DIVISION INFORMATION

CODA WESTERN DIVISION MEETING
All CODA members and non-CODA college orchestra directors from neighbouring states are welcome.
 
Time:                March 30 to 31, 2007
Place:               University of Arizona
Host:                Thomas Cockrell, Cockrell@email.arizona.edu
Studio:              (520) 621-7028; www.cfa.arizona.edu/symphony
Accommodation: Clarion Hotel for $89/night. There is a fun and nice Mexican restaurant next door and is 3-4 miles from campus. Contact Tom for reservation.
Admission:            Free
 
Proposed Itinerary:

Friday, March 30, 2007

Morning, early afternoon arrival.  Pick up at Tucson International Airport by Thomas Cockrell, graduate conducting students
 
2:00pm            Welcome.  Green Room.   
Maurice Sevigny, Dean, UA College of Fine Arts
Dr. Peter McAllister, Director, School of Music
2:30pm Martin Majkut DMA lecture recital with members of the Arizona Symphony, “Slovak influences in 20th-century music as represented in selected works of Bartók, Novák and Janá?ek” Works include Bartok’s Three Village Scenes, Novak’s Tatras, and Janacek’s songs.             
4:00pm            Meeting.  Agenda: conductor training, undergraduate and graduate
5:30pm Dinner
7:30pm UA Opera Theater performance of Mechem’s Tartuffe, Stevie Eller Theatre
 
Saturday, March 31, 2007
AM                  Meetings
PM                  Free:  possibly Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum
Evening            Libation and dinner at Cockrell home

Members interested in joining the Western Division of the College Orchestra DirectorsAssociation should contact the Western Division President, Angela Yeung at the University of San Diego (ayeung@sandiego.edu)  or National President, Stephen Heyde at Baylor University (Stephen_Heyde@baylor.edu).