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2015-16
FAME FW PHILHARMONIC FW BALLET COMPOSITION PROJECT
Dear Fabulous Fourth Graders,
CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE BEEN SELECTED BY
YOUR MUSIC TEACHER to participate in a
fabulous, once in a lifetime experience in music composition IN the 2015-16
FAME FW Philharmonic FW BALLET Composition Project!
As one of several FAMEous
Fourth Grade student composers, you will meet for project sessions on October 19, 20, 21, and 22,
2015, from 4:00-6:00 P.M., at Haley Elementary School, in Fort Wayne, with FAME
Composer-In-Residence, David Crowe, renowned composer and friend of FAME (also
with Wendy Bloom, Project Coordinator, and Alexis Ingram, Director, Fort Wayne
Ballet Youth Company) to help create an original orchestral composition to be
performed by the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Youth Symphony and Youth Concert
Orchestra and the Fort Wayne Ballet Youth Company, at the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Celebration of
Youth Concert on Sunday, March 20, 2016, at 3:00 P.M., in the
Anthony Wayne Ballroom, at the Grand Wayne Center, in Fort Wayne.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
On October 19 (meet with
Wendy Bloom, Project Coordinator only), 20, 21, and 22 (meet also with Alexis
Ingram, Director, Fort Wayne Ballet Youth Company), from 4:00-6:00 P.M., at
Haley Elementary School, in Fort Wayne, you will meet with FAME
Composer-In-Residence, David Crowe,
for composition and “composium”
sessions to compose, perform, and notate your very own musical signature composition,
then, creatively collaborate with Mr. Crowe about how your musical ideas will
be orchestrated into a project composition inspired by themes from FAME’s
2015-16 cultural focus on past and
present arts in Indiana (in conjunction with the Indiana Bicentennial Celebration 2016).
During an orientation
session on Monday, October 19, you will meet with Wendy Bloom, Project
Coordinator you will review the project portfolio and learn about composing
music using Noteflight, an online music
notation application.
During the “composium”
session on Thursday, October 22, Alexis Ingram, director of the
Fort Wayne Ballet Youth Company will lead you in a creative dance session to
communicate with you about how your musical ideas for the composition will
impact and inspire dance movements that the Youth Company ballet students will
create and perform for the project.
Mr. Crowe will score the
project composition for symphonic orchestra, then, on Saturday, March 5, 2016,
at 12:00-1:00 P.M., at the Fort Wayne Ballet Center, at the Auer Center For
Arts and Culture, 300 E. Main St., in Fort Wayne,
you and your parents will attend a creative dance collaboration session with
Alexis Ingram and the Fort Wayne Youth Company dancers for a pre-premiere
presentation to view and interpret the creative dance ideas for the project
composition. On Saturday, March 19, 2016, at 10:00-11:00 A.M., in Room
Jefferson C (near the Anthony Wayne Ballroom), at the Grand Wayne Center, Fort
Wayne, you and your parents will attend the project’s final “composium” session
with Mr. Crowe to analyze your musical ideas in the project composition. The
project will culminate with a project composition rehearsal at 1:00 P.M., and
the composition’s premiere performance by the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Youth
Symphony and Youth Concert Orchestra and the Fort Wayne Ballet Youth Company,
at the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Celebration
of Youth Concert, on Sunday, March 20, 2016, at 3:00 P.M., both in the
Anthony Wayne Ballroom, at the Grand Wayne Center, in Fort Wayne.
You will access a project
portfolio to complete various reflection assignments to help stimulate creative
input and facilitate feedback for assessment during the music composition,
rehearsal, and performance process. Your music teacher will review, monitor,
and assist you in your completion of your project portfolio assignments, as
well as with your musical signature
composition. Be sure to share the entire project portfolio with your music
teacher.
Embedded in the FAME FW
Philharmonic FW Ballet Composition Project are educational objectives for you
to:
- deepen your understanding and skills in the
creative and evaluative processes of music, dance,
art, and storytelling
- deepen your understanding of the cultural connections
of music, art, dance, and storytelling
- deepen your understanding of career
opportunities in the arts
The
2015-16 FAME Fort Wayne Philharmonic Composition Project will address the
following National Core Arts Standards For Music:
Creating
· MU:Cr1.1.4a:
Improvise rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic ideas, and explain connection to
specific purpose and context (such as social and cultural).
· MU:Cr1.1.4b:
Generate musical ideas (such as rhythms, melodies, and simple accompaniment
patterns) within related tonalities (such as major and minor) and meters.
· MU:Cr2.1.4a:
Demonstrate selected and organized musical ideas for an improvisation,
arrangement, or composition to express intent, and explain connection to
purpose and context.
· MU:Cr2.1.4b:
Use standard and/or iconic notation and/or recording technology to document
personal rhythmic, melodic, and simple harmonic musical ideas.
· MU:Cr3.1.4a:
Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to personal music, applying
teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback to show
improvement over time.
· MU:Cr3.2.4a:
Present the final version of personal created music to others, and explain
connection to expressive intent.
Performing
· MU:Pr4.1.4a:
Demonstrate and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by
personal interest, knowledge, context, and technical skill.
· MU:Pr4.2.4a:
Demonstrate understanding of the structure and the elements of music (such as
rhythm, pitch, and form) in music selected for performance.
· MU:Pr4.2.4b:
When analyzing selected music, read and perform using iconic and/or standard
notation.
· MU:Pr4.2.4c:
Explain how context (such as social and cultural) informs a performance.
· MU:Pr6.1.4b:
Demonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for the
context, venue, and genre.
Responding
- MU:Re7.1.4a: Demonstrate and explain how selected
music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences,
purposes, or contexts.
- MU:Re7.2.4a: Demonstrate and explain how
responses to music are informed by the structure, the use of the elements
music, and context (such as social and cultural).
- MU:Re8.1.4a: Demonstrate and explain how the
expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, and timbre) are used in
performers’ and personal interpretations to reflect expressive intent.
- MU:Re9.1.4a: Evaluate musical works and
performances, applying established criteria, and explain appropriateness
to the context.
Connecting
- MU:Cn10.0.4a: Demonstrate how interests,
knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating,
performing, and responding to music.
- MU:Cn11.0.4a: Demonstrate understanding of
relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied
contexts, and daily life.
PROJECT DETAILS:
As a FAMEous Student
Composer, you will need to attend four scheduled composition and
“composium” sessions on Mon., Oct. 19 (with Wendy Bloom, Project Coordinator
only), Tues., Oct. 20, Wed., Oct. 21, and Thurs., Oct. 22 (also with Alexis
Ingram, Director, Fort Wayne Ballet Youth Company), from 4:00-6:00 P.M. with
David Crowe at Haley Elementary School, 2201 Maplecrest Rd, in Fort Wayne. In
addition, you will need to attend a creative dance collaboration session with
Alexis Ingram and the Fort Wayne Ballet Youth Company dancers on Sat., March 5,
2016 at 12:00-1:00 P.M., at the Fort Wayne Ballet Center, at the Auer Center
For Arts and Culture, 300 E. Main St., in Fort Wayne,
the project’s final “composium” session on Sat., March 19, 2016, at 10:00-11:00
A.M., in Room Jefferson C (near the Anthony Wayne Ballroom), at the Grand Wayne
Center, in Fort Wayne, and the Philharmonic ‘s project rehearsal, at 1:00 P.M.,
along with the composition’s premiere performance at the Fort Wayne
Philharmonic Celebration of Youth Concert,
on Sun., March 20, 2016, at 3:00 P.M., in the Anthony Wayne Ballroom, at the
Grand Wayne Center, in Fort Wayne.
If you cannot attend a
project session at the last minute, please contact the project coordinator by
phone at: (260) 467-4510 (Haley Elementary School), (260) 414-2603 (cell
phone), (260) 338-1650 (home phone), or via E-mail at: Wendy.Bloom@fwcs.k12.in.us. Your
parents are responsible to transport you to and from the project sessions.
Parents, please be prompt in both dropping off and picking up your child if you
do not plan to stay for the duration of each session.
You and your parents will be
special guests at the composition’s premiere performance at the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Celebration of
Youth Concert, on Sunday, March 20, 2016, at 3:00 P.M., in the
Anthony Wayne Ballroom, at the Grand Wayne Center, in Fort Wayne, where you
will be formally recognized for your participation in the project. You and your
parents will be seated in a designated area in the front of the audience. Prior
to the performance, you will receive a 2015-16 FAME Fort Wayne Philharmonic
Project certificate, your originally submitted musical signature composition and CD, and a portion of the project
composition’s score and orchestration CD. Be sure to invite your music teacher
and school principal to be your special guests at the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Celebration of Youth Concert, on Sunday,
March 20, 2016, at 3:00 P.M., in the Anthony Wayne Ballroom, at the Grand Wayne
Center, in Fort Wayne. Parents,
sorry, but no video or audio taping of the concert is allowed by agreement with
the Fort Wayne Philharmonic.
The
registration deadline is Friday, October 9, 2015. Registrations
will be prioritized by the postmarked or online registration date. Following
the registration deadline, registrations will be accepted on a limited basis.
Please complete the attached
registration form and mail or FAX the completed registration form to:
FAME
Auer Center for Arts and Culture
300 East Main Street
Fort Wayne, IN 46802
Phone 260-247-7325 Fax 260-247-7324
info@famearts.org
To register via E-mail or by
phone, go to: http://www.famearts.org/p_music.
You can access additional Composition Project information there as well. You
and your music teacher will receive a registration confirmation/reminder E-mail
prior to the first composition session date.
As always, parents are
invited to attend (and help with!) any of the project sessions, rehearsals, and
premiere performance.
If you have any questions or
comments about the Composition Project, please contact Wendy Bloom at: Wendy.Bloom@fwcs.k12.in.us
(e-mail), or at: (260) 338-1650 (home phone), (260) 414-2603 (cell phone), or
the FAME Office at: info@famearts.org, or at:
(260) 247-7325 (FAME office phone).
Once again, congratulations! You are in for a very exciting, once
in a lifetime experience in music composition!
Sincerely,
Wendy
Bloom,
FW Philharmonic FW Ballet Composition Project Coordinator
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2015-16
FAME FW Philharmonic FW Ballet COMPOSITION PROJECT DATES:
Mon., Oct. 19,
4:00-6:00 P.M. Orientation
and Composition session with Wendy Bloom, Project Coordinator, Haley Elementary
School
Tues., Oct. 20,
4:00-6:00 P.M. Composition and “Composium” session with Composer-In Residence, David Crowe, Haley
Elementary School
Wed., Oct. 21,
4:00-6:00 P.M. Composition and “Composium” session with Composer-In
Residence, David Crowe, Haley Elementary School
Thurs., Oct. 22,
4:00-6:00 P.M. “Composium” session with Composer-In
Residence, David Crowe, Creative Dance session
with Alexis Ingram, Fort Wayne Ballet Youth Company Director (5:30-6:00 P.M.),
Haley Elementary School
Sat., March 5,
12:00-1:00 P.M. FAMEous
Composers Creative Dance Collaboration session with Alexis Ingram and the Fort Wayne Ballet
Youth Company dancers, Fort Wayne Ballet Center, at the Auer Center For Arts
and Culture
Sat., March 19,
10:00-11:00 A.M. Final “Composium” session at 10:00-11:00
A.M., Room Jefferson C, Grand Wayne Center
Sun., March 20,
1:00 P.M. FW Philharmonic Rehearsal, Anthony Wayne
Ballroom, Grand Wayne Center
Sun., March 20,
3:00 P.M. Premiere Performance at the Fort Wayne Philharmonic
Celebration Of Youth Concert, Anthony
Wayne Ballroom, Grand Wayne Center
DRIVING DIRECTIONS:
Haley
Elementary School is at 2201 Maplecrest Rd., Fort. Wayne, one block south of E.
State St., just west of Georgetown Square Shopping Center. Turn right off
Maplecrest Rd. into the school parking lot. Access the school using door #1.
The Fort Wayne Ballet Center
is at the Auer Center For Arts and Culture, 300 E. Main St., Fort
Wayne.
The Grand Wayne Center is on Jefferson Blvd., across from the Embassy
Centre, Fort. Wayne. Parking is available in the parking garage or in several
lots nearby.
