April Meeting
April 16, 9:00 a.m., LDS Church; 1445 W 28th St., Loveland
Dalcroze Eurythmics: Jeremy Ditters will provide a demonstration.

President's Corner
Peggy Tighe
Dear LAMTA Members,

Oh What a Beautiful Morning This time of year is wonderful and difficult because spring fever is attacking us and yet we have so many things to accomplish, so many ends to tie up before summer.

Bonnie Hoffman was so good! Then the ending with our own ensemble was great fun. Thanks Bonnie, Ruth, Judy and Bill. This April meeting will be more fun, We have Jeremy Ditters providing Dalcroze Eurythmics Demonstration in which well be participating. See you there at the LDS Church with your comfortable dancing shoes.

Dont forget to send in your students names and information to Elaine for the Honors Recital by April 16.

All of you who are attending MTNA Conference in Denver be ready to tell us the highlights. I am going to a family celebration in Virginia that very weekend. I will be anxious to hear everything.

Please feel free to fill in your name in an empty space on the Election list. It will help to have this completed as soon as possible. Also check the Volunteer List for the Honors Recital. There are a few areas which need someone.

Welcome Michele and Gary! We are so happy to have you with our group!

See you on April 16, at the LDS Church.


Honors Recital
April 26, 7:00 p.m., LDS Church (see address above)

Unfortunately, the online registration is getting attacked by spam and any online registrations set to date have been lost. If you have sent in your registration using the online form, you need to resend the information in a plain email to Elaine Eastman eastman@frii.com before April 16.

The following people signed up to help:
(Everyone remember to bring 2 dozen cookies to share.)
1. Program: Debi Strick
2. Greeters: Sandy Lundberg and Sonia Haxton
3. Arrange Students: Peggy Tighe
4. Bench Pads & Footstools: Betty Lou O"Leske
5. Carnations: Carolyn Orman
6. Paper Goods: Ann Bunyan
7. Punch: Bill Popp
8. Table set up: Judy Johnson
9. Serve Refreshments: Sandy Lundberg and Ruth Hale
10. Clean up: Debi Strick, Judy Johnson, ___________________ and ___________________
Receipts for all Honors Recital expenses should be given to Renee Clay to be reimbursed.

Cheri Richards Scholarship
Kay Broughton has agreed to oversee the Cheri Richards Scholarship application and dispersement process this year. Please have your forms completed and in her hands no later than May 1. Applications may be downloaded: CHERI.

CSMTA Conference, June 3 - 7, 2008
Guest Artist: Dr. Arthur Houle
If you are planning to attend this year's CSMTA conference at the Embassy Suites in Colorado Springs, please email your plans (esp. times/dates you plan to travel & stay) to Sandy Lundberg. She will compile a list of those going and email it to the group so we can connect with each other about carpooling and rooms.

For more information about the conference check your Notes & News for this month, or the CSMTA website at State Conference.

Friends of Chamber Music
Ruth Hale
Friends of Chamber Music's final concert until the Summer Benefit: Elegant, Eclectic Music for Strings and Piano Music includes solo strings with piano, composers includes Chopin, which is Introduction and Polonaise; Beethoven; Northern Hungarian Folk Dances ob Rosza; Kreisler, Preludium and Allegro, and the Robert Schumann Piano Quartet. Saturday evening, 7:00 PM at the Loveland Good Samaritan Spiritual Life Center, April 12. Sunday afternoon, April 13, 3:00 PM at 3913 Harbor Walk Lane in Fort Collins. This will be a great concert! The Fort Collins concert requires reservations: 663-7928, George and Kathryn Burnham.

Emily Maeda, one of our LAMTA members, is the pianist of these two concerts. She is such a beautiful pianist, I would hope that some of our members could go to hear her. She will be doing the Chopin Introduction and Polonaise for piano and cello, the Schumann Piano Quartet and also the Kreisler Preludium and Allegro for violin and piano.

Rocky Mountain Chamber Singers
Ann Bunyan
We are celebrating 20 years of bringing the best of a capella music to Northern Colorado! Join us for some of our all-time favorites: folk, gospel, spiritual, Brazilian, contemporary, Gershwin, light jazz and our signature piece from years past, "Java Jive."

Saturday, April 5, 7:30 p.m., St. John's Lutheran Church, 201 East Elizabeth, Fort Collins
Sunday, April 6, 2:00 pm, Rialto Theatre, 228 E Fourth Street, Loveland
Sunday, April 13, 3:00 p.m., St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, Estes Park

Elections
We will be voting in a new slate of officers for next year at the May meeting. Below is the list of people who, at the March meeting, indicated a willingness to serve:

President: Sandy Lundberg
1st VP: Ruth Hale (programs)
2nd VP: Sonia Haxton (activities)
Secretary: Debi Strick
Treasurer: Renee Clay
Student Placement: Betty Lou O'Leske
Honors Recital: Elaine Eastman
Website/ Communications: Sandy Lundberg (would like help)
Chopin Award: Judy Johnson
Historian: ________________
Piano Festival Committee: Bill Popp, ________________
Cheri Richards Memorial: ________________
CSMTA Local Theory Representative: Bill Popp

If you do not currently have an area of responsibility, please consider one of the areas above where there is a vacancy.

New Email Address
Melissa Carlson has a new email address: missycarl@gmail.com

Achievement Day Drawing Winners
"Raffle" Drawing
Bill Popp/ Michelle Holder: Dances of Russia
Sonia Haxton/ Erin Myer: Dances of Youth and Country
Betty Lou O'Leske Jim Tunnicliff: Rialto
Sonia Haxton/ Caitlyn Cochran: Magic Flute
Elaine Eastman/ Shaylene Sorrow: Rialto
Peggy Tighe/ Dylan Schubert: Dance of Russia
Betty Lou O'Leske/ Hannah Matonsek: Dances of Youth and Country

Art: People's Choice
1st Place: Lego Electric Guitar (9 votes) Nathan Hammel/ Sandy Lundberg
2nd Place: Music Cake (8 votes) Brooklynn Secrest/ Debi Strick
3rd Place: Piano Cake (7 votes) Alex Formby/ Sandy Lundberg