New Horizons International Music Association

This page contains the New Horizons International Music Association Newsletters. The most current Newsletter will be posted approximately one month after it is available to NHIMA members. Click on the PDF Icon next to the date to read it. The Newsletters are PDF documents. If you need the Adobe PDF File Reader, you can get it free on the [Contacts] page.

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Current Newsletter

<--- Spring 2008 NHIMA Newsletter (Click on PDF icon to download)

Contents:

Roswell New Horizons Band performs at GMEA with Roy Ernst as flute soloist
Calendar
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
Birth Announcements - Wayland, Massachusetts; Hagerstown, Maryland; Boonton, New Jersey; New York, New York; Ottawa, Ontario
MSU students come to aid of tuba player
The New Horizons 90+ Club

Previous Newsletters

<--- Fall 2007 NHIMA Newsletter (Click on PDF icon to download)

Contents:

Remembering Ed Mizma
Calendar
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 (Click on PDF icon to download)

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 (Peterborough New Horizons Band)

<--- Fall 2006 NHIMA Newsletter (Click on PDF icon to download)

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! (Freedonia, New York)
She plays music AND writes (Rapid City, South Dakota)
Welcome to the New Horizons International Music Association (from the 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)

<--- Spring 2006 NHIMA Newsletter (Click on PDF icon to download)

Contents:

Calendar
Coming together in Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)
New Horizons, Italian style (Port Huron, Michigan)
The best gift of all (Atlanta, Georgia)
And now for the mysterious knitting needle (Saline, Michigan)
New Horizons 90-Plus Club
Another new band begins (Greensboro, North Carolina)
North Coast Band receives city grant (Carlsbad, California)
Primeaires sing along with the band (Santa Barbara, California)
Planning complete for Northwest band exchange (Bend, Oregon)
Anna Maria College hoping to attract more members (Paxton, Massachusetts)
Make the conductor look good! (Fargo-Moorhead, North Dakota)
The WAY to practice
The Northern Colorado New Horizons Swing Band (Ft. Collins, Colorado)
Improvisation is so much fun