This page contains the New Horizons International Music Association Newsletters. Newsletters are currently mailed out twice a year to members of NHIMA (individual, couple, group, and planning members). The most current Newsletter will be posted here approximately one month after it is available to NHIMA members. Click any season/year combo below to see a short description of the Newsletter contents. Click the PDF icon to read the entire Newsletter. The Newsletters are PDF documents. If you need the Adobe PDF File Reader, you can get it free from the [Contacts] page. If you have articles you would like submitted for the Newsletter, you can find the editor's (Shirley Michaels) e-mail address on the Contacts page as well.

[Note: Newsletters are rather large in size (1-3 MB), so it will take some time to download them if you use a dial-up connection.]

  • Spring ’10
  • Fall ’09
  • Spring ’09
  • Fall ’08
  • Spring ’08
  • Fall ’07
  • Spring ’07
  • Fall ’06

 <--- Spring 2010 NHIMA Newsletter

Contents:

•  Calendar
•  Iowa City Celebrates 15 Years
•  Newbies
•  Young and Older Attend Colorado Springs Band Camp
•  From the Mailbox
•  Bless His Heart - He’s Coming to Visit (Roy Ernst)
•  OMEA Honors Norman New Horizons Band
•  Cascade Horizons Band Plays for OMEA
•  Remember “The Pretty Lady on the Bike”?
•  The New Horizons 90+ Club
•  NHB of Summit and Stark Counties
•  Lift-off Workshop for New Horizons Planning Members
•  It’s a First for Pikes Peak
•  Support our Business Members
•  Photo Album

 <--- Fall 2009 NHIMA Newsletter

Contents:

•  Calendar
•  Dallas and Denton NH bands combine their talents
•  Elkhart NHB plans memorial for cofounder Paul Schulz
•  Long-lost march highlights OCC’s 150th birthday party
•  NH founder, Roy Ernst, receives honorary degree from UWO
•  We are growing! (Sioux City, Iowa NHB)
•  NHIMA president pays tribute to board members, past and present
•  New York adds a band AND now a chorus
•  Posters? TV crews? Woo-hoo! Big time in Estonia for London NHB
•  Support our business members

 <--- Spring 2009 NHIMA Newsletter

Contents:

•  Calendar
•  St. Petersburg to Naples - The first New Horizons band tour
•  Birth Announcements - Grand River (Ontario), Reno-Tahoe (Nevada), Fresno (California)
•  New director for Las Cruces New Horizons Band
•  A new decade for the Cincinnati Band
•  We got mail! From Terence Clancy and the Dublin Band (Ireland)
•  Recycle used music!
•  Grand Forks hosts Fargo and Winnipeg NHBs
•  OLLI New Horizons Dixie Dukes Band plays in music festival
•  NHIMA Board report from President Nancy Wombacher
•  Second Winds stay busy
•  NHIMA Business Members roster

 <--- Fall 2008 NHIMA Newsletter

Contents:

•  Calendar
•  University of Iowa New Horizons Band Camp
•  Birth Announcements - Ottawa and Cape Cod
•  Other Happenings
•  NHIMA ges second grant from NAMM
•  NMSU offers hospitality and excellence
•  Tribute to Ed Mizma
•  The New Horizons 90+ Club
•  Snowbirds, locals, and all that jazz
•  Pretty lady on the bike

 <--- Spring 2008 NHIMA Newsletter

Contents:

•  Calendar
•  Roswell New Horizons Band performs at GMEA with Roy Ernst as flute soloist
•  Remembering Marilyn Burkholder, Cascade Horizons Band, Bend, Oregon
•  New Horizons directors responds to NHIMA survey
•  NHIMA members weigh in with ideas, offers to help from 2007 survey
•  Take it from the top (column by directors)
•  Peterborough NHB helps Peter Ford celebrate the big 70
•  NHB of Madison salutes director Peter Ziegler
•  Grand Forks’ Second Wind Band celebrates fifth birthday
•  Births: Wayland, MA; Hagerstown, MD; Boonton, NJ; New York, NY; Ottawa, ON
•  MSU students come to aid of tuba player
•  The New Horizons 90+ Club

 <--- Fall 2007 NHIMA Newsletter

Contents:

•  Calendar
•  Remembering Ed Mizma
•  Its renewal time
•  Rochester remembers and mourns
•  Impressions from a New Horizons band camp
•  An Interlochen dream come true
•  600 outstanding meatballs!
•  Concert publicity on a shoestring
•  Hooked on Bands hosts weekend band camp
•  The band with no baggage
•  “Echotaps Worldwide”
•  The New Horizons 90+ Club

 <--- Spring 2007 NHIMA Newsletter

Contents:

•  Calendar
•  Godfrey New Horizons Band goes to the Czech Republic
•  Northern Colorado NHB raises funds for teenaged amputees
•  Congratulations to Dale Beacock
•  Welcome back, Van
•  NHB adds to holiday festivities in Grand Rapids
•  Michigan adds another NHB
•  Laconia checks in
•  From carols to jazz, Iowa City NHB groups display their range and diversity
•  Welcome Guelph
•  Malachi Baxter LOVES jaZZ
•  Paul Norris crosses generations
•  Have Horns Will Travel
•  This is one busy band – gigs, fundraising, band camps, travel – they do it all

 <--- Fall 2006 NHIMA Newsletter

Contents:

•  Calendar
•  Quad Cities bridges the generation gap (Davenport, Iowa)
•  Time to Renew
•  It’s not ALL about the music (Interlochen, Michigan)
•  Florida Retirees flock to Villages NHB (The Villages, Florida)
•  Kate Levy strikes up another band! (Fredonia, New York)
•  She plays music AND writes (Rapid City, South Dakota)
•  Welcome to the New Horizons International Music Association (President of the Board)
•  Don’t change anything! (Las Cruces, New Mexico)
•  Peter Ziegler directs again at Baileys Harbor (Madison, Wisconsin)
•  The “halls” were alive with the sound of music. (Bend, Oregon)
•  The New Horizons 90+ Club
•  New Horizons musicians discover Interlochen (Interlochen, Michigan)

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