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Featured Clinician

2017 TBA Featured Clinician

Larry Livingston will present: Sponsored by:

Beyond Measure Seven: Lessons That Linger
Thursday, July 20 • 1:30 PM • Room: CC 217ABC
At the end of the day, we are all teachers. Whereas styles and approaches
may vary, those who stand on the podium in the professional arena, the
academy, and/or the amateur world of music making inevitably find themselves
teaching. We explain, model, and/or signal forms of behavior which the players
must understand and put into action. This clinic is aimed at high school band
and orchestra directors. It will center on the notion that the vast majority of
problems faced by our students are circumstance specific, but, rather belong
to a larger class of technical/interpretive challenges which commonly appear
in the performance of instrumental music. The goal of the presentation is to
provide the attendees a lexicon of problem-solving strategies which, once
understood, can then be applied by the players themselves, ideally in real time
and with increasing independence from the conductor.
Larry Livingston ALL IN! Mark of Excellence
Thursday, July 20 • 3:00 PM • Room: CC 217ABC NATIONAL
Demonstration Group: DeKaney HS Band WIND BAND HONORS
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Larry Livingston is working on a variety of initiatives to significantly increase 2
access to music for public school students. This presentation focuses on the NATIONAL WINNER
premise that, what is needed now, more than ever, is open-ended, multi-
stylistic music education. Our students live in a world rich with opportunities
to make, compose, improvise, arrange, and record their music. Using the
DeKaney High School Band, we will model a version of ALL IN, showing some
of the diverse musical approaches which are available to music educators who
wish to reach a broader cross-section of the student body and/or expand on
options for musical participation by students already in their programs.

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