BitsandPiecesinterestingnewsabout OMeaMembers

OMEA Board Second VicePresident, Michael BurchPesses, spent a week in Whangerei, New Zealand, during the first week of August 2002 to adjudicate the National Concert Band Festival of New Zealand. During the festival he adjudicated 29 bands, rehearsed and conducted a 200-piece honor band in concert, and presented a conducting clinic to more than 50 band directors.

district 2 OMEA member, Gene Burton, was nominated by the band and choir students at West Orient Middle School to be recognized by a local radio station’s Outstanding Teacher program. Gene was selected and was presented with the award at a school assembly in his honor.

The winner of the District 4 Elementary Choral Composition

Competition was Melissa Roth, an elementary general music teacher in the North Clackamas School District. Her entry was a two-part setting of the folk song A La Puerta del Cielo. Her work, along with the other entries, will soon be posted in the “members” section of the OMEA website, where members have permission to copy as needed for their students, free of charge.