WMEA News Leyla Sanyer, WMEA President-Elect 2011 Capitol Concerts
It was a challenging spring at the State Capitol. Because of this, six school en- sembles were unable to perform when their slots were cancelled by State Capi- tol police or the school district. It is the hope of WMEA organizers that these groups will be the first asked to perform in March 2012. The cancelling of the Arts Day concert on March 3 was a particular disappointment to many people. The fol- lowing groups provided emotional and well-received performances:
March 16 – Stevens Point Area High School Concert Choir and Wind Ensemble – Kevin Morrissey/Brad Schmidt
March 18 – New Richmond High School Kammerchor Mixed Choir – Andy Schroetter
March 23 – Fond du Lac Concert and Treble Choirs – Sarah McVeigh
April 4 – Hartland Arrowhead High School Symphonic Band – Stacy Zwirlein
April 8 – Shawano St. James Lutheran School Band and Choir – April Black/David Pelow
April 11 – Black Creek Middle School Choir – Sandra Kailhofer
April 18 – Waukesha West High School Concert Choir – Tom Ajack
Thanks to Sharon Munson for all her work with this project over the years!
For more information on the Capitol Concerts, go to
www.wmeamusic.org click on “Programs,” then “Capitol Concerts.”
2010-11 Listening Project
Forty-one schools were involved in the Listening Project and three fourth grade teams were added this past year. To keep fourth grade team interest a special op- portunity to design a creative representa- tion of a piece from the list will be added next year.
More students used iTunes in 2010-11 and next year the project will offer a digital version of the printed materials downloadable from the web site. In this way teachers who have interactive boards in their classrooms can take advantage of this option. The Listening Project team is also developing a handbook, a Facebook page and a new logo design. Thanks to Peggy Krasin and Aimee Swanson for all their work on the Listening Project. For more information go to www.wmea
music.org click on “Programs,” then “Listening Project.”
2011 CMP Workshop
The annual CMP workhop was held at UW-Eau Claire in June. 25 participants joined 10 committee members as they explored new ways to look at pieces of music. They had an enjoyable five days looking at the use of technology in the CMP classroom. CMP Chair Chris Glea- son would like to thank UW-Eau Claire music professor Alan Rieck for all his help in setting up and running the workshop.
Committee leadership continues with Margaret Jenks as chair-elect. Future plans include a meeting to look at the future goals of the CMP Project with assistance from Jerry Kember and possible news that the National Association for Music Educa- tion (NAfME) committee is interested in a national workshop from the Wisconsin CMP experts. More information can be found at
wmeamusic.org/CMP.
WAME News
The Wisconsin Advocates for Music Education (WAME) committee is work- ing at maximum capacity over the last few months in preparation for the fall conference, legislative breakfast and new Music Advocacy Summit. In preparation for discussion about a statewide fine arts credit requirement, the committee has sent a letter to State Superintendent Tony Evers asking for documentation on music and art offerings across the state. Watch for infor- mation in your email box regarding the upcoming October 27 bi-annual legislative breakfast. There will be a guest speaker and two student performing ensembles. We will be asking music educators to invite your representatives and senators to attend this great event. Especially in this year of uncertainty it is important that we keep our connections with lawmak- ers on both sides of the aisle. The first
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WMEA Council and staff gather at the Wisconsin Center for Music Education in July for an annual summer retreat.
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