{"id":69,"date":"2015-06-18T10:47:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T14:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gcmta.org\/?page_id=69"},"modified":"2026-08-05T17:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T21:02:31","slug":"performance-day","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/student-activities\/performance-day","title":{"rendered":"Performance Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Performance Day (TBD)<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Performance Day Chair locates the venue and secures a date for GCMTA students to perform in a non-competitive setting. Previous events have included playing at Von Maur in the Mall of Georgia in early December and playing at an extended care center.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b><\/b><strong>DATE AND TIME:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>LOCATION:\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>SIGN UP DEADLINE:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>REGISTRATION:<\/strong> Registration: <a href=\"http:\/\/gcmta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/PerformanceDayWorksheet.pdf\">Performance Day Worksheet<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>ENTRY FEE:<\/strong> \u00a0$10 per student<br \/>\n<strong>EVENT CONTACT:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Performance Day is an opportunity for piano students of GCMTA teachers to play \u201cbackground music\u201d in an authentic setting. Students will provide music for the enjoyment of others.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Only students of GCMTA teachers may perform.<\/li>\n<li>Each student may play up to 2 songs\/pieces.<\/li>\n<li>All students must be prepared to play as well as possible. Memorization is not required.<\/li>\n<li>Duets and trios are encouraged. Teachers may participate on these.<\/li>\n<li>Younger children are welcome to participate with close supervision.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Registration:<\/h2>\n<p>Teachers may sign up for 30 minute slots and will submit a list of students to play for their scheduled slot two weeks in advance of the event.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The fee for student performers is $10 per student. Teachers do not have to pay to perform.<\/li>\n<li>If the teacher has over estimated their students performances, \u00a0the teacher should have music prepared for the remainder of the time.<\/li>\n<li>Teachers will submit one personal check to GCMTA for all their performing students when they submit their list of student names.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>The Day of the Event:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Teachers and students are asked to arrive 15 minutes prior to their performance time so that transitions will be smooth<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">No student may play who has not paid or is not on the teacher\u2019s list.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">The teacher will \u00a0sit near the piano during his\/her time slot to monitor the instrument and encourage their students. Teachers shall not engage in discussions during scheduled performances.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Please bring a printed program of your students \u201cline-up\u201d so that it can be posted on the easel which will be on display next to the performance area. There will also be an area where you can display business cards during your students\u2019 performances.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">AFTER your students have played, \u00a0each teacher shall remain one additional hour to oversee the event.\u00a0 Two teachers should be there at all times.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We are guests at the Performance Day venue. Please be respectful in all ways to employees. AND REMEMBER, Performance Day is about having FUN! Keep this in mind during the entire event! Remind students that this kind of performance is background music and not a formal recital.<\/p>\n<h6><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Performance Day (TBD) The Performance Day Chair locates the venue and secures a date for GCMTA students to perform in a non-competitive setting. Previous events have included playing at Von Maur in the Mall of Georgia in early December and playing at an extended care center.\u00a0 DATE AND TIME:\u00a0\u00a0 LOCATION:\u00a0 SIGN UP DEADLINE: REGISTRATION: Registration: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/student-activities\/performance-day\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Performance Day<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-69","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2415,"href":"https:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions\/2415"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcmta.org\/home\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}