STORYTELLING IN MUSIC INREACH CONCERT
Storytelling Through Music was the theme of yesterday's JUMP! concert. Students from Isaacs Elementary School and St. Stephen's Montessori School joined seniors from Sheltering Arms Senior Center in attending the first JUMP! concert from the 2004-2005 academic year.
Abigail Jones and Sonja Thoms Shepherd School Student JUMP! Coordinator, Sonja Thoms, explained how music can tell stories, and demonstrated musical characterizations in The Grasshopper and the Ant for solo oboe by Antal Dorati.
Peter and the Wolf was the featured story in a woodwind quintet arrangement of the famous music by Sergei Prokofiev. Shepherd School graduate students Abby McKee, Sonja Thoms, Maiko Sasaki, Fei Xie, Margaret Tung, (with percussionist Dave West as the hunters), told the musical story with narration by Abigail Jones. Children from the audience helped Sonja make up and tell the last story as Earecka Tregneza (harp), Ted Botsford (bass) and Dave West (percussion) improvised the musical characterizations. The audience heard how the musicians changed the way they played their instruments as the storytelling process unfolded.
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All concerts are free of charge, but by reservation only. All six inreach concerts are scheduled for 1:00 p.m. on Thursday afternoons. Concerts are scheduled for early and late October 2005, mid November 2005, and early and late March 2006, and late April 2006. |
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JUMP! grew out of a discussion by the Shepherd School wind chamber class in Fall 1998. Several students suggested using outreach as a way to increase performance opportunities and potentially increase audience size at regularly scheduled wind chamber music concerts.
Leone Buyse, Professor of Flute and Chamber Music, subsequently created an independent study program for students who wished to connect with the Houston community by coordinating outreach concerts. Janet Rarick, Artist Teacher of Wind Ensembles and Professional Development, is one of the Shepherd School faculty members who help oversee this outreach program. Rachel Buchman, head of the Young Children’s Division at the Shepherd School, works closely with the JUMP! student coordinators and other student performers on communicating musical ideas in creative and interactive ways. Michael Webster, Associate Professor of Clarinet and Ensembles, also plays an active role in advising and encouraging outreach participation.
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