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SIGMA A S PIES, INC P . 4 SIGMA A S G a mma P hi Hardin-Simmons Universit y, Kappa C, Region II Abilene Summer Music Festival, $2,000 The Abilene Summer Music Festival is a one-week orchestra camp for middle/ high school students held on the campus of Hardin Simmons University. Offering a highquality, broad-based, and affordable musical experience, the festival offers a full curriculum of music instruction with three daily orchestra rehearsals, sectional rehearsals and chamber music instruction. Elective activities range from composition, conducting, music history, and music theory classes to a percussion ensemble and a world music ensemble. The festival culminates in a free, public performance. This grant is earmarked to subsidize marketing costs in the form of additional camp brochure printing and mailing expenses ($1,500.00) as well as the cost of renting the Abilene Civic Center for the Grand Finale concert ($500.00). De lta S i g ma Universit y of Day to n, S igma B, Region VII Music Industry Speaker Series, $2,350 Delta Sigma will partner with the university Arts Series to present "Career Conversations about Music," a series of four free, public programs in the spring of 2012 featuring visiting musicians. The focus of these programs will be on the changing nature of music careers, of particular relevance for SAI members, music majors, and any young person with an interest L a m bda Be ta Ma rs H ill College, Tau B, Region VI Mini Madison Music $560 The initial goal of the Lambda Beta project is to create lesson plans for specific topics in classes at Mars Hill (NC) Elementary with the aid of music. These classes may or may not be involved with music, but the chapter would like to show the students at Mars Hill Elementary how to incorporate music into their daily lives and other academic courses. The chapter will also help the school music program with a petting zoo of instruments either loaned from Mars Hill College Music Department or from sisters in the chapter. Overall, Lambda Beta seeks to plant seeds in the students at Mars Hill Elementary so they can use music to help others in their futures. E psi lon G a mm a Arkansas State Universit y, Mu A , Region IV $1,500 for educational promotion Epsilon Gamma will use the grant to support the performance of Anonymous 4, one of the world's leading ensembles of the performance of early vocal music, as part of the ASU Lecture-Concert Series. The concert will include many local and regional choir programs. Epsilon Gamma will work with the university to arrange educational activities with Anonymous 4 that will involve university as well as community students. ASU plans to present Anonymous 4 to the local Visual & Performing Arts Magnet School in Jonesboro for a brief "teaser" lecture/demonstration for their 4th-6th grade students. The group will also discuss issues related to early music performance with university students. The concert is scheduled for February 2012 and will be free and open to the public. Eta L a m b da Centena ry College, Omega B, Region IV Florence Price Concert, $2,300 Eta Lambda intends to support a program celebrating the music of American composer Florence Beatrice Price and including some original compositions inspired by her work. Chapter members will help plan the event, perform in the event, host the concert, and give a reception afterwards. The concert would take place during Centenary College's Dream Week activities celebrating Martin Luther King Day. Price (1888-1953) was the first AfricanAmerican woman to achieve prominence as a composer of classical music. In her output of over 300 works, Price frequently used music from Southern black churches. A historically profound figure in American music, Price's repertoire is seldom heard. With its focus on a lesser-known African-American composer, this concert would surpass the college's normal concerts in appeal, bringing in individuals from some local churches, as well as those celebrating Dream Week activities in the city. [The concert has since been postponed due to music copyright issues.] T he ta Om i c ro n Centra l Methodist Universit y, Pi C, Region III Summer Light Opera Workshop, $1,000 Theta Omicron seeks to support the annual summer musical project designed to contribute to the educational and artistic enrichment of a small rural community and its surrounding counties. It provides opportunities for musical and vocal solo and ensemble coaching to local talent and addresses a diverse population of college, high school, junior high, adults, youth, and professionals in a rural setting and brings visibility to a quiet community in the summer. The program intends to educate and enrich college and community members' experience through involvement in performance and production details of the light opera genre. Beyond the campus confines, individuals from the outlying communities and towns are encouraged to participate. The community is informed through brochures, flyers, news releases and letter invitations to nearby schools and audition dates are scheduled for interested participants. sai-national.org FALL 2011 PAN PIPES 74 SIGM 19 P P 74 SIGM 19 RO IOTA IOTA HA LP 4 Musical Supply Closet, $3,000 Beta Xi was made aware of a Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) school in the Austin area. KIPP schools are focused on lowerincome families to educate their children and empower them to attend college. The chapter recognized the need faced by the KIPP school music program for basic musical supplies (valve oil, reeds, metronome, tuner, etc.) that cannot be met by the school's limited budget or those of the students. Beta Xi intends to create a sort of "supply closet" for the school that will serve the students' musical needs, in hopes to empower the students to succeed and develop and deeper interest in music. in music. As a result, while the Arts Series will provide the underwriting for the speaker's fee for the program, this grant will help support Delta Sigma's efforts to market the series to local university music departments as well as local university and high school music programs. It will also provide the resources to the chapter to provide hospitality after each program for those attending the event to help extend the formal conversations on a more personal level. PH A I O T PIES, INC P . 7 B e ta Xi Universit y of T e xas at Austin, Kappa A , Region II AL TH , INC. 19 9 Impact PROJE CT G r a n t s A PH N T HR O LA P HI S IE 7 philanthropies awards 2011 L A NT H PHI , INC. 19 HA LP PH A I O T RO AL A A A ES IE N T HR O LA P HI

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