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PUBLICATION INFORMATION Official Journal of the CANADIAN FEDERATION OF MUSIC TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATIONS / FÉDÉRATION CANADIENNE 4 Greetings from CFMTA/FCAPM President DES ASSOCIATIONS DES PROFESSEURS DE MUSIQUE CIRCULATION approx. 3500 - FOUNDED IN 1935 6 Hello from the Editor UPCOMING EDITIONS OF 8 Mark your Calendar The Canadian Music Teacher/ Le professeur de musique canadien 11 The CFMTA/FCAPM Certificate of Recognition Spring (Printemps)Edition 2014 • Publication: May 2014 for Professional Achievement • Submission Deadline: April 1, 2014 12 William Andrews Canada Music Week® Awards Fall (Automne) - Canada Music Week® Edition 2014 North Shore - British Columbia • Publication: September 2014 Halifax - Nova Scotia • Submission Deadline: August 15, 2014 Canada Music Week - Coast to Coast Winter (Hiver) Edition 2015 16 ® • Publication: January 2015 • Submission Deadline: December 1, 2014 24 Strategies for Coping with Performance Anxiety SEND ALL MATERIALS FOR EDITIONS TO: 30 ABC's of Mobile Devices Dina Pollock Phone 604.614.3298 32 Jazzin' it Fax 604.859.9855 [email protected] Using Evernote to Track Students Progress 34 ADVERTISING and Send Lesson Notes Send all advertising inquiries and orders to: Dina Pollock 36 Exerpt from - The Middle Years: Phone 604.614.3298 Rebooting Student Progress and Interest Fax 604.859.9855 after 2 or 3 Years of Lessons [email protected] The official journal of the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers’ 39 4th North West International Piano Ensemble Associations/Fédération canadienne des associations des professeurs Competition de musique is published three times a year. Its purpose is to inform music teachers about the Association’s activities, provide a forum for 40 Goodbye to a Teacher, Performer and Friend discussion and supply information of topical interest. Andrew Markow Inclusion of items in this journal does not imply endorsement or approval by the CFMTA/FCAPM. 41 What's New at the Conservatories? All opinions are those of the authors and may differ from those of CFMTA/FCAPM. 44 Review of Publications SUBSCRIPTIONS 48 Delegates and Officers Directory Non-members may receive a subscription 50 Please Support our Advertisers by submitting an annual fee to: Bernadette Bullock, Secretary / Treasurer 302 - 550 Berkshire Dr. London, ON N6J 3S2 The fee for Canadian residents is $ 20.00 per year, and $ 30.00 for non-residents. Make cheque payable to CFMTA/FCAPM. Hiver 2014 - Le professeur de musique canadien 3 GREETINGS FROM CFMTA/FCAPM PRESIDENT Charline Farrell President’s Message..... Best wishes to each one of you for a How fortunate we are to be able to do We are members of a profession where happy, healthy 2014! We have come to something we love and be compensated we continue to learn throughout our accept that the year numbers that used for it! A career teaching music is an lives. We are usually able to teach until to sound like science fiction to us now honorable profession, and we should we choose to retire. We earn a living sound perfectly normal! all be proud that we have work that passing on all of our knowledge of It goes without saying that we have all touches so many lives, brings us feelings music to others, and we are able to share worked hard to attain high standards of accomplishment, and pays our bills! our love of music with many people, in our chosen fields of music. Our Let me be clear – we deserve to earn a young and old. qualifications allow us to be part of a living teaching music – and we deserve We are indeed lucky! National Association which promotes fair remuneration for our services. excellence in music education. We offer There is, however, another side to being our students the highest quality of an artist. All of the good teaching we Mot de la présidente..... music education in Canada. We have have received, and all of the practising Mes meilleurs vœux à chacun pour une the skills to offer beginning students we have done, would be to no avail if année 2014 remplie de bonheur et de a strong introduction to their vocal we had not been blessed with the gift of santé! N’est-ce pas qu’il est étonnant de or instrumental journey, and lead music. Thus we are called to share this constater que ces chiffres qui pour nous them well prepared to a level of senior gift generously with others. True music, appartenaient aux films de science-fic- competition, if that is the path they by its very nature, touches us in a deep tion sont maintenant réels? choose. place within that should remind us that This is our tradition: to be respected we have been blessed with this gift. Il va sans dire qu’à l’intérieur de nos teachers of music and to carve out The idea of sharing our gift brings me spécialités musicales respectives, nous careers for ourselves that provide us to Community Outreach. Outreach avons tous travaillé fort pour atteindre de hauts degrés de qualité. Grâce à with fair financial compensation and a may include friends and family, those in ce travail et à nos compétences, nous sense of satisfaction and success. towns, cities, and countryside, nursing pouvons faire partie d’une association homes, all children, the elderly, those Most of us will recall that as young nationale qui favorise l’excellence de musicians, we were often asked to who grieve, all those incapacitated by l’enseignement musical. Nous offrons ce play for events in our churches, our mental illness, physical challenges and qu’il y a de mieux au Canada. Grâce à schools, and our communities. We felt loneliness. Those of us with artistic gifts nos aptitudes, nous pouvons façonner le honoured and proud to play or sing for are called to share with others. It is a cheminement d’un étudiant depuis les church services, weddings, Christmas privilege, and we should feel honoured fondements solides de sa formation vo- concerts, opening exercises at school, to do so. cale ou instrumentale jusqu’aux niveaux friends’ weddings....the list goes on... Teachers in my local branch are taking supérieurs, et même le guider à travers We performed these services freely, a student recital to a nursing home l’exigeante préparation de concours willingly and generously, understanding this month. Another of my colleagues prestigieux, si c’est ce qu’il souhaite. instinctively that we were given gifts directs a choir of seniors, some in their Traditionnellement, nous désirons that were meant to be shared with nineties and still living on their own. être estimés en tant que professeurs de others. She has given freely of her gift of music musique et nous voulons nous bâtir une As young adults we had to face reality. to her community for many years, and carrière qui nous apporte du succès, tant We were expected to earn a living! I am honoured to work beside her by du point de vue personnel que financier. accompanying her choir. 4 The Canadian Music Teacher - Winter 2014 Plusieurs se rappelleront leurs débuts, D’autre part, nous sommes des artistes. années, dirige une chorale de personnes alors qu’ils étaient amenés à se produire Les heures passées à s’instruire et à répé- retraitées dont certaines ont passé le en diverses circonstances. Nous étions ter auraient été stériles sans un certain cap des quatre-vingts dix ans et sont tellement fiers de jouer ou de chanter talent musical sous-jacent. Par consé- toujours autonomes. C’est un privilège à l’église, à l’école, lors de concerts de quent, notre mission est de partager pour moi de travailler à leurs côtés en Noël, ou de mariages, par exemple. libéralement notre art avec les autres. tant qu’accompagnatrice. Ayant naturellement le désir de faire De par sa nature, la véritable musique connaître nos talents à notre commu- touche profondément nos cœurs nous Nous gagnons notre vie en transmettant nauté et de partager notre passion, nous rappelle que ce don est une bénédiction. notre savoir musical et notre passion à le faisions gracieusement et généreuse- des gens de tous les âges. Nous exerçons ment. Ces propos m’amènent à vous parler du une profession qui nous permet d’ap- programme “Community Outreach”. prendre continuellement, jusqu’à la À l’âge adulte, toutefois, il nous a fallu Celui-ci peut s’adresser à des amis, des retraite et même au-delà. Quelle chance faire face à la réalité et gagner notre parents, gens des villes et des cam- nous avons! vie. Quel privilège d’être rémunéré pagnes, tous les enfants, les aînés, les pour faire quelque chose que l’on aime! résidents des maisons de retraite, les Une carrière dans l’enseignement de la personnes aux prises avec des limitations musique est une profession honorable. physiques ou mentales, les gens seuls ou Nous pouvons tirer une grande fierté endeuillés. C’est avec eux en particulier de pouvoir accomplir un travail qui que nous avons l’honneur et le devoir de touche la vie des individus de façon si partager nos dons artistiques.