Email #1

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,

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