Announcing the 2011-12 FAME FW Philharmonic FW Ballet Composition Project!

Again this year, several selected Northeast Indiana area Fourth Grade FAMEous Student Composers will engage in a once in a lifetime experience in music composition as they collaborate with FAME’s Composer-In-Residence, David Crowe to create a music composition to be performed by The Fort Wayne Philharmonic and the Fort Wayne Ballet Youth Company, at the Philharmonic at FAME, Celebration Of Youth Concert, at the FAME Northeast Festival, on Sunday, March 18, 2012, at 3:00 P.M., in the Anthony Wayne Ballroom, at the Grand Wayne Center, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

During music composition and “composium” sessions from 4:00-6:00 P.M., on October 24-27, at Haley Elementary School, at 2201 Maplecrest Rd., in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the FAMEous Fourth Grade Composers will first, compose, notate, and orchestrate their very own musical signature compositions, then, creatively collaborate with Mr. Crowe about how their musical ideas will be orchestrated into a final project composition inspired by themes from FAME’s 2011-12 cultural focus, FAME, Around the World In 25 Years, A Sea of Discoveries.

FAME and the PHIL’s ongoing collaboration with the Fort Wayne Ballet will continue this year, as once again, the composition’s premiere presentation will be enhanced with choreographed dance movements performed by the Fort Wayne Ballet Youth Company dancers. During the one of the “composium” sessions, Alexis Ingram, director of the Fort Wayne Ballet Youth Company will hold a creative movement session with the FAMEous Composers to communicate with them about how their musical ideas for the composition will impact and inspire dance movements that the Youth Company ballet students will create and perform for the project. The FAMEous Composers will meet with Ms. Ingram and student members of the ballet’s Youth Company on March 3, 2012, at 12:00-1:00 P.M., at the Fort Wayne Ballet Center, at 300 W. Main St., in Fort Wayne, for a pre-premiere presentation of their movement ideas for the composition and will engage in a collaborative exchange of creative reflections about their visual, kinesthetic, and cultural meanings.

Mr. Crowe will score the finished composition for symphonic orchestra, then, on Saturday, Saturday, March 17, 2011, at 10:00 A.M., in Room Jefferson C, at the Grand Wayne Center, will conduct a final "composium" session with the FAMEous Composers to analyze their musical ideas in the finished composition. The project will culminate with a 1:45 P.M. mini-rehearsal and the composition’s premiere performance by the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and the Fort Wayne Ballet Youth Company, at the Philharmonic at FAME, Fort Wayne Philharmonic Celebration of Youth Concert, on Sunday, March 18, 2012, at 3:00 P.M., in the Anthony Wayne Ballroom, at the Grand Wayne Center, in Fort Wayne.

The FAMEous Composers will access a project portfolio to complete various reflection assignments (posted below) to help stimulate creative input and facilitate feedback for assessment during the music composition, rehearsal, and performance process.

You can access additional information at the FAME Fort Wayne Philharmonic Fort Wayne Ballet Composition Project web page at: http://www.famearts.org/p_music

Wendy Bloom
Project Coordinator