Category: LMC in the News

Competition Winner Annie Jacobs-Perkins in the New Yorker

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In the recent article entitled “Cello Nation: The Piatigorsky Festival, in Los Angeles” by Alex Ross, Annie Jacobs-Perkins, cello received mention.  Ms. Jacobs-Perkins, along with her ensemble Trio Brillante were the 2016 Frances Walton Competition Ensemble Winners

“…That same day, Laurence Lesser, a Piatigorsky pupil who serves as the cello sage at the New England Conservatory, advised Annie Jacobs-Perkins, another Kirshbaum protégée, on Martinů’s Second Sonata. Jacobs-Perkins delivered the desolate Largo with hypnotic lyricism, causing listeners to forget where they were for a moment. Lesser made a technical suggestion, asking her to bow more evenly across the first falling phrase. He also pushed her to give the entire opening melody an archlike shape, so that it sang toward a climax, then subsided. Some people in the audience may have wondered why Lesser was tinkering with an already gorgeous rendition, but he offered a credo: “When someone plays as beautifully as you do, it’s easy for me to be fussy, because no matter how far we are there’s always more.”…”

 

MUSIC IN SCHOOLS Member Schools 2015-2016

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Seattle Schools served in 2015-2016

The Music in Schools (MIS) Outreach Program completed its twenty-fifth year of providing musical enrichment to underserved students in Seattle Public Elementary schools.  Over 7,000 student contacts were made in six Elementary schools, through seventeen interactive presentations and activities.

BF Day – 699 Student Contacts (494 Day students plus 205 for lecture demo)

283 students, Special Needs 13%, ELL Learners, 12%, Asian 7.8%, African/American/Black 12.7%, Hispanic 8.1%, Caucasian 57.2%,, Multiracial 14.1%

MIS PROGRAMMING PROVIDED

Before School Chorus (Laura Ouimette, Director) meeting weekly January through June with several performances throughout the school year and in nearby retirement homes.

LMC Award Tour artists, Cameron O’Connor, guitar, and Erik Steighner, saxophone, appeared at Boys and Girls Club.

MIS provided busing for students from Day (as well as Maple, Rainier View and Martin Luther King schools) to Laura Ouimette’s organ pipe organ/music history presentation of the history of Western Music at Plymouth Congregational.

John Muir – 1,355 Student Contacts    

397 Students, Caucasian 18.9%, Asian 11.1%, Latino 9.3%, Black 47.6%, Multiracial 12.6%,  Native American .5%, Special Needs 6%, Ell Learners 26%

MIS PROGRAMMING PROVIDED

  • Seattle Historical Arts for Kids – Colonial-era music with participatory dance for 4th and 5th graders
  • African/American Heritage Duo — Assembly Provided
  • Northwest Opera in Schools, Etc. (NOISE) — Assembly performance of The Telephone
  • Show Brazil (Eduardo Mendonça) – Brazilian Rhythms workshop
Chris Daigre at Licton Springs

Licton Springs – 792 Student Contacts

 133 Students, Caucasian  38.3% , Asian  6.0% Latino 14.3%, African/American/Black    47.6%, Multiracial 25.6% Native American 7.5%, Special Needs 24%

MIS PROGRAMMING PROVIDED

  • Northwest Opera in Schools, Etc. (NOISE) — Assembly performance of The Telephone
  • SO Percussion Group (in partnership with UW World Series) – Student attendance at Meany Matinee, plus one on one workshop afterwards
  • Martha Redbone (in partnership with UW World Series) – 3 workshop sessions with 4th through 8th graders
  • Gansango (Etienne Capko)Drumming  and Dancing Instruction with 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grades

Lowell Elementary – 1,605 Student Contacts

340 Students, Special needs 25%, English Language Learners Eligible (ELL) 22%, Homeless Students 10%, Asian 15.5%, African/American/Black 29.9%, Caucasian, 29%, Hispanic 11%, Am. Indian 1.8%, Multiracial 12%, Other .5%

MIS PROGRAMMING PROVIDED

  • Northwest Opera in Schools, Etc. (NOISE) — Assembly performance of The Telephone
  • Gansango (Etienne Capko)Drumming and Dancing Instruction with  3rd,  4th and 5th  grades
  • Gansango — Assembly Performance
  • Gansango – Heritage Night (with special performance of Masks of the Rain Forest by Won-Ldy-Paye from Liberia)
  • Daedalus String Quartet (in partnership with UW World Series) – 3 workshop sessions with K, 1, and 2 students
  • Hilary Field, LMC Guitarist, with 3rd, 4th and 5th grades
  • Radost Slavic Folk Ensemble

Sand Point — 1,419 Student Contacts

 MIS PROGRAMMING PROVIDED

  •  Northwest Opera in Schools, Etc. (NOISE) — Assembly performance of The Telephone   
  • Gansango (Etienne Capko) Dancing and Drumming Instruction with Grades K-4
  • Philharmonic Wind Quintet — Assembly performance Peter and the Wolf with student narrators — Assembly Performance
  • Student transportation to SO Percussion Group (in partnership with UW World Series)
  • LMC Provided full time music instruction for K/1/2 classes

273 Students, Caucasian 37.0%, Asian 12.5%, Hispanic  12.5%, African/American/Black 15.8%, Multiracial 22.0%, Native American  .4%, Special Needs 16%, Ell Learners 23%

Sanislo — 982 Student Contacts

273 Students, Caucasian 20.1%, Asian 20.1%,Hispanic 20.5%, African/American/Black 22.7%, Multiracial 15%, Native American 1.5%, Special Needs 14%

MIS PROGRAMMING PROVIDED

  •  Northwest Opera in Schools, Etc. (NOISE) — Assembly performance of The Telephone   
  • Toucans Steel Drum Band —  Assembly Performance
  • Dina Blade and Canote Brothers — 2 sessions of folk dance for 2nd and 3rd grades
  • 3rd grade recorder lessons (in partnership with Seattle Symphony Orchestra “Link up”)

Bus fare to Meany Hall for “Link Up” performance with Seattle Symphony

WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL — 250 Student Contacts

  • DeCoda Ensemble with Saeunn Thorsteindottir–Creative Master Class with Orchestra and Band Ensembles