Dear Members,
Happy October! It was so nice to see most of you at our September branch meeting, and it was great to have the chance to talk to some of our new members. Welcome to our branch: Kerri Arakawa, Adam Gravelle, Hye Seong Kim, Danielle Ann Cook, Marko Njego and Jonathan Mann. I want to thank all teachers who chair for our various branch events, for their brief introduction during the meeting. Sandely Miller and her CM committee have been diligently working on educating our new members about the CM program in the meeting, plus the extra session held at Sandely’s home. Thank you, Sandely, Margaret Tseng (CM Theory), Willie Chen (Information) and Anna Kim (Strings), for making this year’s CM meeting successful! Please remember to register for CM before the October 31th deadline. We don’t want you to spend Halloween on the computer.
I am so grateful to be working with all of you, who are professional and enthusiastic. There is always a sense of accomplishment when an event runs smoothly and successfully. Our branch is growing bigger and we need a lot more involvement from everyone. Please send or email your Member Interest Form to Anna Kim by October 18th. We want to hear from you!
You still have time to register for our annual fundraiser, Masquerade concert. This is a two-day event and it offers good incentive for the participants. We are still far from our goal so please encourage your students to perform. I want to thank in advance to our co-chairs of this event: Kevin Kao and Victoria Park. They have been working hard to organize this fun event. I look forward to hear some spooky tunes and hope to see you there!
We had eleven performers for the September MSSL recital. It was a good turnout considering most of the students just returned from summer vacation. The MSSL team had donated $400 from their last year’s proceeds to our branch. This amount will be used to support other branch events. Thank you, Victoria Park and her MSSL team!
There are two important deadlines coming up: October 11th for Romantic Showcase, and October 18th for Classical Showcase. For those who are new to our online festival registration, please go to http://mtacsouthcoast.org/festivals/ . As part of South Coast branch, you should have a member -only login name. Please contact the website administrator on the home page or myself if you have problem logging in. For any festival related questions, please contact Naoko Ono, our festival chair.
Lastly, I’ve a great piece of music to share with you from YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/XlyCLbt3Thk?rel=0
Hope you enjoy the little performance by a “Spider Instrument”!
Melody