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September 2006
September Meeting
Ruth Hale
September Meeting: Wednesday, September 13, 9:03 a.m.
Home of Ruth Hale, 1000 King Drive. (East on 402 to Heron Drive (almost to I-25), north on Heron to first right on King Drive, follow around curve to 1000 - number on mail box.)
A pot luck luncheon will follow the meeting. Bring your favorite dishes.
This is the first meeting of the school year. During the business portion of our meeting we will discuss the June CSMTA Conference in Boulder. If you have items for the agenda, contact Peggy Tighe.
Our program will feature Sally Bonkrude, MA, MT-BC, president of "Positive Interchange." You may remember her from the CSMTA Conference in Boulder.
Entrepreneurial in spirit, Sally has started and navigated many successful businesses. She is rich with ideas and is known for her ability to spark the creativity in others. Having spent a lifetime in pursuit of personal and professional growth, she is uniquely skilled to help others. As a performer, teacher and very active workshop presenter for 15 years, Sally has honed the skills necessary to deliver clear, energetic, inspiring, motivational presentations and workshops!
Sally has her Masters Degree in Counseling and is a Board Certified Music Therapist. She is a Certified Gestalt Therapist and has completed the basic training in (IFS) Internal Family Systems Therapy. Sally has lived a full life raising two children, writing, teaching, presenting and as president of several entrepreneurial endeavors.
She is fun and entertaining, while at the same time brings you new ideas, skills and inspiration. You can learn more about what she does by visiting her website: www.positiveinterchange.com
October Meeting
The October meeting will be held on Monday, Oct. 2 as a joint meeting with the Fort Collins group, featuring Caroline Orman & Friends--also as seen at the CSMTA Boulder conference!
President's Message
Peggy Tighe
To All LAMTA Members, a hale and hearty welcome to the 2006-07 teaching
year! Now that you're all rested and relaxed from a summer of fun and
frivolity... what dream world am I existing in?! If your summer has been like mine, it has been full of family and piano students, punctuated with a few fun trips here and there.
This LAMTA year promises some more valuable "tools" for your teaching and
some enjoyable music programs by fellow teachers. Of course we'll be
working as a group on Achievement Day and Piano Festival. Oh! Did I say good pot luck lunches at our first and last meetings as well as something in December!
Please mark our September 13, meeting at Ruth Hale's house a "must attend"
on your calendar. Each meeting is especially successful because of your
presence and contribution. Please encourage any music teachers new to the
area to attend. We welcome guests and prospective members.
New Schedule
Here is a run-down of our plans for the coming year. A complete printed schedule will be handed out in October after all the changes and corrections have been made to the address list.
November 8: Discussion of memorization techniques.
December 13: Extravaganza recital of Latin music by LAMTA teachers--start looking for a great piece!
January 10: Christine Schumann program on developing tools and styles for composition.
February 14: Achievement Day planning session.
March 7: Panel discussion on why students win competitions.
April 11: Sydney Thompson discusses how to "plan, practice and evaluate."
Special Events: Piano Festival, Nov. 11; Achievement Day, Feb. 24; Honor's Recital, April 28
2006 Piano Festival
Bill Popp
Hopefully you have students preparing for the joint Piano Festival with FCMTA coming up November 11. Guidelines for 2006 are: 1) Required piece, from a North American composer born in the United States or Canada. 2) A piece from a different stylistic period than the first piece. The composer may be of any nationality (including the U. S. and Canada.) More general information on Piano Festival is available HERE on the website.
2006 - 2007 Officers
President and State Representative: Peggy Tighe, 203-1586
1st Vice-president (programs): Ruth Hale, 663-7928
2nd Vice-president (student activities): Sonia Haxton, 377-2283
Secretary: Debi Strick, 669-1759
Treasurer: Renee Clay, 613-1165
2006 - 2007 Committee Chairpersons
Cheri Richards Memorial: JoAnn DeStigter, 669-8830
Chopin Award: Ruth Hale, 663-7928
Historian/Publicity: Beverly Haag, 622-9802
Honors Recital: Elaine Eastman, 667-7473
Junior Festival and National Piano Guild: Ruth Hale 663-7928
Newsletter/Website: Sandy Lundberg, 532-3070
Piano Festival:
Renee Clay, 613-1165
Bill Popp, 667-4524
Peggy Tighe, 203-1586
Student Placement: Betty Lou O'Leske, 669-3473
Music & Arts Special
Sonia Haxton
Music & Arts is continuing their "Teacher Appreciation Days" this year. Wednesday, September 13, all supplements and teaching aids will be 35% off. Teaching aids includes flashcards, assignment books, posters, manuscript paper, anything to help kids get off to a good start. Plan to drop by after the meeting!
Farewell to Jo
Our friend and fellow member Jo Buckridge has made the decision to not teach piano this fall but go another career route. We will miss you Jo and wish you all the best in whatever you do!
Sonatina Festival
Ruth Hale will be getting us more information about a new Sonatina Festival coming in January.
Hits
The LAMTA website had 1000 hits in August.
Book Review
Sandy Lundberg
This is a late book review from last year. My apologies for taking so long!
Gift From the Sea, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
1955, published by Pantheon Books Inc.
We always think of the "good old days" when the pace of life was a little slower. I wasn't even born in 1955, but during my childhood in the 60s I didn't often feel rushed or over scheduled. Summers were carefree and adventurous. School years were punctuated by sufficient holidays and weekends. However, the author reminds me that my mother may have been feeling more pressures than she let me see. Even in the 1950s women were multitasking. My own mother had a home, husband, children, community and church activities, and a career as a college professor.
In Gift from the Sea, written in 1955, Anna Morrow Lindbergh reflects on her own busy life at home in Connecticut as she unwinds during an extended time on an isolated southern beach. The contrast, between the simplicity and peacefulness of the beach and her hectic regular life, leads her to contemplate ways to integrate some of the simplicity of the beach into her Connecticut life--rearranging her outer world, to bring more peace to her inner world.
She hopes a special seashell, taken home, will "remind her of the ideal of the simplified life... to ask how little, not how much can I get along with. To sayis it necessary?when tempted to add one more accumulation to her life..."
Relishing the aloneness of her setting, she reflects ..."Islands in time like this short vacation of mine. The past and the future are cut off; only the present remains." This solitude is painful to initiate, but brings more completeness to her relationships once reunited.
In subsequent chapters Lindbergh contemplates how to have a fulfilling relationship without losing your individuality, again how to simplify so that what is is more appreciated because of the "space around it," and how do you cope with "modern communication that loads us with more problems than the human frame can carry." (She thought she had it bad in 1955!!)
She closes with an attempt at some resolution asking, "...are not the real casualties in modern life... the here, the now, the individual and his relationships? The present is passed over in the race for the future; the here is neglected in favor of the there; the individual is dwarfed by the enormity of the mass." Her answer is that the "drops," the here and now, make up the stream of our lives and are the essence of life itself, and should not be passed over and neglected.
Booster Cushions
Sandy Lundberg
I still have booster cushion sets for sale, for getting small students up to the right height at the piano. The cost is $14.50 per set, plus tax, and shipping if applicable. If you call or email me in advance I can deliver sets at the monthly meetings. You may also visit my website by clicking HERE. The price will go up in the next month or two.
Ruth Hale
September Meeting: Wednesday, September 13, 9:03 a.m.
Home of Ruth Hale, 1000 King Drive. (East on 402 to Heron Drive (almost to I-25), north on Heron to first right on King Drive, follow around curve to 1000 - number on mail box.)
A pot luck luncheon will follow the meeting. Bring your favorite dishes.
This is the first meeting of the school year. During the business portion of our meeting we will discuss the June CSMTA Conference in Boulder. If you have items for the agenda, contact Peggy Tighe.
Our program will feature Sally Bonkrude, MA, MT-BC, president of "Positive Interchange." You may remember her from the CSMTA Conference in Boulder.
Entrepreneurial in spirit, Sally has started and navigated many successful businesses. She is rich with ideas and is known for her ability to spark the creativity in others. Having spent a lifetime in pursuit of personal and professional growth, she is uniquely skilled to help others. As a performer, teacher and very active workshop presenter for 15 years, Sally has honed the skills necessary to deliver clear, energetic, inspiring, motivational presentations and workshops!
Sally has her Masters Degree in Counseling and is a Board Certified Music Therapist. She is a Certified Gestalt Therapist and has completed the basic training in (IFS) Internal Family Systems Therapy. Sally has lived a full life raising two children, writing, teaching, presenting and as president of several entrepreneurial endeavors.
She is fun and entertaining, while at the same time brings you new ideas, skills and inspiration. You can learn more about what she does by visiting her website: www.positiveinterchange.com
October Meeting
The October meeting will be held on Monday, Oct. 2 as a joint meeting with the Fort Collins group, featuring Caroline Orman & Friends--also as seen at the CSMTA Boulder conference!
President's Message
Peggy Tighe
To All LAMTA Members, a hale and hearty welcome to the 2006-07 teaching
year! Now that you're all rested and relaxed from a summer of fun and
frivolity... what dream world am I existing in?! If your summer has been like mine, it has been full of family and piano students, punctuated with a few fun trips here and there.
This LAMTA year promises some more valuable "tools" for your teaching and
some enjoyable music programs by fellow teachers. Of course we'll be
working as a group on Achievement Day and Piano Festival. Oh! Did I say good pot luck lunches at our first and last meetings as well as something in December!
Please mark our September 13, meeting at Ruth Hale's house a "must attend"
on your calendar. Each meeting is especially successful because of your
presence and contribution. Please encourage any music teachers new to the
area to attend. We welcome guests and prospective members.
New Schedule
Here is a run-down of our plans for the coming year. A complete printed schedule will be handed out in October after all the changes and corrections have been made to the address list.
November 8: Discussion of memorization techniques.
December 13: Extravaganza recital of Latin music by LAMTA teachers--start looking for a great piece!
January 10: Christine Schumann program on developing tools and styles for composition.
February 14: Achievement Day planning session.
March 7: Panel discussion on why students win competitions.
April 11: Sydney Thompson discusses how to "plan, practice and evaluate."
Special Events: Piano Festival, Nov. 11; Achievement Day, Feb. 24; Honor's Recital, April 28
2006 Piano Festival
Bill Popp
Hopefully you have students preparing for the joint Piano Festival with FCMTA coming up November 11. Guidelines for 2006 are: 1) Required piece, from a North American composer born in the United States or Canada. 2) A piece from a different stylistic period than the first piece. The composer may be of any nationality (including the U. S. and Canada.) More general information on Piano Festival is available HERE on the website.
2006 - 2007 Officers
President and State Representative: Peggy Tighe, 203-1586
1st Vice-president (programs): Ruth Hale, 663-7928
2nd Vice-president (student activities): Sonia Haxton, 377-2283
Secretary: Debi Strick, 669-1759
Treasurer: Renee Clay, 613-1165
2006 - 2007 Committee Chairpersons
Cheri Richards Memorial: JoAnn DeStigter, 669-8830
Chopin Award: Ruth Hale, 663-7928
Historian/Publicity: Beverly Haag, 622-9802
Honors Recital: Elaine Eastman, 667-7473
Junior Festival and National Piano Guild: Ruth Hale 663-7928
Newsletter/Website: Sandy Lundberg, 532-3070
Piano Festival:
Renee Clay, 613-1165
Bill Popp, 667-4524
Peggy Tighe, 203-1586
Student Placement: Betty Lou O'Leske, 669-3473
Music & Arts Special
Sonia Haxton
Music & Arts is continuing their "Teacher Appreciation Days" this year. Wednesday, September 13, all supplements and teaching aids will be 35% off. Teaching aids includes flashcards, assignment books, posters, manuscript paper, anything to help kids get off to a good start. Plan to drop by after the meeting!
Farewell to Jo
Our friend and fellow member Jo Buckridge has made the decision to not teach piano this fall but go another career route. We will miss you Jo and wish you all the best in whatever you do!
Sonatina Festival
Ruth Hale will be getting us more information about a new Sonatina Festival coming in January.
Hits
The LAMTA website had 1000 hits in August.
Book Review
Sandy Lundberg
This is a late book review from last year. My apologies for taking so long!
Gift From the Sea, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
1955, published by Pantheon Books Inc.
We always think of the "good old days" when the pace of life was a little slower. I wasn't even born in 1955, but during my childhood in the 60s I didn't often feel rushed or over scheduled. Summers were carefree and adventurous. School years were punctuated by sufficient holidays and weekends. However, the author reminds me that my mother may have been feeling more pressures than she let me see. Even in the 1950s women were multitasking. My own mother had a home, husband, children, community and church activities, and a career as a college professor.
In Gift from the Sea, written in 1955, Anna Morrow Lindbergh reflects on her own busy life at home in Connecticut as she unwinds during an extended time on an isolated southern beach. The contrast, between the simplicity and peacefulness of the beach and her hectic regular life, leads her to contemplate ways to integrate some of the simplicity of the beach into her Connecticut life--rearranging her outer world, to bring more peace to her inner world.
She hopes a special seashell, taken home, will "remind her of the ideal of the simplified life... to ask how little, not how much can I get along with. To sayis it necessary?when tempted to add one more accumulation to her life..."
Relishing the aloneness of her setting, she reflects ..."Islands in time like this short vacation of mine. The past and the future are cut off; only the present remains." This solitude is painful to initiate, but brings more completeness to her relationships once reunited.
In subsequent chapters Lindbergh contemplates how to have a fulfilling relationship without losing your individuality, again how to simplify so that what is is more appreciated because of the "space around it," and how do you cope with "modern communication that loads us with more problems than the human frame can carry." (She thought she had it bad in 1955!!)
She closes with an attempt at some resolution asking, "...are not the real casualties in modern life... the here, the now, the individual and his relationships? The present is passed over in the race for the future; the here is neglected in favor of the there; the individual is dwarfed by the enormity of the mass." Her answer is that the "drops," the here and now, make up the stream of our lives and are the essence of life itself, and should not be passed over and neglected.
Booster Cushions
Sandy Lundberg
I still have booster cushion sets for sale, for getting small students up to the right height at the piano. The cost is $14.50 per set, plus tax, and shipping if applicable. If you call or email me in advance I can deliver sets at the monthly meetings. You may also visit my website by clicking HERE. The price will go up in the next month or two.
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