 Bringing a composition to our students and giving them this opportunity And we also have you know an incredible composition program in Vermont called music com where Eric's a senior mentor And we have a lot of students who have participated in that Jamie's a bunch of career piece with the Vermont Philharmonic Callum just permitted peace with the Vermont Symphony that have given these then these amazing opportunities that I High schoolers don't normally get this is so unique such a cool program So Eric, I'm going to ask Eric to come up and tell you guys a little bit about the process and how we approach this Approach this session Thanks, Ali Every year is a little bit different when we're working, but the process in a lot of ways is the same I come in to each class five times during the period of two months or so and In between the students get to work on a piece There really aren't any boundaries except For the instrumentation for the middle schoolers. They're writing for high school students to play And so that's stream players and then each year with high school We're working with a different combination of instruments. So we have quite a variety this year as you'll see But in terms of the kids inspiration It's it's really interesting to watch because some kids just start right off and have an idea and they run with it And for other kids, it's a it's a slower process My job is to Listen to what they're doing to talk to them about it to hear to try and get inside the piece of music That's my job is to try and get inside what it is so that I can understand And this may sound funny, but it's the way I think of teaching composition I'm trying to hear where the piece wants to go where it needs to go And then I try and convey that to the student. It's not where I want it to go it's the piece talks to me and As somebody who's been composing for a long time. I've learned to trust that and The thing that is wonderful about this is that this is a potentially life-changing experience Because with the creative arts These students are learning something that can't get anywhere else They can point to a piece of music that they wrote and they can say this came from me No one else created this And if they realize that That's a tremendous amount of empowerment that they can take with them everywhere No matter whether they write more music in their lives or not. And so it's very humbling for me Because I didn't really start composing until I was 20. So even the fifth graders here ahead of me And so it's it's just wonderful to watch. It's wonderful to be part of and It's all your parents out there Thank you for sharing your children with us and please encourage them to keep creating So we'll go ahead and get started So there is a little bit of transition time for those of you who have not been to a composition concert before We have different groups of Instruments that will come up and play each piece So the middle school students were able to compose their piece for any combination of violin viola bass and cello and flute because that is my main instrument and So you'll see all these different combinations duets trios quartets and more tonight So I'm gonna invite our first composer up Charlotte Goodwin who is gonna introduce her piece And one thing I don't remember if I told everybody I might have told the high schoolers But at the end of our piece or the end of your piece when the audience claps Will you stand so the audience can clap for you composer? So everybody stands at the end of your piece and we're gonna maybe you can give us a little light so we can see those composers That okay can't do that. Oh Never mind. Just clap for the composer give them away composers. All right. Take it away friends ensemble is Our next piece is called the subtle monkey by Harry Evans. Come on up Harry It's called the subtle monkey base and cello. So, yeah, I hope you enjoy it Every kid in middle school orchestra composes a piece and then because there's so many awesome kids Eric and I have to make the tough decision to choose a couple of pieces that are completed and And we help them finesse those pieces in the end then they come here this evening Our next we're gonna move on to sixth grade now So I'm gonna ask Satya to come up and introduce her piece Help us every day or over the past couple of weeks Eric's granddaughter is a composer Eden and so Eden's piece was chosen as well this year and I'd like to invite Eden to come up and introduce her piece It's called fantasy and it's written for flute cello and bass. Hope you like it we get to do all the time and It's giving us a cool opportunity to practice being in a small ensemble together too and having a more soloistic role A bro would you like to come up and introduce you please? Hopscotch have to give it a little pause and it's Written for bass cello and The Villain has arrived. Okay, our next composer is really really come on introduce your piece This is called intense socks called spring day, and it's for violence Thank you for your flexibility search it. Sorry about them Our next piece is me by Mika Jacobson Mika. Come on Untitled title We're at this piece with the help of mr. Nielsen and Miss Tar water It's a do-it-between viola and violin. I play the violin. Hope you guys enjoy Dostie come on Charlie All right, our last piece before our quick intermission. Well is by Atticus Atticus come on up a more big hand for all our help. We're going to take about as 17-minute intermission, so go get some water We're going to turn on those lights for us if you can and We'll be back in just a moment with our high school compositions. Thank you Shout out to Reagan Bridgman. Thank you Reagan for being here. We're so grateful for a sound of life for us Thank you Orca media for being here for live streaming events. We can watch it later, too Thank you, and thank you Callum for being our sound guy today Now I'm testing out a really really nice microphone So we got some nice sound happening and some great lighting and this beautiful space so lucky so lucky Okay, so we're gonna go. I just told the high schoolers be on deck. We're gonna move through these So be ready before your piece. I probably won't say Your name before you come up So just come on up after the musicians have cleared that makes sense But I will introduce our first person who is Simon Reeves who is a new student to band this year and We're so glad you have joined this time I'm Lucia and my piece is called hopefuls first journey when I wrote it all my friends told me sound like a sea shanty So I asked chat to be tea what that would look like and Here it is our next piece is written by a freshman trumpet player named one Walker, and she says hello My name is mod Walker, and I want this piece birds. It's a trio featuring the French horn clarinet and flute I chose this title because the flute part reminds me of birds in spring. I hope you enjoy it for The violin clarinet and bass in my piece is tight all them. It's a bit of a long one Shander please win. Just go get the wind rope will plenty see you go go go I First of all just want to say iPads for all Joanna here is playing as playing off our iPads And I'm like can we just get a bunch of the school for all these musicians to be pretty sick While we are getting ready for this piece I'm gonna do a quick introduction up my wonderful friends here who are playing music So this is Joanna Alpazar Michael And we've got Taylor Goodwin Julia Bowdoin Aaron Eberhardt and Jeremy Tarrwater Our dear friend Jackson Is in Austria skiing? Oh poor Jackson. So I have a note from Jackson Okay, so Jackson's piece is called Jackson doesn't know the measure We have a tally on our board in the orchestra room of how many times Jackson goes wait what? Because he never doesn't measure on We love him dearly. So Jackson says hi everyone My name is Jackson and my piece is named Jackson doesn't know the measure because of my definitely very good ability to listen in class For what measure we're on this is a short duet for violin and cello Dria skiing and Jacob is in Hawaii look from Jacob for his piece tastes like a bagel without the bagel Hello, my name is Jacob Coffin ill strip and I wrote the piece tastes like a bagel without the bagel I started by just randomly putting notes down and writing a bunch of random phrases Eventually I started to string together all those phrases into what is now tastes like a bagel without the bagel I had no idea what to name this piece So I asked my classmate Indy Roberts shout out and she came up with a name tastes like a bagel without the bagel I don't know what caused her to conjure this name, but I liked it. So it's not enjoy Yeah, I don't know so enjoy Originally this piece was called a Stroll at night, but this duet weeping heavens is for clarinet and cello I originally named the piece a Stroll at night, but the name didn't match the flow of the song But when I came across the name moving heavens, I believe that the name match the piece. So here she is French fries I called it that because French fries and the French horn are both two things that we call French Hope you enjoy CC's duet see for cello see for clarinet. Hope you enjoy this Continuation is funny. It's kind of I've been told sounds like the way my older brother Callum Rubenshake makes his pieces But that was non-tended anyway This piece when I wrote it in the past my pieces have been a like kind of a little weird I don't know why but this one I kind of tried to make a little less weird So it's supposed to kind of be like simple and calming with my goal So anyway, I really thanks to these great musicians Crocs theme my pieces called crocs with socks. Hope you enjoy The performance I would like to introduce my piece that I wrote this year if you were here last year for chance Which I must inform you that this is not another song along the lines March of the Beans No, I tried to give it an actual theme this time. I think it turned out well even if I did have the trouble to name and it took me a while and but I found one that fits and once you hear the piece. I think I'll understand what I was thinking about further ado Here's echoes and I Was coming I was writing the piece coming off of the back of this huge project for the BSO Which took me a few months to write and I was like creatively completely like I had nothing And so I decided to just try and draw inspiration from Somewhere that I like would never think to and what I ended up doing was taking a big band chart from the 40s that I'm playing with a big band and Taking some voicings of jazz chords and sort of building up of that If you'll endure one more Barowski for not being afraid to pull apart. Thank you Carter Oh, hey, well done everybody. I'm so proud of you guys. This was such a great experience for me I hope you enjoyed it too. Thank you so much Eric for teaching me a lot about Composing and how to start these kids when they're so young doing something that is really really beautiful and I am so excited to keep doing it Thank you so much composers and I will see you all next year Oh, I'll see you guys check your calendars in the program. There's some future events coming up. Oh, sorry one more thing Tiny two things. Sorry liar First thing is that in March March 17th Jamie Maddox White is premiering a piece of the Vermont Philharmonic, which all of us accept Michael and Erin playing so we'll be there Playing Jamie's piece hooray So come out and see that if you can and Eric is also premiering a piece with premier It's a piece that's a it's a piece that he's had premiered before In our honor April concert, which I can't 28th. I think 27th and 28th So if you're interested in hearing some new music by living composers that are in our community Please come out and check that out Happy February break everybody. Have an amazing amazing break and I'll see you guys next time. Thank you