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Janice McCurnin, MTNA's first Teacher of the Year recipient, died April 4, 2005. McCurnin was named Teacher of the Year in 2000.

A member of the Arizona State Music Teachers Association Board of Directors since 1992, McCurnin dedicated her life to the highest standards of professional music teaching and to MTNA service. She was a charter member of Tucson MTA (TMTA) and a past local and state president. Her former students are professional music teachers. Many of her former students have mentored MTNA members and served in local and state leadership positions as presidents, officers and chairs.

McCurnin was an active teacher and TMTA member, serving as a co-chair of the first TMTA ensemble concert in 1954, which has grown to involve more than 500 students in an orchestra of twelve pianos. She served as vice president of MTNA's Southwest Division from 1970-1971. She was a member of the first MTNA People to People Tour in 1974.

She also was instrumental in the adoption of the Arizona State Accreditation Plan in 1961 and helped develop the Arizona Study Program as a strong link in that plan. She served as state certification chair for twenty-four years and on the Southwest Division Certification Board for seven years.

In addition, McCurnin served as national chair of the Baldwin Junior Keyboard Achievement Award from 1977-1983 and helped bring about the adoption of a live, rather than taped, audition.

Donations in McCurnin's name can be sent to the TMTA Janice McCurnin Scholarship at TMTA, Attn. Sondra Franks, 8501 N. Breezewood Pl., Tucson, AZ 85704-0906.

Stanley Sadie, 74, editor of Grove music dictionary, died March 21, 2005, at his home in Cossington, England, of motor neuron disease, his family said.

Born in London, Sadie received bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees from Cambridge University, studying music with Charles Cudworth and Thurston Dart, who sparked a lifelong interest in music of the eighteenth century.

He taught at Trinity College of Music before becoming a music critic for The Times newspaper in 1964, continuing until 1981. He edited The Musical 77rues, a musicological journal, from 1967 to 1987.

In 1970, Sadie was appointed to edit a new edition of the venerable Grove Dictionary. He is credited with remaking this reference work, opening it to articles about jazz, rock and world music, and increasing it from nine volumes to twenty-one. This sixth edition, published in 1980, was so different from the previous edition that the title was amended with the epithet "new."

He also edited The New Grove Dictionary of American Music (co-edited with H. Wiley Hitchcock) in 1986 and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992).

Sadie's other published works include studies of Handel and Mozart. His final book, Mozart: The Early Fears, 1756-I781, will be published in December by Norton; Words About Mozart: Essays in Honour of Stanley Sadie, a collection of essays by his colleagues, was published earlier this year.

With his second wife, musicologist Julie Anne Sadie, he lobbied to save Handel's London house, which led to the creation of the Handel House Museum.