Region 23
Updated 8-6-10
Fred Angerstein, Coordinator
Contact information:
Email address: fred.angerstein@kinkaid.org
Telephone: (713) 243-5436
All-Region Jazz Auditions
September 28, 2010 (deadline for entries is September 14, 2010; the late and final due date with penalties attached per Region rules is September 21, 2010)
Auditions will be held at The Kinkaid School
Fred Angerstein, host (713) 243-5436
All-Region Band Auditions
Online entry deadline is October 23, 2010; the late and final due date with penalties attached per Region rules is October 30, 2010
Auditions will be November 6, 2010, at Sealy High School
Michael Nelson, host (979) 885-3515
Judges' Meeting 9:30 a.m. followed by Junior High auditions. HS auditions to follow no earlier than 2:00 p.m. with another judges' Meeting at 1:30 p.m.
Entries are due through the TMEA website. Hard copies of ATSSB membership card, fee payments, and copies of your entries are to be postmarked by the deadline for each contest (forms are found on the TMEA website after you enter your students). Make checks out to ATSSB Region 23 and mail to:
Alfred AngersteinAll-Region Clinic-Concert
November 13, 2010, at the Kinkaid School.
Rehearsals start at 8:30 a.m. and the concert will be at 6:00 p.m. in the Kinkaid Brown Auditorium. There is no admission charge and the public is invited to attend.
Middle School clinician will be Beth Pempsell. She teaches at Lynn Lucas Middle School in Willis. Miss Pempsell is in her 8th year in Willis and 11th year of teaching. She has a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Texas Christian University and a Master of Music degree from the University of New Mexico. Her professional affiliations inlude Texas Music Educators Association and Texas Bandmasters Association. In her free time she is the Associate Conductor of the Houston Symphonic Band and plays trumpet in various ensembles in the Houston Area.
High School clinician will be Fred J. Allen. Mr. Allen was appointed Director of Bands at Stephen F. Austin State University in June 1994. In addition to his work with the bands, he also teaches conducting and music education classes. Allen has also taught at Abilene Christian University (1987-94) and in Texas public schools at North Richland Hills (1979-87) and Dimmitt (1976-79).
Allen is a product of Music Education in the state of Texas. Before playing in the Longview High School Band of John C. "Pete" Kunkel, he was in the bands of Verna Covington and David Pennington in Austin and Don Turner, Paul Stroud and Jimmy Yancey in Longview. His undergraduate studies with Dr. Charles Trayler, then at Abilene Christian University, furthered his training in Music Education.
Allen is a frequent clinician and adjudicator in Texas and the Southwest. Working as a clinician with bands from every age level keeps him current in trends in public school bands.
There are several pieces for band by Fred J. Allen on the Prescribed Music List used by the University Interscholastic League in Texas:
Works for Band:
Bosnian Folk Songs - Grade II
They Led My Lord Away - Grade II
Fantasy on "Barbara Allen" - Grade III
Moravian Hymn Dance - Grade IV
Audition Music for 2010-11
High School - First four lines of the ATSSB Prescribed Audition Music, Year E and all prescribed scales
Junior High Music - First three lines of the ATSSB Suggested Junior High Audition Music, Year B (NOTE: FRENCH HORN WILL USE TRUMPET ETUDES, and the scales as prescribed by the region (see below links):
Region 23 Middle School Scales:
Year B SmartMusic Files
You will need SmartMusic to play the file ($30 per year for students, $130 per year for teachers). Open it, select solo track, unselect accompaniment track, then play.
(Some files are not yet available)
If you would like SmartMusic files of the etudes, you will need a SmartMusic subscription from MakeMusic.com. Click on the links below:
You may also need to change the tempo if it is too slow (of course, the tempo can be adjusted for practice).
Here are the rules and procedures followed in region 23
NOTE NEW PENALTIES ADDED FOR LATE ENTRIES: