Last Day

Yesterday was my last day as an intern at ProMusica. Julia and the staff took me out for lunch, and it was a fun time! After lunch Julia and I met with Dayna from the Columbus Museum of Art to coordinate the Stop! Look! Listen! events (ProMusica performances at the CMA) that will take place in the fall and spring. We talked about the theme of the performances, what times the performance space would be available for rehearsal, and discussed a brief schedule for the musicians. Julia and I then went to Starbucks to meet up with Julia Castor (turns out we were all involved with the Columbus Symphony Youth Orchestras when I was back in high school). Julia C. just got a teaching job at New Albany High School so we met with her to talk about all the educational outreach opportunities ProMusica offers. It was really nice to catch up and talk about school and what has going on in our lives for the past few years. One major thing I have learned while interning at ProMusica is that it's very important to keep in contact with colleagues and maintain personal connections! I look forward to maintaining contacts with the ProMusica staff and furthering my professional networking connections!

Week 10

I'm wrapping up my final two weeks of interning! I'm going to miss talking to the staff here; they're so much fun! Hopefully I can come back and say Helloo soon!

Last week I continued to wrap up a few minor projects I've been working on. I know I had a nice chat with Julia about organization structure among other things...we continued to do some filing. I spent quite some time looking through Julia's arts advocacy articles and documents about the advantages of art/music in education-HOORAY:)

I continued to tweak the concert program for the October Stop! Look! Listen! event. So far I've found some sea songs/shanties arranged for string quartet, some programmatic works by Debussy and Ravel, and an arrangement of Under the Sea for string quartet. Putting a program together has been a fun challenge and it pushes me to stay up to date on repertoire outside of the two instruments I play.

Julia is beginning to meet with teachers (some first year music teachers!) this week about ProMusica Education events/opportunities for the upcoming school year, so I got to assemble the folders of information that she gives them. I had already updated several of these documents, so assembling them into folders wasn't too much of a task; I just had to duke it out with the printer a couple times. Ha ha.

Julia informed me of an arts advocacy website: www.dana.org

On this site are many articles about the DANA organization and how it advocates arts and science. Very informative stuff!!

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.

Week 8

Short week this week because of the holiday! HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY :)

On Monday, I worked on editing text for the education/outreach tab on ProMusica's website. The dates and event descriptions need updated for the 2009-2010 season. After all of the revisions are set, we will work on pasting them into the actual website.

I also attended an ACE meeting with Julia in the afternoon -- all about social media and networking. Here we briefly presented the results of the survey I put together, and different arts organizations talked about how they use the various networking tools available. Before the meeting I printed out materials to be handed out, such as the conversation prism (www.theconversationprism.com) on 11x17 paper -- I may have finally figured out how to use the copier/printer!!

On Wednesday, I continued to work on editing the website text. I also started to look into creating RSS feed (really simple syndication, or rich site summary) for podcasting with Julia. We are still trying to figure this out!

The office was out of copy paper, so Joe and I ventured to Staples to buy some until he places the big office supply order on Monday (today). We also exchanged ink cartridges from the printers.