Dear Friends of Music Members;

I wanted to take a minute and let you know that you have been in my thoughts and heart during this time. I also wanted to give you some updates about what is happening with Friends of Music right now.

The Friends of Music Board of Directors has been in contact with each other via Zoom, and text throughout the last 5 weeks and we have had one virtual directors meeting. We have had to make some difficult decisions. For the sake of transparency, I am sharing them with all of you.

We are suspending our April and May meetings as of now. We have chosen to not hold them, even virtually, due to worries about overwhelming everyone.

We are not able to hold auditions for or summer scholarships at this time. We, as a board, are so sorry that we are not able to do so. This has been such a tradition for us. We look forward to being able to do it in the future. In lieu of not having summer scholarships, we are increasing our senior scholarships awards to include more seniors.

We are in discussion with the music faculty about changing the function and timing of our Summer Sonata program with the hope that it will support our student musicians more effectively after the amount of time missed in music class, choral, orchestra, and band. We have made no solid plans about this change at this time. We wanted to let you know that we are working to meet the needs of our members, students, and faculty.

We will keep you posted as we work to balance a budget for next year. We will keep you all in our thoughts.

Take wonderful care of yourself, and don’t hesitate to reach out to us should you have any questions.

My regards

Jodi Rossman
President of Friends of Music