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Polar Express theme at Eastbrook South
December 22, 2016
The SEGway News
December 22, 2016
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Arts & Culture
Taylor’s Yoo takes annual concerto aria competition
Taylor University sophomore Hasun Yoo won the
Collegiate Division of Marion Philharmonic Orchestra’s
27th Annual Concerto Aria
Competition for young artists.
The competition was
held in November in the
Butz Carruth Recital Hall
on the Taylor campus, and
was sponsored by the Marion Philharmonic Orchestra
friends and Dr. Steve Hyman, the inaugural winner of
the competition and member
of the judges panel for this
season’s event.
The event was open to all
Indiana High School students and Collegiate students
in Grant County. Participants
were required to play a
movement from the standard
repertoire that has orchestral
accompaniment.
Winners
in both divisions received
a cash prize, and both the
Collegiate and High School
winners will be given the
opportunity to perform on
a regularly scheduled MPO
concert.
Yoo, a violinist, was recognized for her performance
of the first movement of
Tchaikovsky’s Concerto in D
Major. She will perform with
the Marion Philharmonic
during a regular season concert in 2017-2018.
Winner of the High School
Division was pianist Sage
Hamm, 15, a home-schooled
student from Middletown,
Indiana. He performed the
first movement of Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 2
in C minor. Hamm will perform as a soloist during the
Philharmonic’s
Chamber
Concert on Saturday, March
4, 2017, in the Butz Carruth
Recital Hall at Taylor.
Judges for the competition
were Mary Beth Coolidge,
Yoo, a violinist,
was recognized
for her performance of the
first movement
of Tchaikovsky’s
Concerto in D
Major.
adjunct instructor of voice at
Anderson University; Joan
White, principal second vio-
lin for the MPO and teacher
at Acacia Academy in Kokomo; and pianist Dr. Steve
Hyman. Hyman was a featured soloist with the MPO
in 2012 and will return this
season to perform Mozart’s
Concerto for Two Pianos and
Orchestra, No. 10 in E-flat
Major, with Steinway artist
Marilyn Shields-Wiltsie on
the season finale on Friday,
April 21, 2017. Hyman is
also Professor of Anesthesiology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
Tickets to the concerts
mentioned above are available by calling the MPO Box
Office at (765) 662-0012.
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Eastbrook South students enjoyed breakfast with the school
mascot on the last Friday of the semester (top, left). The
dress code for the day was pajamas (top, right)! To finish
off the Polar Express theme of the week, the students had a
special assembly to watch the film Polar Express (left, second from top). The students had fun together with special
activities (immediately above).
Photos by Alexis Dierker
At right, SAC-packs (Support-A-Child), a project started by
Bekah Moser to collect backpacks with emergency items
for children who are taken into care over the Christmas
season, have been collected from people and businesses
around Grant County and dropped off at the Barton Rees
Pogue Memorial Library, to be passed on to Grant County
Family Services. Currently, 42 SAC-packs have been donated
and there are more on the way from Kings Academy. Many
thanks to everyone who took part!
Arts Place accepting registrations
for piano and guitar lessons
Arts Place, Blackford County Arts Center is now accepting
registrations for individual music lessons and piano and guitar
labs. Recitals are held at the end of the ten week labs and at the
end of the semester for individual lessons.
The piano lab will begin Tuesday, February 7, 2017. This piano
lab is for 2nd and 3rd graders. The class meets for ten weeks on
Tuesdays. Beginners practice from 4:00-4:45 or from 4:45-5:30.
Intermediate piano lab students meet from 5:30-6:15. The total cost
for piano lab is $25.00 paid at the time of registration. Students
have the opportunity to borrow a keyboard at no additional cost.
Guitar lab begins Thursday, February 9. The class meets for ten
weeks on Thursdays. The guitar labs are for students in 4th,5th,
and 6th grades. Beginners practice from 4:00-4:45 or 4:45-5:30.
Intermediate guitar class meets from 5:30-6:15. The total cost for
guitar lab is $25.00 paid at the time of registration. Students have
the opportunity to borrow an acoustic guitar at no additional cost.
Individual lessons are available for band instruments, guitar,
mandolin, ukulele, piano, violin, voice, and cello. Individual lessons will begin the first week of January.
For more information contact Blackford County Arts Center
director, Amy Day at 765-348-4154 or [email protected].
Blackford County Arts Center hours of operation are Monday
10-2, Tuesday 10-2 and 3-7, Wednesday 3-7, and Thursday 10-2.
The Blackford County Arts Center is located at 107 West Washington St, Hartford City, IN 47348
Major funding for the Blackford County Arts Center is provided by: The Blackford County Community Foundation through
the Opal Greenlee Memorial Fund and Citizens State Bank. Activities of Arts Place, Inc. are provided, in part, with support from
the Indiana Arts Commission, and the National Endowment for
the Arts, a federal agency.
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