Community Arts Learning Grant
Community Arts Learning Grant
Requiem Mosaic: History and use behind the music and the form.
Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist, Cultural Programming Coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor UMD Music, pianist; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, and former Children's Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artists, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Kayla Schubert: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center.
Adam Guggemos: graphic designer, art events promoter; Michelle Ronning: jewelry designer and maker; Tara Makinen: Executive Director of Itasca Orchestra and Strings, musician; Moira Villiard: visual artist, Cultural Programming Coordinator at American Indian Community Housing Organization; Jeanne Doty: Retired Associate Professor UMD Music, pianist; Amber Burns: choreographer, dancer, actor, middle school art teacher; Margaret Holmes: visual artist, poet, and former Children's Theatre employee; Tammy Mattonen: visual artists, co-founder of Crescendo Youth Orchestra; Kayla Schubert: Native American craft artist, writer, employee at MacRostie Art Center.
ACHF Arts Access ACHF Arts Education ACHF Cultural Heritage
A guest lecturer will offer an educational 90 minute symposium, free of charge, before the concerts on the form and meaning of a requiem. Educators, musicians, clergy and the public will be invited to attend this event. During the concert, narrative will set context and history of the Requiem for the audience, from medieval times to the present. The concert features the area premiere of “Requiem for the Living"ť by Dan Forrest. This include organ, an orchestra of winds, violin, harp and percussion and two soprano soloists. This acclaimed new work has been performed multiple times at Carnegie Hall and on NPR's Performance Today. The emphasis in all of this is to offer hope in the human condition. The Chorale will evaluate the response of the audience to the symposium, and singer and performer satisfaction with repertoire and performance. The Board will hold a meeting within the month following the concert to focus on finances, performance satisfaction, the collaboration with our guest lecturer, and the feedback from an audience survey and a singer survey. All information gathered will be used to assist in future planning, collaborations with area organizations and individuals, and continued relationships with area instrumentalists and soloists. Evaluations on the value of the educational event will be assessed using feedback from those in attendance at that event in particular.
Because assisting both the artists and the audiences is part of the mission and goals of the Chorale, educational events are often a part of the concert season. We hoped that the outcomes would include: 1. 25+ people from various professions would attend the educational event 2. People who work with the dying would understand this art expression more fully 3. The Chorale would offer consolation through music to the audience 4. Performers would grasp the role of the Requiem as an art form as well as a religious event Evaluation included conversations with and a survey of our audience members, participating musicians and Board. Two extraordinary concerts were held, the educational successfully took place, and the response to both was both emphatic and enthusiastic. This was one of the most loved concerts that the Chorale has performed, according to feedback, and the educational event helped to convey the background, intent, and direction of the Requiem Mass for out audiences.
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