Fall Quarter 2000 August 30 - November 26, 2000

Welcome Professor Fracalanza!

Ciao to our newest piano instructor who hails from Venice, Italy. The Prof has a doctorate in music and has moved to Oak Ridge, with his wife, to be near their daughter and her family. Let your friends know about this unique opportunity, and earn yourself some free lessons while you're at it! (See your Student Guide!) He speaks English very well, but maybe you can learn a little Italian while learning piano! He's been added to our website, www.MusicArtsSchool.org.

Bird That Ate The House?

(Keep reading!) Want to save a postage stamp? Your tuition payments can be left in the handy drop box at our bookkeeping office at Nancy England's (861 West Outer Drive). Tucked away in a woodsy setting, the house is on the corner of West Outer Drive and Mississippi Avenue, about a quarter mile west of Louisiana Avenue, with the driveway off Mississippi. Look for the "bird that chewed up the house" right above the drop box. (Now aren't you curious?)

... and we can E-Mail Your Bill

You can help us save postage, too, by receiving your Music Arts tuition statements (as well as Quarterly Update newsletter) with your e-mail. Contact us at music-arts@home.com, reply on our website, or send a note with your next payment. We'll need to know your e-mail address and your preferred method of receiving attachments (for example, WordPerfect or Word). We prefer a format other than Generic or ASCII, letting us send you our neat table format.

Kids Get In Free To Concerts

The Civic Music Association offers free orchestra and chorus concerts (the Concert Series) to all students ages 18 and under. Those 12 and under must be accompanied by an adult. Parents will find buying season tickets very worthwhile.

Got the Student Guide?

If you never got one, or can't find your copy, ask your instructor for a copy. The Guide covers things you should know, like billing policies, opportunities such as our Scholarship Fund, the Music Lending Library, our quarterly activities, as well as various reward programs we have, including bonus lessons and the summer 10% discount for prompt payment.

Kudos to our Summer Interns

In our third year of this program, we offer our con-gratulations to some very talented advanced Music Arts students who participated in our special learning program this past summer.

Our Student Interns offered private lessons, at essentially half-price, to beginners who were interested in seeing what music lessons are like, and sampling an instrument to see if that's for them.

Teaching were Ellen Reid and Joy Arcangeli, piano students of Rudolph Nemeth; Lauren Ham and Kailin Tan, violin students of Jacinta Howard and Kimberly Simpkins; Meaghan Estes, voice student of Lisa Griggs; Andrea Glenn, cello student of Nancy England; and Andrew Gordon, trumpet student of Warren Clark.

The uniqueness of the program is in the supervision by our regular faculty members. They offer moral support to novice instructors and can give suggestions from their own teaching experience. Everyone wins: beginners who can experiment with instruments, and talented students who want to learn more, in a protected environment, about teaching.