 
Ocean City, MD 2007 Spring Festival
2007 Ocean City Festival Schedule
Friday, March 9, 2007
4:00 p.m. Festival Registration Opens
6:45-7:00 p.m. Opening Bell
7:00-8:00 p.m. Concert: JoyBells
8:00-8:15 p.m. Break
8:15-9:30 p.m. Massed Ringing/Genesis Track/Faculty Meeting
Saturday, March 10, 2007
8:00-8:50 a.m. Bronze Rehearsal / Red & Blue Classes / Genesis Track
9:00-9:50 a.m. Massed Rehearsal / Genesis Track
10:00-10:50 a.m. Blue Rehearsal / Red Classes / Genesis Track
11:00-11:50 a.m. Red Rehearsal / Blue Classes / Genesis Track
12:00-1:30 p.m. LUNCH
1:30-2:20 p.m. Blue & Red Classes / Genesis Track
2:30-3:20 p.m. Massed Rehearsal
3:30-4:15 p.m. Massed Rehearsal
4:30-5:00 p.m. FESTIVAL CONCERT
Ocean City Class Schedule
Saturday, March 10, 2007
8:00 AM – 8:50 AM Red and Blue Classes Room
Bass Bells Bissell 201
Beginning Recorder Carrico 210
Negotiating Difficult Personalities Simms 207
Percussion Petting Zoo Bogovich 209
Repertoire: Hymn Tunes – Our Heritage in Faith Davis 206
Stem Direction Counts! Feather 202
What? Levels 4, 5, 6 Henning 205
Who Rings What And When? Schmidt 213
10:00 AM – 10:50 AM Red Classes Room
5678! Henning 209
Handbell Bingo Borneman 202
Handbells For Everyone! (Part I) Graves & Klinck 207
Recorder Consort Carrico 210
Repertoire: Oldies Bissell 206
Score Study Schmidt 213
Spice It Up With Bell Trees Feather 201
Techniques “A Through Z” Wissinger 205
11:00 AM – 11:50 AM Blue Classes Room
Conducting – Did My Hands Say That?! Schmidt 213
5678! Henning 209
Handbell Bingo Borneman 202
Handbells For Everyone! (Part I) Graves & Klinck 207
Recorder Consort Carrico 210
Repertoire: Oldies Bissell 206
Spice It Up With Bell Trees Feather 201
Techniques “A Through Z” Wissinger 206
1:30 PM – 2:20 PM All Classes Room
Area III Forum Peterman 215
Beginning Recorder Carrico 210
Handbells For Everyone! (Part II) Graves & Klinck 207
Percussion Petting Zoo Bogovich 209
Repertoire: Double Choirs Henning 205 or 206
Ringing ‘Way Up There Wissinger 201
Stem Direction Counts! Feather 202
Class Descriptions
Area III Forum Peterman
We again request each choir be represented in this forum. This is the opportunity to get an update on the Area III Board's actions, upcoming activities, and then have a time to share thoughts and concerns about AGEHR and Area III. Your input on what you expect from Area III and what you can do to help is encouraged! Looking forward to hearing your recommendations!
The Area Advisory Council has established four main areas of concentration:
- Communication: Looking at all the current ways we communicate with our members and how these can be made more efficient.
- Provide a comprehensive mentoring program to not only new members, but to all of our constituents.
- Encourage various grass roots events or participate in smaller local festivals to get more of our members attending festivals and other learning and ringing events closer to home.
- Cooperate with other musical organizations, especially MENC, AGO, or ADCA chapters to get information about AGEHR and what we offer to a wider audience.
Bass Bells Bissell
This class will cover all aspects of ringing bass bells. Whether you have been ringing for a long time or have never picked up a bass bell this class will have something for you. We will begin with briefly reviewing the basics and then move on to cover specific challenges that you are having. If you are currently ringing bass bells please bring any specific problems and/or solutions to share with the class. Also please bring your gloves, mallets and festival music with binder.
Beginning Recorder Carrico
For those who have never played the recorder. Learn the proper way to hold the instrument, produce sound and play a tune. This class will include a brief discussion on different types of recorders, repertoire and where the recorder fits in the history of western music. Recorders and method books for beginners can be purchased at the store prior to class.
Conducting – Did My Hands Say That?! Schmidt
Beginning conducting can be very scary. If you need to be reminded about the basic patterns and how to indicate dynamic levels, this is the class for you! Bring your questions and concerns so that we may address them.
5678! Henning
Let’s come together and move to music. In this class, you’ll learn a simple combination or movements to get you to feel the music, change your weight smoothly and to look and feel comfortable and graceful. Join us as we learn to internalize the rhythms as we transition from one move to the next. Relax, have fun and feel the music: 5 6 7 8 ….
Handbell Bingo Borneman
Are you a little “rusty” when the new handbells season starts? If so, this class is for you! Come and participate in a game that teaches and reinforces the symbols of handbell notation! Have fun as you play a bingo-like game where you will recognize practice techniques and symbols while having fun!
Handbells For Everyone!(Part I):
Everything You Need To Get Non-Readers Ringing Graves&Klinck
The joy of handbell ringing does not have to be limited to those who can read music. Come learn a method of directing that has been used successfully for over thirty years with non-readers. This class will give you a variety of tools, such as pointing, chord numbers, hand cues, and sign language, and show you how to use them to direct music with non-readers. There will also be an opportunity for audience participation, as well as time for questions and answers.
Handbells For Everyone!(Part II):
You Learned It - Now You Can Direct It Graves&Klinck
Building on the foundation of Handbells For Everyone! (Part I), this class will be a "hands-on" experience of learning how to prepare and direct a piece of music from start to finish with non-readers. This step-by-step process will show you how to apply the techniques learned in Part I to any piece of music, and give you the confidence to direct any group of non-readers: children, adults, the elderly, and individuals with special needs. Handbells are for everyone! Pre-requisite: Handbells For Everyone! (Part I).
Negotiating Difficult Personalities:
Understanding and Coping With Whiners, Know-It-Alls, and Other Frustrating People Simms
This class provides information to enhance understanding of common provocative personality patterns encountered at home, at work, and other places including rehearsals! Participants will acquire a broad overview of the development of selected difficult personality patterns. Participants will also gain and enhance knowledge of creative and practical techniques (since strangling them is NOT an option) to effectively de-escalate interpersonal conflict with irritating people.
Percussion Petting Zoo Bogovich
This class will involve total hands-on usage of a plethora of percussion instruments; namely, tympani, snare drum, tambourine, temple blocks, suspended cymbal, crash cymbals, shakers of various sorts, hand drums, ratchets, claves, finger cymbals, wind chimes, triangle, slapstick, jingle bells, castanets, etc. Now is your chance to actually learn to play these instruments.
Recorder Consort Carrico
This class is a group playing experience for those who already play the recorder (even if you haven’t played it in years). Bring your recorders (soprano, alto, tenor, bass, whatever you have). Music will be provided in class, or bring any music you would like to share (please have at least 5 copies). A great opportunity for those who love the recorder but rarely get to play in a group.
Repertoire: Double Choirs Henning
Come and work on your sightreading skills as we “plow” through some music. To follow the theme of the Festival Conference, each piece will give you ideas for how to use double choirs. You might find a fantastic piece you’ll want to ring with your choir. Bring your gloves, notebook binder and mallets.
Repertoire: Hymn Tunes—Our Heritage of Faith Davis
Come join us for an inspiring look at our legacy of hymns and gain a new perspective on them through new and exciting arrangements and some “oldies” that may have been overlooked. For centuries, hymns have been used as a source of inspiration, encouragement, challenge, instruction and enjoyment whether they were the hymns of Martin Luther, the Wesley’s or our modern day hymn writers. These arrangements will help you give your congregation a fresh and new appreciation of these beloved hymns. Be sure to bring your mallets!
Repertoire: Oldies Bissell
This Repertoire class will explore handbell music written during the 70’s and 80’s. We will ring through and listen to selections representing the major composers and arrangers of the time period. You also will receive a more extensive list of music for your reference. This will be an opportunity for you to have fun either discovering or rediscovering great music of the past! Please bring your gloves, mallets, and music stand binders to this class.
Ringing ‘Way Up There Wissinger
Do you fancy the high bells? Learn the tricks to play them well. We’ll work on weaving, 4iH, Shelley, passing and other fancy tricks for ringing D5 and up – safely and effectively. Many of these techniques are also applicable to bigger bells. Please bring gloves for ringing, score notebooks for handouts, and high-bell mallets if you can.
Score Study Schmidt
Studying music before it is played is a must. Do you know what to look for? Let us help you take the tension out of this process so that you and your choirs achieve a high degree of musical expression. Bring your festival music with you.
Spice it Up with Bell Trees Feather
Bell trees can be used in many ways…from processionals, ostinatas, descants, with an ensemble, to advanced solo ringing. Come join the fun with hands-on experience! Bring upper and mid-range mallets and an appetite to try something new!
Stem Direction Counts! Feather
Ringing bells is more than ringing the notes! How much attention do you give to the direction of the stem when you ring? Usually it matters! In this class we’ll review scores, ring passages different ways, discuss options, and either help you be a better ringer or your director’s worst nightmare!
Techniques “A through Z” Wissinger
Well, how about ringing techniques from “E through V”?? We’ll work on the nuts and bolts of everything you can do with your bells beyond straight ringing: echoes, gyros, marts, mallets, plucks, vibratos, etc. We’ll practice these techniques and then read through some pieces that employ many articulations. Please bring gloves for ringing, score notebooks, and a variety of mallets if you can. Make sure your equipment is marked!!
What? Levels 4, 5, 6 Henning
Have you ever played a level 4, 5 or 6 song, or do you enjoy the challenge of a level 4, 5 or 6 song? Come join the fun as we work on our pulsating rhythms, fresh melodic lines filled with distinctive musical devices and assorted handbell techniques and learn about the characteristics of these levels. In our short time together, we will strive for synergy as we make music together.
Who Rings What and When? Schmidt
What is the classical or preferred way of assigning bells? Does it always work? Of course not! Bring your festival music to this class so that we can explore alternative ways of assigning bells – that do work!
Festival Faculty
Ken Bissell
Bass Bells
Repertoire: Oldies
Ken Bissell currently directs Joyful Noise at Centreville United Methodist Church in Centreville, VA. This is a group of eleven 4th through 6th grade ringers. He is a past Area III Chair and current member of the Area III Board for the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers, Inc. Over the past 30 years he has led numerous workshops and festivals throughout the United States and Canada. During this time Ken has developed handbell programs at several Northern Virginia churches and his groups have toured throughout the US and Canada, appeared on public TV and produced a recording. He has also taught public school choral and instrumental music in New England, Virginia and Maryland. Ken received a BS in Music Education from the University of New Hampshire and a MA in Choral Conducting from George Mason University, where he served as Assistant Choral Conductor.
Lynn Bogovich
Percussion Petting Zoo
Lynn has been ringing and directing handbell choirs in the Baltimore/Annapolis area since 1991. With a background as a percussionist (starting in 1964) and conductor (1970), Lynn is frequently asked to lead workshops on mallet techniques, the use of percussion in handbell music, ensemble techniques, beginning ensemble, and other related topics. She also uses her composing talents to arrange music for area handbell groups and Anacrusis, where she is the Artistic Director. Lynn is a prior Maryland State Chair of Area III and currently serves the Area III Board as Recording Secretary. In her spare time, Lynn works for NASA and the Hubble Space Telescope.
Louise Borneman
Handbell Bingo
Louise began ringing handbells in January 1995 with the adult handbell choir at Westminster Church of the Brethren in Westminster, MD and took over as director for this group in September of 2000. Louise has been ringing with the Westminster Ringers, Inc. since the group’s inception in 1997. Currently a first grade teacher, Louise has been an elementary school teacher for over thirty years.
Joanne Carrico
Beginning Recorder
Recorder Consort
A native of Delaware, Joanne has been playing recorders for more than 25 years and began playing the baroque flute about 15 years ago. She has attended numerous recorder workshops over the years and is a founding member of the Holly Consort, an early music ensemble in Dover, Delaware. She also plays recorder and flute in the dance band for the Dover English Country Dancers and is a member of the Delaware Choral Society. She works as a customer service specialist for a corporate services company.
Ned Davis
Repertoire: Hymn Tunes – Our Heritage of Faith
Ned received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Sacred Music from Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC where he also worked for 17 years as Director of Music for their television program, conducting and recording both choral and instrumental groups. He also taught conducting during his time there. In 1991 he moved to the Chesapeake area to serve as a Minister of Music in a local church where he directed numerous choral groups and developed a bell program consisting of 5 groups, including teens and adults and has recorded two CD’s with the church’s musicians. In addition, his adult bell group has traveled nationally and internationally and he conducted an award winning high school bell choir. At present he is currently developing a bell program at Great Hope Baptist in Hickory, VA. He has been active with the Guild for more than twelve years, attending numerous festivals, Director’s seminars, National Director’s seminar, and assisted with the National Seminar held in Norfolk in 2004 and is currently the Virginia Chair for area III.
Melodie Feather
Spice It Up With Bell Trees
Stem Direction Counts!
Melodie has been actively involved in music most of her life. Currently she is employed by two Unitarian Universalist churches in Northern Virginia, and she directs youth, children’s, and adult vocal ensembles as well as three handbell ensembles. Melodie has led vocal and handbell workshops around the country in many UU churches, and she occasionally performs as a solo handbell ringer. She is a proud mother of two very musically talented sons.
Sue Graves
As Director of the Melmark “Joybells” since 1991, Sue oversees rehearsals, performances, and the scheduling of concerts and tours. Sue and Co-Director, Joyce Klinck, also created an Enrichment Bell Choir for children and adults at Melmark with a wide range of disabilities. Together they serve as consultants, presenting handbell workshops for other facilities that serve individuals with special needs. In addition to serving in various musical capacities at the Great Valley Presbyterian Church in Malvern, PA, Sue is a music therapist and Music Together teacher at Tempo! Music Therapy Services in West Chester, PA. She and her husband, Steve, have three grown children.
Larry Henning
5678!
Repertoire: Double Choirs
What? Levels 4, 5, 6
Larry received his Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from West Chester State College (now University) in West Chester, PA, and his graduate work in Reading from Western Maryland College (Now McDaniel College) in Westminster, MD. While at a previous elementary school, he established the Carrolltowne Ringers – a children’s handbell program from grades third through fifth. Under his direction, they received the National Exemplary School Award from AGEHR. He has also directed the Agape Ringers from the Westminster Church of the Brethren and Wesley Carillon from the Westminster United Methodist Church. Larry has been a clinician with Area III of the AGEHR for the Bronze Conference Choir and the Read and Ring Workshops. Larry and his wife, Debbie, are the co-founder of the Westminster Ringers, Inc. – an auditioned community Maryland handbell ensemble.
Joyce Klinck
Joyce has been playing or directing handbells for over twenty years. She is the Co-Director of the Melmark “Joybells” and the Enrichment Bell Choir. In addition to her responsibilities at Melmark, Joyce is the creator and director of both the adult and senior adult handbell choirs at St. Thomas of Villanova Catholic Church in Villanova, PA. Having lived in three AGEHR (American Guild of English Handbell Ringers) areas over the past several years, Joyce has attended numerous area and national festivals. She currently serves on the board in Area II as the Special Group Liaison. Joyce and her husband, Paul, have two grown children.
Charm Peterman
Area III Forum
Charm has been involved with handbells and handbell ringers since l979. Since then she has moved 21 times in 26 years (USAF spouse), formed and directed over 60 handbell choirs and given workshops across the United States, England and Europe. She is a workshop clinician, massed ringing conductor, solo handbell ringer, Handbell Sales Representative for Schulmerich Bells, director of the Monumental Ringers at Monumental UMC in Portsmouth, Va., and is a member of Tapestry, a community handbell quartet that serves as a daytime ministry in the Hampton Roads area. Charm served as the Area III Spring Festival Chair and succeeded Michael Helman as the Area Chair in 2006.
Ann Y. Schmidt
Conducting – Did My Hands Say That?!
Score Study
Who Rings What And When?
Ann is the Director of Music at Gaithersburg Presbyterian Church, a music ministry involving thirteen choirs, seven of which are handbell teams. She has been teaching and directing English handbell classes and choirs since 1973. She is a former Area III chair of the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers, has served on the National Board of Directors, has been on the executive boards of Area II and III, and teaches beginning directors and conducting at local, regional, and national level. Ann is the founder of Capital Carillon, an auditioned handbell ensemble serving the Washington DC metropolitan area. She is listed in Who’s Who 2006, Who’s Who of American Women 2006-2007, and Who’s Who in America Education 2006-2007. In 2005, Ann was appointed to the Communications Committee of AGEHR, serving as an educational and community choir representative.
Jim Simms
Negotiating Difficult Personalities: Understanding and Coping With Whiners, Know-It-Alls,
and Other Frustrating People
Jim of Dover, Delaware, is a National Certified and Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor. His credentials include a Bachelor of Art Degree with a Major in Cultural Anthropology and Philosophy, a Master of Human Relations Degree, and a Master of Art Degree in Clinical Psychology. His organizational leadership, managerial, and counseling experience spans 24 years and encompasses duties as a United States Air Force Officer, Adolescent and Adult Community Mental Health Clinician, Psychotherapist, Adult Correctional Rehabilitation Counselor and Crisis/Hostage Negotiator. Jim is a Certified Emergency Disaster Preparedness Instructor and Program Coordinator for Delaware’s largest prison. He has worked with numerous individuals and group representing a variety of social backgrounds and mental health profiles. Jim’s interest in the handbell world began in 1990 when he met his wife, Linda, current Board Member of Area III and Ocean City Festival Chairperson.
Kath Wissinger
Ringing ‘Way Up There
Techniques “A Through Z”
Kath Wissinger knows her way around bells: she directs, teaches, composes and rings. She directs two teen handbell ensembles, one which tours and presents concerts, at Massanutten Presbyterian Church (Penn Laird, Va.). She also teaches Music using Handbells for 3rd-8th graders at Redeemer Classical School, a small private school in Harrisonburg, Va. Kath directs a wide variety of festivals and workshops across the country and has about 30 pieces in print.
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