The office of the association intends to make its school better known to swell its ranks and broaden its participation in cultural life.
Around Isabelle Houdant, the Friends of Music presented the results of the past season. At the opening of the meeting, the president recalled the framework of the association which brings together a music school, a band, a choir and offers interventions in the school environment. With 11 employees and 107 members, “this association, which has existed for more than 35 years, had and still needs to refocus on its mission and its objectives, which are the teaching of music and singing, as well as the restitution of music on the city of Condom”, underlined the president.
“The largest part of our budget is allocated to the remuneration of teachers, however we try to invest for the comfort of our musicians and our singers. We participate in the training of our student musicians by means of occasional assistance for courses or outings that the association wishes to offer. This year, a visit to the organ of the cathedral of Condom is planned, ”she further announced. The revival of the association will go through the integration of new students, but also through more public services, from the harmony as the choir, but also through the links that the president and her team wish to strengthen within the association, such as in connection with other entities.
Projects abound
Present since the start of the school year, the new director, Pascal Ducournau, reported the difficulties in attracting young musicians and the regret of having to give up a children’s choir for lack of candidates. Projects abound despite everything and a good line-up should be offered in 2023 with, among other things, the January auditions, a spring concert with the Harmonie d’Agen, another, with harmony and choir, on the theme of Spain in June, and participation in the Music Festival and the bandas festival.
“The music school has been asked for other projects in addition to those chosen for the year, we cannot meet all the requests, even if they are interesting, as with the leisure center; we are putting ideas aside for the future”, explained the director.
Concerning the construction project of the new music school, the representatives of the municipality, Françoise Martinez and Helène Delplech, let it be known that the city’s choice was to create a building next to the local association, route de Montreal.