The award-winning Voices Within is an artist residency program for fifth grade students who learn to use their imagination to compose words and melodies to create and perform their own original songs. The program curriculum fully integrates Common Core State Standards and uses immersive strategies to deeply engage the students. Three Voices Within teaching artists (a composer, a lyricist, and a performer), work with students, combining elements of music composition, writing, improvisational games, and collaboration techniques throughout a 10-week residency.
Working in close partnership with teachers and administrators at participating schools, the Voices Within teaching artists foster a safe, supportive environment for the students and mentor them to boost 21st Century Skills such as critical thinking, creative problem solving, and communication. The Voices Within program motivates students to stay in school and have fun while learning.
Voices Within is an educational artist residency program developed for the Los Angeles Master Chorale by Marnie Mosiman, in collaboration with Bernardo Solano, Penka Kouneva, David O, and Doug Cooney.
THE FUTURE OF VOICES WITHIN
Voices Within has been met with significant challenges as a result of COVID-19 and remote learning. L.A. schools struggle to provide computer equipment and digital support for elementary students. Technology constraints prohibit elementary students from working collaboratively (a necessary ingredient for the Voices Within program). Thus, the Master Chorale will pilot a new Voices Within program called Music Maker at Home.
Delivered online by Master Chorale singers, this new, lighthearted program will feature a series of short videos. Each video lesson will teach an activity and present brief information about a component of music making. Each lesson will conclude with a fun assignment or knowledge-building challenge that a child can explore on his/her own or with a family member.
Music Maker at Home, a Voices Within program, will be piloted at Huntington Park Elementary School starting in November. Plans include making the series available more broadly in spring 2021.
Voices Within
Fall 2019
Betty Plasencia Elementary School
Friday, December 13, 2019 at 9:30am
1321 Cortez St. Los Angeles, 90026
Compton Avenue Elementary School
Tuesday, December 17, 2019 at 9:30am
1515 E. 104th Street, Los Angeles, 90002
SPONSORS
American Business Bank
John and Beverly Stauffer
Foundation
Lon V. Smith
Foundation
Sidney Stern
Memorial Trust
Rose Hills Foundation
Thelma Pearl Howard
Foundation
Walter J. and Holly O. Thomson
Foundation
William H. Hannon
Foundation
About the Program
The award-winning Voices Within is an artist residency program for fifth grade students who learn to use their imagination to compose words and melodies to create and perform their own original songs. The program curriculum fully integrates Common Core State Standards and uses immersive strategies to deeply engage the students. Three Voices Within teaching artists (a composer, a lyricist, and a performer), work with students, combining elements of music composition, writing, improvisational games, and collaboration techniques throughout a 10-week residency.
Working in close partnership with teachers and administrators at participating schools, the Voices Within teaching artists foster a safe, supportive environment for the students and mentor them to boost 21st Century Skills such as critical thinking, creative problem solving, and communication. The Voices Within program motivates students to stay in school and have fun while learning.
Voices Within is an educational artist residency program developed for the Los Angeles Master Chorale by Marnie Mosiman, in collaboration with Bernardo Solano, Penka Kouneva, David O, and Doug Cooney.
THE FUTURE OF VOICES WITHIN
Voices Within has been met with significant challenges as a result of COVID-19 and remote learning. L.A. schools struggle to provide computer equipment and digital support for elementary students. Technology constraints prohibit elementary students from working collaboratively (a necessary ingredient for the Voices Within program). Thus, the Master Chorale will pilot a new Voices Within program called Music Maker at Home.
Delivered online by Master Chorale singers, this new, lighthearted program will feature a series of short videos. Each video lesson will teach an activity and present brief information about a component of music making. Each lesson will conclude with a fun assignment or knowledge-building challenge that a child can explore on his/her own or with a family member.
Music Maker at Home, a Voices Within program, will be piloted at Huntington Park Elementary School starting in November. Plans include making the series available more broadly in spring 2021.
Voices Within Fall 2019
Betty Plasencia Elementary School
Friday, December 13, 2019 at 9:30am
1321 Cortez St. Los Angeles, 90026
Compton Avenue Elementary School
Tuesday, December 17, 2019 at 9:30am
