Music Education Advocacy Websites

 https://nafme.org
The National Association for Music Education (NAfME) advocates at the federal, state, and local levels to educate elected officials and other key decision makers about the impact and importance of music education programs. 

 https://aosa.org/ 

 Releasing creativity that extends far beyond the music classroom, Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman conceived an approach to building musicianship in every learner through the integration of music, movement, speech, and drama. 

 https://www.oake.org/  

 The mission of the Organization of American Kodály Educators is to support music education of the highest quality, promote universal music literacy and lifelong music making, and preserve the musical heritage of the people of the United States of America through education, artistic performance, advocacy and research.

 https://cmeaonline.org/ 

The CMEA mission is to serve the educational needs of our members and to provide growth opportunities to music educators regardless of their experience in the profession.

 https://acda.org/  

American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) is a nonprofit, professional association of choral conductors that exists to inspire excellence in choral music through education, performance, composition, and advocacy.
 

 https://www.mtna.org/ 

 MTNA membership does more than simply complement your career as a music professional—it supports, supplements and shapes it. It empowers music teachers nationwide to become better educators through networking, leadership, mentoring and educational opportunities. 

https://www.playgroundequipment.com/a-playground-for-music-and-education-theory/   An Amazing collection of fun resources for learning the fundamentals of making music alongside other academic subjects, as part of a well-rounded education. 

 We join as amateur and professional musicians to share the joy of music. We believe this is best accomplished with 60-70 dedicated singers and the world’s finest music: global, eclectic, timeless. We choose this avocation with the intent of broad promotion of the choral arts. Mingling at the well of taste and excellence, we experience and share together a world that would not otherwise be possible. 

The Chorale was founded in Arapahoe County in 1980 by former students and parents of the Cherry Creek school system to allow committed singers to continue performing and to provide the community with the joy of fine music, beautifully sung.

Our membership hovers around 100, plus or minus ten or so. Repertoire ranges across the whole choral spectrum, including religious and secular classics, modern works, popular music, spirituals, jazz, and regional and folk favorites.

 Colorado Bach Ensemble is dedicated to performing and promoting the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries with a special focus on Bach’s vocal masterpieces. Under the guidance of its artistic director, James Kim, Colorado Bach Ensemble’s mission is to study and perform Bach’s music in the spirit and with the grace of the Baroque style, to grow the audience for Bach’s music through concerts, recording, and tours, and to cultivate a deep appreciation for Bach’s music through engaging educational programs. 

 Founded in 1977, the Larimer Chorale is one of the largest and most accomplished classical choral groups in Colorado. We are an auditioned, adult choir, composed of approximately 125 members who are accountants, teachers, students, professors, health care workers, moms, dads, researchers, small business owners, government workers and others. We are your friends and neighbors and we sing for the pure joy it brings our audiences. Each year, our singers contribute approximately 20,000 hours in rehearsal and performance time and in tending to the many tasks required to manage the business of the Chorale. Our repertoire emphasizes the choral masterworks, performed with orchestras we hire. We also perform lighter music, such as pieces by Leonard Bernstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and other 19th- and 20th-century composers.