Educational
Programming
Community Connections
Community
Connections is about bringing music to underserved populations when and
where they normally meet. Red Cedar musicians perform nearly 100 educational
events each season. Red Cedar Chamber Music's educational programming
is presented in partnership with the City of Marion, the Marion School
District, the Cedar Rapids School District.
Funds are provided by the James & Norma Jean Rosborough Foundation,
the Giacoletto Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Iowa
Arts Council, AEGON Transamerica Foundation, Rockwell Collins, Cedar Rapids
Bank & Trust, Farmers State Bank, the Marion School Foundation, the
City of Marion, the William P. and Gayle M. Whipple Fund of the Greater
Cedar Rapids Community Foundation, and Nancy Miller.
Red
Cedar Chamber Music is a multi-year recipient of a Chamber Music America
Residency Partnership Program Grant with funding provided by the CMA Residency
Endowment Fund.
Music
for Kids
|
educational
events for grades K-12
|
Music
in Libraries
|
for
extended families in Eastern Iowa libraries
|
| Music
for Seniors |
when and where they normally congregate
|
| Chamber
Music Now! |
for
exceptionally talented young musicians (to work in concert with
professionals)
|
| Production
Floor Performances |
for workers in offices & factories
|
|
Music
for Kids
brings
events into classrooms K-12.
Projects
are tied to existing curriculum in an interdisciplinary fashion.
Nearly
50 classroom educational events are presented each school year. |
A
child closes the holes of Jan's flute, and students show
us if the results create tones that are higher or lower.
Jan Boland (flute) and John Dowdall (guitar) in an event
for 3rd-graders in Mr. Tompsen's music classroom in the
Marion School District. |
|
|
Music
in Libraries
brings
family-friendly concerts to libraries in Linn County, Iowa.
Attracts
extended families, home schooled children, preschoolers, library
patrons on a Saturday afternoon. |
| The
Red Cedar Trio performs at the Cedar Rapids Public Library
on a Wednesday over the noon hour. Listeners also browse books
and eat their lunches. |
|
|
Music
for Seniors
brings
interactive music events to senior citizens when and where they
normally meet. Senior citizens often cannot go out at night to
a traditional concert setting, so we go to them during the daytime
hours, often at senior residential facilities like Meth-Wick Manor
or Kingston Hill Retirement Community.
|
 |
|
Production
Floor Performances
are
held annually at Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids.
Workers
gather in the lobby for a noon- time concert, or simply
leave the doors of their offices open to let the sound waft up
three stories.
|
 |
|
Chamber
Music Now!
gives
talented high school and college students the opportunity to make
music as peers with professional musicians.
After
a series of intense rehearsals, performances are given in libraries
and schools
Past
student participants include Brooke Lyons (flute) Will Hansen
(clarinet), Liz Zelnick (viola), Thad Sentman (cello), William
Whipple (piano) Catherine Miller (violin), Emily Broere (piano),
Joe Lynch (double bass), Elizabeth Klaus (viola), Leah Bergman
(cello), Stephanie Michalicek (narrator), Ranee Rapier (viola),
Chris Hanson (viola), JoAnna Cochenet (viola), Andrew Stern (cello),
Becca Neely (violin), Blake Tchon (cello), Alissa Roggow (viola),
Madeline Krych (violin), Andrew Bonar (cello).
|
Pictured
here are Chamber Music Now!
young musicians Thad Sentman and
Liz Zelnick playing a concert in the
Cedar Rapids Library with professionals.
Student performers mentor young isteners, and also learn chamber
music skills. |
What is the public
response?
FROM
TEENAGERS. . .
. . .This is only my second non-rock concert, but I really enjoyed it!
FROM
KIDS. . .. . .
. . .I learned to pluck, pick and strum. Thanks for coming to my school.
. . .Thank you for your little musical. I have heard of Mozart.
. . .I enjoyed the concert. Me and my friend was laughen at the love song.
FROM
PARENTS: FAMILY CONCERTS. . .
. . . My 3-year old loved it and her attention "drift" was almost zero.
Excellent!
. . . They did a wonderful job of making the instruments come alive for
the children.
|
Starry
Elementary School 10/11
|
