Alabama Orchestra Association
One Down, One to Go! Maggie Snyder, President, AOA
Thanks to those of you who participat-
ed in this year's AMEA conference. I really enjoyed see- ing and working with all of you, and look forward to a lit- tle more at All State coming up. Perhaps by the time this goes to press we'll be all done with All State! I certainly anticipate a great time with all of you and your students. Feedback from this year's conference sessions, clinics, and performances has been really good. We were excited to have things moving smoothly this year and are very excited about performances by the Etowah Youth Symphony Orchestra at general session, and the Mobile Youth Symphony. These two performances really helped to promote the visibility of AOA in the state. I hope to continue this trend.
I want to thank everybody that was involved in making the conference run and run smoothly. Thanks to Marilyn Pipkin, Dr. Anne Witt, and Chris Kozak for serving on the panel for the string quartet discussion. Thanks to every- one for their input in the AOAbusiness meeting. We have voted to accept the bylaw changes as proposed last year at the February meeting. We are accepting nominations and
volunteers for a number of district chairs, so contact me for more information.
Thank you also goes to our con-
ductor panel, John Nardolillo (University of Kentucky), Ken Ozzello (University of Alabama), and our own Mike Gagliardo. John also set us up for a great panel conversa- tion with his clinic on talking to the orchestra. I was espe- cially excited about these two sessions because they suc- cessfully crossed the lines of band and orchestra. I was so very excited about having some of the band folks come to our sessions. I look forward to so much more sharing of ideas and thoughts. We have so much to learn from each other.
I do hope that we will all work hard to increase future participation in conference. We have a lot of hopes to increase membership and work on participation by those not already involved. Keep eyes and ears open for new membership ideas!
I feel great about this year's conference and am antici- pating our next big festival. Please feel free to contact me if you would like to recommend some clinics for next year's conference. "My inbox, your inbox" still stands so email me!
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