Alabama Orchestra Association
Gearing Up... Maggie Snyder, President, AOA
Updates
By the time this article comes out we will be done with All State Orchestra Festival 2007. As I write to you amid the stacks of music and paper and folders to be stuffed, I'm excited about the upcoming prospect of the 230+ students, along with numerous teachers and parents, who will descend onto the campus of the University of Alabama for All State in just a couple of weeks. This year's festival is shaping up to be an exciting one and I'm anticipating a stellar concert and a good time had by all.
January and February are busy times for the
Alabama Orchestra Association. We have All State in February and Conference in January and we certainly have being doing a lot to make both of these events full of ener- gy and information.
This year’s conference sessions
focused a lot on alternative styles and other useful infor- mation for musicians of all levels. Thursday, we had some cross-over events with members of ABA, along with a ses- sion with me on Ten Habits of Highly Effective Practice. As promised, I still plan to put these on my personal web- site for all to reference at their leisure. Thursday ended with a long AOA general mem-
bership meeting. Many decisions and votes were made pertaining to taking our organization into the next stage. Proposals were made about working toward changing our By-Laws to fit our growing needs. The Executive Board will be working on changes that will incorporate the development of a new position called 'Executive Director/Treasurer,' a compensated position.
These pro-
posed changes to the by-laws will be presented to the gen- eral membership at our next meeting (Saturday of All State Orchestra Festival in February). You will then be asked to vote by mail before the end of February. Currently, Mike Gagliardo is acting Treasurer, a post he has agreed to serve in until the membership makes a deci- sion about what to do at the end of February. The membership also proposed a slate of officers
for the next term of office (starting June 2007), which is being voted on at the meeting in February. The general membership will also make final recommendations for All State Orchestra Festival 2008.
Friday of the conference had a rhythm unique and
exciting all to its own. We started the day with Dr. Andrea Cevasco of the University of Alabama presenting a clinic on the basics of guitar and so much fun was had by all that many were inspired to go out and get their own! Dr. Peter Rovit, violin professor of the University of Alabama pre- sented a clinic on baroque styles in string playing that was very informative. After lunch, Professor Chris Kozak from the University of Alabama presented a clinic on jazz in the string classroom, which was followed by Fiddle 101, pre-
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sented by our own Chip Gulbro. These interactive classes really brought a high level of energy to the day! Alabama Orchestra Association Composition Competition Atrue and shining gem of this season for Alabama
Orchestra Association is the instigation of the first Alabama Orchestra Association National Composition Competition. Since 2000, it has been a yearly tradition for the AOA to commission a work for orchestra, which receives its world premiere at the All State Orchestra Festival.
Along with receiving a world premiere, com- posers are also in residence for the duration of the festival where they work with the orchestra and present a clinic on composition called "Meet the Composer." Previous com- posers have included Stella Sung, Alan Moss, David Durant, James Grant, David Ott, James Woodward, Sandra Dackow, James Lee, Lanette Lind, and Philip Wharton. In February 2006, the AOA membership voted to instigate the new composition competition in lieu of com- missioning a work. With a motion instigated by our own Mike Gagliardo (past president of AOA, and current acting Treasurer), an independent committee was formed to for- mulate the ground-rules for the competition. This commit- tee, made up of Mike, Holly Compton, and myself, set forth guidelines for the competition. The winning compos- er receives a cash award of $1,500 and the winning com- position is being performed at the 2007 Alabama All-State Orchestra Festival at the University Of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, AL, on February 11, 2007. The winning com- poser is also in residency at the 2007 Alabama All-State Orchestra Festival and a "Meet the Composer" session will occur on Friday at noon in the concert hall on the campus of the University of Alabama. Materials were submitted to AOAon November 15 from 39 composers from all over the country and the judges looked at all of these scores. The following were the requirements:
*The submitted composition must have been composed between January 1, 2005 and December 1, 2006, and must not be published by a major concert or educational publish- ing house.
*The submitted composition should not have received a previous public performance. The performance at the Alabama All-State Orchestra Festival should be the World Premiere Performance of the work.
*The composition should be for full orchestra. Orchestration should not exceed 2+pic/2+eh/2+bc/2- 4/3/3/1-timp+3-piano-harp-strings.
*The composition should be an original work. Arrangements and transcriptions are ineligible.
ala breve February 2007
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