(Updated 6.15.18)
The new revised and updated CDMMEA Forms
are now listed under the Documents tab
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"Official" Senior & Junior Audition Lists
are posted
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The new revised and updated CDMMEA Forms
are now listed under the Documents tab
*
"Official" Senior & Junior Audition Lists
are posted
___________________________
Please consider donating to the Symphony Hall Scholars.
Click here to find out more about the scholarship program.
Are you a director or teacher who is not receiving our e-mails?
Click here to be added to our mailing list.
If you are interested in joining the executive board or
the festival staff please email the district chair.
Student & Professional information & opportunities
For a list of Community Opportunities
Please click on the "Camps and Community Ensembles" tab in our header after "more".
If anyone is in need of Professional pdp's
1. Get your 15 pdp’s in Special Education,
as required for recertification, this summer.
The class is titled;
Music and Special Needs at the Kodaly Music Institute.
It will be held in Somerville on July 2,3,5,6, from 12 to 4 pm.
For more information go to; www.kodalymusicinstitute.org.
2. Are you in need of user friendly PDP’s for recertification?
Then check out this new program from our National Headquarters.
NAfME Academy is a brand new, state-of-the-art online learning platform for music educators. The Academy allows educators to access the relevant professional development they need to further enhance their teaching and serve the needs of students through dynamic and effective materials and learning opportunities. (nafme.org/community/elearning/)
3. The Nashoba Symphonic Band, David Wayne Bailey, conductor/music director, is inviting new woodwind, brass and percussion players to join for the 2018-2019 Season. Members are welcome in all sections but especially section clarinets and trumpets, tenor sax, low horn, bass trombone, euphonium, tuba and versatile percussionists.
The Nashoba Symphonic Band meets on Thursdays, 7-9, in the band room of the Nashoba Regional High School, Rout 117, about a mile west of Bolton town center. First rehearsal will be on Thursday, August 30.
No audition is necessary, but students (grade 8 and above) need a recommendation from their school instrumental director or private teacher. Players should be comfortable rehearsing music at a grade 5 and 6 level.
For further information, or a season brochure, or to join,
contact director David Bailey – bailey_dave@juno.com - or
Joe McCarthy, band director, Nashoba Regional High School – jmccarthy@nrsd.net .
4. The Canton Community Band
Join the Canton Community Band! No audition needed! All experienced players of woodwind, brass and percussion instruments are invited to join! We welcome amateur, professional, retiree and high school musicians. Our members are from several communities in MA and RI, range in age from 16 – 92, and include many adults who have come back to the instruments they played in their youth. We meet every Thursday evening, year-round, at First Parish Unitarian Universalist Canton, 1508 Washington St, Canton and perform several concerts throughout the year. Our repertoire includes a variety of music -- show tunes, big band arrangements, classical favorites, marches, pop tunes and rags.
The Canton Community Band includes marching members who perform in local parades and civic ceremonies as the Canton American Legion Band. Founded in 1927, the band continues today to provide musical, social, and civic value for our musicians and our communities.
For more info: visit our web site www.cantonband.org
The Canton Community Band is a member of the Association of Concert Bands.
Transgender Students in the Choral Classroom
A wonderfully written & informative article from the recent Choral Journal
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