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TMEA BACK THEN • In this conference edition of the Tennessee Musician, then President Dr. Tom Cowan encouraged all music teachers to attend the upcoming gala celebration of the Centennial of the Tennessee Education Association from April 8-10, 1965. The TMEA All-State Ensembles would perform during the TEA general sessions, thus “giving them the largest audiences in their history”. Special recognition was given to John Bright for his leadership of the local committee responsible for scheduling the program for music educators at this event. Dr. Cowan also invited Tennessee music educators to attend the upcoming MENC (now NAfME) Southern Division convention which would feature two Tennessee performing groups, the Memphis State University Chorale and the Tennessee School for the Blind Band. Conference. Thursday highlights were morning rehearsals of the All- State Band, Chorus, and Orchestra, on-site registration (which was then $2.00), demonstration and music reading clinics in the afternoon, and a TEA Banquet and Dance to close the evening. Friday activities continued with performances of the All-State Chorus (Director: Dr. Charles H. Webb, Jr.) and Orchestra (Director: Howard Brown) at the morning and evening general sessions, respectively. The Saturday morning general session featured the All-State Band (Director: THE TENNESSEE MUSICIAN (MARCH 1965) Volume 17, No. 3 – 12 pgs. Dr. Tom Cowan, TMEA President Carolyn M. Scruggs, Editor Nilo W. Hovey) and concluded with an afternoon meeting of the TMEA Board of Control (now the TMEA Board of Directors). • The School of Music at Nashville’s Peabody College for Teachers (now part of Vanderbilt University) was recognized for receiving one of eight university grants awarded through MENC’s Contemporary Music Project for Creativity in Music Education. Composer on faculty Gilbert Trythall served as the director of the three week “Contemporary Music Workshop”. • The Tennessee School For The Blind Band from Nashville was selected as one of the ensembles to perform at the upcoming 1965 MENC Southern Division convention in Louisville, Kentucky, on March 12, 1965. Under the direction of director Mrs. Virginia Mitchell Bruce and assistant director Miss Reigel, this band of 43 members encompassed students from ages 9 through 18, where “one-fourth of the ensemble read regular music notation while the remainder of the students read braille music”. The noteworthy program this band would perform included Grainger’s Irish Tune from County Derry, Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever, Slocum’s arrangement of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro Overture, and more. This article was intriguing and included answers to commonly asked questions; details consisted of methods the directors in this ensemble utilized to teach the repertoire, how braille music was notated for the students, and how tempi changes were rehearsed and performed as an ensemble. • The program for the upcoming Tennessee Music Educators Association’s Convention (West End High School; Nashville, TN) resembled aspects of the outline utilized for our modern-day TMEA 32 | TENNESSEE MUSICIAN | 2020 | Volume 72, No. 3
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