Program music

Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer keeps its oldest and best-loved tradition with 12 performances of A Chanticleer Christmas in the Bay Area between December 10th and 23rd. A Chanticleer Christmas offers profound, peaceful and joyous music in beautifully decorated missions, churches and cathedrals around the Bay Area. Chanticleer’s Christmas season begins on November 28th in Fairfax, VA, with concerts in Manassas, VA, Chicago, IL, New York, NY, Purchase, NY, and Portland, OR,…

Music education in the United States is in dire need of financial support. All over the country, music programs are being cut, teachers are being laid off, and thousands of children are being robbed of the opportunity to participate in group music making within their schools. Despite countless studies proving the benefits of exposing students to music education, funding for these programs take the backseat to the perceived importance of STEM education. All areas of education are important, but…

Fine arts is a program that can bring something out of kids, like hidden talents, also it can help improve a students grades. Mostly it can just help a student all around, whether it be grades, personality, or just for fun. Fine arts is a mix of visual arts, theater, creations , plays, band and choir, design arts, as well as anything you or the creator see’s or considers as art. I think each public secondary school should have art or music programs. Almost ninety-four percent of public secondary…

contributed to the music world and compare Program Symphony to Symphonic Poems and Impressionism to Expressionism music created by these composers. Program Music and Symphonic Poems are similar in that they play onto the imagination of the listeners of the mental pictures of the scenes or characters as they listen. Both genre are based on telling a story or poem. Although they have these similarities they use different methods of exporting these stories. Program music has several…

had enough time to think of emptiness I once felt. I enrolled myself in advanced rigorous classes and joined the Performing Arts Program as well as a variety of other clubs. Gradually these distractions made me acknowledge the potential I had hidden in me to do so many things. I gained a different outlook in life and expressed all my rage, sadness and fear through music in my schools band class. I was expressing myself as well as slowly molding myself into the person I wanted. I accepted my…

Music in schools The movement of music into a schools starts in the progressive era, when people realized that music could be used as a tool to promote social reform within the poorer classes-and could be used to change the economic status of the country as a whole-where the purpose of music became transformed. Instead of the original purpose as a representation of people with power and a form of their entertainment, music became a tool to help social, political, and economic reform and…

Center was founded in 1989, and has served over 150,000 young people, 30,000 teachers, and a countless number of school districts over the past 25 years. The Pittsburgh Performing Arts Center designs programs to inspire students’ artistic expression and thought through integrative experiences. Our programs adapt to fit the needs of all students ranging from kindergarten to twelfth grade. The design of our 2016 season will bring laughter, excitement, and a time to explore for all participating…

A productive platform to work with other youth and creative Seattle-based history programs. To also share with the community seems almost too good to be true. Ever since my first visit to MOHAI in the second grade I am enthralled with the message and experience. Being a part of creating it is an unimaginably great opportunity for me to…

Music has been around for as long as we known humans have been around. Music Education became a part of the American culture in the early 18th century. During this time most schools only taught singing, piano, and theory. With the creation of the Academy of Music in Boston many of the tune books, textbooks, and study text that we still use today. Some of the famous music educators and authors of theses books would include Samuel Holyoke, Francis Hopkinson, William Billings, and Oliver Holden. As…

István Várdai and Julien Quentin performed at the Auditorium at Scripps Ranch in La Jolla. The La Jolla Music Society commissioned the performance as part of their Discovery Series. The stage, with hardwood floors and a geometric background, provided the appropriate backdrop for the grand piano and the mesmerizing cello. From the second row, the skill and expertise of the artists was evident. The audience member could sense the dedication and time the artists put into their work, and could…