Community Arts
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The Linden Hills Chamber Orchestra strives to program a repertoire of musical masterpieces attractive to diverse audiences of more than 50 people and loyal Linden Hills Chamber Orchestra supporters, while at the same time, stimulating Linden Hills Chamber Orchestra musicians to grow technically and artistically. We plan to present a series of programs, several featuring collaborations with musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra, featuring accessible classical music that will please and enlighten our audiences and challenge our musicians at least 50% of the time. To evaluate the community involvement the audience count is taken at each performance. Members of the orchestra will fill out a survey at the end of the season, which gives the board members feedback regarding the amount members were challenged, as well as feedback for improvement for the next season.
We had an excellent season. As we experienced last year, the artistic quality of the group has increased. With that, we are able to learn and perform more artistically rewarding music. Due to the location of our first large concert of the season, we experienced a lower than expected attendance. To avoid this issue in future seasons, we are exploring new alternative concert venues within the Linden Hills area. Our concert in April was the highlight of the season. Our performance of Pines of Rome was an amazing experience for audience and orchestra alike. The orchestra was inspired by Eugena Chang's fierce performance of Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations. We noticed a varied spectrum of audience members at our performances. Unfortunately our first large concert had a much lower attendance than anticipated. We will focus our concert venues closer to and within the Linden Hills neighborhood in the future to avoid the lower turnout. Some of our regular attendees could potentially not attend due to location. Yet again this year, Linden Hills Chamber Orchestra was fortunate enough to gain several new musicians in our strings, woodwinds, and brass sections. Just as our current member base reflects a broad cross-section of individuals, our new players also represent a wide range of ages, races, and backgrounds. We are hoping to continue our diversification of the group with more recruitment done online, in person at concerts, and networking via our current members in the hopes of further cementing our place within the community, as well as making our orchestra even stronger. The Linden Hills Chamber Orchestra was able to provide another excellent year of accessible classical music to over 500 people in our community via four formal performances and one community outreach concert.
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