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Helping Arts Programs in Need

After Harvey

TMEA, in conjunction with other state arts education organizations, is hosting a central website where arts programs
affected by Hurricane Harvey can post their needs so that individuals and organizations around our state and nation can
respond directly to them.

Was Your Program Affected by Harvey? Teachers or administrators of schools affected by the hurricane can
go to https://help.goarts.org to register, provide contact information, and submit their inventory of needs (be sure to
coordinate this registration so needs aren’t duplicated). A school district email must be used in this request and will be
part of this public page. After you submit your needs, your inventory and contact information will be public on this
website for anyone to review so they can contact you directly to arrange their help. Once any of your needs are met,
please edit your inventory to delete those items from public view.
Share the Website. With so many Southeast Texas programs affected, we need to spread the word. Share
https://help.goarts.org with your support organizations and community, and request that they share it with their family,
friends, and communities.

Can You Help Those Affected? Anyone (individuals/programs/organizations) who can help fulfill any need can go
to https://help.goarts.org to search for requests. Programs will be identified by type (band, orchestra, vocal, elementary,
dance, art, theater) so you can quickly find those with needs that likely fit the type of equipment/supplies you can
offer. In addition to physical needs, some may have identified themselves as wanting to be adopted—meaning that your
students can make personal contact with the students in a program to offer emotional support throughout this recovery
and beyond.
We offer a huge thank you to all who are helping our fine arts programs recover
and especially for helping students in these areas
experience the joy that participation in fine arts programs can offer.

KHS America Brings a Melody to Life

As part of the TBA/KHS America Academic Student “When an ensemble performs something that you wrote, it
Melody Competition, the winning theme titled “Devil’s brings a feeling of great satisfaction. It’s a motivation for me
Perspective” was used as thematic material for a full wind to try composing on a larger scale to recapture that feeling.”
ensemble piece. This year’s winning melody was composed The wind ensemble piece was composed by Rick
by Quinton Porter, currently a senior at Timber Creek High DeJonge, Artist and Education Relations Manager for KHS
School near Dallas, and was premiered by the U.S. Air America. The score and all individual parts are available
Force Band of the West at this summer’s TBA Convention/ online for FREE download at www.jupiermusic.com.
Clinic. Quinton, his mother Lorianne and his band director A downloadable MP3 recording of the premiere is also
Darla McBryde were in attendance for the premiere. After available.
the performance Quinton was presented with an award “Quinton’s melody was so skillfully created that it was a
and a professionally printed copy of the score. real joy to develop into a full score,” says composer DeJonge.
“Hearing the Air Force Band play a piece using my “There were plenty of interesting motifs within the melody
melody was an incredible experience,” said Quinton. that helped add to the overall creation of the work.”

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