The Piano in Academia, A Symposium

[Kenneth Sloane]

To All- Though I don't contribute many posts to CAUT as of late, I still 
enjoy and benfit from all the (mostly) engaging items that appear. In 
regard to Don's Symposium (and Don deserves a standing ovation for putting 
it together), I can't emphasize enough the need for such a Symposium to 
occur. Having been involved in CAUT for many years, I remember all too well 
the problems that have plaqued CAUT employees, so many of which were not 
related to lack of expertise but lack of meaningful communication between 
techs and academics. All CAUT's need to get as many people as possible 
involved in this Symposium so that the start of good communications between 
techs and academics can occur. See you in Chicago (you aint rid of me yet!)

Ken Sloane, former Director of Piano Technology, Oberlin Conservatory.

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--On Monday, March 25, 2002 11:07 PM -0500 Donald McKechnie 
<dmckech@ithaca.edu> wrote:

> List,
>
> A while back I posted a notice about the symposium that will take place
> at the annual convention this year. The flyer for The Piano in Academia,
> A Symposium will be sent out this week. It will go to the dean/chair of
> every school listed in the College Music Society Directory. We do not
> have the budget to send to every piano professor listed. Hopefully, the
> request to pass the flyer around the department (which is printed in
> bold on the flyer) will be honored.
>
> You can help make this symposium a successful event by getting the word
> out to the administrators and professors in your schools. Go to the CAUT
> web site:
> http://www.mursuky.edu/caut.php/events.htm
> Copy the information and pass it around. Also, many thanks to Renner USA
> for sponoring this event!
>
> Now is the time to try this new approach to our age-old problems. We
> need to take communication between technicians, faculty and
> administrators to a new level. Chicago is the perfect place for this
> symposium. Do your best sell. It is important to all of us. See you in
> Chicago!
>
> Don McKechnie
> Ithaca College
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