TubeNet

Cincy, OH.........I believe.

Nice... That's close enough that I might actually get to go! That's exciting. Hooray for conferences not in foreign lands.

That's like calling the the Superbowl Champions 'World Champs' in professional football. How many other nations are represented in the NATIONAL Football League or the AMERICAN Football League? Enough to earn the right of being called 'World Champs'?

The ITEA is an international organization. Period. Yes, it's early roots were in the US (and Canada if memory serves me correct). And just because the majority of 'paying customers' reside here in the US, it doesn't mean that we should only get together on American soil. There's a lot of music happening around the world that doesn't make it's way to North America.....so it should be the responsibilty of the ITEA leadership to 'lead the horse to water' and use the tuba AND euphonium as vehicles for international relationships.

I repeat: The ITEA is an international organization. Period.

Sorry for the rant, but this is one thing that always bugged me.

-Josh

I don't believe there has ever been a ITEA conference in the UK - it is about time (hint to the powers that be)!

However, I am still hoping to come to the 2008 meeting, even if it is in the USA

Come to Cincinnati, Neptune and I will attempt to find some beer to your liking...

Jeffrey Hicks wrote:Come to Cincinnati, Neptune and I will attempt to find some beer to your liking...

Thanks Jeffrey! I will hope to meet some TubeNeters

Jonathan "who thinks the US sounds an exciting place for tubists"

tubop wrote:2 Conferences, ahhh I would fly for the second one.

We do have the Army Tuba Conference every year and ITEC and the regionals alternate each year. If you go to the Army Conference and one of th ITEC's you have 2 a year. Adding more seems to me like it would be too much. Plus adding a big ITEC ever year would eliminate the need for the regionals and I think the regionals are very valuable to those who cannot make to the larger shows.

Does anyone know who to contact if you want to play for master classes at this conference?

Mike

Does anyone know the dates for ITEC 2008?

ctuby wrote:Nice,

Hooray for conferences not in foreign lands

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With such an attitude it will stay an "all American party".

After Italy, Finland en Hungary i'll be waiting for the next "abroad" ITEC.

I = international


Greetz from Europe

Are you saying that 95% of the attendees have to travel to The Netherlands so you don't have to travel to the U.S.?

If you look at the demographics of ITEA the majority of the members are located in the USA. If you look at the conference that occured in Budapest, Hungary hardly anyone attended. I believe that although the INTERNATIONAL group is very valuable to the continued success of the organization, for conferences to be an extremely successful event (ie. making money, large attendence numbers), a US venue that moves from east coast to west coast as well as somewhere in the middle of the country would increase the average number of attendees at conferences in addition to opening up the event to more people in the states who would otherwise not attend. I support having international conferences but I do not feel as though the ITEC needs to move from the US to abroad every other conference as it has in the past.

TMB

CrappyEuph wrote:Does anyone know the dates for ITEC 2008?

It seems like a simple enough question......one I've been asking for months!

I'm involved in a very small way with a group planning a convention, and we already have a commitment by the convention hotel for room rates in __2011__!!

Seems like the 2008 ITEC dates would be confirmed by now, yet I cannot find them anywhere.

I vote for ITEC 2010 to be in...Greenland.

It's not in the United States...
It's not in Europe...
It's pretty much right in between.
(I guess the Japanese and NZ/Australian ITEA members are a little screwed, though.)

Wikipedia says:

The major airport is on the West coast at Kangerlussuaq. International flights connect to Ottawa and to Copenhagen. International flights to Baltimore are expected to begin in May 2007.

Perfect!

Hopefully they've got some good beer.

If ITEA wants to continue to be recognized as an INTERNATIONAL organization the wisest thing to do is mabye not to keep most of the conferences in USA.

The question we should mabye ask is why are the non-american members so few?

Personally, I was a member for several years. A few years ago I quit, though. The main reason was that 95% of the content of every bulletin was about america. I'm not saying that this is bad, but it won't attract more non-american members to ITEA.

Just some thoughts....

jma78 wrote:Personally, I was a member for several years. A few years ago I quit, though. The main reason was that 95% of the content of every bulletin was about america. I'm not saying that this is bad, but it won't attract more non-american members to ITEA.

Just some thoughts....

I am not so sure that reason that the majority of ITEA members are American is just because of the American slant of the association - more the slant reflects the membership.

It seems to me that there is minimal interest outside America in the tuba in itself by the majority of its players. I am sure most tuba players in the UK, consider themselves "brass band players" (or whatever group they play), rather than "tuba players" - in that their interest is in brass bands rather than tubas. The only exceptions appears to be a few tuba players in orchestras who are the ones which seem to participate on TubeNet.

Why there is the apparent great interest in the tuba (in itself) in the USA and not in say Europe - I wonder?

Jonathan "who thinks TubaChristmas is an example of the TUBA interest in the USA, little found elsewhere in the world"

ITEC 2008--Cincinnati, OH


The plan is June 22-28, 2008. The competitions will be on June 23rd and 24th. The opening session will be the afternoon of the 24th, and the Conference will run the 24th -28th.

And I should also add, that I'm would be happy to discuss the other points raised in this thread (and others for that matter) with anyone who would like to, just in a more private manner--just always seem to kill these types of threads whenever I chime in.....

dwaskew at gmail.com

Dennis AsKew
ITEA President