Posts Tagged "education"

2013 Mobile Symphony Chamberfest Performances

MOBILE, AL – The Mobile Symphony will hold its annual Chamberfest Performances at the Larkins Music Center on May 31 and June 2. Chamberfest is an intensive 4-day chamber music workshop for string players and pianists of all ages in the Mobile Bay area, and includes more than six hours of coaching by Mobile Symphony’s…

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MSO and Mobile Public Library’s Lecture@Noon announces upcoming programs

MOBILE, AL – The Mobile Symphony and the Mobile Public Library Lecture@Noon series continues with a Wednesday, Jan. 16 lecture at noon with Rob Seebacher, conductor of the Mobile Symphony Youth Orchestra, University of South Alabama Symphony Orchestra, and the Johnson City Symphony Orchestra, discussing Impressionism in Music at the Ben May Main Library.  …

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MSO Education Programs in full swing

The fall of 2012 has been one of the busiest on record for the MSO, and the Education Programs are no exception! Our Preludes general music classes for 1st-2nd graders, and the Strings Classes, which teach 3rd-8th graders violin, viola and cello basics, are touching more students than ever before. This year 2,300 students are…

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MSO receives Hearst Foundation grant for music education

Joining ranks with the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Monterey Jazz Festival and the National Gallery of Art, the Mobile Symphony received a $40,000 grant from The Hearst Foundation to support and expand the MSO’s music education programs. Gregg Gustafson, chief executive officer with the Mobile Symphony said the award from a national…

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