Canterbury Musical Parenting Association Inc.
Newsletter November 2008

NEXT MONTHLY MEETING
Wednesday 19^th November 2008 in the Trinity Room at the Christchurch School of Music. Barbadoes St. Next to the Catholic Cathedral.

7.30-7.45pm     Library time
7.45- 9.00pm     Orff on Show - Kathy Cairns and her students will present a short concert (starting at 8pm) to showcase their work this year using xylophones and other Orff instruments.  This will then be followed by a sharing session.
                            
Free for members, $2 for non-members.

Coming up: 
End of Year meeting 3^rd of December - shared supper and sharing session of seasonal ideas for music classes.

Special Honour!
Rotary awarded Julie Wylie a very special honour at their most recent meeting.  The minutes of the meeting said this:

Julie Wylie, wife of member John, was awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship, for recognition of her outstanding work in the field of music education, music parenting and at early childhood level. She is highly regarded for her work in developmental music therapy for children with special needs. In the citation we heard of the International recognition of her work.
Well done Julie!!!

Congrats!
Julia Mitchell, our newest addition to the Musical Parenting whanau!  Lisa and Tim are thrilled to have their 3^rd child.

From Julie
This has been an exciting month for CMPA members. The “Threading the Day with Music” Saturday workshop was a great success and everybody is in for a treat with Kathy Cairn’s presentation for our next meeting on November 19th. She will showcase percussion works with her young students and demonstrate Rondo form from a movement from Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons”. Everyone enjoyed this so much when she shared this at the above workshop.
Congratulations are extended to Lisa and Tim Mitchell who have had a beautiful little girl Julia Rose. We are all so pleased for your family.
Diana Caldwell has been presented with a Civic award in Oamaru for her services to the community including 25 years of pre-school music classes. Diana would have to be our longest serving music practitioner in this field. Congratulations Diana for all your wonderful work!
Dorothea Banfield has composed two percussion works to be performed by her students from Allenvale Special School at the “Repercussion” December concert depending on parental consent. Louise Shand has just completed her degree in Psychology so we wish her well and look forward to seeing more of her at Musical Parenting. Jody Keehan has been doing a wonderful job with the monthly prematurely born babies’ clinic at the Champion Centre this year. Well done everyone who shares music in the community.
We are going to have a Christmas shared meeting with a shared supper on the 3^rd of December so bring all your favourite Christmas carols, ideas and songs. We look forward to seeing you all there.
Julie   

If you have any information to go in the next newsletter, please e-mail me at
k.keehan@xtra.co.nz or ring 03-3522106. Cheers, Jody