2014-15 FAME FW PHILHARMONIC FW BALLET COMPOSITION PROJECT

September 18, 2014

Dear Fabulous Fourth Grader,

CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE BEEN SELECTED BY YOUR MUSIC TEACHER to participate in a fabulous, once in a lifetime experience in music composition IN the 2014-15 FAME FW Philharmonic FW BALLET Composition Project!

As one of several FAMEous Fourth Grade student composers, you will meet for project sessions on October. 21, 22, 23, 2014, 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, to collaborate to 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 22, 2015, at 3:00 P.M., in the Anthony Wayne Ballroom, at the Grand Wayne Center, in Fort Wayne.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:

On October 21, 22, 23, 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 2014-15 cultural focus, FAME Is Out Of This World.

During the “composium” session on October 23, 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 7, 2015, 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 21, 2015, 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 1:45 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 22, 2015, 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 2014-15 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 three scheduled composition and “composium” sessions on Tues., Oct. 21, Wed., Oct. 22, and Thurs., Oct. 23, from 4:00-6:00 P.M. with David Crowe (also Wendy Bloom and Alexis Ingram), 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 7, 2015 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 21, 2015, 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 1:45 P.M., along with the composition’s premiere performance at the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Celebration of Youth Concert, on Sun., March 22, 2015, 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 22, 2015, 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 2014-15 FAME Fort Wayne Philharmonic Project certificate, your originally submitted musical signature composition and CD, a portion of the project composition’s score and orchestration CD, and a photograph commemorating your participation in the project sessions. 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 22, 2015, 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 10, 2014. 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 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.

Don’t forget to check the Composition Project FAMEbloggers weblog at: http://www.famearts.org/fameblog to review information project portfolio information!

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

2014-15 FAME FW Philharmonic FW Ballet COMPOSITION PROJECT DATES:

Tues., Oct. 21, 4:00-6:00 P.M.      Composition and “Composium” session with Composer-In Residence, David Crowe, Haley Elementary School

Wed., Oct. 22, 4:00-6:00 P.M.       Composition and “Composium” session with Composer-In Residence, David Crowe, Haley Elementary School

Thurs., Oct. 23, 5:30-6:00 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 7, 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 21, 10:00-11:00 A.M. Final “Composium” session at 10:00-11:00 A.M., Room Jefferson C, Grand Wayne Center                                                           

Sunday, March 22, 1:45 P.M.        FW Philharmonic Rehearsal, Anthony Wayne Ballroom, Grand Wayne Center

Sunday, March 22, 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.

2014-15 FAMEous Composer Premiere Performance Critique

2014-15 FAME FW Philharmonic FW Ballet Composition Project

FAMEous Student Composer

Mini-Rehearsal/Premiere Performance Critique

 1. Did you enjoy the finished composition’s Mini-Rehearsal and Premiere Performance? How did you feel at the Premiere Performance?

2. What things were different between the Mini-Rehearsal and the Premiere Performance?

3. What was your favorite part of the Mini-Rehearsal? What was your favorite part of the Premiere Performance?

4. What was the worst part of each?

5. Critique the finished Composition Project Composition. What did it sound like? What did you like about it (describe using the best musical terms that you can)? What did you dislike about it?  What creative music composition techniques did Mr. Crowe use to weave your Musical Signature into the overall finished composition? How did your Musical Signature contribute to the overall finished composition? 

6. How do you feel about the finished composition now? Have your ideas about it

changed since you met for the Composition and “Composium” Sessions with Mr.

Crowe? Are you glad you helped to create it?

2014-15 Student/Parent Conversation Form

2014-15 FAME FW Philharmonic FW Ballet Composition Project

FAMEous Student Composer/Parent Conversation Form

To the parent: Please take a few minutes to review your child’s Project Portfolio. It contains his/her student work and reflections completed during the music composition sessions with FAME Composer-In-Residence, David Crowe. Please consider what your child learned about music, music composition, dance, performance, and life in general from the project and then answer the following questions:

1. Did your child enjoy the project?

2. What did your child share with you regarding the composition sessions with Mr.Crowe, the Mini-Rehearsal, the Premiere Performance, and his/her Project Portfolio assignments?

3. What surprises you most about the process and creative work your child experienced

 during the project?

4. What would you say are the main things that your child learned from participating in

 the project?

5. Has monitoring the Composition/Ccomposium” sessions, Mini-Rehearsal, and Premiere Performance been worthwhile to you?

6. Have there been any changes in your child’s creative work habits and attitudes because
of participating in the project?

7. Do you have any additional comments, questions, or suggestions for improving the project?

2014-15 FAMEous Composer Self-Evaluation Form

2014-15 FAME FW Philharmonic FW Ballet Composition Project

FAMEous Composer Self-Evaluation

Look through your Project Portfolio and examine the papers and work you have done during the project. Think about how your perceptions and feelings about music have changed because of participating in the project. Then, answer the following questions as best as you can:

1. What part of the project are you most proud of?

2. What part of the project was different from anything you have ever done before?

3. Has the project portfolio helped you learn more about music?

4. What would you like to do next to add to your composition portfolio in Noteflight?

5. How did you need to cooperate  with the other FAMEous Cmposers during the composition sessions?

6. Has the project helped you learn more about the life and work of a composer?

7. How much effort did you give to learn from the FAME Composer-Residence, 
David Crowe during the project?

8. What grade would you give yourself for the work you have done during the project?

2014-15 FAMEous Composer Questionnaire #3

2014-15 FAME FW Philharmonic FW Ballet Composition Project

FAMEous Student Composer Questionnaire #3

1. Now that you have helped create a musical composition yourself, what would you say
the hardest part of composing is?

2. What is the most fun part about composing?

3. How would you say your Musical Signature Composition turned out?

4. What did you learn that you didn’t know about what professional composers do?

5. Do you think you will continue to create music in different ways?

6. What did you learn about the music of other cultures during the project?

7. Do you think that FAME and the Fort Wayne Philharmonic should bring in a

 composer-in-residence to work with student composers again?

8. If you had a friend who was going to work with a composer next year like you just did
what would you tell him/her to expect?

9. What life skills did you use by participating in the project?