Community: Nashville
Launched: 2 all-day music events, 4 mentoring clinics
Engaged: 90 high school students, 40 audience members
Involved: 30 JSoM Students
Summary
Student organization Classical Connections worked regularly with Brown County High School band students through mentoring clinics and all-day musical events. Four clinics connected small groups of Jacobs musicians with high schoolers in one-on-one coaching sessions and group sectional rehearsals. Classical Connections students participated in these clinics continuously, which allowed the high school band members to connect with the same mentors more than once and form valuable relationships. Several all-day events additionally offered larger masterclasses, panel discussions, performances and side-by-side rehearsals between the mentors and high school students.
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“Everyone was absolutely thrilled to work with the IU students. My students only have positive things to say.”
-Matthew Finley, Brown County HS Director of Bands
The student organization Classical Connections works with students from the IU Jacobs School of Music to bring the joy of music to diverse areas through musical performance, educational engagement, and interpersonal development. Classical Connections students were pioneers in their work with the Center for Rural Engagement, shaping music curriculum and engaging with schools throughout Southern Indiana in the very early days of CRE initiatives.
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JSoM Students Involved:
Amanda Ellerbe Bethany Vaughan Jacob Simons Nathan Berry
Aislin Carpenter Charley Ball Fuller Dennis Rendleman Erich Corfman
Alexander Keiser Elle Crowhurst Kunal Tiwari Keslie Pharis
Anna Hargett Ellie Kopp Noah Marietta-Perez David Bayard
Paul Lorenz Arthur Liang Sean Bradley
More about the Classical Connections Project:
- IDS News, 04/28/2019, Jacobs Group brings workshop to Brown County High School.
- Facebook, 04/27/2019, Video: Classical Connections Rehearsing with Brown County High School Bands.
- Classical Connections Website.