Green Anthem Competitions and Green Anthem Concerts
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Green Anthem Competitions
The judges for the competitions include:
Jan Farrar Royce, Lecturer Yale Teacher Training Program
Dorothy Straub, Director Eastern String Educator's Workshop at Villanova and former President, MENC
Tim Sharp, American Choral Directors Association Executive Director
Julie Lyonn Lieberman, eclectic styles violinist/vocalist, performer, composer, educator, and author
Lyric-Writing with Melodic Variation Competition
MENC: THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC EDUCATION will run the Lyric-Writing (deadline February 15th) competition. Use the Green Anthem Teacher's Manual and follow the guidelines from the lesson plans and student handouts. You can join MENC to participate.
Green Anthem Concerts
We would like to list your Green Anthem concert date and any descriptive copy you'd like to submit. Please email or fax it to: 203-413-2932
Thanks!
| March 20th, 2009 | The Duluth, GA High School Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Dr. Peter Lemonds premiered the advanced string orchestra version of The Green Anthem at the American String Teachers Association's National Conference in Atlanta March 19th, 2009. Here is a recording of their live performance:
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| Fall, 2009 | The choral, concert band, and string orchestra versions of The Green Anthem were tested at Newtown High School, in Newtown, CT under the direction of John Harned (chorus), Kurt Eckhardt (concert band) and Michelle Hiscavich (string orchestra). Their help enabled Julie Lyonn Lieberman to adjust the scores and to video/record the Newtown chorus during a rehearsal.
Choral Version Levels 3 -6 (slower version) at an open rehearsal at Newtown High School, CT under the direction of John Harned. Chorus includes: John Harned (Director) with Hannah Deflumer; Bianca Crudo; Andrew Nichols; Katie Cummings; Kristin Daines; Sonia Brand-Fisher; Kevin Walsh; Mary Kate Hubbard; Alex Hennessey; Daniel Berlingeri; Lauren Sippin; |
| August, 2009 | Here's Julie in San Antonio, TX, presenting The Green Anthem to music educators at the Texas Orchestra Directors Convention and the Texas Choral Directors Convention:
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| October 3, 2009 | The Green Anthem was performed in Princeton, NJ at the GroWW Environmental Fair.
News Story published by West Windsor & Plainsboro News: Sounding an Anthem South students Sarah Yu and Jennifer Sharma are organizing a performance of a "green national anthem" during the second annual Greening of West Windsor fair on Saturday, October 3, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the West Windsor Community Farmers' Market.
Except Reprinted from the September 25, 2009, issue of the WW-P News Sounding an Anthem For the Environment by Cara Latham Patriotism usually comes hand-in-hand with volunteering and service to the country, but two WW-P student volunteers are taking patriotism to a different level in conjunction with the second-annual Greening of West Windsor (GroWW) environmental fair on Saturday, October 3, at the West Windsor Community Farmers’ Market.South senior Jennifer Sharma and junior Sarah Yu are helping to organize student musicians for a performance of the Green National Anthem, an environmental piece written by Julie Lyonn Lieberman, cousin of GroWW chairwoman Heidi Kleinman. But that has not been the only aspect of the fair in which the two have been involved. From volunteering at the West Windsor Farmers’ Market throughout the summer, in order to promote the fair, to performing an energy audit on High School South, and even planning a future Garden Tour, the girls have been involved in a variety of ways to help the GroWW event grow into an even larger community event. As part of the Planning Committee for the GroWW event, Sharma was given the task, along with a student at North, of organizing the music to be provided at the fair. She and Yu, however, have worked on getting string players from South and choral groups from the middle school level and from North. The girls also looked for garage bands, similar to a group that played last year and wrote its own environmental music. This is how both girls got involved with the green national anthem. Naturally, the girls, both of whom play violin in South’s orchestra, decided to perform the piece. “It’s the musician in us,” says Sharma. Lieberman wrote the lyrics and the scores for the anthem, which is available for orchestra or chorus — or both. “We’ve already gotten string players and a cappella group members” to agree to participate in performing the piece, Sharma said. In addition, the girls say that Louise Haemmerle, the choir director at Grover Middle School, too, will have the choir perform the green national anthem. |
