OUTREACH
Chamber Music Amici aims to help create a new generation of chamber music lovers. The Education Committee of the Board of Directors works with our Education Sponsors and with public schools in Springfield and Eugene to offer students vouchers for steeply discounted tickets to our concerts. We also bring concert previews to public schools.
Student Tickets print your voucher now
Education Sponsor Isler CPA makes it possible for us to steeply discount ticket prices to $5 for 50 students to attend each concert in 2009/10 and 2011/12. Vouchers for these tickets will be distributed to students, teachers, and parents at Springfield and Eugene public schools, and at the Eugene Arts Umbrella. These vouchers can be redeemed by students at all levels, grade school through college, 541-953-9204, until the Friday before each concert, as long as student tickets remain available.
Music in the Schools
On Monday, April 4, 2011, pianist Victor Steinhardt, violist Fritz Gearhart, cellist Steven Pologe, and violinist Sharon Schuman performed a Mozart piano quartet for 500 children at River Road Elementary School in Eugene. They sang the opening theme as we played: “WE are a-MI-ci.” Once again David Adee did his magic!
On Monday, February 28, 2011, 25 young people from the UO Community Music Institute performed chamber music for an hour at the Amici Art contest Reception at the Emerald Art Gallery. We want to help bring on the next generation of chamber music performers!
On Friday, February 25, 2011, violinists Sharon Schuman and Matthew Fuller joined violist Fritz Gearhart to play Dvorak’s Terzetto for 500 children at Camas Ridge Elementary School in Eugene, where David Adee had them singing along with the themes and showing us how much fun they could have with music.
On Wednesday, November 17, 2010, pianist Victor Steinhardt and violinist Sharon Schuman played Beethoven’s “Spring Sonata” for 500 children at River Bend Elementary School in Springfield, all of whom knew who Beethoven was and that he went deaf. Here is a poem created by one fourth grader in Amy Danziger’s music classes:
Hearing Beethoven’s “Spring” Sonata
Dogs run through the fields
Stars shine in the night
Wake up and the sun is warm as can be
Feel good
So I go and compose and can’t hear
Can’t hear
But I can feel
Yes feel
Makayla B., 4th grade, Riverbend Elementary
On Thursday, May 27, 2010, Chamber Music Amici performed for the children at River Bend Elementary School in Springfield. Music teacher Amy Danziger had them singing along with key melodies and teaching us all about loud and soft and fast and slow.
On Thursday, April 15, 2010, we performed for the children at River Road elementary school in Eugene, where Music teacher David Adee is the pied piper of sound and motion. He has those kids loving music!
On Friday, November 20, 2009, Chamber Music Amici performed at Camas Ridge Community School from noon until 2:40 pm. Oboist Amy Goeser Kolb, violinist Sharon Schuman, violist Kathryn Lucktenberg, and cellist Steven Pologe played the J. C. Bach oboe quartet, while children sang and danced.
On Friday, May 29, 2009, oboist Amy Goeser Kolb, violinist Pilar Bradshaw, violist Fritz Gearhart, and cellist Steven Pologe performed the Mozart Oboe Quartet for students at Harris Elementary School on Eugene. On Tuesday, June 2, 2009, violinist Sharon Schuman joined the music composition students of the Springfield Academy of Arts and Academics to perform their compositions in the Wildish Theater.
Collaborations
Eugene Ballet - Emperor's New Clothes
On June 1, 2011 we performed Peter Schickele's "The Emperor's New Clothers" for 600 Springfield Elementary Students in the Richard E. Wildish Community Theater. For this performance actor William Hulings read the original tale as Hans Christian Anderson, before we performed Schickele's hilarious musical update. We commissioned Ben Goodman of Eugene Ballet Company to choreograph five dancers to tell the story in dance as we performed music for piano, oboe, violin, viola, cello, and kazoo. This was the pilot phase of a three-year project that will reach 1,800 students in 2012 and many more when all the materials are uploaded to this website in 2013.
Emerald Art Center
On February 22, 2010 string students of the UO Community Music Institute (CMI) will perform at 5:30 pm at the Chamber Music Amici Art Contest Reception at the Emerald Art Center, 500 East Main Street, Springfield. Finalists for the Art Contest, to choose images for posters and programs in 2010-11, will be on display. CMI students will perform to raise funds for scholarships. Admission is free. More informaiton on the art contest.
Eugene Arts Umbrella and the UO Community Music Institute
Chamber Music Amici provides student vouchers for $5 tickets to students in the Eugene Arts Umbrella program and the Community Music Institute at the University of Oregon School of Music.