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Undergraduate scholarships and graduate assistantships available. music.colostate.edu #csumusic Colorado Music Educator Winter 2018 -19 Volume 66, Number 2 ARTICLES Artistic Perspective And Inspiration .....................................................................4 and 11 The Colorado By Kevin Beaber, CMEA President Music Educator Index of Advertisers ...............................................................................................................5 Winter Journal 2019 Tri-M News .............................................................................................................................6 Volume 66, Number 2 By Michelle Ewer, Tri-M Chair Communications Manager: Vocal Music News ..............................................................................................................7-8 Margie Camp By Matt Doty, Vocal Music Council Chair Operations Director: William Kohut CMEA Past Presidents ...........................................................................................................8 Colorado Music Educator is the ofcial From the Instrumental Council Chair.............................................................................. 10 publication of the Colorado Music By Casey Cropp, Instrumental Music Council Chair Educators Association, a federated state unit of NAfME: Te National General Music Council News ............................................................................................ 11 Association for Music Education By Jan Osburn, General Music Council Chair (which is an afliate of the National Education Association) and is College-University Music Council ................................................................................... 12 afliated with the Colorado Education By Sean Flanigan, College and University Council Chair Association. ©2014 Colorado Music Educators Membership News ............................................................................................................... 13 Association. All rights reserved. None By Andrea L. Meyers, Retired and Active Membership Chair of the contents may be duplicated or reprinted without advanced written CMEA Clinic/Conference 2018 - Out of State Clinicians ........................................17-29 permission. Te statements of writers and advertisers are not necessarily CMEA Hall of Fame ............................................................................................................ 30 those of Colorado Music Educator, which reserves the right to refuse to print an advertisement. Colorado Music Educator, ISSN 0010- 1672, is published quarterly by the Music Educators Association, Post Ofce Box 18770, Denver, CO 80218. Subscriptions are $12.00 per year for members of the Colorado Music My idea is that there is music in Educators Association (included in annual dues) and $25.00 per year for non-members. Tis journal is the air, music all around us; the published on-line at www.cmeaonline. org. For further information write to: world is full of it, and you simply Colorado Music Educator c/o CMEA Membership take as much as you require. 3617 Shoshone Street Denver, CO 80211 ~Edward Elgar Colorado Music Educator Winter 2018-19 3 Associations In Te New Millennium By Kevin Beaber, CMEA President What can we do to make CMEA relevant to its membership today? To consider what an established organization or association looks like in the 21st Century I think we should consider what changes have been made in communication frst. One of the needs served by associations in the past has been a way to communicate and funnel area specifc information to a group of people who have shared aims. People committed to a cause gathered information, generated or collected research, tracked new trends or innovative ideas, etc., then shared it through professional articles in journals, conventions/conferences, books, et al. Tings did not change too much at the beginning of the Information Age when personal computers were becoming more common in average households. Te act of gathering and producing information was easier but the methods of divulging that information was not that diferent. As elec- tronic mediums grew, changed, and morphed personal access to the information available became easier to access as an individual. Personal communication has exploded exponentially in the last two decades. We have gone from handwritten letters, printed media, and flm/photographic records to be purchased and/or shared amongst cohorts to instantaneous sharing of ideas. Instead of meeting regularly at local levels and annually, or even biennially, on a regional, national or international basis people can meet internationally daily if they wanted both socially and pro- fessionally. So it is not electronic technology itself that efects the viability of an organization, it is the social connectivity that has ofered the most change. Currently communication can involve something as simple as an immediate reaction through any of a number of social media means, open and closed groups in other social media options, WebPages dedicated to a subject, and/or a handful to dozens to even scores of “how to” videos on sites like YouTube. Te Internet has closed the gap between people all over the planet and the concept of “We are not alone” is both a celebrated and frightening concept. So what...the world has changed...that is nothing new... Gathering subject specifc information and providing opportunities to present and share that informa- tion personally is no longer a relevant need in our lives. What can associations better ofer that online in- teraction cannot? One answer I have read about is basically hands-on or experience-based learning where ideas that have been ofered digitally can be seen and put into place in a demonstration model. Live model- ing or involvement appeals to relational, cognitive, and sensory qualities and being able to interpret in real time has a profound impact on understanding and successful implementation. One thing, if anything, has become apparent in the new millennium, the vast majority of people enjoy being social. Interacting face-to-face is still an important aspect of basic human communication, it sim- ply can be done digitally now. I think we can underestimate the importance of social interaction that is a natural course of our conference. How many times have you set at a table or stood in line waiting for the next session/concert and learned something new talking to the people around you? Some of the best clinics and workshops I have been to recently were simple idea sharing sessions where everyone in the room was a clinician for the moment. We are teachers, we love to share our successes, we love to “steal” successful ideas of others. It is the mortar that flls in the gap between the bricks of our college education that gave us information and training knowing that in the ever changing world of education we will have to learn on the go as well. continued on page 10 Colorado Music Educator Winter 2018-19 4 Index of Advertisers Adams State University .............................................................5 American College of Musicians .............................................13 Colorado Christian University ................................................9 Colorado Mesa University ......................................................10 Colorado State University - Fort Collins ................................2 Colorado State University - Pueblo ...................................... 14 Ithaca College of Music ......................................................... 12 Kolacny Music ............................................................................5 Metropolitan State University of Denver ............................ 15 University of Colorado - Boulder ........................................ 31 University of New Mexico ..................................................... 16 University of Northern Colorado ............................................9 University of Portland ...............................................................9 Yamaha ..................................................................................... 32 ADAMS STATE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OFMUSIC Personalized Instruction for the 21st Century Bachelor of Arts in Music Education, Performance, Music’s the medicine Composition, and Business Master of Arts in Music Education of the mind. 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