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01.27.10
Bob Scott, Journal and Courier
The Tippecanoe Chamber Music Society is presenting a fourth year of free educational outreach programs entitled Concert To Go! A string quartet of local musicians is performing at city, county and parochial elementary schools during class times. Feature music includes pieces from Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. Students in elementary schools are learning about chamber music, including its musical form and dynamics, along with the basic of sound production. The professional musicians explain and demonstrate their instruments in a classroom setting using points from the Indiana Academic Standards in Music.
The string quartet then will play the classical pieces. Last year, a brass quintet played a variety of songs, including a Beatles’ tune. The year before, woodwinds were featured.
The following schools have already experience Concert To Go! this academic year: Dayton, James Cole, Wea Ridge, Hershey, St. Mary’s, St. Boniface and Mintonye. The 2009-2010 Concert To Go! series concludes this week at Miller, Glen Acres, St. Lawrence, Burnett Creek, Earhart and Cumberland. Founded in 1997, Tippecanoe Chamber Music Society is a not-for-profit 501c3 corporation and a member of the Tippecanoe Arts Federation. The group presents six concerts a year for the general public, mostly in historic Duncan Hall downtown. The concerts are free for students in grades K-12. Although the executive director and the musicians receive a modest stipend, TCMS operates on a strictly volunteer basis. The outreach program is funded in part by private donations and a grant from Evonik Industries AG, formerly the Eli Lilly Tippecanoe Labs. “The first question I answer from the kids is, ‘What is chamber music?’” said TCMS executive director Margot Marlatt, a cellist. “The simplest answer is: It is music in a room with no band director.” “Students ask, ‘How can I do this?’ I impress on them that practice and hard work brings results in anything they do.” For more information, including dates for upcoming public concerts, visit www.tippecanoechambermusic.org
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