From the ABA... Chuck Eady, President,Alabama BandmastersAssociation
Greetings! I hope you are making plans to attend
the 2011
AMEA Conference January 20-22 at the
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel and Convention Center. Many hours of planning have been invested intomaking this a great opportunity for professional development. Congratulations to the bands selected to perform at this year’s conference. Please make an effort to attend these concerts and show your appreciation for the many hours of hard work these students and their directors put forth in order to present these outstanding performances.We also have many excellent clinics thatwill be offered throughout the conference. I hope you will find these concerts and clinics inspiring as we seek to grow in our profession. New this year will be a Saturday concert featuring the Alabama Collegiate Honor Band, conducted by Ray Cramer. Following this concert we will once again offer our MPA Adjudicator Certification Clinic (check your AMEA Conference schedule for time and location). The certification application and info are posted on the ABAweb site.
Please note that our music selection Proposal 2011-2
committee has elected to change the scale order for All-State auditions. This was discussed at the summer conference and has been posted on the web site (along with an updatedAll-State audition form).
OurMusic PerformanceAssessment will begin in February. TheMPAis held at the District levelwith eachDistrict Chairman responsible for collecting registration forms and fees as well as securing all adjudicators. Registration deadlines will vary by District, so make sure you receive this information from your District Chairman. Recording and picture contracts will also be handled at the District level. We have a generic MPA registration form on the ABA web site, but your District Chairman may elect to use their own as it will contain more detailed
information concerning
deadlines, recording, and picture fees. If you have any questions please contact your District Chairman.
Belowyouwill find legislative proposals that were presented at the summer conference and will be voted on in our Saturday morning AMEA business meeting. There is an additional proposal (to incorporate theAJE into theABAby- laws) that is posted on the website because of
its length. The only
opportunity for discussion on these proposals will be in our Friday morning
ABA Legislative Proposals
Clarification ofArticle 16Alabama BandmastersMusic PerformanceAs- sessment Procedures – Submitting music not on cumulative list for ap- proval.
ABABylawsArticle 16, section 3 Procedures, Paragraph 3:
“One selection must be played from the cumulative list for the band’s classification or higher. Directors who wish to play a composition not on the cumulative list should submit scores to the Vice-President for ap- proval,”
Replace paragraph 3 with the following:
“Every band that performs for ratings at theMusic PerformanceAssess- ment (MPA), must play at least one selection from the cumulative list for the band’s classification or higher. Directors may request a one year ex- ception from this requirement by submitting a score to the Vice-President for approval no later than the third Friday in January.”
Rationale – Our handbook does not give a clear deadline for the submission of scores for approval to the Vice-President. The rewording is intended to prevent a misunderstanding of how many of the pieces you play must come from the cumulative list and gives a specific deadline for dealing with this issue.
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business meeting when they are presented. Please read over these proposals so that youwill be aware of the possible changes they couldmake and be at the Saturday morning meeting to cast your vote.
Our 2011All-State Festival will beApril 14-16 in Mobile, AL. We will be using the Riverview Plaza Hotel, the Mobile Convention Center, and theMobile Civic Center. Our All-State Solo Festival will be held onWednesday, April 13. One of the most exciting benefits of the Mobile site will be that once we arrive at the Riverview we will not have to leave that site until the Saturday concert (the Riverviewand the Convention Center are connected by walk way). Our 2011 All- State clinicians will be: Red Band - Colonel John Bourgeois, the United StatesMarine Band (retired),White Band - Elva Kaye Lance, Mississippi State University, Blue Band - Sue Samuels, UAB, andMiddle School - Steve Tyndall, Rising StarMiddle School. If youwish to go ahead and book your rooms, the number to the Renaissance Riverview Plaza Hotel is 1-800-922-3298, and our group code is “ALBALBA”. May you have a blessed year and I look forward to seeing you in Montgomery and Mobile. As always, if I can be of assistance please let me know.
Proposal 2011-3
MPASightreading Time amendment ABABylaws section 4, Letter C sentence 2 and 3 reads:
C. The director of the band will have seven (7) minutes for score study and instruction. These seven (7) minutes include score study and any teaching techniques the director chooses to use.
Replace sentence 2 and 3 to read as follows:
The director of the band will have a period of time for score study and a period of time for instruction as set by the board of directors.
Rationale – The length of some of the sight-reading pieces requires a greater amount of time and this allows flexibility by the board to make sure that these classifications have the time needed for instruction.
Proposal 2011-1 is quite lengthy and may be viewed at
www.alabamamea.org/bandmasters/index.htm October 2010
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