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Post by corhaw on May 24, 2024 9:39:19 GMT -6
Morton High School (IL) has added Andy Empey as Co-Director of bands.
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Post by dbalash on May 24, 2024 10:12:34 GMT -6
Morton High School (IL) has added Andy Empey as Co-Director of bands. Solid pickup for the Potters. I had a feeling this was the case when I saw Galesburg posted yesterday. Hoping Galesburg can find a solid follow up to him - he led Galesburg to their first ISU Finals appearance in 25 years in 2019.
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Post by cybrunette on May 24, 2024 13:14:56 GMT -6
Centerville announces Ian Caldwell as their new Assistant Band Director.
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Post by jakeymam12 on May 25, 2024 21:15:05 GMT -6
Brighton High School from UT has a new director this year, Nick Gonzales
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Post by statechamp1239 on May 27, 2024 20:57:20 GMT -6
Westlake, TX hired a new assistant director, Austin Byers, who worked as the associate director of Bands at Cypress Wood HS, TX
Floyd Central, IN hired Scott Cooksey who was the director of bands at Louisville Male, KY
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Post by ohioguy2 on May 31, 2024 6:25:17 GMT -6
Kettering Fairmont (OH) has hired Kaitie Welch as a new middle school band director and marching band assistant director. She was previously the assistant director at Fairborn. Fairmont’s long-time Director of Bands Mike Berning retired this year and they shuffled internally to create this position.
Fairmont has also hired Abby Montgomery as its new color guard director. She was previously the guard director at Westerville South. She replaces Brandon Arehart, who is leaving to become to the guard director at Sunlake (FL).
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Post by gavintheeuph on Jun 4, 2024 14:20:19 GMT -6
Bartlett, TN has added Andrew Pahos as Assistant Band Director. He previously was the Jazz Band Director at Dobyns Bennett and was also part of their marching band staff.
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Post by †håñð§ on Jun 4, 2024 20:27:31 GMT -6
North Hardin has had a tragic loss today. They have lost their director to a car accident. Truly devastating news...
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Post by marimba11 on Jun 4, 2024 21:54:05 GMT -6
North Hardin has had a tragic loss today. They have lost their director to a car accident. Truly devastating news... Oh no! Terrible! My thoughts are with them ❤️
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Post by hewhowaits on Jun 5, 2024 4:54:27 GMT -6
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Post by coleeich on Jun 10, 2024 18:52:01 GMT -6
Deer Creek H.S., OK has officially announced their two new hires:
Russell Harris (previously with Okarche and actually one of my best friends lol)
Ryann Johnson (recently graduated from OU; I work with her dad lol. Also she is the daughter of one of the Jenks directors)
As a side note, I heard a clip of Deer Creek, and they are out for blood this year. Already sound so good!
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Post by MarchingManiac on Jun 11, 2024 10:17:29 GMT -6
Assistant Director of Bands, Dena Baity, will be the new Director of Bands at Galesburg H.S., IL. This is per the district personnel report that came out today on one of their media outlets. This feels like best case scenario for Galesburg since she worked with Andy Empey and can continue the philosophy.
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Post by ohioguy2 on Jun 11, 2024 11:05:13 GMT -6
That is most definitely not the case. If you follow the board minutes throughout the year, you'll see separate expenditures for their other designers, including the prop design. DANG how the hell do they have THAT MUCH MONEY...... thanks for clarifying! An update on Mason and how who they are using and how much they are spending this year. We have already discussed they are paying Wes Cartwright $54,000 for the upcoming year. The rest of their design team was approved at the May school board meeting: Leon May - $18,500 for drill Michael Rosales - $30,000 for choreography Michael Klesch - $12,000 for winds music Thom Hannum - $9,000 for battery music Colby Kuzontoski - $3,000 for front ensemble music Colton Hines - $6,000 for sound design That makes $132,500 total for their show design. Everything is on page 23 of this link: go.boarddocs.com/oh/mason/Board.nsf/files/D5NN895EA90E/$file/5.28.24%20Board%20Agenda%20Personnel%20Documents.xlsx%20-%205.28.24%20(2).pdf
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Post by macwinlin on Jun 11, 2024 13:12:46 GMT -6
DANG how the hell do they have THAT MUCH MONEY...... thanks for clarifying! An update on Mason and how who they are using and how much they are spending this year. We have already discussed they are paying Wes Cartwright $54,000 for the upcoming year. The rest of their design team was approved at the May school board meeting: Leon May - $18,500 for drill Michael Rosales - $30,000 for choreography Michael Klesch - $12,000 for winds music Thom Hannum - $9,000 for battery music Colby Kuzontoski - $3,000 for front ensemble music Colton Hines - $6,000 for sound design That makes $132,500 total for their show design. Everything is on page 23 of this link: go.boarddocs.com/oh/mason/Board.nsf/files/D5NN895EA90E/$file/5.28.24%20Board%20Agenda%20Personnel%20Documents.xlsx%20-%205.28.24%20(2).pdf*Up to those amounts. Which is interesting. You'd think they'd want an exact number for approval of the contract. I guess this just leaves room for changes.
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Post by N.E. Brigand on Jun 11, 2024 13:22:25 GMT -6
DANG how the hell do they have THAT MUCH MONEY...... thanks for clarifying! An update on Mason and how who they are using and how much they are spending this year. We have already discussed they are paying Wes Cartwright $54,000 for the upcoming year. The rest of their design team was approved at the May school board meeting: Leon May - $18,500 for drill Michael Rosales - $30,000 for choreography Michael Klesch - $12,000 for winds music Thom Hannum - $9,000 for battery music Colby Kuzontoski - $3,000 for front ensemble music Colton Hines - $6,000 for sound design That makes $132,500 total for their show design. Everything is on page 23 of this link. Perhaps someone was hoping for a comparison to, say, design costs in professional theater. Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, about a half-hour from William Mason High School, is one of three theaters in Ohio and about eighty theaters nationally who are members of the League of Resident Theaters ("LORT"). As such, they have collective bargaining agreements with three performing arts unions: Actors Equity Association ("AEA"; for actors and stage managers), Stage Directors and Choreographers Society ("SDC"; that includes fight choreographers too), and United Scenic Artists ("USA", for costume, set, lighting, and sound designers). The AEA members are typically engaged as employees, and the SDC and USA members are typically engaged as independent contractors. There are categories (from A+ to D) based on how much a stage's average weekly box office gross is. Cincinnati Playhouse has two stages and is category B for the larger of the two. The categories are set in the LORT-AEA agreement, and the B category means that stage has a box office income of between $86,000 and $176,000 per week. Most theaters run productions for two to six weeks. In that category, the minimum LORT-USA fees currently are $6,870 for Scenic Designer or Costume Designer and $5,439 for Lighting Designer or Sound Designer. (The fees go as high as $12,595 for a Scenic or Costume Designer at one of the handful of A+ category theaters.) For that fee, a designer communicates regularly with the theater and director over a period of months, including a conference (nowadays often remote) in which the vision for the production is laid out, provides a preliminary design for the production about four months before the show is set to open, works with the theater to modify the design to fit the budget, provides a final design about two months before the show is set to open, and agrees to be in residence at the theater for about 20-25 days during the construction period. The theater is responsible for travel and housing costs. Does Cartwright's fee above include materials and construction? Because if so, then the comparison is largely moot. Theaters are buying their own materials and doing their own building.
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Post by Allohak on Jun 11, 2024 14:55:53 GMT -6
DANG how the hell do they have THAT MUCH MONEY...... thanks for clarifying! An update on Mason and how who they are using and how much they are spending this year. We have already discussed they are paying Wes Cartwright $54,000 for the upcoming year. The rest of their design team was approved at the May school board meeting: Leon May - $18,500 for drill Michael Rosales - $30,000 for choreography Michael Klesch - $12,000 for winds music Thom Hannum - $9,000 for battery music Colby Kuzontoski - $3,000 for front ensemble music Colton Hines - $6,000 for sound design That makes $132,500 total for their show design. Everything is on page 23 of this link: go.boarddocs.com/oh/mason/Board.nsf/files/D5NN895EA90E/$file/5.28.24%20Board%20Agenda%20Personnel%20Documents.xlsx%20-%205.28.24%20(2).pdfPlus whatever they end up spending on uniforms and props for the season
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Post by macwinlin on Jun 11, 2024 17:22:09 GMT -6
DANG how the hell do they have THAT MUCH MONEY...... thanks for clarifying! Mason's 2024 student fees are $2,150 - not including competition uniform and accessory fees. ~250 kids x $2,150 = >$500k
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Post by N.E. Brigand on Jun 11, 2024 17:23:19 GMT -6
Leon May - $18,500 for drill Michael Rosales - $30,000 for choreography In general, I find drill to be more visually interesting than choreography. Give Mr. May some of that Rosales money!
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Post by Subito Fortissimo on Jun 11, 2024 18:57:16 GMT -6
DANG how the hell do they have THAT MUCH MONEY...... thanks for clarifying! An update on Mason and how who they are using and how much they are spending this year. We have already discussed they are paying Wes Cartwright $54,000 for the upcoming year. The rest of their design team was approved at the May school board meeting: Leon May - $18,500 for drill Michael Rosales - $30,000 for choreography Michael Klesch - $12,000 for winds music Thom Hannum - $9,000 for battery music Colby Kuzontoski - $3,000 for front ensemble music Colton Hines - $6,000 for sound design That makes $132,500 total for their show design. Everything is on page 23 of this link: go.boarddocs.com/oh/mason/Board.nsf/files/D5NN895EA90E/$file/5.28.24%20Board%20Agenda%20Personnel%20Documents.xlsx%20-%205.28.24%20(2).pdfAll I can do is shake my head. This is ridiculous.
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Post by hewhowaits on Jun 11, 2024 19:39:58 GMT -6
Mason's 2024 student fees are $2,150 - not including competition uniform and accessory fees. ~250 kids x $2,150 = >$500k You are underestimating the number of students in the Mason band and guard.
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Post by macwinlin on Jun 11, 2024 20:05:51 GMT -6
Mason's 2024 student fees are $2,150 - not including competition uniform and accessory fees. ~250 kids x $2,150 = >$500k You are underestimating the number of students in the Mason band and guard. So the number is much higher, and the expense is even more manageable!
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Post by crunchycookie3 on Jun 11, 2024 22:14:54 GMT -6
Mason's 2024 student fees are $2,150 - not including competition uniform and accessory fees. ~250 kids x $2,150 = >$500k Crazy when you consider that traveling to Indy is only a two hour trip from Mason
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Post by aiden on Jun 12, 2024 0:13:15 GMT -6
Mason's 2024 student fees are $2,150 - not including competition uniform and accessory fees. ~250 kids x $2,150 = >$500k Crazy when you consider that traveling to Indy is only a two hour trip from Mason don't forget to account for traffic on 70 and in Downtown Indy
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Post by hewhowaits on Jun 12, 2024 5:56:49 GMT -6
Crazy when you consider that traveling to Indy is only a two hour trip from Mason don't forget to account for traffic on 70 and in Downtown Indy Pretty sure the point was about the expense to transport (nowhere near what it costs to travel from Florida, Texas, or Utah) rather than about the time involved (which is historically fairly consistent at right around 2 hours any time between 7:00 a.m. departure from Maosn and 7:00 p.m. arrival to Indianapolis). The only portion of a trip from Mason to downtown Indianapolis that involves I-70 is just over a mile from the I-70 exit from I-65 to the exit at West Street from I-70. The bulk of the route is I-74 from I-275 north and west of Cincinnati to I-465 south and east of Indianapolis)
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Post by rickyrosay on Jun 12, 2024 5:59:39 GMT -6
This may be the wrong thread for this, but now I’m curious. What does the design budget look like for the top 12-15? Are all the Cartwright schools going to be about the same? I can’t imagine Brownsburg spending THAT much. But I’ve been wrong once before in life. What’s the going rate to be in finals these days?
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Post by principalagent on Jun 12, 2024 6:53:32 GMT -6
This may be the wrong thread for this, but now I’m curious. What does the design budget look like for the top 12-15? Are all the Cartwright schools going to be about the same? I can’t imagine Brownsburg spending THAT much. But I’ve been wrong once before in life. What’s the going rate to be in finals these days? Mason and other top rung Cartwright schools are the very top end. I’d imagine other finalists probably pay 2/3, or perhaps even half, of that. Especially if their designers are long standing (Carmel) or at least some portion in house (Avon).
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Post by scbanddad on Jun 12, 2024 7:29:54 GMT -6
The only crazy part about their budget is that the school board is involved. Do they get money from their district? Do any schools get any sort of real money from their districts?
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Post by hewhowaits on Jun 12, 2024 7:51:52 GMT -6
The only crazy part about their budget is that the school board is involved. Do they get money from their district? Do any schools get any sort of real money from their districts? The Mason City School District supports the arts quite well. They are more likely to cut funding to athletics than to the arts. Even so, the bulk of the Marching Band budget is funded by fundraisers and student fees.
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Post by 70sguardchick on Jun 12, 2024 7:54:32 GMT -6
The only crazy part about their budget is that the school board is involved. Do they get money from their district? Do any schools get any sort of real money from their districts? Well, director salaries, since they are school district employees. And any corporation-owned assets like semis. As far as the designers and techs go, I'd imagine they are 1099 independent contractors, so would be paid by either a time-based or deliverables-based contract of some sort. The "Up to" part is just a cap on the project costs because actual costs can vary (travel and time spent, for instance). If a band pays out through the parent organization, you can look up their Form 990 on Guidestar. Section IX will show those payments, probably in the "Other" line, but they aren't broken out. So you'll see an aggregate of all services paid out in that tax year, which isn't all that helpful. I can't speak to the money part of Brownsburg - our band kid is grown and raising tiny future band kids of her own, so I get to stay away from the boring stuff like budgets and fundraising.
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Post by paddy on Jun 12, 2024 13:15:41 GMT -6
This may be the wrong thread for this, but now I’m curious. What does the design budget look like for the top 12-15? Are all the Cartwright schools going to be about the same? I can’t imagine Brownsburg spending THAT much. But I’ve been wrong once before in life. What’s the going rate to be in finals these days? Mason and other top rung Cartwright schools are the very top end. I’d imagine other finalists probably pay 2/3, or perhaps even half, of that. Especially if their designers are long standing (Carmel) or at least some portion in house (Avon). The general consensus I heard last year from a group of knowledgeable directors is that finals costs about $250k once you consider custom uniforms, design/creative fees, additional instructional techs, and props.
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