SUPPORTING PUBLIC SCHOOL MUSIC EDUCATION

IN BROOME COUNTY, NEW YORK

WELCOME to the 2021-2022 BCMEA web site.

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BCMEA AND BCO'S "MUSIC OUTSIDE THE BOX" PROJECT AND MUSIC DIRECTOR EVAN MECCARELLO NAMED A NATIONAL FINALIST FOR THE AMERICAN PRIZE IN VIRTUAL PERFORMANCE

“The American Prize is a series of new, nonprofit, national competitions designed to recognize and reward the very best in the performing arts in the United States.” - from The American Prize website at:

http://www.theamericanprize.org/default.htm

Here are links to the description and list of finalists for The American Prize: National Finalists: VIRTUAL PERFORMANCE (performing remotely), 2022:

http://theamericanprize.blogspot.com/2022/04/national-finalists-virtual-performance.html http://theamericanprize.blogspot.com/2022/04/national-finalists-virtual-performance.html?m=1

“Music Outside the Box,” the brainchild of Music Director Evan Meccarello, was an event sponsored by the Binghamton Community Orchestra, in collaboration with Broome County Music Educators' Association. The event took place in the height of the pandemic, when local student musicians lost so many opportunities to perform music together with their peers, either in school, in community groups, in county-wide festival bands, choruses and orchestras, or any other means of doing what musicians do, which is to play together.

In answer to this crisis, Maestro Meccarello came up with a way for high school music students to play together, virtually! Musicians from the Binghamton Community Orchestra and teachers from BCMEA worked together with Meccarello to help make this dream come true. In April 2021, students came together on a Friday and Saturday through the Zoom platform, to rehearse, and then to perform together. The performance was recorded and presented to the parents the next day. The recording was later released to the public on the Binghamton Community Orchestra website.

To read more about Music Outside the Box, and to watch the trailer and full performance video, click here!

This event is made possible with public funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and administered by The Earlville Opera House.

Additional support for "Music Outside the Box" is provided by S.E.E.D. Planning Group, LLC.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The next executive council meeting will be held on Monday, June 6, 2022 at Maine-Endwell Senior High School, beginning at 4:30 pm.

BCMEA wishes to thank St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Endicott, NY for the generous Bernice Gould Memorial Fund grant in support of our music programs for area school students.

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