relationships we build and the lives we change through our ion is the most important part – not our résumés, our titles,
awards. Music is the medium through which we get to reach people and to bring beauty into the lives of others.
have come before me who have strived to better this organization through their service.
As you prepare for this year, please review the updates and reminders below.
SUMMER BOARD REPORT I am honored to be serving with so many hard-working and forward-minded directors on the AVA Board. We had a very productive meeting this summer, and I would like to share a few of the decisions that were made. The AVA Board:
l Revised the AVA General Membership Handbook to reflect current policies and procedures.
l Reviewed the research conducted by the sight-reading committee and created revised guidelines to be implemented this year.
l Voted to use Acceptd for All-State Show Choir auditions this year in order to encourage more participation by alleviating travel and financial issues that are caused by having to travel for auditions.
l Decided to have two students from each school submit “Alabama” through Acceptd for All-State Choir auditions in order to test the program throughout the state.
l Revised the All-State audition form to ala breve
a rubric-style format in order to clarify the process of scoring the students for the adjudicators and allow for more consistency in scores.
NAfME MEMBERSHIP and AVA DATABASE
Please be sure to renew your NAfME membership as soon as possible if you have not already done so. AVA members must also register annually in the AVA Database, which can be found by clicking on the “AVA Membership Enrollment” tab under the AVA Menu at
www.myamea.org/ava. Your NAfME membership and AVA Database enrollment must be current to attend and/or participate in any AVA events, so renew and enroll today!
FALL WORKSHOP Fall Workshop will be held on September 7th
at Huntingdon College in Montgomery. Our guest clinician, Dr. Lesley Mann, Asst. Professor of Choral Music at Belmont University, will present two interest sessions and a reading session. Dr. William Powell, Paul Edmonson, Margaret Heron, and Jim Schaeffer will also present mini “how-to” sessions on gospel music, dealing with your administration, theory, and sight-reading, respectively. In addition, we will be sharing the revised sight-reading guidelines, demonstrating the process for submitting online auditions through Acceptd, and reviewing the All-State music packets. AVA EVENTS The 2018-2019 AVA Calendar of Events is posted on the AVA website and on page 39
of this issue of the Ala Breve. Visit the AVA website to also find a printable list of dates. With registration deadlines being as many as six weeks in advance of events, it is so easy for a deadline to sneak up on you. We all know how difficult it can be to obtain purchase orders and payments through school system bookkeeping departments quickly, so I encourage you to plan ahead for these deadlines now!Please send any questions, concerns, and/or ideas to
presidentofava@gmail.com. I am hoping for a great year for you all!
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