Take Five… SOA Live in Columbia, Richmond, Aiken, & McDuffie County Elementary Schools
Take Five…SOA Live!
Symphony Orchestra Augusta Musicians
performing in Columbia, Richmond, Aiken, & McDuffie County Elementary Schools
SOA Executive Director Sandra Self announced today the completion of the Symphony’s “Music in Schools” programs in the CSRA for the 2009-2010 season. Thirty-two programs were presented for 4th and 5th graders at 16 Columbia County Public Schools in January & February, using resources allocated by the individual schools. From February 24 through May 7, 2010, the mixed ensemble of five core musicians from Symphony Orchestra Augusta presents Take Five…SOA Live! for students in Richmond, Aiken, and McDuffie Counties. This program takes David Gee, cello, Eliza Hesse, principal second violin, Taylor Massey, principal clarinet, Kelly Odell, principal oboe, and Carl Purdy, principal viola, into the schools to perform together and in various combinations the music of Bach, Bizet, and Brubeck, among others, for elementary audiences. SOA Music Director Shizuo Z Kuwahara selected music that is accessible to everyone and created arrangements of the orchestral works especially for this ensemble. The result is a program which allows students to hear various colors of instruments and a suggestion of the orchestral sound. For many students this up close performance by professional musicians provides an invaluable first exposure to orchestral instruments in a live performance.
In Aiken County, the Murphy M. Holloway, Jr. Symphony in the Schools Program is presented by the Aiken Symphony Guild and sponsored by the Murphy M. Holloway, Jr. Foundation. This year eighteen elementary schools will host performances for their students. The Richmond County Board of Education brings Take Five…SOA Live! to the Arts Infusion programs at Warren Road and Garrett Elementary Schools and to four other selected schools. The Emily S. Baumann Education Endowment Fund makes possible performances in every McDuffie County Elementary School this year!
In addition to the above sponsors, all Symphony education & cultural engagement programs are made possible by the Charles W. and Patricia Moye Education Endowment Fund, The Creel-Harison Foundation, John Deere, The Knox Foundation, Macy’s Foundation, the Cleon W. Mauldin Foundation, the Patricia S. McGee Foundation, the Arthur H. and Ernest B. Merry Foundation, and the Wachovia Foundation.
The complete schedule for Aiken, Richmond, and McDuffie Counties follows:
| Date | 9:15-10:30 a.m. | 12:30-1:45 p.m. |
| Wednesday, February 24 | Warrenville Elementary | |
| Thursday, February 25 | Hammond Hills | Oakwood-Windsor Elem. |
| Friday, February 26 | T. Harry Garrett Elementary | Warren Road Elementary |
| Thursday, March 4 | East Aiken Elementary (9:00) | Belvedere Elementary |
| Thursday, March 18 | Wilkinson Gardens Elem. | |
| Tuesday, March 30 | Jefferson Elementary | Redcliffe Elementary |
| Wednesday, March 31 | Greendale Elementary | Millbrook Elementary |
| Thursday, April 1 | Norris Elementary | Dearing Elementary (1:00) |
| Friday, April 2 | Thomson Elementary | |
| Wednesday, April 21 | Chukker Creek (9:00) | |
| Thursday, April 22 | Allelulia Community School | |
| Friday, April 23 | Mossy Creek Elementary | |
| Wednesday, April 28 | Ridge Spring-Monetta | Monte Sano (1:30-2:45) |
| Thursday, April 29 | Busbee Elementary | Gloverville Elementary |
| Friday, April 30 | Aiken Elementary | Byrd Elementary |
| Tuesday, May 4 | J.D. Lever Elementary | |
| Wednesday, May 5 | Clearwater Elementary | Barton Chapel Elementary |
| Thursday, May 6 | A. Brian Merry Elementary | |
| Friday, May 7 | Maxwell Elementary |
Program
Paul Desmond: Take Five
Franz Joseph Haydn: Divertimento No. 1 – Finale (String Trio)
Saint-Saëns: “Swan” from Carnival of the Animals
Johann Sebastian Bach: Crab Canon
Paganini: Caprice No. 24 Theme
Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on the Theme of Paganini Variation 18
Bizet: “Les Toreadors” from Carmen
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