Dear members of
Rubinstein Music Club in St. Louis,
I hope this mail find you well preparing to enter
the annual holiday season through the activities of the Rubinstein Music Club
in St. Louis. Because I could not find your email I am sending this letter and
the related form to you through USPS, assuming you were not at the club meeting
yesterday.
Entering the annual holiday season and preparing
for our December gathering with a theme of “Celebrate the Holidays”, as my
wife, Tina, and I venturing the first experience of playing the role of the
program chair for the gathering on December 21 at Jeannette’s home, I think we
have a chance to try something new and mark the 2017 memorable, successful or
not.
Because some members can not be reached by email
I try to use a printed letter to gather programming ideas. Those absent
yesterday will receive this letter through USPS or receive this form as an
attachment to a reminding email, afterward.
I found three major areas for enriching our
gatherings through programming: 1) variations of styles or content in performance;
2) collect music pieces or idea of performance to inspire the potential performers;
3) collect topics, questions, or sujbects to inspire new “product” of
activities in a gathering of our music club.
The holiday celebration might be so easy a theme
that planned performances exceed our capacity of one hour. It might also be so
common a theme that fail to attract the potential performers to spend time
during the busiest season of a year.
Just in case we could not have enough performance
to fill the time we could start thinking about other “products” or forms of
music activities. I imagine that new products or forms of music activities
might enrich us at other levels of musical life, especially to those who have
been watching-only. I believe that there would be some ways to increase
participation in music-making, advance the enjoyment, and enrich lives through
music.
Think about what you could contribute as a
performers or simply participate in developing the programming of our holiday
celebration by filling out the following form and then mail the form to me (groh.hisam@gmail.com ) or call me at
314-888-5258. Being a tool for a “club” activity, this form is a media for
faciliating interactions rather than a tool for efficiency. Questions /
suggestions are welcome. Feel free to revise the
form any way you need.
You don’t have to use this form as long as you
are willing to share your thoughts or the performance plans that include the
title of music, the performers, and the instruments involved, along with
special notes of consideration, such as the length of performances, time
constraint, special introduction or equipment, etc.
Actually, we have been hearing small talks before
or after performances by the performers. In reality, talking around the music
involved is a common practice nowadays, on or off the stages, and becoming an
interesting, attracting, and significant part of music performances. This
implies that those without skills of music-making can contribute or enrich the
music appreciation through talking, like introducing a performance. This is
something a music club can develop to help fulfilling the mission of the club.
The otherside of this letter is a chorus version
of the Missouri Federation song we sing in every meeting.
Tony Su (11/17/2017
12:18)
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