president’s Music Makes Us!
The NAfME National In-Service Conference that was held in Nashville in October was a wonderful learn- ing experience for attendees. The plethora of informative sessions was complimented with a wide range of out- standing performances from Tennessee High Schools and Collegiate ensembles. NJMEA Past President Joe Akins- kas presented an excellent session titled “The End Is The Beginning-The Science Of Reverse Design”. Our key- notes speakers were very inspiring especially Nashville’s Mayor Karl Dean and Council Member Ronnie Stein. New Jersey was represented by 59 music students who participated in the 2013 All National Ensembles. Their performances on October 30th
were amazing. The quality
of musicianship of the symphonic band, jazz band, cho- rus, and orchestra was superior. Nashville is a wonderful city where music literally abounds at almost every corner. I recommend that you make plans to attend the 2014 National In-Service from October 26th
to October 29,
2014 in Nashville where their slogan is “Music Makes Us”. How appropriate!
Student Growth Objectives The number one topic and concern for public school
music educators these past months has been Student Growth Objectives (SGO’s). Our colleagues from the NJ Music Administrators Association offered three SGO Walk-In sessions for NJMEA members in September. This initiative was lead by Nick Santoro, our NJMEA Board of Directors Advocacy Chair. Six music adminis- trators offered their expertise in these very well attend- ed sessions that were offered at Paramus High School, Millburn High School, and Lenape High School. Spe- cial thanks to Lisa Vartanian (Paramus Public Schools),
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NJMEA will be sponsoring our 1st Festival on Saturday, April 5th
Annual Guitar at Wall Township High
School. Tom Amoriello, our NJMEA Board of Direc- tors Guitar Education Chair, and Keith Calmes (Wall Township HS) are coordinating this festival. This event will include workshops and musical performances by the Montclair University Guitar Ensemble and by guitar vir- tuoso Tali Roth. We are expecting over 100 participants. I encourage our NJMEA guitar teachers to participate and take advantage of this wonderful opportunity for students and instructors. Registration forms are available on our web site and in this issue of Tempo.
NJ Music Students Excel
At the NAfME National In-Service Conference two NJ students were selected to perform their original com- positions. I had the pleasure to enjoy the music of Calvin Lu (Marlboro Middle School) and Nicholas McCon- nell (Princeton High School) at the Young Composers
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JOSEPH JACOBS 609-335-6429
JJacobs@Veccnj.org
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John Leahey (Millburn High School), Jeffrey Lesser (East Brunswick Public Schools), Dennis Argul (Eliza- beth Public Schools), Denis Mullins (Rutherford Pub- lic Schools), and Ken Veit (Ramsey Public Schools) for volunteering their time and skills as dedicated music ad- ministrators. I would like to mention that these adminis- trators were surprised and dismayed with the amount of misinformation circulating throughout the state regard- ing SGO’s. Many music teachers have been told by their principals that their SGO’s are to be about reading and writing, not music. State regulations implicitly say that SGO’s must be applied to the content area standard.
NJMEA 1st Annual Guitar Festival
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