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The Williams Chorale Bacardi Fallon Scholarship Competition 2012 is to award over $12,000 in prize money. It is open to high school juniors and seniors in any U.S. high school pursuing vocal or instrumental studies. The application deadline is March 12, 2012, and the competition will take place Saturday, April 28, 2012, in Attleboro, Massachusetts. For more information, click here.

Thomas Ediger, a former MTNA Board Member and current MTNA Development Committee member, has been named the Peru State College’s 2012 Teacher Excellence Award Winner. He is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities Peru State College, and this marks the third time he has been granted the distinction. Ediger will be honored during PSC’s graduation ceremony on May 5. The Teacher Excellence Award is given annually to one outstanding full-time faculty member at each of the three state colleges, Peru, Wayne and Chadron. For more information, click here. 

  The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s Listen To Your Buds Public Service Announcement (PSA) Contest is open for entries. Help spread the Buds’ safe listening message to your friends, family and classmates. The contest, open to young people ages 8–18, invites submissions of 30 or 60 second audio or video PSAs that convey a ‘safe listening’ message.  The contest runs until midnight Friday, March 9, 2012.  Click here for details.

The first nationwide competition for music theater soloists, the National Music Theater Competition (NMTC), has announced the opening of online applications. Sponsored by National Association of Teachers of Singing, the National Music Theater Competition is open to performers age 20-28 by the application deadline of March 1, 2012. The NMTC aims to seek out and award the best emerging talent in music theater in 2012. For more information, click here.

James Baldwin received international acclaim as a writer, novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, social critic, and civil rights activist.  In the twenty-fifth year of James Baldwin's passing, a book is proposed entitledBeyond Borders with James Baldwin:  A Practical Guide for  Everyone.