Summary The problem facing the orchestra is the quality of the instruments supplied by the school. Some of the students are playing on instruments with holes in them or instruments that won’t stay in tune for the forty-five minute class hour. The solution to this problem would be to request AMOUNT for the orchestra to replace the instruments in the worst conditions. The benefits of this grant would be:
Increased confidence in students
Better overall sound of the orchestra
Better performance at festivals and concerts
Encourage other students to join the program and participate in school activities
Problem
The orchestra at Negaunee Public Schools is in need of new instruments to improve the quality of their program. The Negaunee high school
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So, the third grader who just started playing and isn’t completely sure how to properly care for the instrument gets the instrument that’s been at the school for thirty years. The high schoolers, on the other hand, get the instruments of higher quality. As the years go by instruments that used to be in excellent quality aren’t functioning as well as they did in the past. When I started playing viola in fifth grade I got one of the better school violas, a viola made in Germany in 1921. By the time my parents knew I was serious enough about viola to make the investment for my own instrument worth while, the viola was in bad condition. It had chips in the wood, the body was scratched, and part of the instrument had worn down so much that we had to put a piece of folded up paper underneath the string to prevent the instrument from buzzing every time I played. This made me embarrassed when I would go to play in other orchestras, and I would get very self-conscious about playing loudly because I was afraid people would see the paper holding up my strings. This isn’t the only instrument with patchwork fixes, other instruments can be seen with paper propping other parts up, or some with gaping holes in the body of the instrument. With one orchestra teacher, there isn’t the time to be making big fixes on these instruments every
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One of the pieces the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra performed was Carnival Overture, op. 92, composed by Antonin Dvorak. The conductor at this concert was Christian Baldini and the main violinist was Shawyon Malek-Salehi. This piece was made in the Romantic era with an orchestra instrumentation. The genre for this piece is concert overture and has a sonata form in a similar formate to other sonata forms from the Romantic era, making it sound dramatic compared to the Classical era’s sonata era. The live performance was true to Dvorak’s original score, which took the traditional sonata form of the classical era and changed it to incorporate a common Romantic era sonata form. Although the live performance focused on the first violinist, it still maintained the dramatic atmosphere from the original piece by keeping the sonata form, rhythm, texture, and instrumentation.
School funding is a recurring issue in the modern era. Debates ranging from give schools more money, to get rid of the system in place and reform a new idea have been plaguing the world over the years. “The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, signed in 2009, provided more than $100 billion in education aid to offset budget cuts..” (School Finance). Later, “Congress provided an additional $10 billion in 2010 to avert mass teacher layoffs (Education Week, "Total Recovery Act")” (School Funding). These numbers are just a sample of the struggles in school funding, that is costing a ton of money to keep afloat. “There are many ways schools fund varying from state to state and even school to school. Income taxes, corporate taxes, sales taxes, and other fees provide 48 percent of the elementary and secondary school funds. 44 percent of local districts draw money from local property taxes. The federal government makes up approximately 8 percent of state education budgets. These funds are a dealt out on a per-student basis, and categorically to ensure enough resources for each special program or facility” (School Funding). These funds play a huge role in every student's education, either positive or negative. The three main areas that need to be addressed in the school budget are extracurricular funding, building and equipment maintenance, and last but not least staff funding.
On February 23, I attended the 17th Annual Sphinx Competition held at the Detroit Orchestra Hall. The concert was phenomenal, and surprisingly enough to me I actually relished the performance. The reason the concert satisfied me was due to the fact of the meaning that was upheld throughout the concert. The Sphinx Orchestra is an amazing foundation in which supports Black and Latino string classical musicians and gives them a chance to better their life through the prodigious gift of scholarships. At this specific concert three finalist strived to see who truly has the utmost talent amongst the three. The three musicians included nineteen year old bassist, Xavier Foley; twenty-one year old cellist, Nicholas Mariscal; and twenty year old violinist, Clayton Penrose-Whitmore. Each musician did an extraordinary and gave the impression that they played their pieces flawlessly. Although all the young musicians achieved mere perfection; there had to be a winner and that was Xavier Foley. He received fifty thousand dollars in scholarships and by all means deserved it. The conductor of the concert was Maestro Brandon Keith Brown, who also did astonishing. In addition to all of those great musicians I also had the honor of hearing Simon Shaheen playing the oud. All together the performance was just incredible in my eyes.
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Throughout history music has played an important role in society, whether it was Mozart moving people with his newest opera or the latest album from the Beatles. Where would society be today without music? With schools cutting their music programs, the next Mozart may not get his chance to discover his amazing talent. Music programs are essential to education. To fully understand this one must understand how music helps the human body, why schools have cut music programs, and why people should learn music.
Music is virtually everywhere we go, no matter if it is background noise in a coffee shop or singing along while shopping for groceries, we can find music somewhere. The event I attended was the Flint Symphony Orchestra on October 8, 2016. I have never attended a symphony before so I was excited to go, especially since I had invited my friend to attend with me. For this event, I was already informed by my teacher that the symphony will be formal so we needed to look the part since others will be dressed fancy. This made me curious how this event will turn out. Walking past the ticket area and through the doors to the lobby made me feel instantly memorized at how grand it was on the inside. I went downstairs and there were a vast
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The history of the Concert Band and Wind Ensemble will be reflected through a timeline of events, including an analysis of significant events, groups, composers, and advancements. When society envisions a Wind Ensemble, talented musicians, grand music halls, and difficult arrangements typically come to mind. However, a modern-day Wind Ensemble includes a variety of musicians, each with positive and negative aspects. In society today, music is greatly appreciated and accepted. It is considered an honor and a privilege to expose our ears to the music.
With one of the largest problems facing the music education system being financing, a possible solution could be instituting a system like the pay-to-play system for sports programs. Pay-to-play systems require that all athletes who take part in the season pay a fee to help cover transportation and equipment. During the season, there are usually a few fundraisers as well. Music programs could adapt these ideas to suit each individual school
The first benefit of giving a child an instrument is the success in society. “Researchers have found that children involved with music education are more likely to graduate from high school and attend college, and are less likely to be involved with gangs and substance abuse,” says VH1. Music is apart of everyday culture in America. It is used for “ideas and ideals,” (MENC) and the values are accounted for in a number of places. “Secondary students who participated in band or orchestra reported the lowest lifetime and current use of all substances (alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs).”-Texas Commission on drug and alcohol abuse report. VH1 has also done research, and found that a “students involvement in their school music program is crucial to a complete education. Musical Study, develops critical thinking and self discipline skill, improves a child’s early cognitive development, basic math and reading abilities, self-esteem, SAT scores, ability to work in teams, spatial reasoning skills, and school attendance.”
The Symphony Orchestra concert was preformed by The OU School of Music with Jonathan Shames as a conductor and they presented Sutton Concert Series. In addition, the Orchestra concert performed at Paul F. Sharp Concert Hall in October 12, 2015.There were like forty-one performers on the stage including the conductor using different types of instruments and and all of them were wearing a nice black clothes. The stage was a quite large with wooden floor and there were two floors for the audience with a comfortable seating. However, all the performers were on round shape and against the conductor.
I would love to organize a fundraiser that helps children who can’t afford musical instruments do so. Learning an instrument was one of the best things that ever happened to me because it allowed me to use my brain in new ways and to express myself. Music is one of the few things that connects people from all over the world. You can travel to a new country, not speak a word of the language, and still find camaraderie and respect through music: it’s a universal language of unity. It has the unique, unusual, and drastically underappreciated ability to promote peace and fellowship. Yet there are so many young people who can’t afford to pay for an instrument or lessons, and so they miss out on the opportunity to learn and appreciate music in new ways. By helping them do so, I believe that their lives can change and they in turn might change lives.
Task A.1. Write an action plan for Anne Ewers by analyzing the financial and leadership strengths and weaknesses of the Utah Symphony before the merger.
Music production is more than just a musical program; it is a duty that requires personal experience with music and artistic direction. Observing producers in the studio, their creativeness comes out in different ways even depending o their task. The artisanship of music production has come a long way ever since the heavily involved recording equipment has been massively changing. Every artwork has countless of individual people who have changed the way the art may be applied to the field, leaving behind their legacy to influence all aspects of music. Music producers are always overlooked when it comes to working with musicians or bands, but what people do not know is that they are the backbone of the production but are unseen to the public. There are several of paths on becoming a producer, like being self-taught or going to a vocational school. If you plan to advance as a producer, it will be a rough experience trying to ascend to a higher position. A music producer is the main person that manages the whole album on a record, and is responsible for helping the artist complete his work.