Small Capital Arts Grant for Nonprofits

The outcome of purchasing the riser rails is safety. Having side and back rails prevents singers from accidentally falling off the risers and suffering injury. The digital recorder will make rehearsals more efficient, and performances will be able to be recorded with ease and efficiency. Rehearsal recordings can be posted on a password-protected area of the website where singers can listen and take notes if they miss rehearsal. Performances can also be recorded for promotional and/or educational uses, and even synced with video for high-end production of concert videos.Evaluating the effectiveness of the risers would simply entail ensuring that they are installed properly and noting the lack of incidents relating to safety when performing on the risers. We have not had any incidents of singers suffering injury to date, but having the rails in place would give more peace of mind. Recording concerts, both with the Digital Recorder and without, will be compared side by side to determine if the outcome of higher fidelity recordings has been achieved. Effectiveness of use in rehearsal will be measured by asking singers who did and did not listen to rehearsal recordings. These questions would then indicate their knowledge of what was introduced and covered in the rehearsal that they missed.