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FRIDAY
FEBRUARY 26, 2010
SATURDAY
FEBRUARY 27, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010

Sessions:

8:30 - 9:30 a.m.
  • John Feirabend - Mau`i Room (this session is sponsored by GIA)
  • Introduction: Susan Reismann
    • 12 STEPS TO MUSIC LITERACY USING CONVERSATIONAL SOLFEGE – Part 1 
      • Through carefully sequenced activities this fun workshop will address the National Standards while demonstrating how to enable students to joyfully assimilate the content and skills necessary to become musically literate including the acquisition of listening, rhythmic and melodic reading, dictation, composition, and improvisation in an intuitive manner. Participants will experience a curriculum that grows out of tonal and rhythmic elements that exist in the folk song literature of this country. Each rhythm or tonal element will be explored in patterns, songs and themes from classical literature.

  • Marguerite Wilder - Lanai Room (this session is sponsored by GIA)
  • Introduction: Bryan Hirata
    • TEACHING THROUGH RAIN, SLEET, SNOW AND A 7TH GRADE FIRE DRILL
      • This session will feature the teaching of fundamentals to beginning instrumental music students using a Pass-Off Method. This clinic stresses a classroom organizational and management technique that monitors individual progress regardless of the instrumentation, class size or the varying ability levels of the students. While using many of the materials, method books, and music currently found in today’s music classes. This sequential approach is directed toward the teaching of music fundamentals. Learn successful strategies to
        use with method books and ensemble literature.


  • Hawai`i Orff-Schulwerk Association workshop, by Amy Schiffner - BAQ Room; Introduction: Karen Drozd
    • BROADENING STUDENT LEARNING EXPERIENCES THROUGH CREATIVE MOVEMENT
      • Workshop will define and explore the major concepts of creative movement and review examples of how to integrate creative movement activities into core curriculum.

9:40 - 10:40 a.m.
  • David Frego - Mau`i Room
  • Introduction: Karen Miyamoto
    • DALCROZE EURHYTHMICS II: FEELING THE MUSIC 
      • This intermediate session explores the more subtle elements of music, including tension,
        relaxation, rubato, and canon. Handouts and transfer tips will be provided.


  • Peter Boonshaft - Lanai Room (this session is sponsored by J. W. Pepper and Alfred Music Publishing)
  • Introduction: David Bandy
    • MOTIDISPIRATION: MOTIVATION, DISCIPLINE AND INSPIRATION
      • This session will offer suggestions to improve our ability to motivate and inspire our students in classes and rehearsals, while providing a disciplined environment. By implementing these simple strategies we can make any rehearsal more enjoyable, productive, exciting, controlled, and educational. Useful for teachers and conductors of any level and type of ensemble.

  • Hawai`i Orff-Schulwerk Association workshop, by Amy Schiffner - BAQ Room:
    • BROADENING STUDENT LEARNING EXPERIENCES THROUGH CREATIVE MOVEMENT
      • Workshop will define and explore the major concepts of creative movement and review examples of how to integrate creative movement activities into core curriculum.

10:50 - 11:50 a.m.
  • John Feirabend - Mau`i Room (this session is sponsored by GIA)
  • Introduction: Camilla Corpuz-Yamamoto
    • 12 STEPS TO MUSIC LITERACY USING CONVERSATIONAL SOLFEGE – Part 2 
      • Through carefully sequenced activities this workshop will address the National Standards while demonstrating how to enable students to joyfully assimilate the content and skills necessary to become musically literate including the acquisition of listening, rhythmic and melodic reading, dictation, composition, and improvisation in an intuitive manner. Participants will experience a curriculum that grows out of tonal and rhythmic elements that exist in the folk song literature of this country. Each rhythm or tonal element will be explored in patterns, songs and themes from classical literature.

  • Marguerite Wilder - Lanai Room (this session is sponsored by GIA)
  • Introduction: Kent Sato
    • IT IS THE WEAKEST LINK
      • Moving from Beginning Instrumental Classes to Ensemble Performances This “hands-on” session will feature the Partner Songs and Lead Sheets as an effective medium for providing students with a comprehensive, rigorous, and creative music learning experience. Young instrumentalist should have an understanding of the structure of the music. As band students move from band method book music to full band arrangements they are often uncertain as to what to listen for in the music. Understanding the component parts of music and the relationships that exist between melody, rhythm, harmony and form of the score allows the band
        student to see, hear and relate their individual lines to the ensemble as a whole.


  • David Akombo - Legarie Room
  • Introduction: Susan Reismann 
    • EFFECTS OF COMMUNITY DRUM MUSIC ON ANXIETY IN TEENAGERS
      • The purpose of this study was to test the academic and health benefits of drumming as community music
        projects (CMP). The study examined CMP over academic achievement in adolescents.

  • Hawai`i Orff-Schulwerk Association workshop, by Amy Schiffner - BAQ Room:
    • BROADENING STUDENT LEARNING EXPERIENCES THROUGH CREATIVE MOVEMENT
      • Workshop will define and explore the major concepts of creative movement and review examples of how to integrate creative movement activities into core curriculum.


LUNCH BREAK, 12:00 - 1:00 P.M.
PERFORMANCES; Introduction: Amanda Lippert
1:15 p.m. - 
Klipper Ballroom: Hawai`i Youth Opera Chorus 
1:45 p.m. - 
Klipper Ballroom: Cox-Freeman Duo, piano and flute performance


2:20 - 3:20 p.m.
  • Judy Bond - Mau`i Room
  • Introduction: Amanda Lippert
    • ORFF SCHULWERK: MOVING AND PLAYING WITH SOUND 
      • Celebrate the wholistic, life-enhancing nature of Orff-Schulwerk through inclusive group music-making, building from imitation and exploration to improvisation and literacy, as we play with the elements of music.

  • Peter Boonshaft - Lanai Room (this session is sponsored by J. W. Pepper and Alfred Music Publishing)
  • Introduction: Kazu Sunabe
    • HOW WE TEACH IS AS IMPORTANT AS WHAT WE TEACHER: 20 WAYS TO ENERGIZE YOUR REHEARSALS
      • Simple techniques to energize and focus our teaching, offering specific techniques to solve
        everyday concerns. A practical look at what, why and how we can teach to achieve better results
        faster, easier and more efficiently. Useful for teachers and conductors of any level and type of
        ensemble.

  • Michael Wall - BAQ Room
  • Introduction: Alison Ibara-Kawabe
    • PLAYFUL PERCUSSION - AFRICAN RHYTHM ACTIVITIES
      • Participants will learn simple rhythms and correct playing techniques for a number of traditional African drums and percussion instruments, culminating in a complex polyrhythm.

3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
  • ASIAN PACIFIC DANCES -  BAQ room
    • All participants (and clinicians too) will participate and enjoy Asian Pacific dances in this session!!! 

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