Winter 2009 Issue
2009 began with all the fanfare and hoopla a new era deserves:
| The ball dropped in Times Square | A new president was inaugurated | Tuning In to Rx Music went exclusively online! |
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Welcome to the Winter 2009 edition of Tuning In to Rx Music. Now web-based and interactive, our newsletter is more streamlined and easy to read than ever. All the reports and features you’ve come to expect are here, now in full color and with click-through capability.
Going online has other benefits, too. The cost of printing and mailing a paper newsletter was becoming downright prohibitive. The savings we can now reap, both in terms of economy and ecology, are good for us all!
We think you’ll agree that the Winter 2009 issue represents a dynamic, attractive, and contemporary change for the better!
Key Changes:
Terry Glusko has accepted a new position as Bereavement Coordinator for Metropolitan Jewish Hospice in Brooklyn, NY (tglusko@mjhs.org). Terry and his wife Christi also recently gave birth to their first child, Ann Beth Glusko whom Terry feels has the perfect hands to be a cellist.
Angel Park passed her board examination and is now MT-BC.
Music Therapy pioneer Carol Bitcon died on January 9, 2009. Carol served as President of NAMT and wrote the seminal book, “Alike and Different: The Clinical and Educational Uses of Orff-Schulwerk”. Carol made a lasting impression on the field of music therapy. A more detailed obituary can be found in this newsletter.
Send brief entries to editor@mar-amta.org, with the subject line “key changes”.
Announcements:
Level I Training in Bonny Method of Guided Imagery & Music
with James Borling of Radford University, June 10-13, 2009
IHM Spiritual Renewal Center, Cresco PA.
Sponsored by Marywood University
3 Graduate or 50 CMTE credits available.
E-mail: dwramsey@marywood.edu or pfeifer@marywood.edu
MAR-AMTA Needs Your Membership Dues!
Your 2009 Membership fees are due – Please pay ASAP in 2009!
Your membership fee increases our region’s ability to serve you.
We are only as strong as our members!
Next Newsletter Deadline: July 1, 2009
Look for these features and more:
- What’s on the entertainment bill at the upcoming conference? The Taters, Pennyshakers, and BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND… Live Band Karaoke!!! Three great groups to help you “get your groove on”. Read more in the Conference Planning Report.
- Michael Rohrbacher, Gene Ann Behrens, Joke Bradt, Kathy Murphy, and others will offer conference presentations on evidence-based practice principles as they relate to music therapy clinical practice – see more Research Committee news.
- State Task Force Reports present news from New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.
- Iconic music therapist Carol Bitcon (1936-2009) has left an amazing legacy to the music therapy community, as detailed in the overview of her life, We Mourn the Passing...
- Communicate with your governmental representatives and policy makers to advocate for music therapy. The Government Relations Report shows you how.
- There are so many ways to be involved in the Region. Your official welcome (and suggestions for how you can become more active) can be found in MAR Needs You.
- Three new benefits are available to members of AMTA! More good reasons to make sure you send in your membership renewal. Learn more in the Membership Report.
- Great entertainment is planned for Regional Conference 2009. Read a summary of all there is to look forward to in the Conference Planning Report.
- From virtual cover to cover, Winter 2009 is bursting at the margins with what you need to know!
* note:
Though all the articles are linked in the table of contents, should you want to view them on one LONG page, or print them to paper, you can open the flat view print page and print all the articles at once.