Volume 28 Number 1 A Quarterly Publication of Quinlan & Fabish Music Company Fall 2014 5th Annual Michiana Outstanding Music Educator Awards Continuing the tradition, seven outstand- ing educators were honored for excel- lence at a luncheon following our reading sessions in July. These winners will join our Blue Ribbon selection committee to select future winners. The “Class of 2014” was selected from dozens of nominations by peers in our Spring issue of Quarter Notes. Junior High/MS Division Lynda Galbiati TJMS-Valparaiso Bryan Golden Concord JHS Jim Hopkins Battle Ground MS HS/College Division Tom Barker Lafayette Jefferson HS Kevin Klee Snider HS Lori Von Koenig Lakeshore HS (MI) Kyle Weirich Elkhart Central HS Class of 2014 Award Winners More photos... See Page 5 Summer Reading Sessions Hit the Mark! Dozens of educators invested a morning to read through a lot of new music for string orchestra and young band. The event was held at Plymouth HS on July 11th. A special thanks to Bryan Ames for hosting this event in their wonderful facility. A FREE piece of music was given to everyone as a thank you for their participation. View more photos on Page 5. Alfred Music provided two outstanding clinicians for the event. Robert Sheldon led the band reading session and local favorite, Steve Reed, retired orchestra director from St. Joseph, MI. conducted the orchestra! Nathanael Sudduth from LaVille Jr/ Sr High said “This is wonderful every year! Please continue to provide this opportunity. Thank you!” “Love the reading session! Very helpful to see the music.” remarked Emilie Grondin of Stanley Clark School. Charles Lawrence from Adams HS commented, “More cowbell & more percussion!” Robert Sheldon was our guest speaker for the event. Well known as a composer and arranger, Bob shared some great stories of his long career in education and some amusing sto- ries of his short-lived golfing career! Since the nom- inations and selections are done by fellow music educators, the awards are very meaningful to the recipients. Each re- cipient shared some thoughts with the audience. The Michiana Outstanding Music Edu- cator Awards program is part of a full day of educator events sponsored by QF. The day begins with Band & Orchestra reading sessions, followed by the awards luncheon, and finally the Maury Rhodes Classic golf outing. A picture-perfect day for golf played on beautiful Swan Lake Golf course.. The event provided opportunities for prizes, meeting new friends and enjoying the day. We are grateful to our sponsors for their support listed on Page Two.
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Volume 28 Number 1 A Quarterly Publication of Quinlan & Fabish Music Company Fall 2014
5th Annual
Michiana Outstanding
Music Educator
Awards Continuing the tradition, seven outstand-
ing educators were honored for excel-
lence at a luncheon following our reading
sessions in July. These winners will join
our Blue Ribbon selection committee to
select future winners.
The “Class of 2014” was selected from
dozens of nominations by peers in our
Spring issue of Quarter Notes.
Junior High/MS Division
Lynda Galbiati
TJMS-Valparaiso
Bryan Golden
Concord JHS
Jim Hopkins
Battle Ground MS
HS/College Division
Tom Barker
Lafayette Jefferson HS
Kevin Klee
Snider HS
Lori Von Koenig
Lakeshore HS (MI)
Kyle Weirich
Elkhart Central HS
Class of 2014 Award
Winners
More photos...
See Page 5
Summer Reading
Sessions
Hit the Mark!
Dozens of educators invested a morning
to read through a lot of new music for
string orchestra and young band. The
event was held at Plymouth HS on July
11th. A special thanks to Bryan Ames
for hosting this event in their wonderful
facility. A FREE piece of music was
given to everyone as a thank you for
their participation. View more photos
on Page 5.
Alfred Music provided two outstanding
clinicians for the event. Robert Sheldon
led the band reading session and local
favorite, Steve Reed, retired orchestra
director from St. Joseph, MI. conducted
the orchestra!
Nathanael Sudduth from LaVille J r /
Sr High said “This is wonderful every
year! Please continue to provide this
opportunity. Thank you!”
“Love the reading session! Very helpful
to see the music.” remarked Emilie
Grondin of Stanley Clark School.
Charles Lawrence from Adams HS
commented, “More cowbell & more
percussion!”
Robert Sheldon was our guest speaker
for the event. Well known as a composer
and arranger, Bob shared some great
stories of his long career in education
and some
amusing sto-
ries of his
short-lived
golfing career!
Since the nom-
inations and
selections are
done by fellow
music educators, the awards are very
meaningful to the recipients. Each re-
cipient shared some thoughts with the
audience.
The Michiana Outstanding Music Edu-
cator Awards program is part of a full
day of educator events sponsored by QF.
The day begins with Band & Orchestra
reading sessions, followed by the awards
luncheon, and finally the Maury Rhodes
Classic golf outing. A picture-perfect
day for golf played on beautiful Swan
Lake Golf course.. The event provided
opportunities for prizes, meeting new
friends and enjoying the day. We are
grateful to our sponsors for their support
listed on Page Two.
Quarter Notes Page 2
Valparaiso, IN Location: 2601 Cumberland Drive
Valparaiso, IN 46383 219-462-5086
Fax: 219-462-0060
Mishawaka, IN Location: 130 West Edison Road Mishawaka, IN 46545
574-293-6332
Fort Wayne, IN Location: 3678 Wells Street
Fort Wayne, IN 46808 260-482-9669
Fax: 260-482-7698
Lafayette, IN Location:
1301 Sagamore Pky. North Lafayette, IN 47904
765-543-0515
Southwest Suburban Chicago: 6827 High Grove Blvd Burr Ridge, IL 60527
630-654-4111 Fax: 630-522-0331
Northwest Suburban Chicago: 621 North Main Street
Mount Prospect, Illinois 60056 847-253-5592
Fax: 847-253-1761
Fox Valley Location: 299 Montgomery Road
Montgomery, Illinois 60538 630-906-6595
Fax: 630-897-5256
Michigan Location: 5719 St. Joseph Avenue Stevensville, MI 49127
269-429-6232 Fax: 269-429-6250
nonball, CliftonLarasonAllen LLP, Con-
cord, Conn-Selmer, CSC-Shen, D’Adda-
rio, Devries Roofing, Director’s Show-
case, Dolan & Murphy, Eastman Music
Company, Gemeinhardt, Grasso
Graphics, Hal Leonard, Harris-Teller,
Howard Core, Insurance Plans Agency,
Jupiter, Krusinski Construction, Pearl,
Resort Meetings Consortium, Scribes
Inc., Tri-Tech, VanderCook Alumni
Association, West Suburban Bank, West
Suburban Wealth Management, Wood-
creek Builders, and Yamaha.
A music industry magazine, Musical
Merchandise Review published an arti-
cle written by me (see page 9 in this
issue) about the importance of school
music dealer representatives...that was a
personal first! Music Trades magazine
produces an annual listing of the Top
200 Music Retailers in the United States.
Our company was ranked in the Top
Twenty in the USA and the leading fam-
ily-owned school music specialist in the
US. NAMM honors a listing of the Top
100 dealers in the nation at the annual
Summer NAMM show in Nashville. QF
was again recognized in this outstanding
group of retailers. We are humbled.
Sousa-Palooza was a great hit at the Da-
ley Center in June as part of the Make
Music Chicago Festival. Dr. Richard
Fischer of Concordia University led
the band through a variety of Sousa
marches to the delight of the audience.
CSO Trumpet Artist, Chris Martin
joined the trumpet section with
Paul Woodson, director of bands at
Century MS in
Orland Park
“How I Spent My
Summer Vacation” By George Quinlan, Jr.
Baby-Boomers still laugh out loud (I think
it’s now LOL) when we hear these six
words. In the Seventies, Cheech & Chong
made us laugh so hard we cried with their
comedy classic, “Sister Mary Elephant”.
Suffice to say, if you have never heard
this, go to YouTube and check it out.
Never the less, this summer included a trip
to Boston with my wife, Cindy and friend,
Qian Ni, own-
er of Eastman
Music Compa-
ny. A true
Asian-
American suc-
cess story, Qi-
an began his
career selling violins from his car in Bos-
ton. Over the last 20 years, Eastman has
added guitars and wind instruments to it’s
highly recognized string instrument offer-
ings. Eastman acquired the iconic Haynes
Flute Co. of Boston a few years ago, and a
few months ago acquired S.E.Shires, a
brass workshop of the highest caliber.
Our Boston trip included tours of both
facilities...wow!
The Maury Rhodes Golf Classic was also
successful, raising over $11,000 donated
to Rhodes Library at VanderCook College
of Music. Pictured below are the winners
of the event from the Buffet Group. We
would like to thank the following hole
sponsors of the Rhodes
Classic: American
Way, Ameri-
caneagle.com, Anthem
Musical Instruments,
Arcos-Brasil String
Instruments, ARS
Technology, Balter
Mallets, Buffet, Can-
Quarter Notes Page 3
Continued on Page Four
Stork Report…Congratulations to Bart
and Jennifer Roberts on the bir th of
their daughter Eleanor Claire Roberts.
She was born June 16th. Bart is the band
director at Dickinson Fine Arts Acade-
my.
Congratulations to Chris &
Vance Beyer on the bir th
of their son Ian Joseph
Beyer
Wedding bells…Directors Mark Hol-
landsworth & Jennifer Engleman
joined in wedded bliss this summer. Jen-
nifer is the long-time band director at
Watervliet Schools and Mark is the new
director at Buchanan Community
Schools.
Congratulations to Dan Peo & Douglas
Taylor who were marr ied over the
summer. Dan is the director of bands
at McCutcheon HS in Lafayette.
Jason Caudill & Elizabeth Patzschke
were engaged over the summer. Jason
is the Director of Bands at Klondike
MS in Lafayette. The couple is plan-
ning a May Wedding. Best wishes!
Gayle Arend (now Gayle Daning)
from Central Catholic was
married over the summer to
Kelso Daning from Rensse-
laer.
New faces, new places…Jason Pfeifer is the new orchestra director at Goshen
World-class performances including US Navy Concert Band
Airmen of Note Banda Municipal de Las Palmas de
Gran Canaria Kamerorkest van de Kust
(Chamber Orchestra of the Coast)
More than 90 clinics led by foremost music educators including:
Larry Livingston Jerry Junkin Frank Ticheli
Robert Becker, Larry Hutchinson Jamey Aebersold Ndugu Chancler
and more! Music Administration Collaborative and
Generation Next First-Time Attendee Orientation High School Institute and College Night “Taste of Chicago” event and an extra hour to visit more than 350 exhibitors
Save 30% - 50% on early registrations!
$105 Early Bird rate through Oct. 1
st
$75 First-Time Attendee through Nov. 1st
$50 Full-Time College Student through Dec. 8th
Visit our website, www.midwestclinic.org, to learn more and register today!
Classic Leader-ship is the first published lead-ership curricu-lum specifically designed for high school students, written by Tim Lautzenheiser, one of the most re-
spected and sought-after experts on leadership development at the high school level.
Any organization can benefit from this remarkable compilation of time-tested leadership concepts certain to bring a high level of success. Classic Leader-ship is a treasure map that avails the aspiring young leader to the endless benefits of servitude leadership. Classic Leadership contains 12 weeks of lesson plans, activities, games, dis-cussion items, and homework activi-ties, all drawn from Tim’s work with more than two million young people over the past three decades. The in-cluded DVD (for teachers only) is a step-by-step guide to the activities, featuring high school students in ac-tion.
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Quarter Notes Page 8
Welcome to one of our largest group of
new string teachers to enter our profes-
sion or attain a new position in the Chi-
cagoland area!
You are now among the best! The quali-
ty of orchestra programs in our area is
strong and vibrant. The reason? The
reason is you. Regarding orchestra pro-
gram development in public schools, the
“not so secret” truth is that the strongest
variable for success of orchestral pro-
grams is the teacher. Whether I am play-
ing among a group of orchestra teachers
in our QF reading session, hanging out at
a concert or festival, or gathering togeth-
er socially, I realize I am among the best
in professionalism and musicianship.
As Steve Reed commented recently at
the QF reading session, “thank you all
for playing SO MUSICALLY! I con-
duct these often and not always is the
playing so musical”. Personally, I sin-
cerely enjoy hearing everyone talk with
excitement about how eager they are to
get back to working with their young
musicians. No wonder enrollment in
programs is growing in spite of all kinds
of sour barriers. Good work!
Here Are Some of
Our Heroes!
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 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 instruments
available from all over the world! Travels to the countries of origin and hand select-
ing the instruments and bows to be included in our showrooms make our instruments
among the best available today. We maintain a vigilant effort to assure our customers that Quinlan and Fabish Strings are always known for their