49th Annual Convention Schedule
March 4, 5, & 6, 2010

Nebraska Intercollegiate Band Rehearsal –Dr. Patrick Dunnigan, conducting – WMB 132

Registration – Dan Sodomka, presiding – ESH Lobby

Proposed revisions to the NSBA Marching Band Contest, Ron Hardin, presiding -
ESH Regents C

Nebraska Intercollegiate Band Rehearsal –Dr. Patrick Dunnigan, conducting – WMB 132

EXHIBITS OPEN – PLEASE VISIT DISPLAYS – ESH AB
 (including door prizes, finger foods, & cash bar)

NSBA Past Presidents Breakfast – Dr. James R. Saker, presiding – ESH Bar & Grill

Class Meetings
	Class AA Frank Ibero presiding ESH Chancellor 2		Class A Evan Leepresiding ESH Regents C
	Class B Mike Sindtpresiding ESH Chancellor 3		Class C Sandy Murphy presiding ESH Board Room
	Class D Stan Johnson presiding ESH Regents DEF

Clinic:  A Tetra Teaching 4 Technique– BAl Sergel– ESH Regents C

Tetra Teaching 4 Technique is a system for younger players for learning and mastering scales and arpeggios. The TT4T concept is theory based, introducing scales through a 4-note process or “tetrascale”. Your students will develop greater technical facility while acquiring and mastering all the scales and arpeggios.
You are invited to bring your instrument!

Al Sergel III retired from full time teaching in 2004 after 37 years, serving the last 23 years as Director of Bands at Northwest Missouri State University. At Northwest he conducted the University Wind Symphony, the Bearcat Marching Band, Symphonic Band, and University Orchestra. He taught graduate and
undergraduate conducting, applied percussion, percussion methods, and graduate instrumental music education classes. Sergel is active as a conductor, clinician, composer

Clinic:  Building and Maintaining Wealth – Dana Webb ESH Regents DEF

Wealth building takes discipline and the
knowledge of what money must do to attain goals. It’s
not about buying this stock or real estate or business and
selling it in a short time for a profit. It’s a concept that
must be applied over a lifetime.

Dana Webb graduated with a Bachelor’s of
Science Degree in 1972 and a Masters Degree in 1973
from Butler University. He was married August 1972,
has two children and five grandchildren. Dana started
doing the radio show, “It’s Your Money”, with Roland
Manarin in January of 1989. In October of 1992, he
began teaching the wealth building seminars and after all
this time, he is still doing both. His motto, “Wealth
Building is best taught by people who have done it”.

Nebraska Intercollegiate Band Rehearsal – WMB 132

Clinic:  Worlds of Percussion– Joey Gulizia - ESH Regents C

This session will focus on the families of musical instruments using items from many cultures. Some of these are simple and can be fun to build. There will be a
connection with science, geography, history, math and music.

Joey Gulizia is a professional musician who has been performing since childhood. By the age of 10, he was drumming regularly with his father Joe Gulizia Sr. and brother Tony. Both of the Gulizia brothers have made music a lifelong occupation.

Clinic: Outdoor Performance: A Concert Band On The Move - Shane Macklin - ESH Regents DEF

This session will focus on ways to improve your
marching band to benefit your overall program. A
comprehensive look at show design, creating a concert
sound on the marching field, judging expectations,
improved execution and creativity will be presented.

Shane Macklin is a native of Minden, Nebraska
where he graduated from high school in 1984. He
attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1984 and
graduated with honors in 1989. He was also a member
of the two-time Drum Corps International World Champion Madison Scouts in 1986 and 1987. From 1988-1992 he directed the award-winning Railmen Drum and Bugle Corps from Omaha, Nebraska. Mr. Macklin formerly taught at Ralston High School in Omaha, grades 9-12 and in some years, 7-12. Mr. Macklin presently teaches at Roosevelt High School in Sioux Falls, SD. Mr. Macklin is an active drill designer; show designer, clinician, and adjudicator in the Midwest.

Luncheon Meetings – At conclusion of meetings be sure to support our exhibitors and visit displays!
Marching Band/Concert Band Festival Meeting – Ron Hardin/Carolyn Barber, presiding TBA.
Elementary/Middle Level Meeting & Sharing Session – Curtis Forsch, presiding – WMB 109,
College/University Directors Meeting – Dr. James Saker, presiding – Barry’s

Nebraska Intercollegiate Band Rehearsal – WMB 132

EXHIBITS OPEN – PLEASE VISIT DISPLAYS – ESH AB

Clinic: Rethink, Rediscover, Refuel: Abandoning the cliché’ of educational music and bringing inspiration back to the podium - Brian Balmages ESH Regents C

With the vast amount of music published under
the "educational music" umbrella, it has become more
important than ever to develop a specific set of criteria
used to evaluate new works for possible inclusion in
your program. Directors will walk away with a set of
elements to consider when selecting new music,
including its effect on themselves as artists, motivators,
and conductors.

Brian Balmages (b. 1975) is an active composer, conductor, producer, and performer. His fresh compositional ideas have resulted in a high demand for
his wind, brass, and orchestral music throughout the
world. He received his bachelor’s degree in music from James Madison University and his master’s degree from the University of Miami in Florida. Mr. Balmages’
compositions have been performed worldwide at conferences including the College Band Directors National and Regional Conferences, the Midwest Clinic, the International Tuba/Euphonium Conference, theInternational Trombone Festival, and the International Trumpet Guild Conference.

2:30 p.m.

Concert:  Otte-Blair Middle School 8th Grade Band– Chiyo Kamada, Director – KRH  

Clinic: Comprehensive Musicianship? Beginning Band's Got That! – Brian Balmages ESH Regents C

This session will introduce Measures of Success, a new comprehensive
musicianship band method, and will focus on ways it encourages a deeper
understanding of music. Included will be sound samples, assessment
opportunities, scope, sequence, and new features not standard in other
methods. Sample books will be provided.

Clinic: Emergency Repair Tactics – Jeff Stelling – ESH Regents DEF

This session will provide tips, tricks, and tactics
that every Band Director will find helpful when making
repairs in the band room.

Jeff Stelling is the owner of Stelling Brass &
Winds; a complete musical instrument repair and custom
horn building shop located in Kearney. Jeff started
repairing instruments part-time in 1989 while he
attended UNK as a music business major. In 1993, he
graduated with a Bachelors degree in Music Business
and completed an internship with a local repair
technician who was an Allied graduate. Stelling began
repairing and building instruments on a full-time basis in
the spring of 1997 and is a clinician member of the
National Association of Professional Band Instrument
Repair Technicians (NAPBIRT).

Clinic: Score Study for People Who Think They Don't Have Time– Patrick Dunnigan – WMB 119

This session examines techniques for extracting maximum musical content form a band or orchestra score with minimal time available. The clinician will discuss practical ways for the busy conductor to create more musical rehearsals and better performances through better preparation.

Dr. Patrick Dunnigan is Director of Bands and Professor of Music at The Florida State University College of Music in Tallahassee. A member of the FSU faculty since 1991, Dr. Dunnigan is the principal conductor and music director of the University
Symphonic Band and co-director of the FSU Marching Chiefs. As Director of Bands, he oversees all aspects of the Florida State band program that includes four concert
bands, a chamber music program, graduate teaching program, and athletic pep bands. A nationally recognized guest conductor, adjudicator, and clinician, Dr. Dunnigan has published numerous articles on conducting, instrumental music methodology, and
research in leading journals including The Instrumentalist, Music Educators Journal, Bulletin for the Council for Research in Music Education, and the Journal of Band Research.

Clinic:Adjudicator Certification Part 1, Alan Greiner – WMB 114

IHSMA judge certification sessions were designed to provide potential adjudicators for the Iowa High School Music Association information needed to more fully understand and fulfill their roles as adjudicators. Judging strategies, nuts and bolts
information, and practice examples will all be a part of these sessions.

Alan Greiner is currently serving his ninth year as Executive Director of the Iowa High School Music Association. In addition to his duties as Executive Director, Alan has served on the National Federation’s Citizenship, Ethics, and Integrity Committee, is reviewer for the National Federation Music Association Journal, and serves on the National Federations Music Committee. He is a frequent presenter for the National
Federation Summer Meeting and the National Federation Music Supervisor’s Conference. Mr. Greiner received his B.S. M.E. from Iowa State University and his
Master’s Degree in Music Education from the University of Northern Iowa. He began his teaching career at Northwest Webster Community Schools where he taught
for two years. He then moved to the Prairie Valley.

Clinic:  Striving for Success with "Salvation is Created" Dr. Jay Gilbert WMB 132

In a session focused towards young conductor/teachers, the Doane College Symphonic Wind Ensemble will present a clinic on teaching through
performance of Tschesnokoff’s choral masterpiece arranged for band by Bruce Houseknect. Both technical and interpretive elements as well as an overview of this
beautiful composition will be discussed and demonstrated.

The Doane College Symphonic Wind Ensemble is the premier wind organization of the college, the ensemble presents several concerts throughout the school year and has toured extensively, playing concerts in New York, Chicago, Denver and points in between and well as many schools in Nebraska. Dr. Jay W. Gilbert is Director of Instrumental Music and Chair of the Music Department at Doane College in Crete, Nebraska. He conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Concert Band, and the Doane Tiger Pep Band. He is also the music director of the Blue River Community Band. Jay’s career as a band director began in the public schools of Wisconsin, where he taught instrumental music in elementary, middle, junior high, and high schools. He has been a guest conductor throughout the United States and Canada. He has also as a presenter for numerous state conventions and the Midwest International Band/Orchestra Clinic in Chicago.

Clinic:  Adjudicator Certification Part 2, Alan Greiner – WMB 114 
By attending both sessions members may attain adjudicator’s certification for judging in Iowa. Present adjudicator’s may use these sessions to renew their
certification. For those currently judging music contests in Nebraska, these sessions will serve as a way to finetune your verbal and written evaluations.