Perform and Create for Your Health

by Linda Onorevole My journey as a performing and teaching musician changed significantly over the past three years. This was only tangentially related to the pandemic. Instead, it was the result of me placing others’ needs before my own, primarily due to illness,...

From Sea to Shining Sea

by Linda Onorevole I remain in awe by the sheer number of handbell activities that take place throughout the twelve Areas of Handbell Musicians of America! Linda OnorevoleExecutive Director From Hawaii to Florida, Maine to California, there are performances, massed...

A Look Ahead

by Linda Onorevole In the last issue of Overtones, I mentioned that Handbell Musicians of America (HMA) was working to develop new and improved ways to support handbell musicians. Linda OnorevoleExecutive Director As we hope you have already seen, in November we began...

A Rising Tide Raises All Boats

by Linda Onorevole The primary goal of Handbell Musicians of America (the organization) is to support handbell musicians of America (the individuals). Linda OnorevoleExecutive Director All of us at Handbell Musicians of America are coming off a high from hosting the...

Focus on the Overwhelming Positive

by Linda Onorevole For the past few years, we have all had to experience various levels of transition and compromise. Gatherings ceased, jobs were changed, communications moved online, and the communal creation of music stopped. For many of us, the missing musical...