Week 9

My favorite part of the week was going to another meeting with Julia. This meeting was with 2 ladies from the Ohio Department of Education. Julia and I met with them to present a general educational strategic plan and talk about the outreach program's planned for this coming season. We were just trying to bounce ideas off of each other as we looked for ways to reach out to a broader range of audiences, specifically students. After the meeting I came back to the office and helped Julia with filing in her office because the internet service provider wasn't operating properly. I also created a registration form for another one of ProMusica's education programs-Musicians in the Schools. ProMusica will send a musician to any Columbus school up to four times during the school year. The musicians will lead sectionals or host master classes, or whatever the school teacher would find most helpful. This is a great way of introducing professional musicians into the classroom. In the past, Julia handled all these bookings through emails and phone calls. I created a form that can be put on ProMusica's website so teachers may go there and request to have a musician come to their school.



This week Julia asked for my help in selecting repertoire for one of the Stop! Look! Listen! programs in the fall. For this particular event, a string quartet will be performing at the Columbus Museum of Art (they also partner with Franklin Park Conservatory, Columbus Zoo, and most recently Columbus Metropolitan Libraries to give performances at these exciting venues). The idea is that families with elementary aged children Stop at the museum, Look at the featured exhibition (in this instance, the magnificent blown glass by Dale Chihuly), and Listen to ProMusica musicians perform. Julia showed me an article about Dale Chihuly. It states that he gained much of his inspiration for the sea and its forms, how it moves, and creatures in the sea. So we are looking for string quartet repertoire that can be tied to those types of themes. We are looking for quartet arrangements of sea shanties, etc. Debussy's La Mer and Ravel's string quartet in F major have also been thrown into the mix of suggestions. There is a substantial amount of repertoire to consider, and it's exciting to be a part of the selection process.



On Friday I went to Staples and picked up an office supply order for Juli! I also began to design a student subscription poster. I asked Ashley (Event and Communications Manager) for jpeg files to be placed on the poster and went from there. Students may purchase 6 tickets (a year's subscription) for $25. Students need posters that they can hopefully hang up in their schools and surrounding communities to promote this great deal!


Earlier in the week I observed Julia plan out the entire Education calendar for the upcoming season. She nailed down every possible date (dates to send out reminder emails about events, dates to get programs off to the printer, dates to update and prepare mailing lists, etc) that is possible to determine at this point in the summer. After doing this for four years, Julia was very aware of when to place every last detail on the calendar. I also updated the Student Advisory Board handbooks that will be passed out at the first meeting in September. I typed up a rough season schedule for the SAB, updated their application for membership form, and member contact information form.