Composition Contest Judges AnnouncedYou won’t believe who’s judging! - Pg. 4

Also Inside:Fireside Southeast - Pg. 3

Percy Burrell Anniversary Celebrations & Contests - Pg. 10Foundation Scholarships - Pg. 11

By Erick Reid, Rho Mu (NorfolkState) ’08, National CollegiateRepresentative

Greetings Brothers!HAPPY NEW YEAR! I pray

that 2013 presented you with chal-lenges that will make you greaterand better prepared for those chal-lenges you will face in 2014. I amconfident 2014 is going to be agreat time for each of us individual-

ly, as chapters, and collectively as a NationalOrganization. The organization saw much change in2013 and our National Executive Committee andNational Staff are making changes to prepare us for2014!

My initial insight into the history of the fraternitywas at a Fireside Conference! Here I learned about thehistory of our organization, the meanings behind theRitual, and even had the opportunity to chat with ourfraternity’s leaders about the vision of our order. Thisexperience was great and sparked my interest to go fur-ther and to do more for Sinfonia. You will have thisopportunity this semester! Fireside Southeast will takeplace on the campus of the University of Georgia. Iencourage brothers in this region and even outside tomake a trip to learn more! You will have the opportuni-ty to learn from brothers from all over the country inan intimate setting.

As we are all aware, Sinfonia represents the best in

music. The composition contest highlights this theme.I encourage those brothers who have the gift of compo-sition to participate or spread the word to someone youfeel could benefit from this exciting opportunity. Wehave some outstanding judges and I think we shouldgive them some tough competition! The compositionprogram is open to both Sinfonians and non-Sinfonians so be sure to tell everyone you know!

Lastly, Leadership Institute is coming once againand I know you all are going to take advantage of thisawesome experience! I promise you won’t find a pro-gram like it. I have attended several times and I amsure we’re going to have a great time this year. So pleasetake the time to attend this affordable opportunity inthe Hoosier State (yeah, I had to look that up too)!

Enjoy this issue of the Red & Black! Take the timeto read the writings of Brother Percy J. Burrell as wecommemorate the 50th anniversary of his death. Andcheck out news from campuses around the country! Letus all set a resolution as a fraternity to reach out morein 2014! Whether it be through social media, writing aletter, or even paying a visit to a new chapter this yearand feel free to share these experiences with me atncr@sinfonia.org!

In the Spirit of Phi,Erick Jamar ReidNational Collegiate Representative

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From the National Collegiate Representative

Composition Judges - 4

Submission Deadlines - 11

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Volume XXXI Number 3 Jan/Feb 2014

The Red & Black is the collegiate newsletter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity

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Fireside Conference SoutheastWhere: University of Georgia

When: April 4-6

www.sinfonia.org/fireside

Musical & Educational opportunitieswith Fraternity leaders and brothers

from across the country!Affordable Cost ($29 - standard registration)

Attend a performance by theBranford Marsalis Quartet!Experience the UGA campus

with your brothers!

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Advancing Music in AmeThe Phi Mu Alpha Composition Contest continues Sinfonia’s 100-year legacy of support for American artists and the creatEntrants will compete for a grand prize of $ 5,000, a featured premiere of their entry at the 2015 National Convention, aning entry. We are pleased to announce the three distinguished brothers who have graciously agreed to serve as judges for

made significant contributions to American music in his own right.

Brother Adler’s mark on American music stretches into nearly everyof instrumentation, including five operas, six symphonies, numerouHe has conducted the world over, and founded and conducted the from 1950 to 1952. His contributions also include several acclaimeFollowing military service, Brother Adler conducted the Dallas Lyrof North Texas College of Music (1957-1966), Professor of Compoon the composition faculty at Julliard.

Samuel Adler, Gamma Theta (North Texas) 1960

Brother Floyd is one of the most admired and widely performed opited with helping to create an American idiom in opera. Carlisle’s mperformed American operas in history. His other popular works inof the same name, and Cold Sassy Tree, his most recent work, writtBrother Floyd has been honored with The Citation of Merit by theComposers, the National Opera Institute’s Award for Service to Amand Letters, the White House National Medal of Arts, and the Frabeen recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts as an ho

Carlisle Floyd, Epsilon Iota (Florida State) 1957

Brother Lockhart became the 20th conductor of the Boston Pops iartists from virtually every corner of the entertainment world. DurBoston Pops concerts. Audiences worldwide love Keith’s inimitablemaking, but also by his unique ability to speak directly to the audimitted. Currently, Brother Lockhart serves as principal conductor oartistic director of the Brevard Music Center summer institute andevery major symphonic ensemble in North America, as well as seve

Keith Lockhart, Gamma Eta (Furman) 1978

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erica...tion of new works of American music.

and a publishing contract for the win-r the competition, each of whom has

y realm of music. His catalogue includes over 400 published works in all typesus string quartets, concerti, and several shorter works for orchestra or choir.Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra while serving in the United States Army

ed books and articles on conducting, composition, and orchestration.ic Theater (1954-1958), served as Professor of Composition at the Universityosition at the Eastman School of Music (1966-1995), and since 1997 has been

pera composers and librettists of the last century. He is cred-most popular work, Susannah, has become one of the mostclude Of Mice and Men, based on the John Steinbeck novelen in 2000. Among numerous prominent distinctions,e National Association of American Conductors andmerican Opera, induction into the American Academy of Artsaternity’s own prestigious Man of Music award. He has alsoonoree for lifetime contribution.

The contest is open to all who are interested and qualified! Deadline for entries is July 1,2014. Head to www.sinfonia.org/compositioncontest

for entry requirements and details.

in 1995. He has worked with a wide array of establishedring his 17-year tenure, he has conducted more than 1,400e style, expressed not only through his consummate music-ience about the music to which he feels so passionately com-of the BBC Concert Orchestra in London. In addition, he is

d festival in North Carolina. He has appeared with virtuallyeral in Asia and Europe.

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DEAR BROTHERS: It has beenmy privilege in the previous twomessages to choose a text from thearticle of our Constitution on“Object.” I have sought to say some-thing worth your time to read onthe development of the best andtruest fraternal spirit and the mutualwelfare and brotherhood of musicalstudents This year I have turned tothe remaining aim of our fraternityexpressed in the words “the advance-ment of music in America and a loy-alty to the Alma Mater.” On theopening pages of our YEAR BOOK

I desire to emphasize this specific kind of loyalty, and in so doing Itrust that its close relation to the advancement of music inAmerica may be apparent.

The present-day demand for education is determined to nosmall extent by the world sizing up, as it were, the human prod-ucts that are gathered and sent forth from the collegiate and edu-cational field. The world has a right to ask, “What has educationdone for Jim Smith?” If Jim Smith can show a fellow feeling forTom Brown, John Jones and Charlie White, and if he can put outa right hand that will fit into the other fellow's right hand, educa-tion has produced brains plus brotherhood. Such a man goingforth with a sheepskin in his grip is going to win men, women andendowments for our colleges and universities. Is he not, brothers?You can imagine that he is the fellow who in college used to shout,“Hurrah for Harvard!” and “Three cheers for Yale!” and who felt itin his heart as well as in his throat. He is in short the very besttype of the college man. I fancy he would be the first to sit downin a spelling match if asked to spell “snob” or “sneer,” but he oughtto be able to stand up to the end on such words as “sincerity,”“sacrifice” and “Sinfonia.”

You ask what all this has to do with our text. It has a great dealto do with it, for this loyalty touches in very essence the mind andheart condition of men. He who does not think broadly and feeldeeply does not lose much sleep because of working loyally. Whilethe man who comes out of college is expected to make a mark forhimself in the world and so prove what is in him - you may put itdown as certain that unless something besides rules, definitionsand equations got into his head as a student - he will find himselfquite erased as far as making a positive impress upon his fellows inthe broadest sense of what manhood and life-work really ought tobe. The ideal college life today should afford, and I believe it does,an opportunity for men to meet with influences other than those

strictly academic, scholastic and pedagogical. The debating and lit-erary clubs, local societies, general fraternities and the like help indeveloping the social side of man's nature. Here men meet oneanother on the same level. Rough exteriors are planed down byrubbing up against smooth ones, and the smooth find out whichway the grain really runs in getting scratched by the rough ones.These diverse, not diametric - indeed they are, after all, harmoniz-ing aspects of the student life - are true developers for both mak-ing a rounded manhood and putting a man on the square.Isolation in thought and in body does not tend to make a manlove any one in any corner but his own. His corner is only bigenough for himself. Fraternity, it seems to me, is a sort of life's“puss in the corner” game where one is glad to exchange cornerswhen the other fellow whistles and everybody has an equally goodand profitable time.

I see that I have used the word “Fraternity.” Let us do so againand put the word Sinfonia before it, so it reads Sinfonia Fraternity.What does it mean? Loyalty to the Alma Mater! I believe that thatis what a true fraternity means every time. I have no sympathywith the individual who berates the college fraternities because heis outside of them and knows noth-ing about them. It is true that somefraternities are not as good in theirinfluence as others may be becauseeach man himself, the world over,has a goodness that is relativerather than positive. There aresome days not as bright as others,yet the Creator does not snuff outthe sun.

While every one recognizes theChurch and the State as the mostconspicuous handmaids ofeducation, is it not true, aswell, that the American col-lege fraternity has been aprominent and positive factor in the growth and popularity of col-lege life? I think so. Does not the “frat” man love his frat and hiscollege equally well, and when he goes out into the world does henot both love his fellowmen and cherish his Alma Mater? A shorttime ago a class in one of our universities was getting ready to puton a Shakespearean play. All the female characters chosen by thecommittee happened to be non-frat members. The coach asked,“Wouldn’t it be wise to have at least one of the fraternities repre-sented in the cast? You want their support, don’t you?” Promptlycame the answer, “Oh, the frat girls have college spirit enough tosupport it anyway!” I thought that had a pretty good illustration of

The President's Message(reprinted from The Phi Mu Alpha Annual; Vol. IX, 1910)

“The advancement of music America and a loyalty to the Alma Mater.

Brother Percy J. Burrell in 1911.

Inscription on the monument placed bythe Fraternity at Burrell’s gravesite on

October 2, 2004

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how fraternity and college spirit go hand in hand and that a schoolwithout the former is liable to lose much of the latter, and in shortorder find a diminished loyalty to the Alma Mater.

You may put this down as a truism: A college spirit cannot besuccessfully worked up among alumni after graduation. To be aloyal alumnus one must first have college spirit, and this same spir-it is kept aflame largely through the oxygen in the lungs of the fra-ternity members. Our own Sinfonia has proved this. The institu-tions which have been pleased to see the red and black flutteringin their midst emphasize the truth of this assertion. Brothers andall others who read this Year Book, listen to the testimony of oneof the directors of a leading American conservatory: “I have noreason to regret the expenditure of any time or money that I mayhave made because I feel that the good Sinfonia has done the con-servatory and the students far surpasses any outlay that I may havemade. . . . One of the cardinal principlesof the order is a loyalty to the Alma Mater,and I believe that the establishment of fra-ternities in the conservatories is developingtheir school spirit a hundred per cent.”

Another director says: “Sinfonia is thebest thing that ever happened to ouryoung men.”

Yet another voices this sentiment: “Ibelieve Sinfonia makes a man a bettermusician.” Indeed it does make him a bet-ter musician, for added to his own person-al ambitions is the ardent desire to be anhonor to his fraternity and to his AlmaMater.

We do not speak in parables, or mys-teries, or imaginings, or longings. Such arethe testimonies of men of conspicuous positions in the musicalrealm who have observed critically and intimately Sinfonia andSinfonians. The music departments of our universities and ourconservatories of music are the agents - wise, systematic, thoroughand far-reaching - in the advancement of music in America. Theirgraduates are bid godspeed as they seek the path leading toadvancement and attainment. They feel the push of the AlmaMater behind and see the beckoning of the goodness ofAttainment before. Every true Sinfonian knows what this means;every institution that boasts a Sinfonia chapter in its midst has feltthe warm pulsings of the Phi Mu Alpha heart.

If I were standing before my own chapter of the New EnglandConservatory and speaking on this same subject, I believe I shouldbegin the speech something like this: “In one sentence, brothers,let me try to strike the keynote. While every Sinfonia man vowsthat ‘once a Sinfonian, always a Sinfonian,’ and is a Sinfonian,now, at last and all the time, he never has forgotten and never willforget that he is (if I can coin the word) a ‘Conservatorian,’ first,last and all the time.” The same might be said, with its own localapplication, of the members of all the chapters. I have seen many aman with a Sinfonian pin shining on his vest, but I have yet to seethe sneer at him who wore nothing save buttons on his vest.Loyalty to the school and friendliness and helpfulness to its stu-dents, whether Sinfonians or not, ever have been prominent traits

of the brothers of the “black and red.”The most rational aim of any educational institution is to turn

out graduates that will be an honor to the school. The graduate tobe such must possess culture as a result of musical training andenthusiasm as a result of social activity. It can not be well disputedthat the growth and perpetuity of a college are largely measured bystudent activity which promotes a common interest and inspiresconsequent loyalty as well as by the personal character and com-mercial success of her graduates. Sinfonia has had ten years tomake known the fact that every Sinfonia shout shouted means amore wide-awake, enterprising graduate; that every Sinfonia meet-ing where are discussed plans of ways and means fosters a moremature judgment which in years to come may help, by wise coun-sels, the Alma Mater.

Brothers of the Sinfonia, do you not realize more than everwhat it means to you to associate forfour, three, two, or even one year in a fra-ternal, brotherly way with fifteen, twenty,or twenty-five other young men all bend-ing their youthful energies toward a highgoal of musical culture? This abundantgood-fellowship makes a wholesome,uplifting and indelible impress upon yourcomplete manhood and is fashioning youinto a better all-round man and a betterman all around - outside as well as insidethe mystic circle. I speak the truth whenI state that to foster a movement that sopromotes real brotherhood and musicalprogress among the future musicians ofAmerica reflects wisdom and far-sighted-ness on the part of those who stand at

the head of our institutions of musical learning. Sinfonians, youare entitled to take just pride that you are proving at last thatmusicians can be welded together in love and for mutual helpful-ness and progress. You are developing that type of manhood whichever shows itself in loyalty to the Alma Mater. Now you are com-ing back to the Alma Mater to see the old school, the old teachers,and to greet the new brothers in Sinfonia. In unison do I catchyour cry, “Te amo- Alma Mater.”

Another paragraph or two and I am done with the annual mes-sage. It is this: The institution which seeks only to develop art, cul-tivate brains and promote the scientific does not reach the acme ofits possibilities or embrace all its opportunities. Its widest missionextends into the field of sentiment, emotion, the spontaneitiesand, indeed, the humanities of life. To strive to subordinate theheart to the head is a worthy performance in the unchecked pas-sions of the race, but in the one seeking knowledge in the higherschools the shout, the song, the society are not at all the anomaliesthey may seem at first glance. The noisy, youthful outbursts thatsometimes are heard may be in truth the very potentialities capableof begetting, fostering and sustaining a sentiment and love for thetime, the occasion, the thing that inspired them. The graduate oftoday is inclined to remember his Alma Mater for its sociality aswell as its intellectuality. The college spirit gets into him duringthe college days. In his after life this same spirit seeks to get out of

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Brother Burrell presenting his 1901Convention photograph to the 1952National Convention in Cincinnati.

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South Carolina Delta Colony • Clemson U

It’s a long time coming, but Sinfonia has reached ClemsonUniversity. On October 31st, Province 30 Governor Kyle Colemanvisited to meet with Clemson’s interest group and convey that theirpetition for colonization has been accepted by the NEC and COS.For 27 months, the interest group has been trying to achieve colonystatus, and it has been a long and arduous process. Over time, manymembers have come and gone but a few stuck with it and are finallyseeing the fruits of their labors. Frank Taylor, colony vice presidentand one of the very early members of the interest group commented

Pennsylvania Gamma Colony • Moravian College

The colony had a very busy, but amazingsemester this fall. We first found out aboutreceiving our colony status in March of 2013.Due to getting our colony status so late in thesemester, the spring semester of 2013 was usedfor raising money to help with the tasks to becompleted in Phase 1 of the colony process. Thecolony formed an organized plan for thefundraisers and between two different ones weraised over $500 to put in the bank for the fallsemester. Fall semester was time for us to buckledown and finish all the different required activi-

ties for Phase 1. We put on a concert featuringthe members of the colony, our American MusicRecital, three recruitment events, the OssianEverett Mills Music Mission, had our overnightweekend brotherhood retreat, and more. Withthe hard work of every colony member, we arenow here in December with all of the Phase 1activities done and finishing the final preparationof our petition for Phase 2 in just a few shortmonths - a testament to how a combination ofhard work and true brotherhood can overcomeany obstacle.

Zeta Rho Chapter • Fisk University

The small chapter was preparing for theirown performance on the Christmas at FiskShowcase Concert, when a late Thanksgivingmade juries seem like they were very early. Thechapter hosted a special Jury Preparation Nightto help their fellow students with that last incen-

tive to thorough preparation before leaving forbreak. Food, friends, and a family atmosphereallowed students to give and receive constructivecriticism as they practiced their performances—no faculty allowed (except for a collaborativepianist).

Rho Tau Chapter • Appalacian State University

During the course of the spring semester, thechapter hosted a Contemporary Music Festival fea-turing the talents of American composer RobSmith, who has received multiple awards interna-tionally for his compositions. Rob Smith held mas-ter classes with several ensembles on campus, while

his compositions were performed almost every dayof the week.

The chapter also conducted an AmericanMusic Review. During this, both brothers andother music students performed music fromAmerican composers.

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“Although it has taken us a little over two years to get here, it is allgoing to be worth it in the end. Since the group has become theSouth Carolina Delta Colony, they have a lot of work to do. Bymaintaining the mindset of “men of the highest type,” the goal ofbecoming a full chapter is coming into fruition.” The colony is finallyclose to reaching their goal. And as they push through Phase I, thecolony continues to stay motivated and always reaching toward theirgoal of becoming a full chapter.

Visit www.sinfonia.org/submissionsto learn more about the types of

articles and updates you can submit!editor@sinfonia.org

Gamma Phi Chapter • Texas State University

On March 23, 2013 in San Marcos,Texas, the chapter participated in a one-daycommunity service project that is now thesecond largest of its kind in the state ofTexas. This project is called Bobcat Build.The mission of Bobcat Build is to create aTexas State tradition of pride through a dayof service projects that build awareness, buildcommunity, and build tradition. Gamma Phiwas split into two different groups to helppick up leaves and generally clean up housesof faculty/citizens of San Marcos. One teamfrom Gamma Phi worked diligently for threehours and raked about twenty bags of leaves,mulched multiple flowerbeds, and washed

windows. A day later, Gamma Phi’s FacultyAdvisor was emailed a letter about howmuch our company and hard work wasappreciated. “I kept thinking,” they wrote,“that you would have been so proud of them(as would be their parents)...for doing some-one else’s chores with such delightful disposi-tions and a willingness to do whatever wasasked. What an absolutely charming groupof young men! They are ambassadors extra-ordinaire of both Texas State and the MusicDepartment!” Gamma Phi enjoyed partici-pating in Bobcat Build and plans on contin-uing to participate for many years to come.

Kappa Chi Chapter • Del Mar College

Spring 2013 was a very successfulsemester for Kappa Chi. We have builtnew shrines to replace our old ones as wellas made our very own ritual robes. Wealso had a joint American Music Recitalwith our brothers from A&M Kingsville

(Pi Chi). We had also initiated three morebrothers and reformed our black night tobe much more exciting and effective forprobationary members here at Kappa Chifor years to come.

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him in the most practical ways and helps for his Alma Mater. But first of all, loyalty to the Alma Mater must have the seeds sownin the form of enthusiasm, college spirit and brotherhood in the student. His first exuberance may be sometimes criticised aspuerile and irrational, but in later years we find that these pristine, bubbling-over manifestations have undergone a process of evo-lution and he has come to possess an alumni spirit “safe and sane.” Such a one loves his Alma Mater. It means counseling to him.The shout and the song are not forgotten. Oh no! They were the prologues, the prerequisites, the harbingers of still better things,for with him it is now, “All up for the old school!” and “On with our sons and daughters to the old Alma Mater!”

Give the conservatory, the college, the university, give any school an enthusiastic, wide-awake, alert, progressive student body,and loyalty to the Alma Mater must ever be the keynote struck by the alumni. Nothing so happily and positively forecasts a force-ful alumni body as the visible proof in the esprit de corps of a chapter in the Sinfonia Fraternity. The Sinfonia Fraternity ofAmerica has been and ever will be one of the strongest bonds that holds an alumnus to the Alma Mater. Every Sinfonian means agraduate that means, in turn, a true and loyal being with a soul all aglow for the old school that gave him a cultured musicalmind and a warm, brotherly heart.

More than ever, my brothers, is it good to be a Sinfonian. For “once a Sinfonian, always a Sinfonian.”

Fraternally Yours,In Phi Mu Alpha,Percy Jewett Burrell.

...cont. from ‘Burrell’ (pg. 7)

PERCY JEWETT BURRELL COMMEMORATION YEAR AND ASSOCIATED EVENTSAs we have published previously, 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Brother Percy Jewett Burrell, Supreme President of Phi Mu

Alpha Sinfonia from 1907-14. This coming October will also mark the 10th anniversary of the Fraternity’s dedication of a monument to BrotherBurrell at his previously unmarked gravesite in Watertown, Massachussetts. Brother Burrell is one of the most prolific and eloquent writers in thehistory of Sinfonia, and his direct and indirect contributions to our growth and welfare are innumerable. It is fitting that we take time to observehis passing in this anniversary year, and pay honor to his memory and contributions. The Fraternity is pleased to announce the following activi-

ties in observance of the Burrell commemoration:

CHAPTER HISTORIAN’S OBSERVANCEMarch 22, 2014 will mark the 50th anniversary of Brother Burrell’s passing. On or near that date, we are asking each chapter historian to presenta program honoring the life, contributions and writings of Percy Jewett Burrell for the chapter’s education. Historians are encouraged to submitboth programs and documentation of the event to the National Headquarters. The three best programs will be recognized with formal awards.

NATIONAL ESSAY CONTESTA national essay contest will be held, with the theme being a reflective treatment on the Object of the Fraternity in its entirety, or thoughts on theimportance of any of the four individual components of the Object. We would like to encourage brothers to attempt modern equivalents compa-rable to Brother Burrell’s seminal expositions on the Object in his presidential letters, published in the Sinfonia Annuals during his term of office.

These letters are available through online resources, and are also published in the current edition of Themes for Brotherhood. Prizes will beawarded for the top three entries received, and the winning entry will receive free registration to the 2014 Leadership Institute and will have the

winning essay published in the Sinfonian.

P.J. BURRELL LOOK-ALIKE CONTESTBrothers may submit photos bearing a strong resemblance to our Master Pageant Master. We will select the three photos which are closest in like-ness to Brother Burrell, and submit them to the brotherhood at large for a popular vote to determine the winner. The top three look-alikes will

receive gift cards to the Sinfonia Store, with a special premium going to the top vote-getter.

FOR THE ADVENTUROUS CHAPTER – PRESENT A PAGEANTBrother Burrell wrote and directed pageants across the United States, and was called the “Master Pageant-Master” by Harvard University Professorof History Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart. In 1948, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Fraternity, Brother Burrell wrote Sinfonia Birthday:An Historical Play Based on Facts of the Founding of Phi Mu Alpha Fraternity, which was performed at the National Convention. Courageous

chapters are encouraged to learn and stage the pageant, and record the performance on digital video. The videos should be submitted to theNational Headquarters for judging . The winning performance will be added to the permanent archives collection of the Fraternity for viewing byfuture generations of Sinfonians, and the performing chapter will receive an expenses-paid retreat at Lyrecrest, culminating in the inaugural screen-

ing of their performance in the National Museum.

More information is available in your January mailing, and details and entry deadlines will be published online at www.sinfonia.org/burrellan-niversary. Let us pay fitting tribute to the man whose thoughts are still as current today as they were over 100 years ago, Brothers.

Percy Burrell Anniversary Celebration

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Organizational InformationChapters: 247Colonies: 6Michigan Beta (Oakland University)Theta Eta (Wright State University)Pennsylvania Gamma (Moravian College)South Carolina Delta (Clemson University)Alabama Epsilon (University of Alabama at Birmingham)Florida Iota (Edward Waters College)

News From Headquarters

Leadership Institute Dates Finalized

Leadership Institute 2014 will be held on the campus of the Universityof Southern Indiana in Evansville from Thursday, July 24 throughSunday, July 27, 2014. The Fraternity Education pre-conference will beheld from Wednesday, July 23 through Thursday afternoon, July 24.Opening ceremonies will be Thursday evening as in the past. There aresome exciting new developments in the works regarding expanded pro-gram opportunities and extended musical development options, so staytuned to www.sinfonia.org in the coming weeks for updated informa-tion.

The theme for 2014 will be We Are the Music Makers – Leadership forthe Second Century. Anyone who attended last year’s event can tell youwhat an outstanding opportunity our Leadership Institute provides,brothers, and registration is very reasonable. Mark your calendars now,and talk with your chapter about sending representatives so that you cantake full advantage of all the programs available to you.

The Sinfonia Educational Foundation is proud to pro-vide support for collegiate success through its annualscholarship program. This money is there for the taking,but you will never be a recipient unless you apply! The2014 application form will be available January 10.Head to www.sinfonia.org/scholarships for details andthe scholarship application. Deadline is March 1!

Foundation Scholarships

American Music Challenge

Be rewarded for doing what you love! Makesure you’re documenting chapter perform-ances, and preparing documentation for sub-mission by the May 31, 2014 deadline.Deadlines

T-shirt Design Competition - March 1, 2014SEF Scholarship Applications - March 1, 2014American Music Challenge - May 31, 2014Composition Contest - July 1, 2014

T-Shirt Design ContestThe deadline for submissions is quickly approach-ing. Entrants have the chance to receive gift cardsto the Sinfonia Store, and the chance to see theirwork featured on a Sinfonia Store item. If youhave design talent, don’t wait! Deadline is March 1

Alumni Associations: 19Collegiate members in Good Standing 7,410Collegiate members on Suspension 755Collegiate members (total) 8,165Percentage of total collegiate suspensions 9.25%Total amount of outstandingper capita tax owed to Sinfonia $116,928

Publication InformationThe Red & Black is published as an informational

newsletter for the Fraternity’s chapters, colonies, faculty advi-sors, governors, committeemen, and national officers.

The Red & Black is printed bimonthly, September to April.Photographs and articles from your chapter are highly encour-aged for upcoming issues of The Red & Black. Please send thearticles and photographs to editor@sinfonia.org.

Editor/Layout: Mark A. Wilson, Delta Eta ’03

Lyrecrest Staff:Interim Executive Edward A. Klint, Alpha Xi ’78Director klint@sinfonia.org Ext. 108

Director of Mark Helmstetter, Theta Upsilon ’03Programs helmstetter@sinfonia.org Ext. 102

Director of Mark A. Wilson, Delta Eta ’03Communications wilson@sinfonia.org Ext. 104

Retreat Coordinator Garrett Lefkowitz, Beta Iota ’08& Programs Associate lefkowitz@sinfonia.org Ext. 103

Controller Mary J. Cariecarie@sinfonia.org Ext. 105

Fraternity Services Sean N. Leno, Phi Omega ’00Administrator leno@sinfonia.org Ext. 100

Fraternity Services Elizabeth A. RaderAssociate erader@sinfonia.org Ext. 101

• The Fraternity has a comprehensive Guide to Music Advocacy that covers ways you can become involved as a collegian, alumnus, musician, educator, or non-music major.• Phi Mu Alpha is affiliated with numerous advocacy organizations such as the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) and the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM).• Sinfonia is represented on NAfME’s Music Education Policy Roundtable, a body that works toward making permanent, lasting changes to American music education by changing governing policies that affect educators and students. This council has a tangible, positive impact on legislators in Washington, DC, and helps to create non-partisan policies for the betterment of all students.

DIDYOU

KNOW?Music Advocacy EditionSinfonia is dedicated to music advocacy and has a number of resources to aid brothers in becoming effectiveadvocates at their schools and in their communities.

Fraternity Outreach

• Seek media and community exposure for Fraternity music events and other local arts programs.• Hold fundraisers for struggling music programs or donate time to districts in need of help.• Make sure administrators at your college understand the value of a musical education. For educators, make sure the parents of your students understand the value to their children, both the tangible and intangible benefits.• Share your experiences with others!• Head to www.sinfonia.org/advocacy to learn more. Educating yourself is the best preparation for being an effective advocate.

What Can You Do?

• Music programs are often first on the budgetary chopping block. It affects every member of Sinfonia directly or indirectly, and affects countless students who will never experience a musical education.

The Need

• We all understand the subjective beauty and power that music can have over the human spirit, and on a more practical level, students enrolled in music attend school more often, perform better, and receive a more rounded education.

The Benefits