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February/March 2015


ala breve the official publication of the Alabama Music Educators Association


Features... 14 AVA All-State Clinicians


15 AVA All-State Schedule 18 ABA All-State Clinicians 19


ABA All-State Schedule


20 Schedule of Events 22 Conference Photos 24 Honors and Awards 26 Awareness of Aesthetic Distance...by Timothy Oliver 33 Phi Beta Mu Tips That Click 34 Choral Priorities: What Really Matters by Judy Bowers 37 Movement:A Means to Music Learning by Carlos Abril 40 The Path to Mastery by Colin Hill 42 Creating a Culture of Inclusion by Ellary Draper 44 You Are What You Eat: Repertoire... by David Ragsdale 46 Research Evangelism by Mark Montemayor 52 Choral Reviews by Erin Colwitz 54 Preparing Students for the Collegiate Music Environment by Amir Zaheri 57 AMEA Membership Honor Roll


Departments...


7.....................President 9 ..................Elem/Gen 9............Past Presidents 10..........................HED 10...........................AOA 13.............................AVA 16................Noteworthy 17...........................ABA 51........Industry Members 53..........Meeting Minutes 58.....Schedule of Events


ala breve Advertisers Index


American College of Musicians...............39 Arts Music Shop, Inc..................back cover AU Music Department...............................2 AWB/Wayne Broom.................................36 FSU Summer Camps................................54 Gadsden Music Company...........................6 Huntingdon College Bands.......................55 Huntingdon College Music.......................29 Jacksonville State University....................56 John M. Long School of Music (Troy).....58


QuaverMusic.com.....................................11 Samford University School of the Arts.....36 Smoky Mountain Music Festival..............28 Troy Graduate Studies..............................50 UA Bands..................................................59 UNA Department of Music.......................12 University of Montevallo............................8 University of South Alabama Bands.........49 University of South Alabama Music.........32 WCU Summer Symposium.......................30 Yamaha........................................................5


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