Fall 2003

Dear Colleague,

Dear Colleague,

Welcome to Power Talk. We at Festivals of Music and Music In The Parks hope that you find Power Talk an interesting and valuable resource. Tom Talamantes puts a lot of effort into producing this program and we at the office appreciate his efforts, as I hope you do also.

We want to build upon our past success with new ideas and programs and encourage you to feel free to offer articles to present on this site. A new feature is, "The Doctor's In", where you can email me questions or remarks about our programs or suggestions for the future. Let's make this a two-way street.

Our travel group, EPN Travel has experienced and brilliant travel planners. So if you have a travel question send me an email and one of the group travel planners will help me with the answer.

I wish you a successful and most positive year. We look forward to serving you in the future, and we hope to have many of your students involved in all of our educational programs.

Best wishes.

Jim Wells
President
Educational Programs Network

In This Issue:

Music In The Parks News – New Locations for 2004

Festivals of Music News – Twenty-year Scholarship Awards; Student Leadership Workshops

EPN Travel Services News – In each issue of Power Talk, Brenda Miller from EPN Travel, will showcase a city in North America that school groups might consider traveling to. This issue's featured city is New York, NY

Staff News

Featured Articles:

Festival Preparation

Carl A. Bly

Carl Bly begins a two-part article on preparing your large ensemble for festival. Selecting The Ensemble’s Music and Preparing The Works are the titles of these two articles.

Music Advocacy = Program Success

“How to Communicate with Our Target Market”

Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser

Dr. Lautzenheiser presents Part Four of a six part series about advocacy and how it relates to your school music program. Tim Lautzenheiser is Educational Administrator for Festivals of Music. He also serves as Director of Education for The Conn-Selmer Company and national spokesperson for MENC’s “Make a Difference With Music”

The Applause Approach For Better Musicianship

Ben P. Fritz

Dr. Fritz offers 8 steps for the musical development of your ensemble.

                          


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