Welcome to the Retail Print Music Dealers Association The 2017 convention will take place in Atlanta, Georgia, from April 26-April 29, at the beautiful Hyatt Regency Atlanta Downtown. Our convention program is organized in a three track program format, which features sessions targeted for the novice print music employees, print buyers or managers, and owners… Continue Reading
Educating the Tech-Savvy Student
By John Mlynczak Today’s tech-savvy student has an entire internet full of ways to learn music. From YouTube to community sharing websites and subscription services, self-learning has never been more accessible. As an added bonus, students can search for and learn music twenty-four hours a day in the comfort of their own home using up their… Continue Reading
Have You Heard the News?
by David Jahnke, Senior Vice President of National Sales, Hal Leonard It started with a press release: MILWAUKEE – Hal Leonard, the world’s largest publisher of printed music, announced that they have acquired Sheet Music Plus, the leading e-commerce website for music publications. Sheet Music Plus will continue to operate as an independent business led… Continue Reading
Author Archives: Richard Rejino
Update from the Church Music Publishers Association (CMPA)
By Reiff Lorenz, Lorenz Corporation The CMPA is dedicated to protecting copyrights and educating publishers on events and trends in the industry. This year brought many changes in the political climate for copyrights, so CMPA has been working hard to retain copyright protection for composers, publishers, and the music industry. Specifically, CMPA is investigating the… Continue Reading
Guadalajara FIL Part 2: A Personal Experience
by Tim Cose, Hal Leonard Corporation In some ways, Mexico is not nearly so far away as it seems, especially if you look back at the United States of only a couple generations ago. In the last RPMDA newsletter I shared some thoughts on how marketing the human experience is working for one retailer. This… Continue Reading
Guadalajara FIL Part 1: Selling an Experience
By Tim Cose, Hal Leonard Corporation If you only watched exchange rates and US domestic news stories for the past 12 months, Mexico might seem a lot further away -figurativelyand geographically- than it really is. Mexico has the largest GDP in Latin America when weighted by purchasing power parity. In terms of exports, Mexico has… Continue Reading
Making Your MEA Work for You
By Tracy Leenman, Musical Innovations, LLC In recent years, some retailers – and publishers – have stopped exhibiting at state MEA’s for various reasons. But we believe that our state MEAs are among the most potentially significant, positive, and yes, exciting, events of the year for our company. What better opportunity will you have all… Continue Reading
Do Re Mi Fa, and Sol On
By Patti Cooper, Vocal Music Specialist, Senseney Music, Inc., Wichita, Kansas The Kodaly concept of music education is certainly not new! Zoltan Kodaly, the mid-twentieth century Hungarian composer, laid the groundwork with his passionate philosophy of music in the Schools. Together with Bela Bartok, Kodaly pioneered the concept of music instruction for all children, even… Continue Reading
RPMDA 2017 - Because Print Music Matters
by David Jahnke, Hal Leonard Corporation One of the first orders of business at the Summer Board meeting is to discuss the theme of the upcoming convention. Atlanta is rich with history and is home to the world headquarters for Coca-Cola, United Parcel Service (UPS) and Home Depot. It also has the distinction of being… Continue Reading
RPMDA 2017 Convention: Site Report
by Mike Watson, Remenyi Music RPMDA’s 41st convention returns to the sunny south and the city of Atlanta for the first time since 2000. Your board members had the opportunity to experience the city a couple of weeks ago, and we know it’ll make a terrific site for our 2017 gathering. Our host property is… Continue Reading
Want to Contribute to the RPMDA Newsletter?
by Christie Smith, Alfred Music Company Last year, we made a concerted effort to improve the design, frequency, and content of our newsletter. As a result, we published our newsletters monthly and expanded the stories to include information from a wide variety of members. We realize how important this newsletter is, not only as… Continue Reading
Surviving Back to School
by Evan Jones, Bandland LLC For us, the busy season begins in mid-July and has really ramped up as I am writing this article. If you are correctly working the educational market, you will hopefully be busy well into the next calendar year. For many school music retailers, August and September are basically controlled chaos. … Continue Reading
What’s New In Print Music
by Pete Gamber What’s new in Print Music? You know! It’s those new titles, new song books, and new method books; all the stuff that comes out every month. I’ll bet as a music store or print manager you know about the new issues, but what about the teachers in your music store? Do they know? … Continue Reading