| President’s
Corner
 Word
of mouth and our post-conference survey agree: just about everyone who
came to the 38th annual Music Personnel Conference had a good time. I certainly
did, and I mean quite apart from the excitement of being elected as the
new president of AMPPR. This year’s conference had everything I have
come to expect from these annual gatherings: thought-provoking sessions,
from Stephen Salyer’s cautionary take on the internet to an eye-opening
session on working with difficult listeners, to name just two of many;
stimulating conversations with colleagues from around the country; an exciting
host city to explore; and of course lots of great music. At the final banquet
performance by the Absolute Ensemble, I enjoyed the bassoon-playing Elvis
so much that I yelled like a rock fan and had to be shushed by my table-mates.
Of course, I was also excited
to be elected as the new president of AMPPR. Since becoming a board member
at the 1998 Music Personnel Conference in Los Angeles, I have enjoyed working
with my fellow board members, and I have felt proud of the good work that
AMPPR does. All of our activities—our annual conference, our web site,
this newsletter, and our listserv—give public radio music people practical
tools and ideas that they can really use in their work. We are planning
to add to that list of activities, too. In the fall we will present in
Boston the first in what we hope will be a long series of intensive one-day
training workshops for announcers. We plan to make them affordable enough
so that stations that find the Music Personnel Conference a little much
for their budgets will be able to participate. Stay tuned for more details.
I want to make special mention
of my predecessor in this office, Beverley Ervine. Not only has Bev run
AMPPR for the last three years with great skill, leadership, imagination,
and zeal, she has also painstakingly trained me to replace her; and she
has stayed on the board as well, so that AMPPR will continue to benefit
from her irreplaceable expertise. Thanks to all her hard work, I begin
my term at the helm of an organization in excellent fiscal and organizational
shape. Thanks to her decision to stay, we should easily weather the inevitable
disruptions while the new president gets used to his job, and we will keep
our good momentum.
I’m thrilled to be here,
and I fully intend to help AMPPR continue to grow and prosper in the years
ahead, helping more people at more stations than ever before. Excelsior!
Dave Bunker
President
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