Texas Choral Directors Association
The dates for the 2013 Texas Choral Directors Association Convention are set! Mark your calendar now for Sunday, July 21– Wednesday, July 24, 2013. On-site registration for TCDA members and the Middle School Honor Choir will begin Sunday afternoon, followed by our annual not-to-be-missed Soiree that evening. Workshops, reading sessions, and exhibits will begin Monday and go through noon on Wednesday. The TCDA Board is hard at work finalizing plans for an incredible convention. We cannot wait to share them with you in the coming months as plans become reality!
NEW for 2013 Texas Choral Directors Association, Texas Orchestra Directors Association, and the Texas Bandmasters Association will share convention dates and a combined exhibit hall. Beginning in 2013, TCDA, TODA, and TBA will share convention dates and a combined exhibit hall. Prompted by extremely challenging economic times, the TCDA Board carefully evaluated ways in which we can ensure a strong and healthy future for TCDA. After thorough financial and logistical research and analysis conducted over the course of the past year, a partnership has resulted between TCDA, TODA, and TBA in order to share costs of convention center space and revenues from the combined exhibitors. Representatives from all three boards have met numerous times and thoughtfully designed plans for an equitable partnership whereby all three associations can minimize costs and maximize the success of our conventions. TCDA, TODA, and TBA will continue to operate as separate associations with their own executive directors, boards of directors, convention programs, and publications unique to each association. The distinct identities and ways of operating we have known for more than five decades will remain our own! You will see some changes in where sessions are located at convention, but all of the great clinics, workshops, and performances to which you are accustomed will be there. The future of TCDA is strong, and this new venture will ensure that the lifeblood of our revenue stream, our exhibitors, will continue to be supportive through their convention participation. This new format will make convention attendance more attractive to vendors by decreasing the number of days they pay to stay in San Antonio from six to three and more than doubling the traffic in the exhibit hall. Not only will our returning exhibitors be happy, but this new format will spark interest in new vendors coming to our convention. This larger audience for our exhibitors makes us one of the largest music shows in the country! Mark your calendars—July 21–24, 2013—and get ready for an amazing convention. It will be an exciting time for everyone with a vision toward the future! Jeff Rice President
Amy Allibon Past President
Billy Talley President-Elect
Sharon Lutz Executive Director