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Published on: 7/21/2002
Last Visited: 10/29/2007
Guest Conductor Dixie Detgen and vocal duo ‘Star & Charlie' featured with Municipal Band Concerts
Director of the St. Joseph Municipal Band, Dr. Donald Moely, indicated the band concerts scheduled for Sunday, July 21 will feature Dixie Detgen, conducting two numbers with the band and the vocal duo "Star and Charlie."
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The next two numbers will be conducted by featured guest conductor for these concerts, DIXIE DETGEN, who is playing her 46th year as oboist of the Municipal Band Mrs. Detgen retired after teaching band for 29 years in the Buchanan Community Schools.She currently teaches instrumental music in a private school, lessons and sectionals at Lakeshore Middle School, is the oboe instructor in the Salvation Army Arts and Education Program, plays organ and directs the choir at her church, plays oboe with the Southhold Wind Ensemble (South Bend, IN) and the St. Joseph Municipal Band (completing her 44th year) and owns her own business called Detgen Seminars and Clinics, working with bands and directors throughout the state.She holds memberships in MENC, where she is a nationally registered teacher, ASBDA, serving on the Foundation Board, NBA, IDRS, MSBOA, AF of M, S.A.I. and was nominated to Who's Who Among America's Teachers in 1992.She was also the MSBOA Band Teacher of the Year in 1996.Dixie Detgen will conduct "An Australian Rhapsody," by Ralph Hultgren.