TN Musician Vol. 69 No. 1 (proof 4)

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TMEA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE Ron Meers I H O P E A L L O F Y O U A R E H AV I N G A GREAT SCHOOL YEAR! Thank you all for your continued support of TMEA and music education in Tennessee! I would like to once again express my sincere appreciation to the volunteers who are so valuable to TMEA and music education in Tennessee. Without volunteers we would not be able to offer assessment and performance opportunities for Tennessee music programs. Thank you for your dedicated service! Speaking of volunteers, TMEA is in need of a tech savvy person to populate the information on the mobile application, EventMobi, used by conference attendees and All State students. It is a fairly simple process but is very important resource for our conference. For more information please contact me ASAP! TMEA IS WORKING ON A PLAN TO PROVIDE INFORMATION CONCERNING PROPOSED LEGISLATION THAT COULD AFFECT MUSIC EDUCATION IN TENNESSEE TO YOUR PARENT SUPPORT GROUPS. To say the least, changing venues for our In-Service/All State Conference three times in five years has been challenging. I believe you will see many changes that will improve your conference experience in 2017. TMEA is currently in the final stages of contractual negotiations with Opryland that should provide our all-state ensembles with an improved concert venue; however, to secure the larger area TMEA will be required to increase our housing block at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel. Unlike Chattanooga and Memphis, Opryland ties the convention space to the number of rooms booked at the hotel by the association. Those of you who chose to room offsite last year, we need you to help pay for the space used by the conference by booking your rooms at Opryland in 2017. If we do not fill our housing block this year, we will have to pay a penalty to the hotel based on the number of rooms we did not fill. There is an additional issue that we need to address concerning housing. I will try to explain this, but if you need more information, please contact me. All hotels have a cut-off date for booking housing. The TMEA Cut-Off date is March 21st. After the 21st, no rooms can be booked into the TMEA block of rooms. The problem is, if a member cancels a room after the 21st, the room cannot be filled by another member AND is counted as a room NOT FILLED according to our contract. In 2016, we had over 600 rooms booked for Wed. night of conference. Around forty members canceled their rooms after March 21st, which means we did not fill our contractual obligation for rooms filled on Wed. night. Luckily, Thursday night we were able to go over our minimum number of rooms and the average was enough to keep us from being penalized (the financial penalty is substantial). Everything TMEA does is a team effort. Please help by booking your housing at Gaylord Opryland in 2017 and not cancelling any rooms at Opryland after March 21st. Thank you! As you know, the passage of ESSA legislation will impact music education across the country. TMEA is working on a plan to provide information concerning proposed legislation that could affect music education in Tennessee to your parent support groups. Please take a moment and register your parent support group now. The registration link is under Advocacy on the WWW.TNMEA.org website: http:// www.tnmea.org/booster-registration.html Thanks again to all of you who “go the extra mile” to provide all students with musically enriching activities by volunteering to chair events or to be candidates for association offices. Without you, music education would be at risk and could not provide so many educational experiences to so many students in Tennessee! Thank you! I ask you to please look for and encourage other talented teachers to volunteer and be involved. Our music students deserve our best! I hope you all have a very successful school year and enjoy working with the BEST students in your school! Please do not hesitate to call on me if I may be of any assistance to you or your music program! PLEASE REMEMBER The TMEA Discount Meal Cards will be available on the TMEA website this year • Beginning Feb. 1st. Please support this effort. The sale of Meal cards counts toward our • $50,000 food and beverage contract agreement with Opryland Gaylord Opryland Reservations will open on February 1st on the TMEA Website Gaylord Opryland Reservation Cutoff date, March 21st, 2017. (Please make your reservations before March 21st and cancel any rooms not needed BEFORE March 21st. Plan to attend the TMEA Professional Development Conference, April 5th – 8th, 2017, Opryland Hotel and Convention Center 8 | TENNESSEE MUSICIAN | 2016 | Volume 69, No. 1
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY 2016-17 NEW FACULTY Mélisse Brunet Director of Orchestral Activities Yo-Jung Han Music Education Gennard Lombardozzi Tenor, Director of Opera *Saturday, December 3, 2016 (Instrumental Areas) AUDITION DATES: Saturday, February 11, 2017 (Instrumental Areas) *Saturday, January 21, 2017 (Instrumental and Vocal Areas) *Saturday, January 28, 2017 (Instrumental and Vocal Areas) Saturday, March 4, 2017 (Instrumental and Vocal Areas; for admission only, no scholarship consideration) *To be eligible for the Hayes Young Artist Competition ($7,500 annual renewable scholarship), prospective students must audition on these dates. music.appstate.edu/prospective-students • 828-262-3020 Tennessee Music Education Assocation | www.tnmea.org | 9
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