Iowa Bandmasters Association Conference 2019
Top Ten Takeaways
1. Clinic Session Warning - If a clinic is being presented and it says “Clinic is sponsored by so-and-so company”, they gonna try to sell you something. And quite possibly the title and synopsis of the clinic is false.
2. Always take a pen with you to performances. Inevitably you're going to find a new piece of literature you like (or hate) and you’ll want to make note of it in the program.
3. Hotel room coffee made in those tiny Keruig style machines taste like butt.
4. People watch. Find a chair in the lobby, pretend to read a book, and just watch people. It’s fascinating.
5. The vendors in the exhibit hall with the fundraising samples are great. Gonna be awhile before lunch; test out some Butter Braids, or World’s Finest Chocolates, or cookies made from 17,000 gallon tubs. Yum.
6. Watching friends and former colleagues being outstanding educators and band directors is the greatest feeling ever. Rock on, y’all!
7. Hotel bartenders hate IBA. And so does my liver.
8. Performing for a bunch of band directors and colleagues is intimidating. Especially when you’re sight reading. Nothing says “I should have practiced” like a room full of band directors looking at you.
9. I’m so lucky to get to do what I do. I wake up every morning and get to teach band. That’s pretty freakin’ cool.
10. When you get back to your band rehearsals on Monday, change one thing. Try something new. Implement an idea that you got at the clinic. Doesn’t have to be massive change; just something. A new way to sight read, a new warm up, a new piece of literature. If it doesn’t work, try something else next IBA Conference.
Until next year, IBA...
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