Email #1
Dear IASAS Activities Directors and 2020 IASAS CC Music Teams,
Happy Monday! This email serves as the first formal communication for the IASAS Music Cultural Convention 2020 and will be used to introduce the ISB team leaders (see below), to establish email channels and protocols for each specific area going forward, and to introduce the honor group repertoire for band, choir, and strings. Although many months away we are excited to host you and your students here March 5-9, 2020. To better serve you and your musical cohorts, please complete the name and contact information for your coaches HERE by Friday, June 7. From now through the actual convention, let us know if you have any questions or concerns.
MEET OUR TEAM…
Per IASAS guidelines please make every effort to schedule flights so that your team can arrive to the ISB campus no later than 2:30pm (GMT+7), on Thursday, March 5, 2020.
Our website is currently under construction, but once up and running in August through the week of the convention March, 2020, it will serve as the internal ‘go to’ place for AD’s, coaches, and in some instances maybe even students, to find all current IASAS Music CC 2020 information. Again our promise to you is that all notices, deadlines, or tasks will first be emailed (through me or with me copied) with a link and reminder that, following each successive communication, all information will be updated and available on the website for future reference.
In general, please have your coaches error on the side of ‘too much’ information by copying all AD’s on any emails between schools, even if the message seems trivial or specific to your area only. Then remind them to use these same guidelines when reaching out to job-alike coaches/coordinators at the other five schools. For instance, the band teams will need to be in direct communication about instrumentation for the honor band repertoire but IASAS requires these go through each AD. My take away from past models is that we would create email groups by area, again including the AD’s from each school. Make sense?
GUEST CONDUCTORS AND HONOR GROUP REPERTOIRE*
HONOR BAND
Stephen P. Bolstad, D.M.A.
Director of Bands/Conducting
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA
https://www.jmu.edu/music/people/profiles/ensemble-profiles/bolstad-stephen.shtml
Entry March of the Boyars
HALVORSEN / FENNELL – Ludwig-Masters Publications
JWPepper – 2237477
Level – MA
65.00 US
This Cruel Moon
John Mackey – Osti Music
JWPepper –
10766522
Level – Medium Easy
165.00 US
Melodius Thunk
David Biedenbender- Murphy Music Press
JWPepper – 10557724
Level – Medium Easy
125.00 US
Symphonic Dance no. 3 Fiesta
Clifton Williams – Alfred Publishing, inc.
JWPepper – 353342
Level Advanced
95.00 US
HONOR CHOIR
Justin Wisness
Director of Choirs
Rogers High School
Puyallup, Washington, USA
(see bio below)
Canticum Novum
Dan Forrest
Hinshaw
Let My Love Be Heard
Jake Runestad
Jake Runestad
Joy
Hans Bridger Heruth
SBMP
Even When He Is Silent
Kim Andre Arnesen
Walton
Ain’a That Good News
arr. Stacey Gibbs
Colla Voce
HONOR ORCHESTRA
James O. Welsch, D.M.A.
Music Director & General Manager
The El Paso Symphony Youth Orchestras
Associate Conductor
The El Paso Symphony Orchestra
Music Director & Principal Conductor
Orquesta Filarmónica Juvenil México-USA “The Bridge”
https://jameswelsch.com/
Scherzo from String Quartet in g minor, Op. 14 (edited for orchestra)
Emilie Mayer
Lyric for Strings (for young musicians)
George Walker Arr. Gregory T.S. Walker, 2007-
Maracaibo
Eugene Friesen
*Adrianna Gricius, the ISB String Director, will send the other IASAS string directors edited and bowed parts shortly.
In Harmony,
