The Colorado Music Educator We Are CMEA: Stronger Together 2021 Virtual Conference January 28-30, 2021 Winter 2021 Volume 68, Number 2 The Colorado Music Educator We Colorado Music Educator Are CMEA: Winter Volume 68, Number 2 Stronger Together ARTICLES Clinic/Conference 2021 ........................................................................................................4 By Kevin Beaber, CMEA President Index of Advertisers ...............................................................................................................5 2021 Virtual Conference January 28-30, 2021 Winter 2021 Diversity, Equity, Enclusivity and Access Task Force Report .......................................6-7 Volume 68, Number 2 Cynthia Eversole, CMEA President-Elect Executive Director: William Kohut Vocal Music News ..................................................................................................................8 By Todd Dicamillo, Vocal Music Council Chair Administrative Assistant/Communications Manager: Margie Camp From the Instrumental Council Chair.................................................................................9 By Craig Westwood, Instrumental Music Council Chair Colorado Music Educator is the official publication of the Colorado Music General Music Council News ............................................................................................ 10 Educators Association, a federated By Elizabeth Ford, General Music Council Chair state unit of NAfME: The National Association for Music Education CMEA Past Presidents ........................................................................................................ 11 (which is an affiliate of the National Education Association) and is College-University Music Council ................................................................................... 13 affiliated with the Colorado Education By Mark Hudson, College and University Council Chair Association. 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You’ll also receive Denver, CO 80211 valuable tips on advocacy assistance, program health support and much more. Let us help you raise the bar. Go to Yamaha.io/educatorsCOLMEA2 Colorado Music Educator Winter 2021 3 ED15736_Yamaha_Educator_Suite_COLMEA2.indd 1 10/20/20 9:32 AM Clinic/Conference 2021 By Kevin Beaber, CMEA President We Index of Advertisers Are Friends and Colleagues, Adams State University .............................................................5 CMEA: Colorado Mesa University ......................................................14 Things are in place for the Colorado Music Educators Association Clinic Conference. Colorado State University - Fort Collins ............................. 15 I, like many of you, usually are looking forward to seeing friends and colleagues, at- Colorado State University - Pueblo .........................................7 tending concerts, going through the schedule to see what clinics will help me in my Ithaca College - School of Music .......................................... 11 role as music educator, and other similar things that would prepare me for the week. University of New Mexico ..................................................... 12 While I will not be sharing ideas and time around the Broadmoor, standing in line at University of Colorado - Boulder ............................................8 the Golden Bee, or wondering which day the snow will come, I will be looking forward West Music .............................................................................. 16 to the professional development opportunities that are the heart of what the clinic Stronger Together Yamaha ........................................................................................2 conference is suppose to be. That being said, I will sincerely miss the camaraderie that is the soul of the event. I hope that the synthesis sessions at the end of each day will help to fill that hole a little and provide an opportunity for members to interact with each other and share the ideas and little successes each of us has come up with in the past 12 months that are a bonus to the innovation, information and suggestions 2021 Virtual Conference that the clinics provide. January 28-30, 2021 Time is running out for pre-registration for the 2021 Clinic/Conference. If I am looking for positive out- comes to a virtual conference it is that no one will stand in line for registrations, look for a seat that might provide a quick exit in case the session goes long, or find ways to park around the Broadmoor that does not involve a parking ticket or parking garage fees. The conference has a mixture of pre-recorded clinics and live sessions, all of which will be available for viewing and reviewing for the following 12 months. This will be a different opportunity when thinking about what was presented in a clinic and being able to go back and find that details that did not make your notes or memory. Please give the conference the benefit of the doubt this year for being put together in a shorter than normal amount of time in a new and quickly emerging medium. We hope that our efforts will be an asset your teaching in this crazy historic time. I would like to say a special thanks to the following directors, schools and students who took the leap of faith and submitted an audition for performance at the conference: Jonathan Colson, Rocky Ford Jr/Sr High, Concert Band; Thalia Burd, Erie High School, Topaz and CR5; Christopher Loesel, Lutheran High School, Jubilate Choir; Dan Bell, Cheyenne Mountain Junior High, Symphonic Band; Bryce Melaragno, Lakewood High School, Chamber Orchestra; A. J. Wulf, Liberty High School, Chamber Singers; Keith “Life seems to go Farmer, Grandview High School, Jazz Ensemble I; Tim Libby, Cherry Creek High School, Wind Ensemble; Todd Dicamillo, Thomas B Doherty High School, Odyssey. Unfortunately, performances were not an on without effort aspect of this year’s conference but I want to let them know how much everyone on the CMEA Board of Directors appreciated them doing what it takes to prepare a conference audition. I sincerely hope that each when I am filled and every one of these groups prepare an audition for 2022. with music.” I hope to see you in the virtual world in a couple weeks! ~ George Eliot Kevin Beaber CMEA President Colorado Music Educator Winter 2021 Colorado Music Educator Winter 2021 4 5 Diversity, Equity, Enclusivity, and Access Task Force Diversity, Equity, Enclusivity, and Access Task Force, continued By Cynthia Eversole, CMEA President-Elect By Cynthia Eversole, CMEA President-Elect Narrative Submission CMEA is committed to listening, growing, and learning to ensure all people see themselves, hear them- January 9, 2021 selves, and find meaning in music education. Attending sessions and difficult discussions are a start. We Cynthia Eversole are at the beginning of a long journey but we do know that nothing is going to happen unless each one of us President Elect makes a full commitment to change. Exec Rep on DEIA Task Force It has been a humbling experience to work alongside such inspiring and thoughtful colleagues. If you are CMEA forms Task Force for Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity, & Access interested in supporting the work of this task force, you are asked to reach out to me at [email protected] The events of this past year leave each of us with an enormous amount of reflec- tion while grounding our souls in our own truths. From the climax of racial tension due to the death of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and Cynthia Eversole countless others emerged an overdue creation of the DEIA Task Force within our CMEA organization (Diversity Equity Inclusivity Access).