Volume 29 Number 3 A Quarterly Publication of Quinlan & Fabish Music Company Spring 2016

Chicagoland Edition

What is Shokunin?

Pronounced “Sho-ku-neen”, most Japa-nese and Japanese-English dictionaries define it as ‘craftsman’ or ‘artisan’, but such a literal description does not fully express the deeper meaning. The Japa-nese apprentice is taught that shokunin means not only having the technical skills, but also implies an attitude and social consciousness. At Yamaha, it’s about creating an experience and guiding every musical from the first note through the realization of their highest potential.

Yamaha has selected a small number of dedicated retailers nationwide to be part-ners in the Shokunin Select Program. We will proudly debut the Shokunin collection of professional and artist qual-ity instruments at our Arlington Heights location in early May.

FluteTube

On-line Video

Contest

See below and

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Twenty Seven Students participated in an on-line video contest in March spon-sored by QF and Haynes/Amadeus Flutes. The winners were selected by our Flute Advisory Board. The rule was sim-ple: submit your most creative flute vid-eo project. And, my, were they crea-tive!!

Our Middle School winner, Oliver Ta-

lukder was from Gemini MS in Niles, IL, who won a scholarship to the new MFA-Middle School Band Camp (see Page 15 “Get on the Bus”) and an ap-pearance by Haynes flute artist. Ben

Smolen at his school.

The HS winner was Becky Song of Neuqua Valley HS who won a new Haynes Amadeus Flute!!

Shires Shop-Chicago is a boutique cus-tom brass shop located in our QF-

Montgomery location. S. E. Shires Co. was founded in 1995 for the sole purpose of building custom brass instruments of unparalleled professional quality. Now recognized as a leader in brass instrument design, innovation and manufacture, Shires maintains their commitment to every player who chooses Shires—to build an instrument that not only looks and sounds exactly the way you want it to, but is mechanically perfect, built to last for many years and beautiful to look at as well.

Shires Shop-Chicago features a wide selection of custom trombones and trum-pets produced in the shop outside Boston. Renowned instrument designer, Steve

Shires, meticulously builds instru-ments for the most discriminating profes-sional musicians in the world. With their partnership with Eastman Music Compa-ny last year, Shires is now poised to offer moderately priced instruments for the advanced student musician, called the “Q Series” scheduled to debut in May 2016.

Shires Shop-Chicago manager, Mike

Edwards, is a professional trumpet player and works well with student musi-cians and their families to help select the perfect instru-ment for them.

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QF rep by completing the following sentence on our Facebook page:

“I Like My QF Rep because…”

The winners receive a custom made bobble head doll of their QF rep AND themselves! The contest has been fun, heart-warming, sincere, and highly entertaining. We have seen poems, stories, and videos of the wonderful relationships directors have with their QF school representatives. We hope you will take a moment to recognize your QF rep in April. We know they appreciate all you do for us.

Pictured are last year’s winner - Di-rector Steven Sanders (UIC College Prep) with his favorite QF rep - Rob-ert Scott. Check out Steven’s musical tribute on our FB page!

Southwest Suburban Location:

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Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527

630-654-4111

Fax: 630-522-0331

Northwest Suburban Location: 59 W. Seegers Rd.

Arlington Heights, Illinois 60005

847-253-5592

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Montgomery, Illinois 60538

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Stevensville, MI 49127

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Lafayette, IN Location: 1301 Sagamore Parkway North

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Food Trucks and

Bobbleheads…

By George Quinlan, Jr.

It’s always one of my favorite events of the year, the QF reception during the Midwest Clinic on Thursday evening. Right before the winter holidays, the timing is perfect to gather good friends together for some festivities during an active conference filled with profession-al development opportunities. Thank you to VanderCook College of Music for helping us host this event in their new building. This building, on the IIT campus, was originally constructed to repair locomotive train engines! Phase II (a performance venue) hasn’t begun yet, so the “garage” provided a unique opportunity for our reception—FOOD TRUCKS!!

We were “blown away” by your over-whelmingly favorable respons-es...particularly when the crowd cheered the trucks as they departed!! Also, speaking of being “blown away”, a spe-cial thanks to Luke Malewicz (QF Advi-

sory Board member) and the Heritage Quartet for providing music for the event before many headed

to “Reggies” to hear Bobby Mintzer

perform with QF-Vice President, Ken

Partyka.

For the last four years, April has marked the time for our annual “bobble-head contest”. Directors can recognize their

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Stork Report…Best wishes to Brian

Everson (band director at Palos Dist.128) and his wife for the blessing of a baby boy, Nathan Gerard, born October 16th.

Latoya Crowder, who teaches at Coo-lidge MS-South Holland, had a baby boy on July 30th, Levi - congratulations!

Clara Marie Andrikokus joined the world on April 5th at 1:02am (20inches/7.9lb) to Allison & George

Andrikokus. Proud daddy teaches in Bensenville Dist. 2.

Matthew Rutherford, orchestra direc-tor at Iroquois Community School in Des Plaines, and his wife, Gina, wel-comed a son, Nathan, on November 2nd joining big sister Ellie in the family.

Stephanie Lein and husband, Brian welcomed baby boy, Austin James to the world on March 30th. Stephanie is one of the orchestra directors at Gregory MS in Naperville.

Danielle Hayes (Humphrey MS-

Bolingbrook) proudly announced the birth of her baby, Joseph George born April 5th at 8 pounds, 7 oz. and 20” long-Congratulations!!

Welcome Mara Rae Zomchek (7lbs-7oz and 20”) daughter of Erin Zomchek and husband, Craig born on December 21st. Erin is the orchestra director at Rich-

mond Intermediate in St. Charles.

Preston Krauska and wife, Rachel had a baby girl named Lainey Belle. She was born on March 24th weighing 9lbs, 7 0z, and was 21” long. Preston teaches band and orchestra at Dundee-Crown High School.

Wedding Bells are ringing…Mat Becker

(Memorial JHS-Lansing) and Jenna Lake (Heritage JHS-Lansing) were engaged in October! Congrats!

On the Road Again…Disney World in Orlando is always a popular destination for Spring tours. Central MS Band from Tinley Park, led by Jason Freeland & Christina

Makropoulos traveled to Orlando to visit Mickey and participated in the Festival of Fantasy Parade and the “You’re Instrumen-

tal” workshop.

Mike Fiske and the Joliet Central HS band toured Disney-Orlando in late March for Mike’s final band tour as his retirement day draws nearer. QUARTER NOTES TRIVIA Question No. 1 - Joliet Central HS alum, Don Stinson has been named as the next director of JCHS band—only the fifth director since 1912, when the band was founded. Can you name the first three? See answers at the end of Jam Ses-

sion article.

During Spring Break, the Oswego East HS bands traveled to Orlando, Florida to perform in Disney World. During the trip, the bands performed in Disney and visited all of the Disney and Universal Studios parks reports directors Kelly

O'Neill & Stevan Rexroat.

Jeanette Soebbing & Megan Fitzger-

ald took the Argo High School Band and Orchestra to Disneyworld (along with Argo's choir and poms) to perform in the parks as well as participate in a workshop.

Neuqua Valley HS Marching Band, led by Jonathan Lauff, Andrew Seidel, Emily

Binder, Corinne Jones & Greg

Schwaegler not only toured Disney, but also performed at the Outback Bowl in Tampa in January.

The Sycamore Choir and Orchestra under

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the direction of Drayton Eggleson & Ken

Tonaki will be taking a tour of Nash-ville, the beginning of June. They will visit the Grand Ole Opry, Country Music Hall of Fame and even do a recording ses-sion in the famed “Studio B”.

Bill Goetz & Jenny Carlton will be tak-ing the Troy MS Marching Band to Cedar Point in May. The band will give a parade performance down the midway, then spend the rest of the time having some fun!! Troy Bands have a busy Spring hosting IGSMA State Festival, the TMS Concert Band will participate in the ISU JHS Invi-tational Band Festival, and the Symphonic Band in the Superstate Concert Band Festi-

val at UofI-Urbana.

Making the most of spring break, the orchestras and chorus of Wheaton North HS and Wheaton Warrenville South HS have just returned from China! Joanne

Wegscheid, Grace Chu & Kassandra

Krause, led the group in concer ts in Beijing, Xuzhou, Keqiao, and Shanghai. The group also visited a tea plantation, a silk factory, some local schools, the Great Wall, Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City.

Ray Ostwald had the York HS orches-tra on tour at the end of February for a

quick trip around the state and St. Louis. The group performed in Bloomington and at SIU-Edwardsville.

Saturday evening was a concert attend-ance of the St. Louis Symphony.

Practice, Practice, Practice...On March 30th the band, orchestra, and choir stu-dents of John Hersey High School led by

Scott Casagrande, Joshua Stewart &

Sara Michael headed to New York City to perform at Carnegie Hall. While in the city, the group visited the 911 Me-morial and Museum, toured Radio City Music Hall, and visited 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

On March 15th, Jason Kluge and the District 92 ½ Westchester MS Jazz en-semble played at the Chicago Wolves game. Jason will be taking the concert

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21st Annual

Student Teacher

Day

at Q&F

winds, Brasswinds, and String were presented. Brass tech, Mark Colpean

and and String Shop Mgr. Manuel

Melendez provided instruction.

Other topics included “The Business of Music Education” which presented important details regarding recruiting, retention, and Music Advocacy tools available from the Music Industry. All participants received a complimentary thumb drive complete with all the tools available from the Music Achievement Council.

Kevin Brown, former Music teacher

and current Principal at Jerling JHS in Orland Park presented “Preparing for Job Interviews”. He shared his ideas about resume preparation and interview techniques with the eager-to-learn stu-dents.

“Success Through Professionalism” was presented by Dr. Charles Menghini,

President of VanderCook College of Music. Some “real world” tips for the future teachers were very well received.

Thank you to the cooperating teachers and the professors from Elmhurst Col-lege, Millikin University, Illinois State University, Illinois Wesleyan University, St. Xavier University and VanderCook College of Music for your support.

“The day really got me excited to be a music educator! The presentations were very informative, engaging, and motivat-ing...and, the repair sessions were benefi-cial to learn quick fixes in times of emer-gency which made me feel more pre-pared” Michael Napientek - Elmhurst College

“I loved the guests that you brought to talk about the music education world! They have a ton of experience and gave some new insights into the teaching, im-plementation, and organization of our every day future jobs.” Michael Grippo

- Illinois Wesleyan University

“Great lectures. I feel great about the next step into becoming a professional educator.” Jamie Cazares - Vander-

Cook College of Music

Our 21st Annual Student Teacher Day was held at our Burr Ridge location in February. Over 30 student teachers par-ticipated from various colleges and uni-versities for a full-day of programming.

Techs from our repair department taught “Emergency Instrument Repair”. Stu-

dents learned what jobs they can try, and also importantly what jobs not to try. Shop manager Betony O’Connor and her team demonstrated techniques that will be invaluable to these young teachers. Basic instrument repair techniques for Wood-

Dr. Charles Menghini & Kevin Brown

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Highlights from 5th Annual “Super Secret” Warehouse Garage Sale

February 14th Celebrating Valentine’s Day!

I guess since a couple hundred people showed up...armed with the

“secret door code”, we just cannot keep a

good secret!!

Congratulations to all our “All you Can Carry Music for $399” Sale contestants...including our top carriers...

Shan Kazmi—Zion Benton HS - $4017 Chuck Torbett-Flossmoor Dist 161 - $3806

Miguel Rosario-Valparaiso HS - $3770 Lawrence Underwood-Addison Dist 4 - $3614

Ben Salgado-Bremen HS - $3450

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band on a field trip to Indiana in April to attend a clinic at Val-paraiso University and play at the Indi-anapolis Art Garden. The students will then visit the Rhythm Museum in Indi-anapolis.

The Wind Symphony from Concordia University, conducted by Dr. Richard

Fischer completed a successful southern US tour which included performances in

Missouri, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

The Hinsdale Central Marching Band was one of the groups flown to London by the organizers of the London New Year's Day Parade. The 270 member group is led by Matt Kurinsky & Matt

Goeke. This is the fir st time the group has traveled outside of the country. In addition to the parade, they spent the previous week visiting the sites of Lon-don.

The music department from Morris HS traveled to “The Big Easy” this Spring with a performance in historic Jackson Square. The band was led by Jeff Muraida and the

choir by Ben Brown.

The Marist HS Band also performed a series of concerts in New Orleans under the direction of Andrew Creagh & Matt

Jackson.

James Baum & Diane Morrelli tr av-eled to New Orleans in early February with the band, orchestra, and chorus from Riverside Brookfield HS. The groups performed at Washington Artillery Park in the French Quarter and also enjoyed a local swamp tour. Richard Rossi from Eastern Illinois University has been com-missioned to write a piece in honor of the career of Diane Morrelli, who will retire at the end of this year.

St Patrick HS Band-Austin O'Brien and Choir-Mark Wozniczka took their groups to San Diego and Los Angeles over Spring Break. They played at the Heritage Festival and also had a clinic at USC in Los Angeles.

The Latin School bands and choir, under the direction of Mike Teolis & Will Lea

respectively, took their groups on an ex-citing musical tour of Paris, France in March. They opened with a concert at the Maison Des Pratiquez Artistiques Ama-teurs Festival and also performed at the American Cathedral. Latin's "Solidarity Tour" was endorsed by the International Sister Cities Exchange.

The Wauconda HS Band traveled to Los Angeles, California for five days of per-formances. Highlights included perform-ing on Disney’s Hollywood Stage as well as at one of Disney’s Sound Track Ses-sions. Directors Jack Holt & Kim Flem-

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ing were joined by Wauconda MS and Matthews MS directors Andrew Hunter

& Brad Rychecky.

The Highland Park HS Wind Symphony, directed by Josh Chodoroff, traveled to Italy March 24 – April 1, making stops in Rome, Florence, Pisa, Siena and Lucca.

Cuba was the destination for the Vernon Hills High School Orchestra, directed by Jason Heath in March. The memora-ble trip included stays in Havana, Cien-fuegos and Trinidad and three perfor-mances.

Michael Mascari and the Whitney Young HS orchestra took a trip to NYC, where they performed at historic Carne-

gie Hall.

Sandburg HS Marching Eagles performed at the Sugar Bowl festivities on New Year’s Day led by Stewart Bailey & Brian

Hillhouse.

New Faces, New Places…After 14 years at Old Orchard JH in Skokie, Julie Lieb-man has enjoyed her fir st year of teaching band and orchestra at the Sci-ence & Arts Academy of Des Plaines, along with Bobbi Weber.

Andrew Fredrickson has taken a full time position at Oak Park-River Forest HS. He is working alongside Anthony

Svejda with the band program.

Congratulations to Steven Wasilczuk, the new band director at Monroe Ele-mentary School in Logan Square. Steven received his music education degree from Lawrence University.

Best wishes to Doug Smith, music teach-er and band director at the Charles J. Sahs Elementary school in Central Stick-ney. Doug will retire after having taught

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Special thanks to hosts Mike Kasper,

Beth Wood & August Landin at Carpentersville MS. This year’s Kane County Institute Day for Music was sponsored by QF and featured Ray Ost-

wald (Orchestra - York HS), Jeremy

Little (Vocal-Libertyville HS) and Bill

Rank (Band-Oak Prairie MS) pictured below presenting CMP - Comprehen-sive Musicianship through Performance Workshop.

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42 years with 40 of those years at Sahs. Doug is looking forward to traveling the USA.

Old Quarry MS of Lemont will reinstate the band program into the school day beginning next year—congratulations to Frank Alongi who has been named as the new director of bands!

Belated congratulations to Ralph Pet-

rella, who was named as the new di-rector of bands at Old Orchard MS in Skokie this fall!

Phil Robb and the Richland School band performed at the Grand Opening Celebration of their new Band Room on March 7th!!

QUARTER NOTES TRIVIA QUIZ

NO. 2 - The new White Sox announcer, Jason Benetti, was recently inter -viewed on ESPN about his start as an announcer. He recalls his time as a sou-saphone player at Homewood-

Flossmoor HS when the band director asked him to make announcements from the sideline...who do you think was his band director at HF?

Congratulations to Ed Jacobi, longtime director at Buffalo Grove HS for his spectacular career at BGHS. To help celebrate, famous saxophonist, Mark

Colby per formed a clinic on Apr il 21st for the jazz students and Ed hosted

District 214 Honor Band for their 29th year time which featured guest conduc-tor, Barry Houser of the University of Illinois. All the best, Ed...we’ll be sure to stop by the Hofbrauhaus in Rosemont

to toast your retirement!

Also in District 214, Brian Logan has led the highly successful Wheeling HS Band Program for the last 25 years and has announced his retirement this year-Best Wishes, Brian!

FESTIVAL SEASON…Southeast Du-Page Festival of Bands was held at Westmont JHS on March 12th hosted by Jackie Fischer which included out-standing performances by the host school, Lakeview JHS-Tom Tedeschi &

Brian Ohlsen, Eisenhower JHS-Matt

Janus, Cass JHS-Megan Duffy, Burr Ridge MS-Carol Collins, Old Quar ry MS (Lemont)-Frank Alongi and Westview MS 7th Grade Band-George

Huff.

Matt Doherty & David Nommensen hosted the 30th Annual Midwest Music Festival at Lemont HS on February 27th with 29 bands participating.

The Bob Lark Alumni Big Band were featured guests at the 9th Annual Jazz Fest at Lincoln-Way Central HS in Janu-ary hosted by Stacy Williams-Jackson

& Chris Mroczek.

The 49th Annual Elmhurst College Jazz Festival featured several guest artists including: Ryan Truesdell, Bob Mintzer,

Michael Davis, Donny McCaslin &

Scott Wendholt hosted by Doug Beach and featured five invited HS groups—Bloomington HS-Janis Stockhouse,

Curie Metro HS-Ian Torres, Elk Grove HS-Ron Fiorito, Lincoln-Way Central HS-Stacy Williams-Jackson, & Wheel-ing HS-Brian Logan.

Second Annual SXU Jazz Combo Festi-val was held on March 19th at Saint Xa-vier University’s Chicago Campus. Dr. Shawn Salmon coordinated the festi-val including guest artist for the festival, one of Chicago’s fastest rising stars in jazz, drummer Xavier Breaker and his group, The Coalition.

Marian Catholic HS was the host for the 36th Annual - State of the Art Catholic HS Band Competition on February 20th. Directors Greg Bimm, Scott Oliver, &

Matthew Black each conducted bands in performance joined by bands from 15 other Catholic High Schools. Adjudica-tors included Dr. Peter Griffin-Elmhurst College, Dan Farris-Northwestern Uni-versity, and Joshua Thompson-St. Xavi-er University.

For over 30 years Rolling Meadows HS has hosted a day of jazz with over 100 performances culminating with a Grand

Save the Date!

Maury Rhodes Classic

Golf Outing

Thursday - July 14, 2016

Swan Lake Golf Club-Plymouth, Indiana Benefitting the Rhodes Music Library at Vander Cook College of Music

Contact your QF rep for details

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tus flutes including the 1307 and 1507 Bri-tannia Siler models, the Miyazawa Vision, and the Yamaha professional models.

Our Flute advisory board supported a spe-cial project sponsored by Eastman Music Company/Haynes Flutes in March—an on-

line video contest. The board chose the video produced by Becky Song of Neuqua Valley HS as the winner of the Haynes Amadeus Flute. She is pictured below Ben

Smolen of the Pacific Symphony and Ste-ven Finley, Vice-President of Haynes. Most recently Ben’s flute was heard in the

soundtrack of the new Star Wars movie! On April 11th, Ben present-ed a clinic for the advi-sory board and promi-nent flute

teachers before head-ing to meet Becky to present her new flute! Much to her surprise, she also joined Ben performing “Star Wars” Music for the opening of the faculty meeting at her school with her new flute—

what poise and cour-

age for this young performer—she did a

great job!!

The next day, Ben Smolen traveled to Niles, IL to meet the MS winner, Oliver

Talukder. Ben presented a clinic for the Gemini MS flutes entitled “Hollywood Flute” (Ben has recorded for countless movie soundtracks) for Oliver and the flute section as director, Maia

Fridman (a flutist herself) beamed at how well her students did. A Pizza party sponsored by QF completed the day at Gemini MS...but not for Oliver! Oliver won s a scholarship to the Music For All Middle School Band Camp this summer for his efforts!!

By Jenn Clark

It’s so exciting to see Windy City Flutes developing into a very special show-place and destination for advanced flutists. We’ve had customers drive considerable distances to choose just the right flute to advance their musical journey! And I Love helping them!

We recently received some exceptional flutes notably the new Haynes Galway Model and the Q Series. We have had great reviews from our selection of Al-

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The quotation "I don't care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name right." is widely cited in journalism, public relations and advertising books where it is variously meant to reflect the importance of the media and the power of publicity. The expression has been attributed to many including Mae West, P.T. Barnum, W.C. Fields, George M. Cohan, and/or Will Rogers.

Suffice to say we were very pleased to be featured in an article entitled: Quinlan & Fabish: People Make the Difference in Musical Merchandise Review-

March 2016. Typically if our company is featured in a trade magazine the cover is a very conserva-tive photo of a Band or Orchestra Director work-ing with some students with a school rep standing behind them. A cover with Slash smoking a cig-

arette was a new one for

us!! Our art department went to work to customize the cover to fit our more conservative niche in the music products industry.

Thanks to Christian

Wissmuller and the folks at MMR (also pub-lishing SBO magazine) for the nice article AND for being good sports with our “enhanced” version of their magazine cover!

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Each Wednesday school groups join

BrassTracksBigBandled by QF Rep, TomFox

April 6 - Richards HS-CharlesMartin

April 13-Chicago Christian HS- ChrisDenman

April 20-Oak Lawn HS-PaulLevy

April 27-Providence HS-LawrenceRogers

May 4-Evanston HS-MattBu)is&MikeLehman

May 11-Argo HSAnnetteSoebbing

May 18-Kelly HS-MikeMcCain

May 25-Romeoville HS-ClarkAnderson

June 1-The Latin School-MikeTeolis

June 8-DuPage Community Jazz-TomTallman

Save the Date!

Chicagoland Outstanding

Music Educator Awards

Tuesday, June 15th - 7pm

QF-Burr Ridge location

2015 Paynter Lifetime Award Honoree

Charles Staley

Neuqua Valley HS

Naperville, IL

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“I love to play the bassoon, but I hate that

old junky one the school owns…”

Now Available on our

First Chair Rental/Purchase Plan

at $159 per month including

Maintenance & Replacement coverage

The Accent Bassoons

(Available in Illinois and Indiana only)

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Finale Concert on the main stage. Jazz in the Meadows was no excep-

tion this year featuring the Big Bad Bones-Noon, New Standard Jazz Or-chestra-Evening guest artists hosted by

Kevin Carroll & Chris Buti.

Congratulations for a fine performance by All Catholic Festival Honor Band at VanderCook College of Music, conduct-ed by Stacey Larson Dolan. Participat-ing schools included Bishop McNamara Catholic HS, Central Catholic HS, DeLaSalle Institute, Fenwick High HS, Hackett Catholic Central HS, Peoria Notre Dame HS, Providence-St. Mel HS, and St. Ignatius College Prep.

QF Emergency Repair Service was pro-vided at the following festivals this spring. Congratulations to hosts!!Hufford JHS Joliet-Patrick Baker &

John Damore, Still MS Aurora-Doug

Ruhs, Chris Nesluchowski, Megan

Zalokar, Anthony DiGiacomo &Mary

Whitney, Gemini JHS Niles-

Dominque Radtke & Maia Fridman,

Scullen MS Naperville, Laura Patterson,

Matt White, Graham Heise &Jessica

Savage, IHSMA Solo Ensemble Joliet Central HS-Mike Fiske, Harvard HS-

Korey Coffer, Oswego JH Band Festi-val—Bednarcik JHS-Lisa Heemstra,

Hinsdale South HS (Solo & Ens)-Patrick Maag, Lincoln Way East HS (Solo & Ens)-Bert Johnson, Monroe MS-Wheaton-Jeff Novak & Kelsey

Dewar, Wood Oaks JHS-Wayne Gor-

don & Carrie Polacek, Blackhawk JHS Bensenville-Bill Winters, Colin Powell MS-Matteson Dan Jensen & Jeni

Perry, Manhattan JHS-Carleen Pedzi-

water, Clarendon Hills MS-Rich Leh-

man & Terry Melbourn, Immaculate Conception School Morris-Brent

Mitchell, Wood Dale JHS-Eric

Morong, Westchester Int. School-Jason Kluge, Mokena JHS-Karen

Bussean & Ryan Martin, Lake Forest Country Day School-Jennifer Lydigsen, Franklin MS Wheaton-Dan Dupree &

Carrie Provost, Walker Int School-Kim Coughlin & Katie Goddard, Lukancic MS Romeville-Mike Fogarty

Albright MS-Gwen Armwood & Steve

Babiarz, Johnsburg MS-Joyce

Beernink, Cooper MS-Cindy Severino

& Kathie Logan, MacArthur MS-

Mike Malek & Rachael Hastings.

Awards, Honors, Recogni-

tion...congratulations to Victor Ander-son of Yorkville HS representing Illi-nois being featured in SBO article “50 Directors Who Make a Difference”

Metea Valley High School, under the leadership of Fine Arts Coordinator, Don

Devany, has been named one of only two 2016 Grammy GOLD Signature Schools in the nation. The honor is the

result of the entire staff including band directors Glen Schnei-

der & Josh Kamin-

sky, choir directors

Nathan Bramstedt

& Paulette Boddy, orchestra directors Mark Liu & Robin Sackschewsky, as well as additional staff members Claire

Fenton, Melinda Arnold & Brandon

Runyon. The Metea Valley High School Wind Ensemble was also a fea-tured ensemble at the ILEAMC in Janu-ary and the Metea Valley Jazz Ensemble in conjunction with the Hill Middle School Jazz Ensemble performed at the 2016 ILMEAC in a session titled “Teaching Jazz Improvisation in a Group Setting: Warm-Ups and Vocabulary to Teach the Jazz Language”. Josh Kamin-

sky led the Metea Jazz Ensemble and Heidi Rogers directed the Hill MS Jazz Ensemble.

District 122 Superintendent Julie Shell-berg was the recipient of the 2016 Illi-nois Music Educator's Association Out-standing Administrator Award! ILMEA presents this award annually to an ad-ministrator who is making a positive impact on music education in schools. Superintendent Shellberg accepted the award during the opening ceremony at the ILMEA Conference in January. This is a prestigious award that demonstrates the growth and strength of the music program. More importantly, the award illustrates the positive impact that a sup-portive district and community can make on a program that was reinstated just 3 years ago with directors Amber Feigel

Kenis & Marcus Hostetler.

Lincoln Way North HS Jazz Ensemble, directed by Kirk Hickman performed at ILMEA conference in January with guest soloist, Marquis Hill (trumpet).

Carrie Provost and the Franklin Mid-dle School orchestra received a grant from the DuPage Foundation, and have commissioned a piece from Brian Bal-

mages entitled "Urban Concer to Grosso", featuring a quintet of electric string instruments with accompaniment from the acoustic string orchestra. Mr. Balmages will spend concert day at

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the Methodist Cathedral carillon! I don’t know how, but it’s worth a try! Join us for an eventful time. It is amazing how a group with a “CAN DO” attitude indeed can do! (Also, you can like the “Rise and Shine Orchestra” page on Facebook which serves as an informal chat area for the event)

Nikolaus Bero “Chicago” model

cello New Arrivals!

In January, I met in Beijing with the owner of Eastman Strings Company, Qian Ni. Qian pays very close attention to the wood selection and making of the Nikolaus Bero “Chicago” Model cello which Eastman makes exclu-sively for Quin-lan and Fabish. It has been ten years of collaborative effort and the recent arri-vals are among the best yet. Qian buys wood from Russia specifically for this model cello. I am very proud to be able to offer a cello of European quality wood, made by the best makers at East-man, and is priced at $4545. These cel-los sell quickly. They are amazing!!

Master luthier/

string tech Matt

Louck doing the

set-up on a

Nikolaus Bero

“Chicago” model

cello in our Burr

Ridge shop.

Lloyd Palmiter, our String Specialist, brings extensive knowledge to our company stemming from his twenty years experience teaching orchestra

and cello, serving as clinician and consultant for musical instrument and education-

al organizations, and countless hours of working with students and parents to assist

in selecting the best instrument for their needs. He visits all store locations regular-

ly and is available by appointment to individually help you and your students find

just the right instrument. You’ll see Lloyd at conferences of ILMEA, IMEA, MENC,

ASTA, Violin Society of America, and at the International Exhibition of violinmakers

in Cremona, Italy, where he will be scouting to bring you the best quality instru-

ments available from all over the world! Travels to the countries of origin and hand

selecting the instruments and bows to be included in our showrooms make our in-

struments among the best available today. We maintain a vigilant effort to assure our customers that Quinlan and Fabish Strings are always known for

their value and quality.

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RISE AND SHINE

ORCHESTRA 2016!

The Picasso is calling us

back. Rush Hour Concerts has announced that the location of the Rise and Shine Orchestra perfor-mance will return to Daley Plaza for our June 21 per-

formance. And, THERE IS A SIGNIFI-CANT TIME CHANGE. Rehearsal at 1:00 and performance at 2:00PM.

We have verbal commitment from an increased number of CSO players this year. But, they will be in rehearsal with Maestro Muti at our usual morning time. So, Rush Hour has arranged for the R&S Orchestra to meet for rehearsal at 1:00 and perform at 2:00 PM. This al-lows the CSO players to leave their re-hearsal in time to join our performance. Thank you City of Chicago and Rush Hour Concerts for making this adjust-ment! The Rise and Shine orchestra is part of a Rush Hour sponsored event called Make Music Chicago. Inspired by a long standing festival in Paris, Make Music Chicago is an event which begins at sunrise and ends after sunset where live music is performed free of charge at dozens of locations all over Chicagoland.

The Rise and Shine Orchestra is a testa-

ment of gratitude from the orchestral community of Chicago to the citizens of Chicago for providing an orchestral tradition of excellence from which we all benefit. We are powerful and we are strong! We give back to the or-chestral backbone we have been given. It’s a great day. All the charm of a county fair but you get to sit in an or-chestra with other devoted players of various talent and some of inspiring talent. One former R&S member moved to Boston and has started a sim-ilar tradition there. Cool! We are transformational.

HOW TO JOIN Rise and Shine: To join Rise and Shine Orchestra, go to makemusicchicago.org. Select the “play or sing along” button. Then se-lect Rise and Shine Orchestra. Please enroll through this site. It really helps Rush Hour organizers when working on details with the City of Chicago to have concrete numbers of participants to represent. By enrolling, not only do you get updated info about the concert including concert repertoire, but also, how to get copies of the music. The music performed will be standard POPS literature and we are planning on a full orchestra again this year. We are even working on doing something with Frank Lestina rehearsing Rise and

Shine Orchestra in 2014

R&S Cellists

Si-Yan Darren

Li (Euclid

Quartet),

Brant Taylor

(Chicago

Symphony),

Walter Ham-

man

(Principal

Cellist of Grant Park Orchestra, and,

R&S Concertmaster and violin soloists

Paul Phillips (Chicago Symphony).

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Franklin on May 17th, working with all of the orchestras at Franklin,

and attending the premiere that evening. The concert will be at 7:30 pm at The Church of the Resurrection, 935 W. Un-ion Ave., Wheaton-free and open to the public.

Congratulations to Barb Scott for receiv-ing the Outstanding School Teacher Award from the Illinois chapter of the American String Teachers Association. Barb has been teaching 31 years and will retire at the end of this school year. Sandy Dackow has dedicated her lat-est offering to Barb and the Churchville orchestra.

The band from Horizon Science Acade-my-Southwest, under the direction of Sally Friedrich will be per forming in Daley Plaza on May 27th, as part of the STEM city program. Sally Friedrich &

Jamie Kovatch both had bands earn-ing a Division I at the Horizon Music Festival, hosted by Horizon Science Academy-Southwest.

Congratulations to Cooper Middle School Jazz Band I under the direction of Cindy Severino for winning 1st place-award at Jazz In the Meadows Jazz com-petition .

Robin & Nathan Sackschewsky pre-sented “Classics for the Classroom” at the ILMEAC on Friday, January 29th. With guest conductor Allan Dennis, they incorporated a director reading session and musical discussion of numerous pieces. Robin is the one of the orchestra directors at Metea Valley HS and Nathan is the orchestra director at Batavia HS.

Calmeca Academy of Fines Arts and Dual Language and The Mariachi Herit-age Foundation, led by Executive Direc-tor Cesar Maldonado, were featured on Chicago Tonight talking about the grow-ing Mariachi Music Programs in CPS.

Hawthorn School District 73 has been named one of 2016’s Best Communities for Music Education by NAMM. They are one of only 8 districts in IL and 476

across the nation. Congratulations to band directors: Patrick Cantagallo,

Chuck Naffier, Katie Bartel, Carl

Fritz & Terri Plohr - orchestra direc-tors: Jennifer Greenwell, Samantha May,

Haemi Lee & Pamela Stanley, and all the general music staff on a job well done!

Carrie Seavoy, Band and Orchestra director at Gwendolyn Brooks College Prep received the prestigious Mr. Hol-lands Opus grant this year.

Mario Moody of Dist. 151 South Hol-land-Coolidge MS received top MS hon-ors at the Prairie State band fest. They had the honor of opening up for the Orb-

ert Davis Band later that evening.

CPS Music in the news...The Mark Twain band, led by Melisa Rutkelis, was featured in the Southwest News Herald for marching in the Columbus Day pa-rade

The Westfield Community School Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of Kevin

Dobbeck & Keith Pitner, per formed a full program of music at the ILMEAC in Peoria on Thursday, January 28th. The program featured John Wojciechowski

on saxophone and Michael McManis on trumpet. John is one of the band direc-tors at St. Charles North High School and Mike teaches at Kennedy JHS in Naperville.

Joliet Twp. HS Orchestras celebrated their 110th Anniversary with a concert in January conducted by Peter Lipari which included a premier performance of “Stone and Steel”, a piece commissioned Richard Meyer to commemorate this special milestone.

The Bloom Town-ship HS Pep Band, directed by David

Seifert, was select-ed as Official Band at the opening night of the IHSA Girls Bas-ketball State Tourna-

ment on the campus of ISU at Redbird Arena! Also, Fine Arts Week at Bloom Township was held during April with special music guests that include Joan Colaso, musicians from the Illinois

Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Knew Jazz Trio.

Congratulations to Holmes Middle School Wind Ensemble under the direc-tion of Jeremy Budrow for receiving a Division I rating at the new NIMCon Ensembles contest held March at Wood-land MS and to Woodland MS Sym-phonic Band I under the direction of Elise Matusek and Symphonic Band II under the direction of Carolyn Awe

for receiving Division I ratings for their fine performances too.

The Wilkins JHS band, led by Kathy

Thorson, has been working hard to perform at various events this winter! In March, the Wilkins JHS Band received a First Division Rating in the South Sub-urban Junior High Conference Band Festival held at Arbor Park Middle School. The band also attended a festi-val at Argo High School to celebrate “Music in Our Schools” month! Con-gratulations to Jeanette Soebbing at Ar-go HS for organizing this “spectacular” event.

The Algonquin MS band of Des Plaines, directed by Melissa Legutki, is looking forward to a combined concert with the North Shore Concert Band on April 26th along with a clinic with Dr. Mallory

Thompson.

The Pleasantdale Middle School 8th Grade Jazz Combo entertained at a sen-ior luncheon held at the Pleasantdale Park District in April, transporting lis-teners back to the days of swing! “A good time was had by all” proclaimed director, Fred Bell.

The Zion-Benton Township High School Symphonic Band, directed by Shan

Kazmi, shared a concer t with the Uni-versity of Illinois Hindsley Symphonic Band at Krannert Center for the Per-forming Arts on March 1st.

The Westlake MS Jazz Band in Lom-bard held a Jazz night on March 18th featuring jazz saxophonist, Mark Colby

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Congratulations to the following bands selected to

perform at the 2016 SuperState Concert Band

Festival at the University of Illinois - May 6-7

Middle School Field Middle School-Mike Miller

Glenn Westlake Middle School-Nick Martin

Grayslake Middle School-Steve Thomas

Marion Junior High School-Jim Childers

O'Fallon District #90-Mark Donahue

Thomas MS Wind Ensemble-Candace Horton

Thompson JHS--Dan Harrison & Christopher Werve

Troy MS Symphonic Band-William Goetz

Wood Oaks JHS-Wayne Gordon

McCracken MS-Chip De Stefano (HONOR BAND)

Class A High School Illiana Christian High School-Patricia Menninga

Lockport Township HS Freshman Band-Brian Covey

Tri-Valley High School-Dan Marcotte

Westmont High School Symphonic Band-Hank Vaughan

Monticello HS-Allison Allender (HONOR BAND)

Class AA High School Bloomington High School-Max Chernick

Marian Catholic HS Symphonic Band-Greg Bimm

Metamora Township HS-Christopher Render

Morton HS -Jeff Neavor & Patrick Mainieri

Vernon Hills HS Wind Ensemble-Randy Sundell

Tinley Park HS-Vincent Aiello (HONOR BAND)

Class AAA High School Collinsville High School-Robert Wright & Ryan Stack

Elk Grove High School Symphonic Band-Ron Fiorito, Jr.

Libertyville High School Wind Ensemble-Adam Gohr

Plainfield North High School-Tim Hatcher

Rolling Meadows High School-Christopher Buti

Victor J. Andrew HS Wind Symphony-Mark Iwinski

Wheeling HS Wind Symphony-Brian Logan

United Township HS-David Maccabee (HONOR BAND)

Class AAAA High School Carl Sandburg HS-Stewart Bailey & Brian Hillhouse

Downers Grove South HS-Craig Roselieb &Greg Hensel

Evanston Township HS Wind Symphony-Matt Bufis

Joliet West High School-Eric Wellman

Lockport Township High School-Brian Covey

Lyons Township HS—Mark Dahl & Paul Meiste

Oswego HS-Stephanie San Roman & Kevin Schoenbach

West Aurora High School-Rod Schueller

York HS Symphonic Band—Michael Pavlik

Naperville North HS-Dan Moore & Don Stinson (HONOR BAND)

Note: QF is a proud sponsor of the on-line streaming

presentation of SuperState at BandDirector.com

Bracket Challenge for Scales Winners at Richland School

Phil Robb, director

What a great way to capitalize on the “Bracket” craze in March with a little March Madness of Musical Scales! Great idea, Phil. Please send your “Tips for Success” to Quarter

Notes for our next issue!!

West Suburban Home School Band ATTENTION HOME SCHOOLERS

Does your child already play a wind or percussion instru-ment? Have you had good intentions to add music to your curriculum? Perhaps you cannot afford private mu-sic lessons. A very inexpensive way to help your child learn and grow is to make the West Suburban Home School Band a part of their school week. Students make new friends, are accountable to someone other than mom or dad, and strive for their personal best as part of a wholesome, Christian group working towards a com-mon goal.

Membership has grown from 46 students/26 families in 2001, to nearly 200 students/90 families in 2015-2016. There are four band levels to accommodate those with no musical training whatsoever to those with advanced experience and abilities, students and parents alike. Membership includes students, age 7 to 18, as well as some college students, alumnae, parents and other adults.

For complete information, email the director, Karen Borow, at director@wshsb.org,

or visit our website www.wshsb.org

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Congratulations to the Holmes MS Jazz Band I under the direction of

Bryan Itzkowitz for taking 2nd place at Jazz in the Meadows Jazz competi-tion.

The Southwest Community Concert Band. Led by Ray Forlenza has joined forces with the Village of Orland Park. The band's new home is at the Orland Park Cultural Center, 4760 Park Lane in Orland Park. Rehearsals are every Tues-day evening from 7:30 - 9:30. Also the SWCCB Junior High Summer Band Camp has a new location. The camp will be held from June 20th - 24th at Saint Francis of Assisi located at 15050 Wolf Road in Orland Park. More information about the band and the Summer Band Camp can be found at SWCommuni-tyBand.com

The jazz bands from Carpentersville MS Algonquin MS, and Dundee-Crown HS joined together on March 8th to per-form the final District 300 Foundry Jazz Night. At the event, it was announced that the event has been renamed to honor phenomenal teacher and jazz artist, Mark Bettcher. “Mark Bettcher Jazz Night” will continue to feature the east side jazz programs on an annual basis to help highlight Mr. Bettcher’s legacy. Directors included Michael Kasper (CMS), Beth Wood (CMS), Jackie Pen-dola (AMS), and, of course, Mark Bet-

tcher. (DCHS) As you would expect, working right up until the end, Mr. Mark Bettcher and the Dundee-Crown High School Jazz Band also performed at the ILMEAC in Peoria and Mark lead a ses-sion titled ‘Developing Jazz Vocabulary in the Large Group Setting’

In February, Lyons Township HS or-chestra students led by Jan Matthews &

Jane Ewing and Maine East HS or -chestra students, led by Sara Djordjevic attended an open rehearsal of the Chica-go Symphony Orchestra starring cellist, Yo Yo Ma. On March 17th, Pam Holt

of Maine East HS Bands took her stu-dents to an open rehearsal of the Chica-go Symphony Orchestra

David Crane, orchestra director at Bannockburn School District 106, has written an original piece for trumpet, narrator and The Southwest Symphony Orchestra. It's entitled "Wage Peace: A Reflection on 9/11". It was premiered on Sunday April 3rd at Trinity Christian College Ozinga Chapel Auditorium and featured Christopher Martin, Principal Trumpet of the Chicago Symphony Or-chestra!

Violinist Edgar Gabriel recently joined the Neuqua Valley HS Wildcat Fiddlers for “Fiddle Fest” hosted at the Gold Campus by Brad Pfeil.

QUARTER NOTES TRIVIA QUIZ

ANSWERS:

Question No. 1-For more information visit: http://www.jthsbaa.org/history/ The first three band directors of the famed Joliet Central HS band were:

A.R. McAllister 1912-1944

Bruce Houseknecht 1945-1969 Ted Lega 1969-2002

Question No. 2 - The band director who launched Jason Benetti’s career as an announcer was Bill Jastrow.

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“Lincoln Portrait” Concert

Windy City Winds, “Chicago’s Commu-nity Band”, will give its spring concert on Friday evening, April 29, 2016 at 7:30 pm at St. Paul’s United Church of Christ, 2335 N. Orchard St. in Chicago’s Lin-coln Park neighborhood. The theme of the concert is “Lincoln Portrait”, and the program includes Aaron Copland’s Lin-coln Portrait, narrated by the Rev. Matt

Fitzgerald, senior pastor at St. Pauls Church. The concert also features other American music, including five of Cop-land’s Old American Songs, with vocal soloists Breanna Coe, Todd Coe, Lee

Lichamer & Nancy Pifer. Other works include American Overture by J. W. Jen-kins, Ballad for Band by Morton Gould and pieces specifically about Illinois. The concert will be conducted by the band’s co-founders Mark & Sarah Mos-

ley.

Admission is free and all are welcome. Free parking is available in the church parking lot on Kemper Drive and the Children’s Hospital Parking Garage nearby on Lincoln Avenue just south of Fullerton.

Windy City Winds is a 45 member con-cert band of talented and experienced volunteer musicians who rehearse week-ly at St. Pauls Church. Members range in age from 21 to 89. The band was or-ganized in the fall of 2015 to provide a community band experience comparable to the best bands in the Chicago suburbs. To learn more about Windy City Winds, visit their website: www.windycitywinds.org and their Face-book page www.facebook.com/windycitywinds. Anyone interested in arranging for a performance or inquiring about membership should call Mark Mosley at 773-732-0625 or email Mark and Sarah at mwsgmos-

ley@outlook.com.

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