From the President... Too Good To Be True
Pat Stegall, AMEA President
planned by your Division Officers and promises to be outstanding. There are some superb performing groups and clinicians preparing to perform and instruct you. We will
I woke up at 4:00 o’clock this morning with that song in my head again! “Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You”, sung by Frankie Vali and the Four Seasons. It is four weeks from homecoming and I am not sure why it showed up, but I can’t get the tune out of my head once it starts. My wife and I visited New York last April and the very first show we ever saw on Broadway was “Jersey Boys” with that song as one of the featured productions. That trip was enlightening to me. We saw four shows in three days and I consider it one of the best vacations ever. The imagination of the productions and the level of perfection from the performers amazed me.
Those actors and musicians were
trained somewhere and my guess is they got their start in schools like yours and mine.
AMEA President Pat Stegall and his wife Mary Ann visit with Congressman Parker Griffith during Music Education Week in Washington DC.
recognize some of our teachers and administrators for their accomplishments and achievements, so plan to be there and share the joyful times.
Seeing “Jersey Boys” got me thinking again about how it all fits together.
Not all of our students go on to be actors and professional musicians, but we teach to a high standard, which I hope will inspire our students to work toward perfection in their chosen field, whatever it happens to be. All I know is that I got chills when the performers were singing that tune and the chills don’t come easily for me. They had achieved it…perfection. It made me proud to be a music teacher, because I knew those performers had been trained by someone who took a sincere interest in developing their skills and instilled in them the desire to work toward the goal of getting it absolutely perfect.
I hope that you will make plans to attend the AMEA Conference in January. We all need to hone our skills, and network with our colleagues. The conference has been
6 October 2009
Times are tough financially in Alabama, and you may have to make an extra effort to be a part of the conference, but it will be worth it. Make sure you invite the music teachers in your district to become a part of AMEA. Together, we can survive these tough times and come out in great shape on the other side of the economic downturn. Sharing a room and travel expenses with a colleague is one way you can help save money. Just make sure you are there, in Tuscaloosa, in January with your eyes and ears ready to experience a conference that is just “Too Good To Be True!”
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