February President’s Message

Dear Members,

Our branch meeting is coming up on Wednesday, February 20, 10:00 a.m. at Fields’ Piano. Melody Lu has arranged a very interesting and helpful program to be given by Dr. Monica Lee. She will be giving a business lecture that will focus on tax and advertisement (ways to reduce student drops/maintaining student enrollment). This is sure to be an information packed lecture and we hope all of you can attend!

Our MSSL chair, Victoria Park has already sent out information on the second MSSL recital of 2013 which will occur on Saturday, February 16th! If you are interested in signing up students for the recital, you can download the application form from our website (http://msslsc.weebly.com/documents-and-links.html). The due date for the form is February 9th. Please ignore the earlier deadline on the application. The recital is at 2:00 PM and will be held at Park Plaza in Orange (620 South Glassell Street, Orange, CA 92866). All performances, including piano, dance, strings, vocals, etc. are encouraged. The registration fee is only $5 and it will be a great opportunity for students to practice for CM.

Best of luck to all teachers with students entered in the new Festival for Strings, Winds and Voice, Jr. Bach Festival and Sounds of Baroque Festival Saturday, February 23 at the Geneva Presbyterian church in Laguna Woods. Our enrollment in the new Festival for Strings, Winds and Voice is small (11) but we hope that satisfied students will tell their friends and we will have a larger participation next year! We are always interested in feed back on our branch events; if you have any comments please send them to our hard working and excellent festival chairs Chi Asada and Ana Kim.

Musically yours,
Vivian Lee R. Field