Improving the organisation of the local music student band

[Xentor]

This has nothing to do with Paganism but for the fact that I consider myself a Pagan.

I'm in this music band. Well I'm the director, instructor, and music composer. The band primarily consists of children, the newest members of our local brass band, that need a bridge between music school and quality level required by the actual band. A good 16 hours of my week go into this student band, and I like it a lot.

Today, the summer vacation was over, and weekly rehearsals resumed. 3 Notices should have gone out: 1 by the secretary, 1 by the chairman, and 1 final reminder by myself.

So I show up, and find:

No-one notified the building owners; luckily nothing else was planned for the room we use.
None of the members show up; none of them sent a message to say so (at least not in time for me to receive it).
None of the members seem to have received either of the first 2 notifications.
No-one at the rehearsal of the big band this past Saturday thought of keeping our material aside. (I couldn't attend myself.)


Earlier on, I found other things amiss:

I'm not informed about the mail by the music school, sent to the band's board. To stay informed, I have to keep asking, and check the music school's bulletins myself.
I'm not informed when people leave the student band, nor when they join. People simply disappear, and others show up out of the blue.
When the board does organise concert time or other activities for the student band, I'm usually the last one to find out.


Colour me blasé, but it looks like the students band could disappear into thin air and no-one would give a damn but me.

There's things I can do, there's things I could've done. But of those things, few seem like things I should be doing. The band has a board to organise activities, and the student band rehearsals are part of that. I should be composing, instructing, and directing.

Things need to change.

Thoughts?

[CzechWoods]

a german saying: die es betrifft erfahren es immer als letzte

try to get some people from the band into scheduled rsponsibility positions.

let them do some administrative work, that you supperwise.

make it clear to the students its not only a honour and fun being in the band, but can also add on to their CV when they apply for jobs (theres loads about it online and on job centers)

try to spark the members interest in the project, and then export it to the outside. let the body grow first though

have a hard core of musicians who arent quitters and a body of on-and offs

[Xentor]

That's some pretty good ideas, CW! Thank you! I'll try and work with that.

[CzechWoods]

glad you find them helpful.

for a later future you should let your your community, the ppl who arent cooperating now, let know, how much work and d edication you are investing

your musicians are investing

make them appear in public on major occations

use them for fund raising for catastrophy relief, the animal shelters etc and in homes for retred people or people that are ill, in hospitals etc.
like a concerto for the eldery around yule etc

get local press involved when you do that. there should be some free newspapers, that are ads funded, that always search for a good story...

show everyone that by not helping you/your kids, they lose smething valuable
and by supporting you do domething good and valuable


this too will add to the fact of motivating your kids and will also give you some of the well deserved recognition