<\/i>TEACHER INFO <\/h4><\/a><\/li>
<\/i>MEET THE CONDUCTORS<\/h4><\/a><\/li>
<\/i>AREA ALL-STATE PERFORMANCE ATTIRE<\/h4><\/a><\/li>
<\/i>REHEARSALS<\/h4><\/a><\/li>
<\/i>SCHOOL BUS DROP OFF - WHITE PLAINS HS<\/h4><\/a><\/li>
<\/i>MAP AND DRIVING DIRECTIONS<\/h4><\/a><\/li>
<\/i>TICKET & VIDEO\/AUDIO INFORMATION<\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>
<\/i>TEACHER INFO <\/h4><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>
AAS Concert Week Reminders
\n10\/23\/2025<\/p>\nCongratulations to all on a wonderful first rehearsal last week. All of the groups are shaping up nicely,
\nand we are looking forward to seeing the energy the students bring to our second rehearsal on October
\n29th! Thank you to all of those who helped make this first rehearsal possible: chaperones, sending
\nteachers, sectional leaders, conductors, the WCSMA board and AAS team, and most of all of the White
\nPlains Faculty and Staff who so graciously opened their facility to us and worked tirelessly to help host
\nthis festival.<\/p>\nIn order to make rehearsal number two, three and the concert successful, there are some clarifications
\nand announcements listed below. Please share the following information with the appropriate people.<\/p>\n\u25cf Please remind students\/parents\/guardians this week about ordering tickets and recordings
\nthrough the flyers provided in the previous emails and in the music packets. I will list the web
\naddresses again at the bottom of this letter.<\/p>\n\u25cf Please remind students to bring food and water for their meal breaks on the 29th and 30th.
\nThere will be snacks for sale courtesy of the White Plains Music Boosters on the 29th, however,
\nat Purchase on the 30th, students will only have access to water fill stations.<\/p>\n\u25cf ALL Instrumental students must bring their own music stand for<\/strong>
\nALL Rehearsals. For both White Plains HS and SUNY Purchase.<\/strong><\/p>\n\u25cf All WCSMA members will be granted comp tickets to the concerts on the 30th. You do not need
\nto reserve said tickets in advance. There will be a designated volunteer in the lobby of the
\nPurchase Performing Arts Center before the performance to check you in. Please see them to
\ngain admission.<\/p>\n\u25cf Please make sure everyone who is driving to White Plains HS reads the drop-off\/pick-up
\ninformation again. To summarize, Everyone should enter campus via the Bryant Avenue
\nentrance. Buses should then continue straight to drop off students at the circle at the top
\nof the hill, noted on the map sent through DaCapo on 10\/14, as the \u201cBus Ramp.\u201d Though
\nwe strongly encourage students to be bused, if a Parent must drop off a child, they
\nshould do so IN THE STUDENT PARKING LOT, in the northernmost corner closest to the
\nAuditorium (Building D). No student should enter through the main entrance, and no
\nstudent is permitted to drive themselves to this event.<\/p>\n\u25cf All students Must have a Teacher Chaperone and all Chaperones<\/strong>
\nMUST stay until ALL STUDENTS ARE PICKED UP. If the chaperone is<\/strong>
\nriding the bus and some students are being picked up, the bus must<\/strong>
\nwait to depart until all parent pick-up students have departed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\u25cf AAS Participation Fees are overdue. If I have received your payment, it has been updated in
\nDaCapo. Please verify that information. I will be emailing those from whom I have not yet
\nreceived payment by the end of day tomorrow. (If I have received copies of your PO, I will
\nconsider you Paid for this exercise.)<\/p>\nI wanted to thank you all again for such wonderful participation in the first rehearsal. Running sectionals
\nand sharing of rehearsal time can be burdensome, but the festival would not be possible without all of
\nyour active participation. Thank you. This week\u2019s responsibilities are fewer for those who are
\nchaperoning from each of your districts, but I will ask that we each spend some time in the rehearsal
\nspaces so to be on hand in the event the chairpersons need a hand.
\nSee you on 10\/29!<\/p>\nBest wishes,
\nPatrick Murphy
\nAAS Coordinator<\/p>\n\nLinks<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Shoshana Hershkowitz holds degrees in music education and vocal performance from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam. She has been a choral music educator for over 25 years, beginning her career at Commack High School on Long Island, where she taught from 1999-2009. Hershkowitz has been the choral director at Stony Brook University since 2009, where she conducts the Stony Brook Chorale and Camerata Singers. Mrs. Hershkowitz served as the founding conductor of the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of New York’s Suffolk Symphonic Choir, a countywide high school choral ensemble from 2013-2022. She also served as a supervisor for student teachers on Long Island for the Crane School of Music from 2019-2021.![\"\"](\"http:\/\/wcsma.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Eric-Williamson-150x150.png\")
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<\/a>Rick Webb holds degrees in music performance from Bowling Green State University and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. After 14 years of school orchestra teaching in the Midwest, he earned the Ph.D. in Music Education from Northwestern University in 2012. Dr. Webb currently serves as Associate Professor at the State University of New York at Fredonia, having previously served on the faculties of DePaul University, the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and the University of Florida. He is a published educational scholar, composer and arranger, and active string clinician and conductor, working with school and festival orchestras around the United States. Dr. Webb\u2019s arrangements of music by American composers of the early 20th c. \u201cpre-jazz\u201d era are published by Keiser-Southern Music.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/wcsma.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/James-Millar-150x150.png\")
<\/a>James Millar recently retired after 20 years as Director of Choirs and Orchestras at Tenafly High School in Tenafly, NJ. He remains active in the musical life of Tenafly and beyond as a conductor, chamber musician and accompanist. He serves as Music Director at the Presbyterian Church at Tenafly, and is the founder of Summer Music in Tuscany, an annual two-week festival for singers and instrumentalists in Sarteano, Italy. Mr Millar conducted the North Jersey Intermediate Region Orchestra in 2025 and 2016, the 2022 New Jersey All State Orchestra, the 2017 New Jersey Honors Chamber Orchestra, the 2015 Central Jersey Region Orchestra and the 2013 North Jersey Intermediate Region Treble Chorus, in addition to conducting rehearsals for the NJ All State Orchestra since 2016. He holds Bachelor of Music (piano) and Master of Music (orchestral conducting) degrees from Northwestern University. Further studies include the Aspen Summer Music School, the Goldovsky Opera Institute, the Mannes Opera Workshop, and privately with Carl Bamberger, retired, of the Mannes Conservatory of Music. Further information can be found at www.SummerMusicinTuscany.org.<\/div>![\"\"](\"http:\/\/wcsma.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/AAS-Dress-Code-1024x528.png\")
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