Iowa Music Educators Symphony Orchestra
Abstract
Iowa Music Educators Symphony Orchestra JOURNAL readers, due to the distinctive nature of the personnel of the orchestra, the entire roster is printed here. supervisors' orchestras which at one time were important features of the annual meetings. For some reason or other this type of activity was discontinued, except for the revival in 1934 of the National Supervisors Chorus - perhaps because of the pressure of other Conference features which usurped so much time and energy that there was little left of either for rehearsals. Recently, the inspirational and practical values of the teachers' ensembles have been rediscovered-and in a new setting which seems more auspicious for this type of enterprise. In any event, such organizations as the Iowa Music Educators Chorus, which sang for the Iowa State Teachers Association last year, the Kansas Music Educators Chorus, which gave a concert during the convention of the Kansas State Teachers Association this fall, and other similar choral organizations sponsored by State Music Educators Associations and In-and-About Clubs have been very successful from the standpoint of concert performance as well as in the measure of value received by the participants. Inand-About Club Orchestras composed of teachers, such as the one