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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)
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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
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Quiet City, cont'd power comes from. The ability to transcend elements like tempo, dynamics, style, etcetera and still sound and feel like one cohesive idea.
oira: It carries a mysterious emotional M intensity to it, and I love that I can visualize all the different characters in
the city that are brought to life through the music. I am very excited to have the opportunity to perform Quiet City, and I cannot express enough how much gratitude I have for everyone that has helped make this happen for myself and Jay. Q: What are the challenges of playing Quiet City? oira: Quiet City contains lots of long phrases that require control in both breathing and musical phrasing. Additionally, timing with the trumpet is hard because the ethereal quality to the piece distorts and conceals exactly where the beat falls.
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Staying Connected During “Stay Home, Stay Healthy” with Online Classrooms With rehearsals postponed, SOGO students have been staying connected online with Flipgrid, a video discussion platform for students and teachers. Debut, Academy, and Conservatory Orchestras each have their own secured classroom where students are encouraged to interact with their conductors and each other during what would normally be their Sunday afternoon rehearsals. At one recent "rehearsal" conductor Jennifer Marin asked Debut musicians to "share a short clip of a challenging excerpt from Pirates of the Caribbean ... Share the reasons it was a challenging and how you have overcome those challenges." Zach (at left) posted a recording and replied, "I thought this was pretty hard because there's a lot of third position and then accidentals. I fixed this by asking my teachers on fingering and I wrote those down. After that it's just repetition, starting really slow and then getting it fast." Great advice, Zach! Pictures below are of SOGO musicians connecting through Flipgrid.
aymes: The true challenge of this piece Jdynamics is getting comfortable with the range of and style. Many of the solo lines
are very exposed, meaning there is often not much else going on outside of Moira and I. There's nothing to hide behind, which can be a little unsettling. You have to be comfortable if you want it to sound beautiful and this piece asks a lot from you in that sense. Q: Moira, how is the English horn different from the oboe? oira: In addition to the English horn sounding a fifth lower than the oboe, the larger size of the English horn means that it requires more air, but the embouchure is much looser than that of the oboe. The oboe has a more focused sound, while the English horn sounds much more rich and chocolatey. I love both instruments; while I am enraptured by the depth of the English horn's sound, I love the versatility of the oboe.
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The oboe has a more focused sound, while the English horn sounds much more rich and chocolatey. While I am enraptured by the depth of the English horn's sound, I love the versatility of the oboe. ~ Moira Rader Rice “Moira and Jay are both thoughtful, introspective musicians, which makes Quiet City an ideal piece for them," says Music Director Cameron May. "I have no doubt they will say something profound through their performance." Check SOGO's website and Facebook page for updated performance information.
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SOGO’s Graduating Seniors Say “Thank you for supporting our youth, our passion, and our society.”
Through the arts, people connect with people, and we all learn and grow as a society and culture. It encourages kids to become better people and explore a part of themselves that they may have never explored. So thank you. Thank you for supporting our youth, our passion, and our society.
Though music has been one of my passions, I believe that the true merit of SOGO is the friends you make along the way. ~ Cyrus Lagerberg, flute
~ Brandon Huyck, cello
Thank you for supporting our SOGO has passions and the helped me betterment of our develop new community through friendships and music and the arts. play new music. SOGO has made It has helped such a huge impact me to improve on my life by shaping significantly not only how I play on my the cello, but how instruments, I go about life with and I love the more determination opportunities and confidence. to perform! ~ Gwendolyn Bayer, ~ Moira Rader cello Rice, oboe
SOGO is the only program I take part in that allows me to study and perform orchestral music and do so under the guidance of very experienced musicians and teachers. ~ Jaymes Klein, trumpet
$800 SOGO Senior Scholarship Awarded to Gwendolyn Bayer by Music Director Cameron May
Every year SOGO awards a scholarship to one graduating senior who demonstrates many years of leadership and service to SOGO, and who acts as an ambassador for SOGO in the Greater Olympia community. This year’s recipient is cellist Gwendolyn Bayer, who stood out to us as finely exhibiting all of these qualities. Gwen has been a part of SOGO since 2015 and she has consistently served as an ambassador for SOGO by being a part of several small ensembles that performed in the community, including most recently the Beatles vs. Stones tribute concert on February 24. Moreover, with ever-present determination and an infectious personality, Gwen has been the most positive of role models for her peers in the cello section, and the orchestra as a whole. SOGO will not be the same without Gwen, and we are very pleased to present her with this scholarship. Thank you to TwinStar Credit Union for underwriting the SOGO Senior Scholarship.
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Raffle tickets are $5 each and only 200 tickets will be sold. Tickets will be sold this fall and the drawing will be at SOGO’s Fall Concert on November 1, 2020. Winner does not need to be present to win. Thank you Panowicz Jewelers for your support.
May 26, 27 & 29
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When SOGO Executive Director Krina Allison knew the Spring Concert might be canceled, she reached out to Dean Schmidtke to return CH&C’s sponsorship money. Not only did Dean refuse, he offered to sponsor next year's spring concert as well! “Our customers are our neighbors," says Dean, "and we really appreciate them. We think supporting some of these organizations is a way to not only give back, but a way to make our community a good place to live and that’s important to us.”
SOGO Summer Music June 22 – July 2 Get ready to play, compose, swing, and explore musical styles from around the globe at the 2020 SOGO Summer Music. • Who: Musicians with one-year playing experience to 9th grade, except Choir – no experience required. • Where/When: Washington M.S. June 22 - July 2. Class times vary from 9am - 2:30pm. • Twelve class offerings! Fiddling, Chamber Music, Intermediate Band, Swap Band, Advanced Band, Intermediate Orchestra, Jazz for All, Bucket Band, Music Theory, Choir, and World Drumming. • Free Choir class with at least one other class. • Cost: $75/class, with multiple class discounts available. Choir class is free if student is taking at least one other class; otherwise $50.
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