eligible to participate. Rehearsals will take place during the morning and the ensem- bles will present a concert in the afternoon. The festival will be a one-day event and the sponsoring teacher must be in attendance the day of the festival. This is a wonderful opportunity to feature young musicians as they grow and develop in their musical ex- periences. All student nominations will take place electronically. Please check the NJS- MA website for details. Directors who would like to suggest a
new high school or junior high school solo for future auditions are encouraged to do so. The process for having a new solo con- sidered is to contact the band chairs and provide a copy of the music for them. Your suggestion will be submitted to a committee for review (NJ Band Procedures Committee for high school solos) and added to the list if deemed appropriate. Region I Band Proce- dures Representatives: Lewis Kelly, Gregory Mulford and Mindy Scheierman.
Choral Division
Irene Lahr and Austin Vallies Choral Division Co-Chairs
The Choral Division is pleased to an- nounce the conductors for the 2014 High School Region Honor Choirs. Cynthia Powell of the Melodia Women’s Choir will conduct the Women’s Chorus and Mike Se- mancik, director of choirs at Morris Knolls High School, will conduct the Mixed Cho- rus. This concert will be taking place on January 25th. Former NJSMA member Shawn Michael Condon will be travelling from Finland to conduct the Junior High School Treble Ensemble. At the time of this writing, we are in the final stages of secur- ing a conductor for our Junior High School Mixed Chorus. High school honor choir auditions will
take place Saturday, January 4, 2014, at Paramus HS. The junior high school honor choir auditions will take place Saturday, February 1, 2014, at Clifton HS. All audi- tion materials are available on the NJSMA website,
www.NJSMA.com. Thank you to Michelle Digaetano and Deana Larsen for kindly volunteering to be our audition managers again this year! High school choral evening rehearsals
as well as the High School concert will be held at Morris Knolls High School. The all day rehearsal is tentatively scheduled to take
JANUARY 2014
place at Morris Plains High School. The junior high school evening rehearsals will be at Memorial MS in Fair Lawn, where George Glock has been hosting for several years. We are grateful to him and the district of Fair Lawn for volunteering their time and hospitality. At this time, we do not have a site for the all-day rehearsal, dress rehearsal, or concert (Feb 28th, March 1st, and 2nd). We also do not have managers for the Junior Region Chorus. If we do not have a site host for these dates, or managers, by January 4, unfortunately, we will not be able to run our Junior High School Honor Choirs. Our annual high school choral festi-
val ran November 27th through the 29th. Thank you to Steve Bell, our festival coor- dinator and host at Teaneck High School; Doug Heyburn, West Milford High School; and Barbara Klemp, Chatham HS, for gra- ciously hosting. We will never turn down your help or
suggestions. If you are interested in host- ing an event or managing an ensemble or even taking a spot on the board, please e- mail Irene Lahr or Austin Vallies at ilahr@
NJSMA.com and
avallies@NJSMA.com. We would hate to see events canceled due to the lack of volunteers for these groups. We look forward to your participation.
South Jersey Band And Orchestra Directors Association
sjboda.org
SJBODA
will present our Orchestra and String Ensem- ble concert at Rowan University. This is the 60th anniversary concert for the Orchestra which will be conducted by Michael Gagliar- do. The Junior High String Ensemble will be conducted by Susan Meuse (Hammarskjold MS). The manager for the Orchestra will be Deb Knisely (Cinnaminson HS) and the managers for the String Ensemble have not been announced at this time. The following Sunday, January 12th the Wind Ensemble and the Symphonic Band conducted by Dar- ryl Bott (Rutgers University) and Andrew Seigel (William Davies MS) respectively, will perform in the 68th anniversary concert at Rowan University. The managers for the Wind Ensemble are Jessica Sanford (Toms
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JBODA will bring in the New Year with two very exciting con- certs. On Sunday, January 5th we
River HS East) and Lisa Simone (Hooper Ave. Elementary) and the managers for the Symphonic Band are Steve Carey (Pitman HS) and Jon Grill (Toms River HS North). These concerts would not be possible without the commitment and dedication of our colleagues. Deb Knisely (Cinnaminson HS) and Phil Senseney (Southern Regional Schools) did an outstanding job in providing our students with a positive audition expe- rience. Gail Posey and John Stanz provided an excellent facility for our students, parents, and membership at the auditions which were held at Eastern Regional HS. We would also like to acknowledge our string coordinator, Glenn Motson (Gloucester City HS) and our percussion equipment manager, Christopher Janney (Haddonfield HS). The first rehearsal for these ensembles was held at Cinnaminson HS and hosted by Deb Knisely. Deb did a wonderful job in meeting the needs of our students. The young musicians also benefited from the ef- forts of Nichole DelNero (Toms River HS South) our Senior High Band Coordinator. The Junior High Band auditions will
take place on Saturday, January 25th at South- ern Regional Middle School. Jennifer Hodg- son, Andrew Wright, and Phil Senseney will be our hosts. Audition information is avail- able on our website. Tony Scardino (Indian Mills MS) and Joe Jacobs (Ventnor MS) are the Junior High audition chairs. Glenn Mot- son (Gloucester City HS) is our Junior High Band Coordinator. The rehearsals will take place at Mainland Regional HS with Keith Hodgson as our host. Mark Kadetsky will be our concert host; Keith Hodgson will host the rehearsals at Mainland Regional HS. The conductors for the 37th Annual Junior High Band Concerts are Calvin Spencer (Monon- gahela MS) and Curt Mount (Delanco Twp. Schools), the managers will be Jay Dorfman (Delran MS) and Stephanie Strouse (Oak Valley ES).
The 7th annual Chamber Ensemble
Concert will take place on Thursday, Feb- ruary 13th. Keith Hodgson (Mainland Re- gional HS) is our Chamber Ensemble Co- ordinator and concert host. The Mainland TRI-M Music Honor Society Chapter will also be our host for this event. Debbie Krauss (Retired/Private Teacher)
will coach the
flute quartet. The coaches for the Chamber Ensembles are Debbie Krauss (Retired/Pri- vate Teacher) - Flute Quartet; Mark Synder (Rowan University) – Woodwind Quintet; David Seals (Attales MS) – Brass Ensemble; Timothy Powell (Rowan University) – Saxo-
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