MARCH 2005 NEWSLETTER



DATE: March 15, 2005
PLACE: H&H Music, 713 FM 1960 W.
TIME: 9:30 AM—Board Meeting 10:15 AM—CCMTA Meeting 11:00 AM—Program
 GUEST: Dr. David Yeomans
PROGRAM: Czech piano repertory: Lecture/demonstration

Dr. Yeomans is Professor Emeritus, Texas Woman’s University and is presently serving as president of the Fort Worth Piano Teachers Forum. A pianist with a national reputation as soloist, accompanist and chamber musician, he has performed in recital at New York’s Town Hall and Carnegie Recital Hall, as well as across the U.S., Canada, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Great Britain. He holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory, the Julliard School, and the University of Michigan, where he studied with Emil Danenberg, Irwin Freundlich, and Gyorgy Sandor He has taught piano at the State University of New York at Fredonia, Washington State University, and the University of Texas at Austin

He has been Master Teacher certified from MTNA since 1986 and has adjudicated many music competitions at MTNA and University of Texas, among others. In addition to numerous performances of the Czech piano literature, he presented a lecture recital on the piano music of Bedrich Smetana for the TMTA convention in Houston in 1994 and has given similar programs elsewhere, having spent over a decade on the area of our topic, with publications on Bartok, Smetana, and “The Piano Music of the Czech Romantics.”

Dorothy Kirkpatrick, Program Chairman



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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

• Saturday, Sunday, March 12th and 13th – District Performance Contest - Baylor University, Waco


• Saturday, April 2nd – Spring Festival - CCCCC


• Saturday, April 9th – High School Piano Competition – H&H Music


DEADLINES

• March 15th meeting – Grants-in-Aid Entries to Chairman Sharon Goldsberry


• March 15th meeting – Member of the Year nominations to Chairman JoAnne Griffith


• April 4th – Items for April newsletter to editor Doris Erickson


• April 15th – Don H. Harris Activity Award entries to Chairman Don H. Harris


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Yearbook Changes: Wendy Shaw’s new e-mail is wlcfaith@hotmail.com  Doris Lum would like to add her cell phone number, as she’s more likely to be reached there: 281-543-1036. Also, the telephone company handling her e-mail account changed its name, requiring all subscribers to change e-mail addresses. While they will still forward messages until June, let’s put the new one in now: vdlum@consolidated.net Larisa Chernis has changed her phone number again—after last month’s change. It’s now 713-589-2602.


Nominations to be Announced: The nominating committee, Linda Anthony, Becky May and Janice VanDerbur, have met and have a slate of officers they will propose at the March meeting. The slate will be published in the April newsletter, and additional nominations (with the previous consent of the nominee) will be in order from the floor at the April meeting. Also, the Member-at-Large is to be nominated from the floor at the April meeting and added to the slate, which is then voted upon. Those elected will be sworn in at the May Luncheon.


Attention Provisional Members: In an effort to enforce the requirement that provisional members take the necessary steps to become active members within two years of their joining, mentors have been assigned to each one to help them toward that goal. It has been discovered that there is a mistake on page 3 of the Constitution and By-Laws. Under “Prerequisite for Active membership,” A. states “attending at least 6 general meetings of the Association each year.” This should read “...4 general meetings...” to be in agreement with Standing Rule #1 on page 69. It will be corrected in the next printing of the yearbook.