American Music Teacher articles from June 2003

American Music Teacher archives from June 2003

The wellness movement. (Dear Reader).
June 1, 2003... In an article entitled "The Wellness Movement," C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D. traced the roots of the wellness movement back to the days of the ancient Greeks and the Olympic Games (see www.shealyhealthnet.com/wellness_movement.htm). Over...

As teachers ... (In Unison).(trends in music teaching)
June 1, 2003... If you are like me, some days, we can't help but wonder why we have chosen teaching as a profession, especially when the fifth student in a row comes into the studio saying, "I really had a rough week--two midterms plus my basketball team lost...

Summer Jazz Teacher Training Institutes. (Items of Interest).(Calendar)
June 1, 2003... The International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) will present two intensive two-day Teacher Training Institutes. Funded in part by contributions from the BET Jazz Education Grant, the Institutes will be held June 19-21, 2003, at The...

Find music jobs online. (Items of Interest).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Music teachers can post their resumes online and locate positions available throughout the United States at www.music-jobs.com. Music-jobs.com's unique cross-referenced searching facility allows employers to set their own search criteria,...

Music Academy of the West president to retire. (Items of Interest).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... David L. Kuehn, president of the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, has announced his retirement, effective June 30, 2004. Kuehn has been president of the Music Academy since 1993, when he succeeded Robert Holmes....

Music and Markets tours of France. (Items of Interest).(Calendar)
June 1, 2003... Music and Markets 2003, presented by Music Etc., will offer two opportunities--July 19-26, 2003, and August 2-9, 2003--to witness the music and experience the countryside and markets of France, and see the 23rd annual La Roque d'Antheron...

Dream Lab program fosters creativity. (Items of Interest).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Dream Lab is a ten-week artist residency program to help students develop and produce creative, original work in music, dance, drama and the visual arts. It is based on themes portrayed in the new Giant Screen film Pulse: a STOMP Odyssey, a...

Eighteenth-century standards on CD. (Music Marketplace).(Sound Recording Review)
June 1, 2003... Colonial Williamsburg, Public Relations Department, P.O. Box 1776, Williamsburg, VA 23187-1776; (800) 447-8679 or (757) 220-7286; www.colonialwilliamsburg.org. $17.95. Colonial Williamsburg introduces a new CD of colonial keyboard music,...

VocalZone for perfect harmony. (Music Marketplace).(caring for vocal cord strain)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... VocalZone (Distributed by The Aurora Group, Inc.), (800) 318-3934; www.viviforyou.com or sales@theauroragrp.com. Contact local store for price. VocalZone, a pastille created to soothe vocal chords and relieve irritations, is available for...

International Jeunesses Musicales Piano Competition. (Competitions).(Calendar)
June 1, 2003... The 34th International Jeunesses Musicales Piano and Piano Duo Competition will take place in Belgrade March 20-April 2, 2004. The competition is open to pianists of any nationality who are under the age of 30 as of March 20, 2004. In the...

Using the body's wisdom to unlock technique.
June 1, 2003... As teacher and performer, it is impossible to have too much knowledge about the body. We owe it to our students to pass along information that will allow them to unlock their musical potential and prevent the possibility of future injury. But...

Strategies for small-handed pianists.
June 1, 2003... When pianos were first invented, they were similar in size to harpsichords. Hand size was rarely a limiting factor throughout the eighteenth century because the keys were short and narrow and the repertoire usually contained intervals no larger...

Goldilocks had a choice.(ergonomics of piano keyboards)
June 1, 2003... Goldilocks Story Once upon a time, there was a little girl who stumbled into a warm and inviting concert hall. On the stage, she saw three beautiful concert grand pianos. "Oooh," she thought, "they look so wonderful. I'll bet I can play...

Perspective on performances for elementary-Level piano students.
June 1, 2003... Like all the arts, music is a source of pleasure for many people, not only musicians. Unlike the other arts, however, it generally must be performed to be enjoyed by its audience. Thus, public performance has become an unquestioned and highly...

Annotated bibliography on musician wellness.(Bibliography)
June 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION This bibliography is an extension and update of the Annotated Bibliography on Musician Wellness on MTNA's website: www.mma.org. This ongoing project began in 1994, when it was first published in the Proceedings for the...

2003 MTNA National Conference Highlights.
June 1, 2003... This year's exhibit hall was more popular than ever, with 175 booths and nearly 100 exhibitors. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Irene Peery-Fox, NCTM, spoke at the Opening Session about the joys and challenges of teaching the Brown siblings....

Robert Pace receives Achievement Award. (Association News).
June 1, 2003... Robert Pace, composer, concert pianist, lecturer and music educator, was honored with the 2003 Music Teachers National Association Achievement Award at the Awards Brunch March 19, during the MTNA National Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah....

Texas is State Affiliate of the Year. (Association News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Texas Music Teachers Association (TMTA) is the 2003 Music Teachers National Association State Affiliate of the Year. The association was awarded $1,000 and a plaque; they donated the cash prize to the MTNA FOUNDATION. "We are proud of this...

Margaret Saunders Ott is Teacher of the Year. (Association News).
June 1, 2003... Margaret "Margie May" Saunders Ott, NCTM, is the 2003 MTNA Teacher of the Year. She accepted this honor at the MTNA National Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. As an award recipient, her conference expenses were sponsored by MTNA. "Margie...

Durum Triangle MTA is Local Association of the Year. (Association News).(Music Teachers Association )(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The Durum Triangle Music Teachers Association (DTMTA) of Langdon, North Dakota, is the recipient of the 2003 MTNA Local Association of the Year Award. The award was presented at the recent MTNA National Conference. Although this local...

Timothy Hoekman named MTNA-Shepherd Distinguished Composer of the Year. (Association News).(Music Teachers National Association)
June 1, 2003... Timothy Hoekman has been selected as the 2002 MTNA-Shepherd Distinguished Composer of the Year for his composition To Make a Prairie, commissioned by the South Dakota Music Teachers Association. A professor of vocal coaching and...

James Lyke honored with Frances Clark Keyboard Pedagogy Award.
June 1, 2003... James Lyke was presented the MTNA Frances Clark Keyboard Pedagogy Award for his text Creative Piano Teaching, now in its third edition, which is used in many college piano pedagogy courses. The award, in the amount of $3,000, was...

Studio fellowship winner.
June 1, 2003... Klondike Steadman of Georgetown, Texas, is the recipient of the second MTNA Studio Fellowship Award. The award, in the amount of $3,000, is made possible by the MTNA FOUNDATION. Klondike was selected from a group of more than thirty music...

Williams awarded AMT Article of the Year.(American Music Teacher )
June 1, 2003... "Cross-Cultural Communication in the Music Studio," by Kenneth Williams, was selected as the 2002 American Music Teacher Article of the Year. The article appeared in the August/September issue of AMT. Williams, assistant professor of music...

Weber State University is 2003 Collegiate Chapter of the Year.
June 1, 2003... Weber State University (WSU) Music Teachers Association Collegiate Chapter, in Ogden, Utah, has been selected as the 2003 Collegiate Chapter of the Year. Consisting of eighteen student members and advised by faculty members Yu-Jane Yang,...

Denise Allen receives PTGF award.(Piano Technicians Guild Foundation )(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Denise N. Allen, NCTM, of Sandy, Utah, is the recipient of the 2003 Piano Technicians Guild Foundation (PTGF) Grant, worth $1,000. This grant provides Nationally Certified Teachers of Music (NCTM) with advanced study opportunities related to...

Fall state conventions.(Calendar)
June 1, 2003... Fall State Conventions State Date Location City Delaware October 31- Wilmington Music Wilmington November 1 School Florida November 6-9 Omni...

Service awards presented.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Outgoing MTNA Board of Directors and National Chairs were recognized for their years of service during the Awards Brunch at the recent MTNA National Conference. The Board members and chairs all served two-year terms during the 2001-2003...

2003-2005 national officers.
June 1, 2003... Phyllis Pieffer, NCTM, is MTNA president. She has been actively involved in MTNA for thirty years, having previously held such positions as MTNA president-elect and vice president for membership development; Colorado state president,...

East Central Division. (Division News).(music events)(Calendar)
June 1, 2003... With summer, workshops and camps abound. Indiana MTA (IMTA) members staff a booth at the "PBS Kids in the Park," a public-sponsored community outreach day. They provide general information about IMTA, as well as learning and performance...

Northwest Division. (Division News).(music teacher awards and conferences)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Northwest Division members were delighted that our own Margaret "Margie May" Saunders Ott, NCTM, from Spokane, Washington, was honored at the MTNA Awards Brunch in Salt Lake City as 2003 Teacher of the Year. Since she began teaching in 1932,...

Eastern Division. (Division News).
June 1, 2003... Eastern Division held a reception followed by a business meeting at the MTNA National Conference in Salt Lake City. National composition winners were recognized with certificates and plaques. Benjamin Whitten, NCTM, was recognized for the...

South Central Division. (Division News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Congratulations to the Texas MTA for being chosen State Affiliate of the Year. The award was presented at the MTNA National Conference in Salt Lake City. Congratulations also to Philelle McBrayer, NCTM, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, for being awarded a...

Southwest Division. (Division News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... It was the pleasure and privilege of Utah and the Southwest Division to host the 2003 MTNA National Conference in March. The location encouraged record attendance, and we were treated to excellent workshops, recitals and programs. Special...

West Central Division. (Division News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The West Central Division meeting during the MTNA National Conference in Salt Lake City was attended by fifty-seven members representing all eight states. The no-host dinner immediately following the meeting was enjoyed by eighty-seven members...

Southern Division. (Division News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... I hope you had a successful spring and are enjoying the summer months. I would like to thank everyone who attended the Southern Division meeting at the MTNA National Conference in Salt Lake City. I think we had lots of fun (and some good food...

Incentive Giving Campaign winners announced. (Foundation News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Congratulations to the California Association of Professional Music Teachers (CAPMT) and the Wyoming Music Teachers Association (WMTA) for, once again, winning the State Incentive Giving Campaign. The campaign is based on individual members...

Sixteen local associations receive grants. (Foundation News).(Illustration)
June 1, 2003... Sixteen Local Associations Receive Grants A total of $5,865 was distributed from the FOUNDATION to sixteen local associations in 2003. Recipients of the Local Association Matching and Start-Up Grants were announced at the FOUNDATION open...

2003 teacher enrichment grants awarded. (Foundation News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Twelve teachers received grants this year from the FOUNDATION. Ten thousand dollars was awarded to assist recipients in their continuing educational and professional development. This year's grants were awarded to Michelle Gutz-Kleng, advanced...

Jolly good fellows! (Foundation News).(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The MTNA FOUNDATION Fellow designation is a special award because it is bestowed on an individual by his or her peers. The FOUNDATION congratulates the seventeen new Fellows who were recognized at the FOUNDATION Gala during the 2003 MTNA...

Thank you to outgoing trustees. (Foundation News).(Music Teachers National Association)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The MTNA FOUNDATION thanks the following outgoing trustees for their dedicated service to the Board of Trustees: Annette Conklin, chair, 2001-2003, and trustee, 1998-2003 Terry Lewis, vice chair, 2001-2003, and trustee, 1996-2003 ...

Preparing teachers for the 21st century. (Certification News).
June 1, 2003... Editor's Note: Some twelve years have now passed since E.L. Lancaster's article, "Preparing Teachers for the 21st Century," appeared in the February 1990 issue of Clavier. A reprint of the article here seems as appropriate and relevant today as...

2002-2003 MTNA National Student Competitions sponsors.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Gail Lew, Warner Bros. Publications, Inc., left, is pictured with Gabrielle Haigh, winner of the MTNA Student Composition Competition, elementary school level, sponsored by Warner Bros. Publications. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Alexander...

2002-2003 MTNA Student Competitions national winners.
June 1, 2003... Student Composition Competition Sponsored by Warner Bros. Publications, Inc. Elementary Gabrielle Nina Haigh, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, is a sixth-grade student at Laurel School. Gabrielle currently studies with Mary Ann Griebling....

Correction.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The ages for Senior Composition were listed incorrectly in the April/May AMT. The correct ages are 15-18 as of December 1, 2003.

2003 State and Division Competitions. (2003-2004 MTNA National Student Competitions).
June 1, 2003... All applications must be postmarked or time/date stamped on or before September 9, 2003. Current as of April 21, 2003. STATE DATE LOCATION Alabama November 7-8 University of...

In memoriam.(Music Teachers National Association)
June 1, 2003... Editor's Note: MTNA would like to recognize those individuals whose lives made a mark in the music teaching profession. We note with sorrow their passing. Usher Abell, 87, of Vermillian, South Dakota, died February 6, 2003. He taught...

Polyphony. (Professional Resources).
June 1, 2003... Musical Practice and its Transfer in Life A Return to the Topic of "Practice" I notice that in recent months I have returned several times to the topic of "practice." Perhaps it is because we spend so much of our teaching time helping...

What's new in Pedagogy research? (Professional Resources).
June 1, 2003... What factors do you think are strong predictors of whether a student's performance will go well? Certainly, adequate amounts of effective and efficient practice are necessary, along with good mental preparation and the motivation to play well....

It's all your business: how much life insurance? (Professional Resources).
June 1, 2003... Since recently being (re)married and being "40 something in age, my husband and I decided it was time to discuss our overall financial plan. Having grown children, teenage children and aging parents, we were led down many different paths for...

Musicians, scientists and clinicians: mind/body perspectives. (College Faculty Forum).
June 1, 2003... After returning from the MTNA National Conference in Salt Lake City, I flew to Jacksonville, Florida, to attend two days of meetings of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (AAPB), of which my husband, Paul, a clinical...

Memorable conference for collegiate chapters. (Collegiate Chapters).
June 1, 2003... The 2003 MTNA National Conference will surely go down in the memory books as one of the best. This was the first time all collegiate chapter sessions were presented by collegiate chapter members. For those of you who did not have the...

Meet the 2002 MTNA-Shepherd Distinguished Composer of the Year. (Composer Commissioning).
June 1, 2003... To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,-- One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do If bees are few. --Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Timothy Hoekman used these lines from the...

The messages we send. (Independent Music Teachers Forum).
June 1, 2003... What message does the tone of our voice send? What impression does our appearance have on students and parents? Body language, voice inflection, speech habits, eye contact, facial expressions, posture and clothing all can impact the way we are...

Four Star: Sight Reading and Ear Tests (Introductory through Book 10).(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Boris Berlin and Andrew Markov. Edited by Scott McBride Smith. The Frederick Harris Music Co., Ltd (Unit 1, 5865 McLaughlin Rd., Mississauga, Ontario L5R 1B8), 2002. 32-64pp. per book, depending on level; $5.95-10.50 per book, depending on...

The Ice Palace (two pianos, four hands).(Appalachian Rhapsody)(12th Street Rag)(Review)
June 1, 2003... by Ernest J. Kramer. 8pp. each part, $4.95. Appalachian Rhapsody (two pianos, four hands), by Randall Hartsell. 4pp. each part, $3.95. 12th Street Rag (two pianos, four hands), by Euday Bowman. Arranged by Geoff Haydon and Jim Lyke. 7pp. each...

Expressive Etudes, Book 4.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Suzanne Guy. The FJH Music Company, Inc. (2525 Davie Rd., Ste. 360, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33317-7424), 2002. 32pp., $6.50. Intermediate. Teachers already familiar with Suzanne Guy's Expressive Etudes series will be happy to know the fourth...

Pure Curry: Unique Jazz Settings of Favorite Hymns.(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Craig Curry. Hal Leonard (7777 W. Bluemound Rd., Milwaukee, WI 53213-3400), 2002. 71 pp., $18.95. Early advanced. In Pure Curry, Craig Curry has chosen ten sacred tunes and arranged them in a variety of jazz styles. Appropriate for the...

Bach Goes to Town: Prelude and Fugue in Swing (for clarinet quartet).(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... by Alec Templeton. Arranged by Henry Brant. Emerson Edition/Theodore Presser Co. (588 N. Gulph Rd., King of Prussia, PA 19406), 1938. Score and parts, $28.95. Intermediate. Welsh-born Alec (Andrew) Templeton, pianist, musical entertainer...

The Practice Revolution: Getting Great Results from the Six Days Between Music Lessons.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... by Philip Johnston. PracticeSpot Press (52 Pethebridge St., Pearce ACT 2607, Australia), 2002. 324pp., $28.99. So, why do music students need a revolution in their practicing? As I understand the question from Philip Johnston's book, it...

Bartok and the Piano: a Performer's View.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... by Barbara Nissman. Scarecrow Press (4720 Boston Way, Lanham, MD 20706), 2002. 319 pp., $49.50. Whether you are a pianist who performs and teaches Bela Bartok's music or simply a lover of piano music, you will find this book a valuable new...

Bach's Well-tempered Clavier:The 48 Preludes and Fugues.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... by David Ledbetter. Yale University Press (P.O. Box 209040, New Haven, CT 06520-9040), 2002. 352 pp., $40. Bach's magnum pedagogical opus--a goldmine of contrapuntal wizardry, keyboard challenges and characterful music. It has found its...

How Can We Keep from Singing: Music and the Passionate Life.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... by Joan Oliver Goldsmith. W. W. Norton & Co. (500 5th Ave., New lark, NY 10110), 2002. 223 pp., $13.95. The subtitle to Joan Oliver Goldsmith's book, How Can We Keep from Singing, gives us our first clue that this is not a book about vocal...

Reflections of an American Composer.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... by Arthur Berger. University of California Press (2000 Center Ct., #303, Berkeley, CA 94704), 2002. 277pp., $44.95. For those of us who did some graduate study in music theory three or four decades ago but desire to pursue our knowledge in...

Making Money Making Music: the Musician's Guide to Cover Gigs.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... by Quint Randle and Bill Evans. Backbeat Books (600 Harrison St., San Francisco, CA 94107), 2002. 180pp., $14.95. Quint Randle and Bill Evans's book, Making Money Making Music: The Musician's Guide to Cover Gigs, is intended to educate...

Leadership.(Directory)
June 1, 2003... Phyllis Heifer, NCTM President 4852 Wishkah Rd. Aberdeen, WA 98520-9628 (360) 537-6863 Fax (360) 537-6852 Pianofil@techline.com Paul Stewart, NCTM President-elect University of North Carolina at...