Orchestrating Lifelong Participation in the Arts
1629 22nd Ave SE Olympia WA 98501 360-352-1438 studentorchestras.org studentorchestras@gmail.com Facebook.com/studentorchestras Spring 2020 Vol. XX No. 3
Powerful, Ethereal Quiet City SOGO’s Jaymes Klein, trumpet, and Moira Rader Rice, English horn, have been hard at work preparing their featured parts in Aaron Copland’s Quiet City for the now-canceled May concert. SOGO is looking at alternative ways for them to perform it, but we didn’t want to miss this opportunity to share their thoughts about the piece.
Dear SOGO Family, May 17 Concert Canceled But We Are Keeping the Music Going Welcome to the season’s final newsletter. Who would have had any idea this was how SOGO would be “playing” out the season! I love the phrase “hope springs eternal,” because we have held off canceling our Sunday, May 17 concert as long as possible. Recently, the state authorities have declared the schools officially closed through June. We are sad to report that the SOGO season has now been halted and the final concert has been canceled. Thankfully, we have social media, so we can keep you Words cannot express how informed about the future. thankful I am to all of you As we all struggle to put together a plan for supporting these young A, B, C, and so forth, we are attempting people. We have been so to do the best we can to keep the SOGO blessed throughout the community together. I can speak for our years by our members, staff, artistic staff, and board that we partners, advertisers, miss being with the young musicians and sponsors, foundations and making joyful music. We adhered to the patrons who have been state guidelines for school district closure, the bedrock of SOGO. so when they closed, we followed and have ~ Krina Allison not met since our last rehearsal March 8. Quickly, we explored our options to keep in contact with the SOGO musicians. Two weeks after our last rehearsal the conductors started using an app called Flipgrid to stay in communication with the students (see "Staying Connected," p.2). Students can video record themselves playing sections of the concert music, hear Miss Edge, the SOGO historian, giving insights to the music, or even watch each other’s videos. Soon we’ll get some of those videos up so you can see what these amazing SOGO musicians are doing during their “homestay.”
Moira Rader Rice and Jaymes Klein
Q: What do you like about Quiet City? aymes: Quiet City is a really powerful piece. Listening to it and playing it almost seems to isolate you; it sounds very lonely and it conveys this sound through a pretty wide dynamic range. To me that's where musical (Continued on p.2)
J
Distinguished Sponsor Capital Heating & Cooling Makes Our Community a Good Place to Live When Providence St. Peter Hospital recently called for donations of medical supplies, Capital Heating & Cooling was quick to respond. That shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone familiar with the local HVAC company owned by brothers Bill, Chuck, and Dean Schmidtke. In addition to sponsoring for SOGO's Spring Concert, Capital Heating & Cooling also supports the Homeless Backpacks, Harlequin Productions, Ballet Northwest, and the Olympia Symphony Orchestra. (Continued on p.4)
LEAD • INSPIRE • PERFORM •
}
Words cannot express how thankful I am to all of you for supporting these young people. We have been so blessed throughout the years by our members, partners, advertisers, sponsors, foundations and patrons who have been the bedrock of SOGO. A shout out to all of you!!! Now, more than ever, we need to keep the music going! Sing in the shower, crank up the sound of that favorite orchestral work you love, dust off an instrument in your house and play – join with me in that joyful sound called music.
Krina Allison
SOGO Executive Director P.S. Please consider making a contribution to SOGO in lieu of the May concert tickets you would otherwise have purchased. Donations can be made online at studentorchestras.org or by mail. LEAD • INSPIRE • PERFORM •
Krina Allison and SOGO clarinet players at the 2018 Instrument Petting Zoo
}
LEAD • INSPIRE • PERFORM •
}