Hello,
*Important* If you have a pre-collegiate student who is interested in applying to the MMAMTA/Odyssey Pre-Collegiate Aria/Concerto competition, you must become a member of MMAMTA within the month of September to avoid $100 extra fee to enter the event. This year, THREE winners, ALL genre, with orchestral accompaniment of your choice. Details on at the Handbook Review next Saturday.
Instead of our annual Fall Workshop, this year we are holding Fall Music Teachers' Meeting on Zoom. We can share our experiences in a time of COVID, and brainstorm how we can make the best of our current situation, in addition to reviewing our events and 2020-2021 MMAMTA Handbook. Save the date for August 22, Saturday at 11am. Zoom invitation below; the meeting code is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87355219211 I will try again to take the group photo around 11:30am by setting an alarm to do so; if I forget, please remind me?
Earlier, MMTA sent us the new dates and online audition announcement on July 20. MMTA District Audition Registration is due (with $25 auditions fee) on Sept 6 this year. All MTNA and MMTA dates are listed below (scroll down), however you can see MMTA's full newsletter announcement on our web site, https://www.mmamta.org/auditions.html.
...Yesterday, MMTA sent an announcement about the auditions with the 2018 Handbook. I am unable to get an answer about whether or not the YouTube recording can be made pieces separately. Hopefully I will have this answer before or at our Zoom meeting next Saturday.
See you soon,
Ayako Tsuruta
MMAMTA President
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Zoom Invitation to Fall Teachers' Meeting |
Ayako Tsuruta is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: MMAMTA Fall Workshop
Time: Aug 22, 2020 11:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 873 5521 9211
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2020 MTNA & MMTA Auditions |
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MMTA District:
Registration Deadline: Sunday, September 6
Video Submission Deadline: Sunday, September 20
MMTA State:
Registration Deadline: Sunday, October 18
Video Submission Deadline: Sunday, October 25
MTNA State:
National Registration Deadline: Wednesday, September 16
State Video Submission Deadline: Sunday, October 25
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Share Your (or Your Student's) Music Video! |
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Let's try something new this year: Do you have a video of yourself or your student(s) you would like to share? I will be happy to incorporate one or two videos every newsletter. If I receive more, I can compile them into an entirely separate newsletter - so keep'em coming!
*Disclaimer* The videos are to be circulated within our MMAMTA membership only; you will otherwise need to directly ask the performers for permission to share elsewhere.
To start, here is Dr. Peter Miyamoto from the MU School of Music, performing Chopin Nocturne Op. 55 No. 1 in E-flat Major and Scherzo No. 3 in C-Sharp Minor.
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Protecting Yourself - Legally & Physically during COVID-19 |
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Opening your studio back in-person in a middle of a pandemic - where vaccine is nowhere in sight - can be quite daunting. To open your studio for in-person lessons, it is important you have a conversation about your comfort level about this with your own family, and your students and their families.
Some basic advice:
- Ask your student to wash their hands upon arrival,
- Clean the surface of piano keys between each student; other instrumentalists will refrain from trading instruments for a while, and no touching;
- Social distancing (6 ft), and/or
- Ask the student leave a mask on if possible,
- Ask everyone else to wait in car or elsewhere outside of your studio,
- No communal magazines, toys etc,
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Have hand sanitizers readily available (now possible to purchase from Amazon, Bath and Body Works, Menards, etc.) for everyone's use.
On May 27, MTNA sent this: "As a service to our state and local affiliates, MTNA has asked its legal counsel, Scott Gilligan, to answer these and other frequently asked questions. In addition, Mr. Gilligan has prepared an "Association Waiver and Release of Liability for Exposure to COVID-19" form you may use at your events. The form provides guidelines each attendee must follow, and, when signed, releases your association from liability due to COVID-19.
MTNA is delighted to provide this important legal resource to our affiliates free-of-charge.
The second PDF includes, " 6. Release of Liability. The Attendee hereby agrees to release and hold harmless the Association, its officers, directors, employees, and agents from any and all illnesses, injuries, sickness, death, or other losses arising in any way from Attendee’s attendance at and participation in the Event, including, but not limited to, exposure to COVID-19."
If you feel the need to have something to protect yourself just-in-case, you may need to have such agreement in writing. I strongly encourage you to read both PDF files, so that you are well informed how this may be possible.
Good luck!
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