly, director. The newly formed NJMEA/NJBA Wind Band Academy Selection Committee is comprised of members of the New Jersey Band Association and the NJMEA Band Procedures Committee. We would like to thank the following committee members for their time and diligent work with the selection process: Mindy Schei- erman, chair; Al Bazzel, Thomas Connors, Gregory Mulford, and John Pastin.
Beginning in 2015 any ensemble interested in performing at the conference will need to complete an application and submit
a live recording for the selection committee. Applications and more detailed information will be released later this spring. The 75th Anniversary All-State Band Concert is quickly approaching. Professor Richard Clary, Director of Advanced Wind
Studies at Florida State University will conduct the wind ensemble and Patrick Dunnigan, Director of Bands and Marching Chiefs will conduct the symphonic band. The symphonic band will premier the commission for the 75th anniversary concert composed by Dana Wilson, Professor of Theory, History and Composition at Ithaca College. Wilson will present several clinics at the conference, including a session with the All-State Symphonic Band at Rutgers to discuss the commission. We look forward to seeing you at the rehearsals and concert at NJPAC.
Auditions for the 2014 All-State Bands will take place on Saturday, January 18th, at JP Stevens High School. We would like
to thank our hosts, Andrew DeNicola and John Zazzali, and our auditions chair, Peter Bauer from Columbia High School. These gentlemen spend many hours working behind the scenes to ensure a successful audition day. The first rehearsal /audition snow date for the All-State Bands will take place on Thursday, January 30, 2014 at South Bruns-
wick High School from 5:00-9:00pm. If there is snow on the audition day and auditions occur on January 30th. the rehearsal will then be held on Thursday, February 6, also at South Brunswick High School. A special thank you to Mark Kraft for hosting at South Brunswick.
Any solo suggestions must be submitted to Bruce Yurko, Solo Chair, or any region representatives. The recommendation must include a copy of the solo, the solo it should replace, and rationale for the change. The region representatives for the com- mittee are: Region I - Lewis Kelly, Gregory Mulford, Mindy Scheierman; Region II- Jules Haran, Mark Kraft, Brian Toth; Region III- Deb Knisely, Phil Senseney and a representative to be named.
Finally, the committee would like to thank outgoing members Ed Cook and John Stanz for their many years of service to the New Jersey Band Procedures Committee. We wish them well.
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