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Music of Polish Kings
"Songs of Freedom", Rosemonth
Theatre, October 2008
"PaSO around the World ", Orchestra Hall, April 2007
December 2008
January 2009
Crystal Garden, March 2007
December 2007
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In our continued effort and commitment to promote music among youth:
16.323 students of Polish Saturday Schools attended PaSO ‘s concerts
29 Polish Saturday Schools participated in PaSO’s concerts
673 artists performed for PaSO young audience
369 buses with students of Polish Saturday Schools come to our concerts
We performed in 7 Polish Saturday Schools
262 young performers were invited to ours concert
286 young students join us during Master Classes and Workshops given by expert teachers and artists
1999 Piano Master Classes and Workshop – Janusz Olejniczak, Pawel Checinski
2004 Guitar Master Classes and Workshops: Piotr Debowski, Marcin Czarnecki
2006 Vocal and Master Actor Classes and Workshops– Janusz Jozefowicz, Janusz Stoklosa,
2008 Guitar Master Classes: Piotr Debowski, Marcin Czarnecki
2008 Violin Master Classes and Workshops: Barbara Bilszta i Wojciech Niewrzoł
PaSO Music Academy counts over 120 children and youth (7114 individual private music lessons and over 3000 theory and chamber music lessons in the 2008-2009 school year)
"LIVE Recordings " - our students:
Pola Grzebien
Bartek Ciezobka |
Sponsors of PaSO's Musical Camp
:
Stanley Stawski Dist. Comp, Polish Women's Alliance of America, Consulate General of the Republic of Polanf in Chicago
Music Workshop - Camp Vista - see for yourself
Why Teach Music?
Music is relevant to the core curriculum
Music is mathematical.
It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions which must be done instantaneously, and not worked out on paper.
Music helps us learn to read and develop creativity.
Music teaches us to interpret meaning, to form lyrical, melodic thoughts. Music helps us to commit to memory making learning more fun.
Music is a Science.
It is exact, specific, and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor's full score is a chart, a graph which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody, and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of time.
Music is a foreign language.
Most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French; and the notation is certainly not English - but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most complete and universal language.
Music is Historical.
Music usually reflects the environment and times of its creation, often even the country and/or racial feeling.
Music is Physical Education Music requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lips, cheeks, and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragm, back, stomach, and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets.
Music develops insight and demands research
Music is all of these things, but most of all . . .
Music is ART. It allows a human being to take all these dry, technically, difficult techniques and use them to create emotion. That is one thing science cannot duplicate: feeling, emotion and yes, if you will allow us . . . humanism.
For all of these reasons and countless more, we are Teachers of Music. Don't we believe in the greatness that music instills in our students? Don't we believe in the discipline, the dedication, the development of self-esteem, and don't we enjoy witnessing our students becoming, literally, vessels of beauty?
Yes, the planting season is upon us, (figuratively) once again. We drop our seeds of knowledge in their curious minds and then draw from them MIRACLES. We encourage our students to "weather" the seasons, in hopes that someday, they will become what they are meant to become . .. . loving, caring, lovers of the art we call music.
Is that not why we teach music?!
We teach
Not because we expect you to major in music;
Not because we expect you to play or sing all of your live
Not so you can relax
Not so you can have fun
But,
So you will be human
So you will recognize beauty
So you will be sensitive
So you will have something to cling to
So you will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness, more good -
in short: more life!
Why Music Education?
Facts and Insights and the Benefits of Music Study
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