This is for sure a meandering and miscellany!
Passing thoughts/comments!
* The photos of the National Anthem Finale last week are fantastic, almost (almost!) like being there. Be sure to check out the upcoming magazines and webnews for the photos!
* It's just a routine week on my end of things, keeping on with requests and follow up with surveys and info. Looking ahead to what will be due....soon!
* Staff summer social tomorrow to celebrate summer, and to send off staff heading to Florida for the Centennial Congress! (I see paper money in the denomination of ONE GAZILLION with picture of an MENC female leader on it, being produced in large quantities at the desk of LE, trusty assistant to MB - - hmm, are they really going to work or play games down at Disney??!)
* Staff to gather today at 11am to practice singing the MENC Centennial Canon for singing during social!
* ML wrote Monday in her blog how long time MENC stalwart retired staff member Harriet Mogge helped MENC with the Centennial preparations recently. Harriet has stepped in and up to the plate on numerous occasions for MENC since her retirement! When I was first hired back in 1999 (by fellow blogger EWL, thank you!), our department was fledgling and behind in its work, and Harriet M was on board to help us get up to snuff. I credit her with helping me understand a lot of how MENC works, and helping me navigate my first month of answering member requests! Thank you, Harriet! Hear Harriet's interview with EWL, on her lifelong connections with MENC, on the MENC PODCAST for May! (go to MENC's homepage, and click on PODCAST link on Right hand side of page!)
* Last few weeks I've been talking about surveys MENC has done, and how great it is to get member feedback/ideas. Did you know that you can always give us feedback? Just click on the MUSIC Box to send your thoughts!
FLASH: "NON-LITE"
NEW STUDY REVEALS STRONG RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN QUALITY MUSIC EDUCATION
PROGRAMS AND HIGHER STANDARDIZED TEST SCORES - funded by the NAMM Foundation under its "Sounds of Learning" initiative, and was published in MENC's Winter 2006 Journal of Research in Music Education
Click HERE for more info
About the NAMM FOUNDATION
Around the Water Cooler
As my time allows, I peruse/read a lot of arts journals and on-line arts websites, list servs and newsletters, always seeking useful/helpful info members can use in advocacy efforts or the classroom. Usually I run across some interesting fact or article which seems worth sharing. Here are a few "LITE" tidbits (and be sure to check past SR blogs for other "lite" and "not so lite" resources!)
SICK PUPPY FESTIVAL (it really is about music!)
NEW MUSIC how to respond
Please, don't forget THE COMPOSER!
GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL (formerly known as Glastonbury FAYRE) - "largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world" - started 1970 two days after Jimi Hendrix' death. Held over summer solstice weekend the following year and since then. Quote from website: "It's like going to another country. It involves travel, and probably a queue to get in. Then you enter a huge tented city, a mini-state under canvas. The Law still applies, but the rules of society are a bit different. Everyone is here to have a wild time in their own way. The site has distinct socio-geographic regions". Check it out!
History of the FAYRE
KT TUNSTALL on the Glastonbury Festival (KT, of "Black Horse and Cherry Tree" fame, made more famous by Kat McPhee's version on AI 2006). Sounds like someone living in Sgt. Peppers Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds!
Enjoy the longest day of the year! See you next week! SR
