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March/April 2025
Where are the songs of Spring?
Ay, where are they?
Think not of them,
Thou hast thy music too!
~John Keates
Dear Salem District OMTA teachers:
Isn't it nice to see the daffodils blooming and hear the geese honking their return?
Spring is almost here...and Spring Break!
Our April meeting will feature Deborah Cleaver teaching us about
"The Taubman Approach." Learning more about this teaching method is
always informative. Since we are meeting at the studio of Asya Gulua, it
would be helpful if you could email me a quick RSVP.
See you in April,
Deborah Butler, President
Friday, April 4, 2025
Location: Studio of Asya Gulua — 3395 Hulsey Ave., SE, Salem, OR
9:30 am – Business Meeting
10:00am - 11:30pm – Presentation: "The Taubman Approach" – Deborah Cleaver
Spring Syllabus - coming up the weekend of May 16-18, 2025.
Kellene Goff & Deborah Butler, Chairs
Please let your Chairs know if you are planning to enter students.
The deadline to sign up in Leggerio will be in April.
January/February 2025
Welcome back to Piano Lessons 2025! I hope your holidays were merry and bright...and restful, too!
~Deborah Butler
We have some interesting speakers coming up:
Friday, February 7, 2025
10:00am-12:00pm Presentation: "Piano Methods from Around the World"
Dr. Lark Powers
12:00pm Business Meeting
Location: Loucks Auditorium, Salem Public Library
Friday, April 4, 2025
9:30 Business Meeting
10:00am-12:00pm Presentation: "The Taubman Approach"
Deborah Cleaver
Location: Studio of Asya Gulua, 3395 Hulsey Ave., SE, Salem, OR
Thank you, Shari!
Fall Syllabus 2024 Report
Fall Syllabus 2024 went very smoothly. My thanks to the teachers who opened their studio on Friday 11/1/2024 (two studios) and Saturday 11/2/2024. Each of the days was a full schedule for our three adjudicators: Alexis Gibbons, Alona Maizlin, and Liz Willis. We had eleven teachers and thirty students registered. Twenty of the students were Levels 1 through 6 and ten were Levels 7 through 9. Congratulations to teachers and students for their hard work!
Thank you--
Shari B.
Spring Syllabus - coming up the weekend of May 16-18, 2025.
Kellene Goff & Deborah Butler, Chairs
Please let your Chair know if you are planning to enter students.
The deadline to sign up in Leggerio will be in April.
Grace Ho asked me to email this out to our Salem District.
If you are interested in this event, please let Grace know Directly.
Dear Deborah,
Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season.
My name is Grace Ho, and I am a fellow OMTA member as well as a member of the piano faculty at the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance.
I am emailing to see if you would be willing to pass along a message to your district members about a research study on teaching methods for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This study is being conducted by the University of Oregon, and I am the researcher along with my colleague, Michelle Sulaiman.
We are seeking piano teachers and piano students to participate in this study. Participation would involve videorecording one piano lesson and completing a brief survey.
We are looking to recruit up to 20 pairs of teachers and students for this study and would greatly appreciate your help in reaching out to your district members for participation. Thank you for considering!
Sincerely,
Grace Ho, D.M.A.
<gho@uoregon.edu>
Michelle Sulaiman, D.M.A.
October/November 2024
PLEASE NOTE:
Our October 4 meeting is rescheduled to Friday, November 1, same time, same place (see below).
Do you have a favorite Autumn piece?
Every year I think of furthering my collection of Autumn/Thanksgiving music. I began
searching for this music and was surprised at how many pieces I found: Vivaldi, Tchiakovsky,
Kabalevsky, Haydn, MacDowell, Fanny Mendelssohn, Gillock, Last, Mercer, etc.
Autumn seems to inspire us all!
UPCOMING EVENTS:
FALL SYLLABUS
Registration Deadline Friday, October 4
Exams Dates Thursday - Saturday, October 31 - November 2
Hello again, fellow teachers--
Just a reminder that the deadline for OMTA fall syllabus registration
is this coming Friday, October 4. The date of the event is October 31
to November 2 (Thurs.-Sat.). Leggiero is available.
Let me know if you have questions! Also let me know if you are willing
to host syllabus in your studio (if you haven't already). 🙂
Thank you--Shari Beals
MEETING & SPEAKER:
Friday, November 1
Broadway Coffeehouse - Europe Room 403
9:30am Business Meeting
10:00am Speaker: Dr. Crystal Zimmerman, NCTM
Program: "Succeeding with Sonatinas:
From Early Beginner through Early Advanced."
Our SalemOMTA.org website is updated! Thank you to
Benjamin Smith! Please let me know if you have any corrections or additions.
SAVE THE DATE for our annual CHRISTMAS LUNCHEON:
Friday, December 6 @ Magnolia on the Green
Happy teaching!
Deborah Butler, President
Salem District OMTA
SalemOMTA.org
butlers9@frontier.com
503-932-0514
AUTUMN FIRES
by Robert Lewis Stevenson
In the other gardens
And all up the vale,
From the autumn bonfires
See the smoke trail!
Pleasant summer over
And all the summer flowers,
The red fire blazes,
The grey smoke towers.
Sing a song of seasons!
Something bright in all!
Flowers in the summer,
Fires in the fall!
August/September 2024
Dear Salem District, OMTA Teachers,
I hope you have been enjoying these lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer.
Our first meeting of the 2024-2025 year is coming up next week!
Friday, September 13, 2024
11:00 am - 12pm-ish
Minto-Brown Park
Let's meet at the park!
We'll have a short business meeting and lots of visiting!
Please bring a picnic lunch or snacks and a folding chair or blanket.
Also, feel free to bring a friend!
Holly Peters is busily working on our Membership Directories. Please be
watching your email next week for our first ever email Directory!
Directions to Minto-Brown Park:
Take River Road South and enter the Park Entrance on your Right
(coming from the North).
Turn into the next driveway on your Right.
Please let me know if you have any comments or questions.
Hope to see you soon!
Deborah Butler, President
Salem District OMTA
SalemOMTA.org
butlers9@frontier.com
September/October 2023
September/October 2023
Welcome back to Salem District OMTA!
I hope everyone had a relaxing summer! This is "Back-to-Teaching-Music" time! This is a busy time of the year when we teachers may be found frantically--and happily--planning and scheduling our coming year! We have some great meetings planned again this year!
Oct. 6 Melody Morrison - Zoom
Dec. 1 Christmas Brunch - Magnolia on the Green
Feb. 2 Dr. Lark Powers
March 1 Dr. Thomas Otten
June 2 Wrap-Up Brunch - Basil & Board
Festivals
Baroque Festival - Kellene Goff
Art & Music Festival - Crystal Zimmerman
Syllabus
Fall Syllabus - October 19-21 - Shari Beals
Spring Syllabus - May 17-19 - Kellene Goff and Deborah Butler
Scholarships
Pamela Miller - Crystal Zimmerman
Iva Turner - Trinity Goff
See you on the 15th at Minto-Brown Park!
~Deborah Butler, President, Salem District, OMTA
Our first meeting - Minto-Brown Park
Friday, September 15, 2023 @ 11:00 am
Pick up your 2023-2024 Membership Directory.
Bring a chair and lunch or a snack to share!
Please welcome our New Members
Grace Taylor
gcnpianostudio78@gmail.com
(971) 715-9080
Dr. Asya Gula
asyagulua@gmail.com
Thank you to all our volunteers working on Salem District OMTA events and business!
Esther Fields
Debbie Smith
Jill Foster
Dr. Crystal Zimmerman
Kellene Goff
Trinity Goff
Holly Butler
Shari Beals
Marilyn Reischke
We need you to volunteer! Please volunteer to help with an event this year. This is needed to keep our organization fresh and moving forward. We need you!!
•Bring Refreshments to a meeting
•Assemble Membership Directory
•Contact Members
•Chair or Co-Chair a Festival
•Help organize our Christmas Brunch, speakers, and meetings
•Help chair a festival
•Board Member
Let us know if you have any questions or ideas.
Fall Syllabus Registration is OPEN!
Shari Beals has stepped up to chair this event
Fall Syllabus: October 19-21, 2023
Deadline: September 22, 2023
Chair: Shari Beals
Location: If you can offer your studio, please let Shari know.
The deadline for entries is September 22 and the exam dates are October 19-21 (Thurs, Fri, Sat).
SalemOMTA.org Webmaster
Benjamin Smith has agreed to be the Web Master this year! Thank you, Benjamin!
Syllabus Rebates Available again this year!
SYLLABUS SCHOLARSHIP GUIDELINES
2023-2024
Teacher submits a Syllabus Scholarship application to Treasurer. Treasurer will award a 50% Scholarship, as funds allow, up to $1,000. Teacher will inform the parent and student of this opportunity and get their signatures and mailing address.
Teacher pays the full Syllabus fees, with fees refunded by the Scholarship amount.
Full scholarships are available based on teacher's recommendations and available funds.
Teacher will submit a confidential application to the Treasurer, who will award a 50% scholarship as funds allow. $1000 will be set aside from General Fund for Syllabus Scholarships. This applies to any kind of Syllabus examination. The teacher will pay the full Syllabus fees and be refunded the scholarship amount. Syllabus Scholarship Application will include the Syllabus Level and amount of the scholarship.
Scholarship may include a full scholarship, based on the teacher’s recommendation and the availability of funds.
Presenter: Dr. Thomas Otten, NCTM
In Person: Yes
Online: Yes
Short Program
How Do I Get My Student to Sound Arsc? What makes for an arsc performance? This session will delve into issues of tone, rubato,
rhythm, arculaon, pedal, tempo and how to use these elements to create arstry in student
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Free Piano
Spinet piano, a Straube built in 1941
Please contact Marilyn Reischke: reischkemusic@gmail.com
Pianist Wanted
Paradise Island Chapel is looking for a pianist on Sunday mornings to play three hymns for congregational singing. Their service begins at 10am, and they will pay $50 per Sunday. Paradise Island Manufactured Home Park is located on Turner Road south of WalMart.
Please contact Marilyn Reischke at reischkemusic@gmail.com or 503-509-9326
March/April 2023
March/April 2023
It's already is March 1--who would've guessed we would still be enjoying snow!? A few weeks ago, when the sun came out, wouldn't you know some of my students hardly practiced? So, I'm hoping the snow will help bring them back inside to visit their friend more--The Piano! :)
March 3 Meeting
Broadway Coffeehouse
1300 Broadway St, Salem, OR, Europe Room 403 4th floor (There are parking lots on 5th St.)
9:30 am Business Meeting
10:00 am Program: Dr. Steven Lewis
"Hearing, Sight, Touch and Proprioception: Engaging the Four Senses of Piano Playing"
Spring Syllabus 2023 - Deborah Butler, Chair
To register your students, please visit https://omta.leggierosw.com
Spring Syllabus registration will open on March 1, and the deadline is April 21.
Art & Music Festival 2023 - Crystal Zimmerman, Chair
The Art & Music Festival will be held the morning of May 20, 2023 at Sunnyslope Christian Reformed Church 197 Hrubetz Rd SE, Salem.
Student Entry form must be received by: May 5, 2023
Artwork must be received by: May 17, 2023
Pamela Miller Scholarship Recital 2023 - Crystal Zimmerman, Chair
The competition will be held the afternoon of May 20, 2023 at Willamette University. Print and fill out the form on our website to apply for the Pamela Miller scholarship competition.
Iva Turner Award - Chair TBA
Date and Location - TBA
Hope to see you Friday!
Deborah Snow Butler, President
Salem District OMTA
butlers9@frontier.com
503.932.0514
January/February 2023
January/February 2023
Happy New Year!
I hope you had a restful, peaceful holiday season. And now onward to MUSIC…lots of it! Winter is a wonderful time to make music: Chilly Weather + Blustery + Dark = More Practice! :)
Our first meeting of the New Year will be Friday, February 3, 2023.
Broadway Coffeehouse
1300 Broadway St, Salem, OR, Europe Room, 4th floor (There are parking lots on 5th St.)
9:30am - 10:00am Business Meeting
10:00am - 12:00pm Program: Dr. Crystal Zimmerman
"Non-Verbal Teaching: Identifying and Utilizing Learning Styles"
Website Announcement
The phone number and email of each member of Salem District OMTA has been published on our SalemOMTA.org website in order to provide contact information for potential music students. In fact, our new website has already generated at least one new student! If you would like your information removed or changed, please contact Deborah Butler. ~Debbie Smith, Secretary
A note from Kellene Goff RE: Baroque Festival
Hello Teachers, Our Baroque Festival will be held on February 11 at St Mark Lutheran Church in Salem. The deadline for entries will be January 28. Leggiero is open. Feel free to email with any questions, ~Kellene Goff
Spring Syllabus is coming up!
May 19-21, 2023
Deadline for entries is April 21.
Start planning now.
Voice scholarships are available.
FYI - This is a special notice to let everyone know that Monday Musical Club of Portland is now accepting applications for the 2023 Scholarship Awards Program. The announcement and application are available at our website: https://www.pdxmmc.org/scholarship-info/
This year we will be awarding $16,000 to the top contestants following our auditions on April 15th. The competition is open to students of music, ages 14 through 22, who are studying and living in the state of Oregon or Clark County, Washington. We expect that we will meet the maximum number of applicants very quickly this month, so please disseminate this message quickly to as many eligible students and teachers as possible. We want to give everyone an equal opportunity to apply. Thank you for helping to spread the word. Grant Porter grantporter0902@gmail.com
As always, please let me know if you have any suggestions or ideas.
See you soon,
Deborah Snow Butler, President
Salem District OMTA
November/December 2022
Hope you are enjoying the crisp weather lately. It's perfect for cooking stews, soups and bread! It's also perfect for music! As the season of Thanksgiving approaches, I am thankful for each of you and your musical gifts! ~Deborah
Hope to see you at our November meeting next week!
♫ Friday, November 4
Jill Foster's Studio
855 McKinley St., Woodburn
9:30 Business Meeting
10:00 Program with Wendy Stevens
"Inside Out Rhythm"
This will be a fun meeting about teaching rhythmand playing some rhythm games.
Our last meeting of the year will be our annual Christmas Luncheon with our teachers-- Salem OFMC, SFMC, and the state presidents of OMTA and OFMC. Come and enjoy a lovely time of enjoying delicious food and visiting with local music teachers!
Christmas Luncheon
Friday, December 2
Marco Polo Restaurant, 300 Liberty St., Salem, OR
12pm Noon
Questions: Marilyn Reishke, (503) 509-9326 - reischkemusic@gmail.com
Menu: https://www.marcopolosalem.com/menus-2
♫ Welcome, New Members!
Gabriel Sternberg
Ron Bechtel
♫ Membership Directory Correction:
Melissa Terrall
♫ Mark your calendars for our 2023 Broadway Commons Meetings
February 3
March 3
We have some great speakers lined up! As always, please let me know if you have any suggestions or ideas.
See you soon,
Deborah Snow Butler, President
Salem District OMTA
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