Convention News

TMEA Member,

Can you believe the TMEA Clinic/Convention is just one week away? To help you prepare for your time in San Antonio, please review the following important information. We will send one last alert next week. As always, stay updated by visiting the convention webpage, www.tmea.org/convention.

Read on for important updates about:

Read the January 25 Convention News Alert (Updates on family badges; student attendance policy; administrator registration; online personal schedule; wheelchair/scooter rental; Twitter/Facebook updates)

On-Site Registration
Wednesday, Feb. 8: 1 p.m.–9 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 9: 7:30 a.m.–6 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 10: 7:30 a.m.–5 p.m.

Pre-registered? Pick up your pre-printed badge on the Pre-registration side by last name. Badges with hyphenated last names will be at the booth of the first in the hyphenated names (e.g., for Smith-Jones: go to the ‘S’ booth).

Badge Replacements: When you leave the hotel each day, remember your badge! We will print you a replacement, but each one will cost $10.

Vienna Boys Choir Ticket Pick-Up
The 2012 President’s Concert featuring the Vienna Boys Choir is SOLD OUT. If you purchased tickets, pick them up from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Registration Area Information Booth (and following that in the theater lobby). Lines will be by Last Name of purchaser. This concert is General Admission only and doors to Lila Cockrell Theater open at 7:15 p.m.

Convention App is Ready
The mobile convention app is compatible with iPhones, iPads, iPod Touches and Android devices and offers you division-specific schedules, maps, exhibitor lists, and more! For those with other mobile devices, there is now a mobile site with many of the same features. Learn more and get the app...

Silence and Darken Your Electronic Devices

  • Before you walk into a clinic or concert, completely silence your cell phone and any other mobile device and put it away (you don’t want to be that person whose phone is audibly vibrating during a music group’s pianissimo performance). And yes, this definitely means no texting. Please show presenters at least the same respect you expect your students to show you in the classroom.
  • No recordings of any kind are allowed in concerts or clinics (video or audio).
  • Also, please not bring babies or small children to concerts.

Is Your Budget/Program in Jeopardy? The Doctor is In!
Music education advocacy expert John Benham will be available at the TMEA convention for one-on-one dialogue. Behnam has worked as an advocacy consultant building and saving music programs for 30 years. He is a nationally recognized consultant for crisis intervention on behalf of music programs in public schools. When you arrive at the convention, go to East Registration to sign up for a meeting with John Benham. Our thanks go to Benham for extending his expertise beyond his commitment as a College Division Featured Clinician. Benham will be available Thursday, 2-6 p.m. and Friday 10 a.m.-noon.

TMEA Welcomes Magnifica Brass Quintet
We are excited to offer a clinic and concert opportunity by internationally acclaimed Magnifica Brass Quintet who will be traveling to our convention from France! Make room in your schedule for this outstanding brass quintet as they offer a master class on Friday at 12:30 P.M. in CC 214 and present a concert in Ballroom B at 6:30 P.M.

Additional Concert Opportunity
The San Antonio Symphony is performing Beethoven’s 8th & 9th symphonies on Feb 10 and 11 at 8 p.m. in the Majestic Theatre. They will then present Beethoven’s 9th symphony on Sun Feb 12 at 7 p.m. The San Antonio Symphony Mastersingers will join the symphony for Beethoven’s Ninth.

San Antonio Symphony is offering TMEA members a special 50% discount to these performances (adult tickets discounted to $6.75, $11.75, $16.75,$21.75,$27.75 or $33.25). To secure this discount, either purchase in advance by calling Karen Cramer at 210-554-1066 or show your TMEA badge at the Majestic Theatre Box office at 224 East Houston St. starting two hours before the performance. Additionally, regular student rates with a valid student ID (child through graduate students) are $8.00 for any seating, except suites.

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