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Monticello Chamber Music Program and Weekend of Chamber Music receive fourth Arts Partner Challenge Grant from Arts Westchester
2010
Arts Partners Challenge Grants
Arts Partners Challenge Grants are a local arts-in-education funding program that is administered by Arts Westchester for Orange, Putnam, Sullivan, and Westchester Counties. Arts Partners Challenge Grants support partnerships between schools and teaching artists or cultural organizations that focus on the interdisciplinary or integrated study of the arts and non-arts subjects. Funding source: Local Capacity Building Initiative of the Arts in Education Program at the New York State Council on the Arts.
The Restoration Project
The Restoration Music Project is under
the guidance of Monticello teachers Ann Trombley - Performing Arts
Academy head teacher and Nancy Wegrzyn - Chamber Music and Orchestra
Director and the Weekend of Chamber Music. The artistic
collaboration between the Weekend of Chamber Music and Monticello
Chamber Music Program is now fifteen years old.
This project began in October with a trip by Monticello High School
students to the Mid-Hudson Bridge, The students experienced and
listened to composer Joseph Bertolozzi’s “Bridge Music.” The second
semester of this school year, students will spend time restoring the
St. John Street Theatre in Monticello for completion of this
project. They will identify and analyze acoustic properties, and
sample different sounds produced as a result of the restoration
process. Students will research music history during the life of the
theatre. They will gather community facts, personal stories and
explore past performers and performances.
The restored theater will be unveiled at “The Last Night” program on
June 11, 2010 when the students’ composition will be premiered.
Students will work with Weekend of Chamber Music Artists Andrew
Wagonner and Allen Blustine.