Alabama Orchestra Association Launch! Maggie Snyder, President, AOA We did it. We are online! AOA has successfully
launched the new website,
www.alabamaorchestraassoci-
ation.org, and not only are we up and running, we launched on time on September 1, 2006! The instigation of this new website is a huge step in the direction of hav- ing our materials easy to access for our members, teach- ers, parents, students, but also for the general public. Since we have started the new National Composition Competition in order to pick the Festival Orchestra's new piece, having this website will also enable us to have the competition details easily accessible to the general pub- lic.
Currently the site details everything you need to know about All State Orchestra Festival for 2007, including conductor pictures and bios, details about the composi- tion competition, audition applications for all three orchestras, and excerpts for all the instruments for all three orchestras.
This year we will continue with last
year's format of video taping all of the auditions for all of the orchestras. With the help of a $750 dollar grant from the Alabama Council for the Arts, we were able to pur- chase two digital DVD video cameras for use in two of our larger districts in order to work towards a single for- mat for auditions. We encourage DVD auditions in all districts and are looking forward to finding support for more DVD video recorders.
This year's Festival repertoire is certainly exciting. The Festival Orchestra will be playing the Finale to Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony and Ravel's Bolero. We are hoping that the highly competitive nature of the few seats available, mixed with the exiting repertoire choices by this year's conductor will inspire even more wind and brass auditions from those who normally only participate
in state band-related events. Please get the word out about this exciting repertoire so that we have an overabundance of qualified applicants in all areas. With regards to this year's conference schedule, as you'll see in this issue, we have a really wonderful upcoming schedule. We will again reach across the isle to Band and Choral this year in sharing some sessions about conduct- ing (with Dr. Paul Davis and Ken Ozzello). We will also have an entire day dedicated to alternative styles in strings. I am excited to welcome some new comers to our session presentations. Dr. Peter Rovit, The University of Alabama's new Assistant Professor of Violin will present a clinic on Baroque string playing, and UA's new Assistant Professor of Music Therapy will offer us a clinic on basic guitar techniques. We will also have a couple of presenta- tions on Jazz in the classroom and Appalachian Fiddle Music. We'll continue on with our ASTAnew music read- ing session (bring your instruments; it's so much fun to play together!) and I will present a clinic on practicing. Please take note of the time for the General Meeting and be sure to be there. This is the time that decisions about our procedure and our leadership are made. Your partici- pation, ideas, and votes really are of utmost importance. In all, AOAhas a great deal of exciting things to look for- ward to. We have a lot of wonderful sessions coming up at AMEA and ASOF really looks like it will be another wonderful festival. Stay tuned into the new website for upcoming events and details. I hope to have even more information up about conference and the like now that the initial information is up about ASOF.
Please, also, your
feedback is really something I appreciate so very much. I look forward to hearing from you and seeing you all soon.
maggieviola@comcast.net.
Visit the AOA on the Web!
www.alabamaorchestraassociation.org 44 October 2006
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