Our Mission
To develop and maintain a
connection between organizations with similar interests in the advancement of
music development in the community, both educationally and through performance.
Our Objectives
- To identify all organizations that function to musically educate members
of the community.
- To bring together the elements of music education, music performance.
music consumers and the music industry.
- To develop a vehicle for making an awareness of continued performance
opportunities during post-school years.
- To develop a vehicle that will disseminate information to those
organizations that serve in providing a secondary performance enhancement to
musical instruction within the framework of formal education.
- To enable a cooperative effort between those organizations that exist as
support groups for music activities within the framework of formal education.
- To have a unified front for music in the political debate.
- To create an information blitz concerning the breadth of musical interest
in the community.
- To assist in establishing an informal camaraderie between those involved
in musical development.
- To identify those organizations that enhance musical learning for the
listener.
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A Position
A brotherhood is a gathering of people, or groups of people, who collectively
function in the promotion of their common interest. Music is an interest where a
such a grouping seems to be in order.
There is a large amount of vital music activity in Arizona. There are
organized groups that have music education as a primary or secondary purpose.
Most of these are vaguely known to each other and there's not a mechanism in
place that can define the purpose and identify the leadership and location of
each.
The unknown often breeds fear. Various professional efforts are not
understood by everyone. This lack of understanding may breed jealousies and
suspicions. However, when people are acquainted with each other, these negatives
are usually converted into positives.
In the field of fine arts, the "buzz word" of recent decades has been
ADVOCACY. This word seems to define the reactive response to the concern of arts
programs being lost due to disinterest by those in charge of the political
debate, nationally and locally. Advocacy efforts have been effective in
developing knowledge in those who otherwise would be uninformed and
disinterested. Even better would be the proactive approach. This could be
described as MARKETING.
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