Diane Gorzycki

[Danpod]

http://www.bigbenford.com/?p=659

 

Diane Gorzycki is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin, and has taught in the Austin I.S.D. for 27 years. She has been the Director of Bands at Bailey Middle School since it opened in 1993. Her bands have performed at the 1996 national MENC convention, at the 2001 J.P. Sousa Middle School Honor Band Clinic in Charleston, South Carolina, at the 2002 Western International Band Clinic in Seattle, Washington, and will perform at the 2004 CBDNA/NBA Southern Division Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Her band is the 2001 recipient of the prestigious Sudler Silver Cup International Award. Ms. Gorzycki serves on the State Board of Directors for Texas Music Educators Association, Phi Beta Mu, and Texas Music Educators Conference. She is a member of TMAA, MENC, NBA, Phi Delta Kappa, WBDI, SAI, and Tau Beta Sigma.

 

Diane Gorzycki passed away today, September 30 at 1pm Central Time from cancer. Please keep your thoughts open for her family, friends and former students.

 

Austin ISD is looking to name their new middle school in southwest Austin. If you

[takigan]

I read this on The Yellowboard yesterday. I've known about her for a good while as she was quite the renowned Middle School Band Director, but somehow, for some reason I seem to associate her name with Frank Ticheli's "An American Elegy"....I want to say Bailey Middle School either premiered the piece or did the demo recording on the publisher's website but I'm not sure.

 

In any case this tragedy is a darn shame....the music world has just lost a pillar of excellence and she will be very missed.

[bluebellbrass07]

  takigan said:

I read this on The Yellowboard yesterday. I've known about her for a good while as she was quite the renowned Middle School Band Director, but somehow, for some reason I seem to associate her name with Frank Ticheli's "An American Elegy"....I want to say Bailey Middle School either premiered the piece or did the demo recording on the publisher's website but I'm not sure.

 

In any case this tragedy is a darn shame....the music world has just lost a pillar of excellence and she will be very missed.

 

I would have guessed that a band here in colorado would have debuted it, considering what it was written for. But then again thats just an assumption on my part

[Dynasty]

I read an article on her in the Austin-American Statesman, and it was touching. I first got to meet her when she was my band director at Longhorn Music Camp after my 6th grade year. And of the three years I did band camp, that is the one I remember the most. Clearly all of her achievements lend to her greatness, but I can say from my own experience that she was a wonderful person and director.