[musictlk] {Spam?} re: looking for ideas

[Chase Crispin]

Hi Sandra,
I am late replying to this email but I hope some of my thoughts are still
able to help you.

1. Registration: If you digitized all names, contact information, dues
paid, and other necessary information and kept that in a spreadsheet, you
should be able to fill out this paperwork on your computer/note taker as
the members of the section come to you. Just have them tell you their name
which you can write down. If they pay via cash, use a money reader app on
your smart phone if you have one to verify the amount. Checks are a little
trickier, but you can check them off your list when they hand you a check
and confirm the amount with a sighted person later. Note the order that
checks are received if that is helpful.

2. Attendance: I have had sighted directors do attendance in a way that
works well for blind individuals as well. Read the list of names to the
people in your section in alphabetical order. Ask them to memorize the last
name of the person immediately before and after them on the list. To take
attendance, call out the name of the first person on your list and have
them say their last name. Once the members of your section know who is
before and after them, they simply say their last names in order as you
follow along on the roster. If there is a gap in names, you know that
person is absent. You state their name so the attendance can continue in
order. It does require a bit of navigation at first as the members learn
where they fit in the lineup but ultimately is very efficient.

5. Information: Depending on your style, you may either want to record
rehearsal and take notes later or bring a note taker or slate and stylus to
rehearsal to write down the notes that need to be passed along. Type up
these notes later and email them to your section members, or print these
notes and distribute them at the next rehearsal. Email will be your best
method of communication with your section.

The sponsorship/donation items would be a bit tricky, but if those aren't
part of your job I think you could be an excellent section leader. I have
been a section leader in a few ensembles and have had similar duties. If
there is any way I can help you, please let me know.
Thanks,


Chase Crispin
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Subject: [musictlk] {Spam?} re: looking for ideas

Hi Sandra,

Unless you have enough vision to do these things, you'll be relying on
sighted people to help you.  I think this would be a lot of work for a
totally blind person, or for someone who can't read or write print.  It
sounds to me like sight is necessary.

Blessings,

Linda
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From: Sandra Streeter via musictlk <musictlk at nfbnet.org
To: <musictlk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 21:00:00 -0400
Subject: [musictlk] looking for ideas

Hi, all,

My apologies in advance to those who?™ve already seen this on the
performtalk listserv, but I?™m trying to compile as many thoughts as
possible.  An amazing opportunity may be crossing my path, so I?™d like to
pick everyone?™s brain on making it successful re ?œblind-friendliness??of
the duties (listed below, cited in an email I received describing the
position).  I am seriously considering taking the position of soprano
section leader in a local community chorus 40-50 strong, and have never
done this before.  I will be meeting with our current section leader and
with the chorus manager when we re-convene in a couple weeks, to discuss
whether the position is workable.  Below are the duties.  I may not be
required to handle the sponsor or ticket money, since I think that part of
the position is now to be farmed out a different way, but in case I do end
up doing that, feel free to comment about that aspect, as well.  Thanks!




  1..  Attend registration and account for dues paid, by taking payment and
completing the info form so they can pick up music.
  2..  Take and mark weekly attendance.
  3..  Accept and total money and checks for donations/tickets and fill out
a Donations Received form and give it to the treasurer.
  4..  Compare donation/sponsorship monies to items on the donation sheets
and turn them in to sponsorship chair.
  5..  Information taker and disseminator.   I often have to keep 
track of music markings/notes and pass them along to sopranos that have
missed rehearsal.  I also have to pass along any information that has been
shared with me via phone/email.
  6..  Other miscellaneous items asked to do.







Sandra
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is
invisible to the eye." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery The Little Prince


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