Saturday

7:30 AM - 8:30AM

ASBDA Meeting

Location: Imperial, Amway Grand

8:00 AM - 8:45AM

Grand Rapids Community College Wind Ensemble - Performance

Mike Gillan, Grand Rapids Community College
Location: Performance Hall, DeVos Place

8:00 AM - 9:45 AM

From Pre-Planning Through Performance and A Soloist Workshop

Presenter: Tom Carter Carter
Presider: Steve Hinz, Chelsea High School,
Location: Pearl, Amway Grand
Singing with authentic expression sounds well and good perhaps, but how does a director go from staring at a one-dimensional piece of paper imprinted with ink ... to empowering the choir to sing with complex humanity and passion? We'll look at the expressive journey from the printed music to the concert, and we'll have the privilege of seeing some of the principles in action as we rehearse with soloists ... as if we were preparing them for a Solo and Ensemble festival.
Code: Choral, All

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Enhance Your Beginners Using Your Current Method Books and Materials

Presenter: Greg Wells, DeWitt
Presider: Christina Jordon, MSBOA
Location: Ambassador, Amway Grand
This session will demonstrate how to get the most out of any beginning method book using 6th grade band students as a demonstration group. By adding simple things to ones teaching, instrumental music teachers can quickly have students create, improvise, and engage in ear training with out knowing it! This will help students become more well rounded musicians. It also helps instrumental music teachers meet the national standards!
Code: Band

8:00 AM - 8:45 AM

New Teacher Survival Kit

Presenters: Dan Scott, Jenison Public Schools; Tony Bush, Allendale High School; Tavia Zerman, Grand Ledge Hayes Middle School
Presider: Mark Kotchenruther, MASTA
Location: Atrium, Amway Grand
This panel will present tools for success for the new teacher - ideas, strategies, rubrics, organizational helps for the new and future teacher. A MUST for the first 4 years for success!
Code: Band, Strings

MSBOA Adjudicator Update

Presenter: Rick Catherman

Location: Berkey, Amway Grand
This is an annual adjudicator update for MSBOA adjudicators
Code: Band, Strings

What Judges Want in Sight Reading

Presenter(s): Joel Shaner, Jackson High School;
Thomas Shaner, Retired
Presider: David Reed, MSBOA
Location: Cascade, Amway Grand
This is an extention of a session I attended last year with Cindy Swan-Eagan, after discussion...we thought that the sightreading element of festival needs a single session. I feel that everyone can receive a first division, if basic skills are addressed all year long. For many of us that adjudicate feel, sightreading is a window in to a teachers/groups daily rehearsals.
Code: Band, Strings

A Chance to Do Some Good: Service Learning in Orchestra Class

Presenter: Diane Platte, Ann Arbor Open @ Mack
Presider: Kelly DeRose, MASTA
Location: Emerald A & B, Amway Grand
Incorporating service learning in a performance class benefits the broader community, the school music program, and most of all the students. This session will present the experiences of my middle school orchestra students who tackled a 12-week service project in the 2008-09 school year. The planning, rehearsal, and presentation of a benefit concert offered opportunities for student directed learning, reflective action, and an exciting, new performance context.
Code: Band, Choral, Strings

Auditioning for College (String Players)

Presenter: Kypros Markou, Wayne State University
Presider: Kathy Zucnhiewicz, MASTA
Location: Haldane, Amway Grand
The presentation will discuss elements to be considered in choosing repertory, and the aspects of a student's playing that should be given priority in preparing for auditions. An audition demonstrates not only the level attained by a student at a given point in time, but also the potential for development and successful pursuit of a program of study. The session will discuss strategies for presenting oneself in the best possible light.
Code: Strings

Gaining Support & Funds / Reducing Chance of Cuts for Your Music Department

Presenter: Jason Byma, St. Ignace Area Schools
Presider: Linda Trotter, MSBOA
Location: Pantlind, Amway Grand
This session discusses various tactics to gain the support and finances needed to reduce the chance of cuts or eliminations during financial struggle. Participants will be exposed, first-hand to increased support from the student body, co-workers, administration, athletics, parents, community members and businesses. Also presented will be new and exciting forms of fundraisers and techniques used to create an event specific to your program and community. Finally a brief look at ways to set up and implement state standards into your program giving it validity when threatened by budget cuts and hard economic times.
Code: All

9:00 AM - 12:15 PM

Recording and Producing a Professional Quality CD for Your Music Program

Presenter: John Churchville, Go Like the Wind School
Presider: Nicholas Hardy, Fitzgerald Public Schools
Location: Grand Gallery F, DeVos Place
This hands-on presentation will walk participants through the basic steps of recording and producing a professional quality audio recording using the industry-standard ProTools software. Topics will include: signal flow, mic selection, setting up and organizing tracks, editing, mixing, adding effects, fades, and more.
Code: Technology

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

Fearless Improvisation: Strategies for the String Classroom

Presenter: Nancy Conley, Michigan State University
Presider: Steve Reed, MASTA
Location: Atrium, Amway Grand
This workshop is a hands-on demonstration of various (and easy!) activities to incorporate improvisation and creativity at all levels in the string classroom. Please bring your instruments so that you can experiment with us!
Code: Strings

SMTE Business Meeting

Presenter(s): Colleen Conway, University of Michigan
Location: Berkey, Amway Grand

Less Can Be More: Fostering Student Musical Independence From the Podium

Presenter: Kate Fitzpatrick, University of Michigan
Presider: Sarah Bowman, Fruitport Schools
Location: Cascade, Amway Grand
If one of the goals of music education is to foster independent musical decision-making, then we as conductor/teachers must find ways to get students to take individual responsibility for expressivity and musicianship in performance. This session will outline strategies for refinement in both conducting gesture and rehearsal technique that will encourage independent thinking within our ensembles, with the goal of making rehearsals more efficient, productive, and enjoyable.
Code: Band

Teaching Vibrato to Beginning and Intermediate Cellists

Presenter: Jamie Fiste, Central Michigan University
Presider: Diane Winder, Eastern Michigan University
Location: Emerald A & B, Amway Grand
Teaching cello vibrato can be a challenge even for an experienced teacher. These challenges are compounded when teaching in a classroom setting. Many exercises and action studies can be introduced at the beginning of instruction to teach the motions involved in cello vibrato and build muscle memory. This presentation will provide a teaching sequence for the development of cello vibrato in beginning and intermediate cello students suitable for classroom use and private instruction.
Code: Strings

CMENC Session - Navigating the Job Market

Presenter: Jeanne Glowicki, Assistant Superintendent of Instruction, East Grand Rapids Schools
Presider(s): Rachel Gasper, Western Michigan University; Dan Blumenthal, University of Michigan
Location: Grandview, Amway Grand
Jeanne Glowicki, Assistant Superintendent from East Grand Rapids Schools, will share tips on how to navigate the online job search process as well as suggestions for cover letters, resumes, online applications and interviews. Learn what to do and what to avoid as you work to secure that first job! Pastries and juice provided.
Code: All
(refreshments provided by JW Pepper)

Infusing Chamber Music Rehearsals with Meaning: Practical Suggestions and Insights for Coaching Student Chamber Ensembles

Presenter(s): Kristen Pellegrino; BettyAnne Gottlieb, Michigan State University
Presider: Jan Flower, MASTA
Location: Haldane, Amway Grand
This interactive session will explore strategies for helping students create a unified interpretation of a piece of music. Developing a group concept, such as a story or emotion, can provide a foundation and direction for rehearsals. We will share suggestions for developing a prioritization for rehearsals based on the group concept as well as ideas for teaching "Chamber Music Etiquette". Participants will be invited to rehearse chamber music together, with or without instruments.
Code: Strings

Navigating Adolescence: The Influence of the Middle School Music Classroom

Presenter(s): Bridget Sweet, Ph.D., Bucknell University;
Deb Borton, Kinawa Middle School Choir
Presider: Angie Badish, South Lyon Millennium Middle School
Location: Pantlind, Amway Grand
This session will examine influences and impacts made on adolescent students through the middle school music class, with regard to subject matter and beyond. Discussion topics will include the creation of a safe learning environment, development of musicianship, and empowerment of students with a focus on classroom community, morality development, use of humor, and student-teacher interaction.
Code: All

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM

Using Arranger Keyboards in the Classroom: Ditch the PC and Make Music Instead

Presenter: Greg Poltrock, Keyboard World
Presider: Adam Wurst, Allendale Middle School
Location: Grand Gallery D, DeVos Place
Need an instrumental track for a performance but you cannot find the right arrangement with great sounds in the right key at the right tempo? And you need it this afternoon? Arranger keyboards solve this problem and many more. They make it easy to create a custom arrangement to teach folk, sacred, world, patriotic, pop and most any other style of music. Anyone who has tried to create a MIDI system by connecting assorted components together can tell you how time consuming and difficult it can be to use. The answer to this is the Arranger Keyboard. They integrate the five components of a MIDI system: A keyboard, access to many quality sounds, a recording system, a versatile drum machine, and an automatic arranger-orchestrator.
Code: Technology

From the Classroom to the Boardroom: How To Speak "Administrator"

Presenter: Tim Schoenherr, Plymouth-Canton Community Schools
Presider: Diane Mehringer, MMEA
Location: Cascade, Amway Grand
Have you ever wondered why you can't seem to get the attention or support of your building administrator? What about the Central Office? Board of Education? Participants in this session will learn the "right" way to approach administrators regarding program support, parental involvement, facilities usage, budgets, grading, and more.
Code: All

CMENC Session - Percussion Pops!

Presenter(s): Jeremy Otto, Oakland University;
David Mety, Oakland University Percussion Pops
Presider: Niki Barnes, Oakland University
Location: Grandview, Amway Grand
Percussion Pops! Music education students from Oakland University will share how they have arranged popular music for their percussion ensemble. Demonstration of their creative musical process, teaching and learning strategies, and a performance of the music they have scored for percussion only will be shared.
Code: Band
(refreshments provided by JW Pepper)

Feel the Beat!: Activities to Help Children Become Beat Competent

Presenter: Christina Hornbach, Hope College
Presider: Jim Shouldice, MMEA
Location: Pantlind, Amway Grand
Many elementary music students are not beat competent. This workshop will give elementary general music teachers ideas on how to help their students FEEL the beat and become beat competent. Participants will engage in a variety of rhythmic activities that foster feeling the beat while singing and chanting.
Code: Elementary General Music

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

MSVMA Choral Hour - Saturday

Kevin Cornwell, Avondale Middle School
Bonnie Kidd, Huron High School
Deborah Buffa, Royal Oak High School
Presider: Erich Wangeman, Haslett High School
Location: Grand Ballroom, JW Marriott

10:00 AM – 1:00 PM

All-State Bands and Orchestras Performances

Location: Performance Hall, DeVos Place

• All-State Middle School Band: Dr. Andrea Strauss, Director of Bands, Shorter College, Rome, GA
• All-State Middle School Orchestra; Dr. Robert Hasty, Associate Orchestra Conductor, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
• All-State High School Band; John Whitwell, Conductor Emeritus, Michigan State University
• All-State High School Orchestra; Gerardo Edelstein, Director of Orchestral Studies, Penn State University, Happy Valley, PA

11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

The Choral Director As Voice Teacher

Presenter: Kelly Miller
Presider: Erich Wangeman, Haslett High School
Location: Grand Ballroom, JW Marriott
This session will explore ways in which choral directors can incorporate proper vocal pedagogy for the individual into the climate of the choral classroom. Techniques for addressing individual vocal technical issues while maintaining a collective choral atmosphere will be addressed. Examples of vocal warm ups which build the strength of each singer while maintaining choral blend and balance will be given. Proper vocal production using many different choral styles and tonal colors will be examined.
Code: Choral

Practical Communication and Organization Through Technology and Web Design

Presenter: Adam Wurst, Allendale Middle School
Presider: Nicholas Hardy, Fitzgerald Public Schools
Location: Grand Gallery D, DeVos Place
Many music educators work hard to find ways to use technology to enhance their classroom’s learning environment. Basic programs for theory, composition, and recording have been valuable resources that maximize our time and efficiency. However, the demands of communicating with students, parents, administration, staff, and community take up a big portion of our planning and organizing. This session will provide a toolbox of helpful technology programs and solutions that make the most of your time with a smaller amount of effort. Whether you’re a beginning technology user or more advanced user, you can find efficient solutions for better and easier communication.
Code: All

ChoralEaseTM: Improving Your Choir's Singing With the Feldenkrais Method®

Presenter: Stephen A. Paparo, Michigan State University
Presider: John Beck, Escanaba High School
Location: Atrium, Amway Grand
This interactive session will demonstrate how ChoralEaseTM lessons can improve your students’ singing, pleasurably and effortlessly. Based on the Feldenkrais Method® of Mind-Body Education, these exploratory movement lessons develop sensory awareness and improve fine-motor coordination. The result is a freer and more resonant tone, and more expressive singing. Unlock your choir’s potential . . . with ChoralEase!
Code: Choral

CMENC Business Meeting

Presenter(s): Rachel Gasper, Western Michigan University; Dan Blumenthal, CMENC - University of Michigan
Location: Grandview, Amway Grand
This session is a business meeting for CMENC during which state-wide collegiate events will be discussed including election of officers.
Code: All
(refreshements provided by JW Pepper)

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

MASTA Luncheon

Location: Imperial, Amway Grand

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Honors Composition Concert

Presider: Corynn Nordstrom, MMEA
Location: Ambassador, Amway Grand
This is a concert of original compositions by students from schools throughout Michigan. Their work has been judged by a panel of experts and chosen for presentation on this program.
Code: All

1:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Empowering Singers with Authentic Expression and Vocal Technique and the Expressive Choir

Presenter: Tom Carter Carter
Presider: Steve Hinz, Chelsea High School
Location: Grand Ballroom, JW Marriott
Working with the Howell High School Chorale, we'll look at specific tools which empower singers as expressive vocal artists in their own right. After the session, you will no longer have the need to command and make faces while you conduct. Expression to the music and text become the singer's responsibility! In this session we'll look at ways to assign that responsibility to your singers so that the experience for you, the choir, and the audience can be even more transformative and compelling.
Code: Choral, All

1:00 PM - 1:45 PM

Using "Audacity" in the Kodály Classroom

Presenter: Stephanie Terpening, Saint Ignace Area Schools
Presider: Nicholas Hardy, Fitzgerald Public Schools
Location: Grand Gallery D, DeVos Place
This session will focus how to use the free online recording software "Audacity" within a Kodály curriculum. This user friendly software can be used for creating practice CDs and mp3 files for students to take home with them, for recording audition tapes of your groups or individuals, for non-threatening individualized assessments of your students, or even for student composition assignments!
Code: Choral, Elementary General Music, Technology

Success as a Co-Operating Teacher for Elementary Music

Presenter(s): Colleen Conway, University of Michigan; Heather Shouldice ; Shanan Hibbard- Melkonian, ; Lindsey Micheel- Mays
Presider: Michelle Wilson - John Page Middle School
Location: Cascade, Amway Grand
Based on material collected for Handbook for the Music Mentor (Conway, Smith, & Hodgman, 2010, GIA Publications), this panel discussion will address ways that music teachers can support and assist preservice and student teachers working in elementary music classrooms. Panelists include: Heather Shouldice, elementary general music; Shannan Hibbard-Melkonian, elementary vocal music; and Lindsey Micheel-Mays, elementary instrumental music.
Code: All

Solving Musical Problems with Puzzle Cards

Presenter: Diane Raymond, Mary Helen Guest Elementary
Presider: Deborah Blair, Oakland University
Location: Grandview, Amway Grand
This session will present multiple ways to use puzzle cards to help elementary students understand melodic concepts. Following a brief overview of the psychology behind problem solving, participants will organize the melodic pieces of at least 3 musical maps. Those attending this session will also work in small groups to create puzzle pieces for a song so they can apply what they have learned to songs and pieces that are meaningful to them.
Code: Elementary General Music

Teaching Beginning Jazz Improvisation

Presenter: Chad West, University of Michigan
Presider: Beth Gibbs, Grand Valley State University
Location: Haldane, Amway Grand
This session focuses on addressing standard #3 through jazz improvisation. Questions will be addressed such as: How do students learn to improvise jazz? Where to begin? What do I need to know to teach beginning jazz improvisation? This presentation outlines a common sense approach to improvisation using techniques developed by Chris Azzara and other fine jazz educators. Participants will receive thorough jazz improvisation resource packets.
Code: All

Learning to Plan/Planning to Learn: Webbed Planning Strategies for Score Study and Ensemble Rehearsal

Presenter(s): Mitchell Robinson, Michigan State University;
Sandra Snow, Michigan State University
Presider: Sarah Bowman, Fruitport Schools
Location: Pantlind, Amway Grand
This session presents an approach to score study and lesson preparation based on the notion of teaching as improvisation; improvisation grounded in a thorough knowledge of the music, the learners and the context in which musical teaching and learning takes place. This approach considers each musical score as an organic work, demanding its own unique method and array of teaching strategies. The webbed or "bubble plan" format that forms the core of this approach encourages music teacher/conductors to analyze the score using their knowledge of musical form, rhythm, style, instrumental/vocal technique, text and history, and then transfer this rich, procedural and supervisory knowledge to the development of pedagogical strategies that remain authentically musical.
Code: Band, Choral, Strings

2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

Rock Your Strings!

Presenter(s): Michael Rais, Frost Middle School;
Melissa Roberts, National Heritage Academy - Detroit;
Nady Benyamine, Oxford Middle School; Joe McGraw, National Heritage Academy - Macomb / Il Segreto String Quartet
Presider: Marj Haber, West Bloomfield School District
Location: Grand Gallery D, DeVos Place
- Get your orchestra students to "Rock" on their instruments.
Using pickups, electronics, effect processors with your students
Use of "Rock" techniques: Bow Strum, Shredding, etc.
Please bring your instrument to participate in the session!
Code: Strings, Technology

Creating the Next Generation of Trombone Experts

Presenter: Mark R. Williams, Grand Valley State University
Presider: Scott Adkins, MSBOA
Location: Atrium, Amway Grand
You’ve heard the phrase "practice makes perfect", but recent research shows that a certain type of practice is required to develop true expertise. Deliberate practice is essential to skill development. This clinic will examine the concept of deliberate practice and present simple techniques that music teachers can use to help their students play better. While the demonstrations are specific to trombonists, the techniques can be applied to any instrumentalist.
Code: Band

Music Teacher and Parent: Balancing Two Full Time Jobs

Presenter: Susan W. Gould, Greenville High School
Presider: Rick Catherman, MSBOA
Location: Cascade, Amway Grand
The pressures music educators face on the job can have an adverse affect on our personal lives if we allow it. The session will focus on suggestions for managing personal responsibilities and professional obligations, while maintaining quality in both realms.
Code: All

Make and Take: Remembering Elizabeth A. H. Green, Master Teacher of Teachers

Presenter: Larry Dittmar, MASTA; Russell Reed; E. Daniel Long:
John Whitwell
Presider: John Blakemore, MASTA
Location: Emerald A & B, Amway Grand
Come for a revisiting of this great lady and how she inspired so many to become fine teachers. DVD copies of Miss Green's interview with Russ Reed made not long before her death will be given to all those attending the session. This is a MUST ATTEND SESSION you will not want to miss!
Code: Strings

Solving Musical Problems with Puzzle Cards Part II

Presenter: Diane Raymond
Presider: Deborah Blair, Oakland University
Location: Grandview, Amway Grand
Continuation of 1:00pm Session

Middle Level Band: Practical Solutions to Common Problems

Presenter: Stacey Larson, VanderCook College of Music
Presider: Jennifer Culler, Endeavor Charter Academy
Location: Haldane, Amway Grand
This session will tackle the most common problems in your developing ensembles with proven methods and rehearsal techniques. We will interactively cover strategies to improve program organization, classroom environment, tone, time and expression and provide you with practical solutions that truly work in a middle level rehearsal.
Code: Band

Sightreading Techniques for Festival

Presenter: Mike Eagan, Benzie Central High School
Presider: Cindy Swan-Eagan, MSBOA
Location: Pantlind, Amway Grand
A clinic to help directors maximize the sight reading experience at MSBOA festivals. Tips on preparation and procedures will be the focus as well as common mistakes made in the sight reading room.
Code: Band, Strings

Color My World: Techniques for Varying Choral Tone Within A Performance

Presenter(s): Shirley Lemon, Grand Haven High School; Les Rowsey, Jenison High School; Trey Jacobs, Eastern Michigan University; Russell Larimer, Traverse City West Senior High School; Bruce Snyder, Andover High School
Presider: Kelly Miller
Location: Pearl, Amway Grand
This session will explore ways of maintaining healthy vocal production while utilizing varying styles of choral tone. A panel of experienced choral directors from around the state will celebrate the diversity of choral tone in Michigan by discussing their teaching approaches to singing and vocal technique. This discussion forum will be helpful for directors looking to diversify the tonal color palate within their choir’s performances. Kelly Miller, presenter of "The Choral Director as Voice Teacher" will preside and provide information about maintaining the health of the individual singer while maintaining the integrity of a director’s tonal color concept.
Code: Choral

3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

JH/MS Honors Choirs Performances

6-7-8 SA, Theresa Williams-Johnson, Director
6-7-8-9 SSA, Todd Schreiber, Director
6-7-8-9 SATB, Cherry Westerman, Director

3:00 PM - 3:45 PM

Motivating the Middle School Band Student

Presenter: Dennis Kozian, Portage West Middle School
Presider: Elizabeth Burrows, MSBOA
Location: Atrium, Amway Grand
This session will explore methods to motivate middle school band students. I will base many aspects of the session on techniques piloted by Ron Clark, who wrote The Essential 55; An Award-Winning Educator's Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child. I have adapted many of these motivational techniques, including using rewards for positive behavior, methods for using practice records, using rewards for student responsibility and using long tone contests & chair challenges.
Code: Band

The ABC’s of MLT: A Beginner’s Guide to Music Learning Theory

Presenter: Heather Nelson Shouldice, Wood Creek Elementary
Presider: Beth Gibbs, Grand Valley State University
Location: Cascade, Amway Grand
If you have heard of Music Learning Theory (developed by Dr. Edwin Gordon) and are curious to find out what it’s all about, this session will help you. Come hear an overview of the major ideas of MLT and audiation and see what it looks like in the music classroom. Then decide for yourself if it will work for you!
Code: All

Circles, Lines, and Squares: American Traditional Dances for the Classroom

Presenter: Terese VolkTuohey, Wayne State University
Presider: Judith Thompson-Barthwell, MMEA
Location: Governor’s, Amway Grand
Dancing is one way to incorporate rhythmic activities, movement, social studies and fun in the music classroom. Caller Karen Dunnam will lead you in learning traditional dances suitable for your classes. Wear comfortable clothes and bring your dancing shoes!
Code: All, Elementary General Music

Music From the Heart: A Theory of the Origins of Musical Expression
Presenter: John Kratus, Michigan State University
Presider: Sheri Jaffurs, Farmington Public School District and University of Michigan-Flint
Location: Haldane, Amway Grand
This session examines why we respond to music emotionally by analyzing research in ethnomusicology, brain mapping, anthropology, and philosophy. Implications are provided for enhancing learning in performing, creating, and listening.
Code: All

Music From the Heart: A Theory of the Origins of Musical Expression

Presenter: John Kratus, Michigan State University
Presider: Sheri Jaffurs, Farmington Public School District and University of Michigan-Flint
Location: Haldane, Amway Grand
This session examines why we respond to music emotionally by analyzing research in ethnomusicology, brain mapping, anthropology, and philosophy. Implications are provided for enhancing learning in performing, creating, and listening.
Code: All

Saxophone: Back to the Basics

Presenter: Jonathan Nichol, Grand Valley State University; John Nichol Central Michigan University
Presider: Marc Townley, MSBOA
Location: Pantlind, Amway Grand
This will be a saxophone methods refresher presentation. The discussion will focus on the saxophone basic, such as embouchure, tone, articulation, technique, equipment, and understanding the differences between classical and jazz styles. This interactive presentation will include demonstrations and performance. Attendees will be given supplemental handouts.
Code: Band, All

The 2nd K.I.S.S. Technique

Presenter: Jeffrey Bennett, Retired
Presider: Joel Shaner, MSBOA
Location: Senator Vandenberg
The second step of the initial K.I.S.S. Technique presented at the MMC 2009 Conference for MS and HS Bands.
Code: Band

4:00 PM - 4:45 PM

Using Chamber Music to Develop Musical Leaders

Presenter: Mark R. Williams, Grand Valley State University
Presider: Chuck Norris, Grand Valley State University
Location: Atrium, Amway Grand
Bands and orchestras depend on musical leadership within the ensemble. While playing chamber music enhances many elements of musicianship, it also provides opportunities to develop leadership and followership skills that directly relate to large ensemble performance. This clinic will discuss how chamber music can benefit your school music program with examples performed by the GVSU Brass Quintet.
Code: Band

Teaching Musical Forms Using Movement, Thinking Maps and Music Composition

Presenter: Sarah Manning, Davisburg Elementary School
Presider: Ruth Ann Knapp, Saginaw Public Schools
Location: Governor’s, Amway Grand
Participants will learn about using thinking maps, movement and composition to teach musical form. A demonstration group will share student thinking maps and movement activities. We will then talk about the process of composition to assess student understanding. Original compositions performed by students will be shared during the presentation.
Code: Elementary General Music

MEAP GLCEs in the Music Room - Yeah Right!

Presenter: Michael Medvinsky, H.T. Burt Elementary
Presider:
Location: Haldane, Amway Grand
Teaching MEAP GLCEs in the music room. With the growing demands of standardized testing, administrators often ask music educators to teach MEAP GLCEs through song and dance. How can we balance administrative expectations and maintain curricular integrity? We will explore how multiple perspectives and seeing the world through a musical lens can help students understand MEAP concepts and connect their understanding across curriculum.
Code: All, Elementary General Music

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

HS Honors Choirs Performances

Location: DeVos Performance Hall, DeVos Place
High School SSAA, Catherine Brodie, Director
High School TTBB, Paul Rardin, Director
High School SATB, Jerry Blackstone, Director

Saturday

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