On April 24th MENC posted an announcement regarding changes in future national conferences. Here’s a copy of the announcement:
MENC Leadership Sets New National Conference Schedule
In April, the MENC National Executive Board (NEB) voted to replace the association’s long-standing national biennial conference with an annual national event or series of events.
According to MENC President-Elect Barbara Geer, […]
If you are interested in issues of social justice and music education consider attending the upcoming Musica Ficta Lived Realities: A Conference on Exclusions and Engagements in Music, Education and the Arts, at the Univesity of Toronto from Thurs. Jan. 24 - Sun. Jan. 27 2008. It looks like an excellent set of sessions […]
At the New Directions in General Music Conference in October, Bennett Reimer spoke about how according to a recent report, improvisation is one of the least addressed national standards throughout music education. Luckily for our field The International Society for Improvised Music is an organization that can help music educators develop a wide variety […]
Posted in conferences on November 6th, 2007 1 Comment »
I apologize for the lack of posting in over a month. October was a busy month and November is starting off the same! October was also a month of wonderful conferences. I still have a smile on my face from the New Horizons Band performance at the CIC conference which took place at the start […]
The International Society for Improvised Music (ISIM) just issued a call for proposals for their second annual conference. I attended the first conference last year at University of Michigan and it was phenomenal. There were great performances (the performances by Paul Berliner and Pauline Oliveros will stand out in my mind for a very long […]
