Harp4all Newsletter

15 June 2014

Volume 2014, Number 1

In This Issue

• Mission Statement

• Piano Guild

• Youth Orchestra

• 501 (c) (3)

• Fundraiser

• Donations

• Tuition Change

• Recital

Contact Us

http://www.harp4all.org

music@harp4all.org

Mission Statement

 

The mission of Harp4All Music Conservatory is to provide music education to low and moderate income families in the Los Angeles, California area through organizing lessons, public student recitals, and an elementary youth orchestra and choir.

 

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Music Lessons

 

The program provides one-on-one music instrument lessons.  We teach the fundamentals of music for counting, reading, and critical thinking.  This process develops fine motor skills, builds self-esteem, increases memory for learning, and encourages mathematics.  Music math prepares students for advanced mathematics and physics.  Music is also a language and improves English Language Arts skills, encourages perseverance and creativity, as well as broadens learning attention span.  This music instruction does have homework and is supplemental to math, sciences, and humanities applied comprehension.  Proper music education is founded on the principle of learning and expanding the thinking process.

Our students are encouraged to participate in volunteer student recitals and the American College of Musician’s Piano Guild International Auditions for awards and graded on improvement on piano skills.  

The purpose of this program is to teach classical music, traditional music, and jazz to low and moderate income families who could not otherwise afford it.

 

Program Administrator: Harp4All Music Conservatory Officers, Board of Directors and Volunteers

Implementation Date: This program is currently in progress and began in 2013. The organization spends 45% percent of the time ensuring the successful outcome of this program and planned activities. This program will be funded with donations from individuals and local businesses.

 

Harp4all Music Conservatory has less than 70 music students. However these numbers will go up with the addition of the youth orchestra and choir.

Piano Guild

Piano Guild students of Sara Chasse and Frederick Phillips received satisfactory marks. Maestro Fred Phillips received The National Honor Roll for music teachers from the Piano Guild. Congrats to all Piano Guild students of Harp4all! Most of the students were eligible to earn the Founders Plaque. Founders Plaque recipients, Sarah Danielle Lopez, Abigail Lomibao, Kenny Ricks, Trinity and Donnie Parish, Kate T. Also the judge informed us that a minimum of 3 songs would need to be performed for future Auditions.

 

National Children's Orchestra of Great Britain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This image is of the National Children’s Orchestra of Great Britain. <http://www.classicfm.com/artists/national-childrens-orchestra-great-britain/news/national-childrens-orchestra-interview/>

 

 

Elementary Youth Orchestra and Choir

 

 

Harp4all Music Conservatory, Inc. will be starting a youth orchestra and choir in the very near future. Our youth orchestra and choir will be structured for beginning elementary level music students. We will start at the beginning with strings (violins, violas, cellos, and basses) and then shortly adding winds (winds consists of woodwinds e.g. flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons as well as brass e.g. trumpets, trombones, and tuba) and concert percussion (e.g. timpani (aka kettle drums), cymbals, snare and bass drums). We will be looking for children interested in learning and playing with other children as an orchestra and choir.

This program will consist of an elementary orchestra and choir.  It will be built upon students with an elementary level of music skill.  This orchestra and choir will focus on teaching the beginning of music fundamentals.  The goal is to build teamwork and encourage community spirit.

The purpose of this program is to enlighten communities through music and education.  It will also strive to strengthen individualism, self-esteem, critical thinking, and community involvement to create better leaders of tomorrow.

 

Program Administrator: Harp4All Music Conservatory Officers, Board of Directors and Volunteers

Implementation Date: This program is in development stages and is planned to begin in 2014. The organization spends 10% percent of the time ensuring the successful outcome of this program and planned activities. This program will be funded with donations from individuals and local businesses.

 

 

Harp4all Music Conservatory, Inc. is now completely 501 ( C ) ( 3 )

 

It has taken a lot of work and sacrifice to make Harp4all a federally recognized non-profit organization. Our rates have always been extremely low for providing professional one-on-one private music and music theory lessons. Both Sara and Frederick are experienced professional musicians. On top of that they were both musicians as children. Sara started piano lessons at three years old. From there she learned to play the concert pedal harp (student of Susann ), flute, guitar, violin, trumpet, and clarinet. Sara had served as a youth orchestra musician for various symphony orchestra on the Eastern Seaboard and Mid-West of the United States. She has performed with some of the most influential and renown musicians of the world.  I (Frederick) became a music lover after a restoration of a hearing impairment I suffered from birth. I was six years old when I first heard music and I wanted to learn music. I started teaching myself the piano. I loved learning the piano and playing the piano. Though I could not read music, I strongly desired to learn everything about music. The 1970’s was perhaps one of the best times to be raised in. On the AM and FM bands of the radio one would hear music from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, New York Philharmonic, and etc. As well as pop, folk, jazz, rock, country, Blue Grass musicians like John Lennon, John Denver, Miles Davis, Bread, America, Chicago, The Mamas and Papas, Fleetwood Mac, The Stanley Brothers and many more. I lived every moment I could listening to music. I also learned to play the violin, cornet & trumpet, various percussion instruments, trombone, and various singing styles and methods in various choirs.

 

Fundraiser & Donations

 

We have had one ½ size violin donated thus far from the Ricks Family, but we need your help with raising funds for more music instruments and to rent a community center or concert hall. We have received assistance from See’s Candies before when we were raising money for the handbells. Now that Harp4all Music Conservatory, Inc is 501 (c) (3), any donations to Harp4all will be tax deductible. We believe this should make it more of a reward incentive for those that need tax deductions and for us to begin and maintain the Youth Orchestra. What strings will a beginning orchestra need? The answer is a minimum of 4 violins, but 8 is my goal. For violas a minimum of 2, but 3 is my wish. Cellos have a very important sound, the tenor and baritone of the strings. A minimum of 3 cellos, but more the better. For the lowest string, the bass and I think 2 is a good minimum, but 4 bass strings create a sweet foundation for any orchestra. We need funds also for rental space for a practice hall and orchestra sheet music.

 

How much money will we need to raise? The money needed just for string musical instruments: $23,000 -$36,000.

Violins

Andreas Eastman Model 200 Stradivari Violin (Beginner level violin)

$ 575.00    <http://www.liviolinshop.com/collections/violins/products/andreas-eastman-model-200-stradivari-violin>

Andreas Eastman Model 305 Stradivari Violin (intermediate level violin)

$ 996.00

Any professional violin can range from $1,500 – $20,000 + depending on the violin maker and the bow wood.

Wilfer V-72 Violin

$ 4,250.00     <http://www.liviolinshop.com/collections/violins/products/wilfer-v-72-violin>

Violas

Geoffrey Chi Classic Model Viola

$500.00     <http://www.liviolinshop.com/collections/violas/products/geoffrey-chi-classic-model-viola>

Friedrich Wyss Model 703 Guarneri Viola

$ 3,474.00 <http://www.liviolinshop.com/collections/violas/products/friedrich-wyss-model-703-guarneri-viola>

Cellos

Geoffrey Chi Classic Model Cello

$ 1,775.00    <http://www.liviolinshop.com/collections/cellos/products/geoffrey-chi-classic-model-cello>

Friedrich Wyss Model 703 Stradivari Cello

$ 6,052.00   <http://www.liviolinshop.com/collections/cellos/products/friedrich-wyss-model-703-stradivari-cello>

Bass Strings

Andreas Eastman Model 200 Carved Bass, Gamba Corners

$ 3,750.00    <http://www.liviolinshop.com/collections/basses/products/andreas-eastman-model-200-carved-bass-gamba-corners>

Andreas Eastman Model 305 Carved Bass, Violin Corners

$ 4,420.00     <http://www.liviolinshop.com/collections/basses/products/andreas-eastman-model-305-carved-bass-violin-corners>

 

Tuition Change

 

Harp4all Music Conservatory, Inc. requires that tuition is now received by the 1st of each month, and no later than the 5th of the month. Tuition received after the 5th will be subject to a $20.00 late charge and any discounts will be forfeited. To ensure that your tuition payment is received by the 1st, please submit payment ahead of time. Or hand deliver the last week of the month before tuition is due and post date for the 1st. We can now accept all major credit cards, but must charge a $3.50 fee for this service. $120 per month for one half hour music lesson per student per week for four weeks per month. Piano Guild students of Harp4all need a minimum of 45 minute lessons per week.   Please inquire for rate.

 

Recital

20th December 2014 at 2:00 – 4:00pm will be the Christmas Recital for our Retired Veterans at Air Force Village West. This year only music students that are completely prepared to perform will be permitted to perform. Students that do not practice are clearly recognized by both music teachers, Sara Chasse and Fred Phillips.

 

 

 

If there is any questions or if you notice something that is questionable or a mistake; please notify me.

 

 

Harp4all Newsletter

Fred Phillips

maestro@harp4all.org

(951)403-4538