Texas Bandmasters Association
Bandmasters Review • June 2015
6
This year, TBA is proud to welcome
Women Band Directors International
to our TBA Convention/Clinic. WBDI
will be holding their 2015 Summer
Conference in conjunction with TBA.
Women from across the nation will
enjoy attending our convention as well
as WBDI functions. Join with me in
offering a big Texas TBA welcome to
this outstanding organization!
WBDI is an organization in which
every woman band director is
represented at the international level
regardless of the length of her experience
or the level at which she works. It is
the only international organization for
women band directors, and is intended
to serve as an association which
supports, promotes, and mentors
women in the band field.
The stated purpose of WBDI is:
• To foster a spirit of friendliness,
fellowship, and cooperation among
women band directors in the schools
of America and abroad
• To provide a common meeting
ground for an exchange of ideas,
methods, and problems relevant to
women band directors
• To provide encouragement for young
women entering the instrumental
music field
• To recognize and emphasize the
basic and lasting values of a sound
instrumental music program
• To develop comprehensive
programs that will be of a
musical and educational
benefit to women band
directors and their students
• To recognize and encourage
the obligations of the school
band to the school and the
community in all phases of
the instrumental program
and the reciprocation of the
school and community by
supporting the band
• To work with administrators
to provide the best music
education possible and to
provide for the equality of
women in the profession
• To cooperate with existing
organizations whose demonstrated
purpose is to further improve the
band as a worthwhile medium of
musical expression.
A Spotlight On . . .
Women Band Directors
International
Michael Brashear, TBA Executive Director
Be sure to attend the
WBDI-sponsored clinic
“Before You Go to
Contest and Before You
See the Judges...
Who You Gonna Call?
BAND DOCTORS!”
Saturday, July 25 at 4 pm
in Room: CC 004.
Clinicians include
Sheryl Bowhay,
Paula Crider,
Judith Grimes,
Barbara Lambrecht
