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6th Term: 2008
| oct 25 |
audition day |
| nov 1 |
session 1 |
| nov 8 |
session 2 |
| nov 15 |
session 3 |
| nov 22 |
session 4 |
| nov 29 |
Thanksgiving Break |
| dec 6 |
session 5 |
| dec 13 |
session 6 (Dress Rehearsal) |
| dec 20 |
Concert
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Listening Heart
coming soon...
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5th term: 2007
| oct 13 |
audition day |
| oct 20 |
session 1 |
| oct 27 |
session 2 |
| nov 3 |
session 3 |
| nov 10 |
session 4 |
| nov 17 |
session 5 |
| nov 24 |
session 6 |
| dec 1 |
session 7 Master Class |
| dec 8 |
session 8 Ensemble competition
(dress rehearsal) |
| dec 15 |
concerts
2pm Family Concert PCNJ
4:30pm Outreach Concert (Hudsonview Health Care Center, NJ) |
| dec 16 |
Benefit concert 7pm Joy Christian
Fellowship (Tenafly, NJ) |
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Understanding Heart
This
year our main theme is understanding heart. Our goal is by the end of
the term, students gain insights into having a deeper understanding. To
help every student achieve this goal we have many different activities
organized and planned.
In this season for example, one of the exercises was to
challenge each student to reach a new "understanding" with his or her
parents. Each student was to do his or her homework before their
parents would remind them to do it. Each student was also to practice
his or her instrument before their parents would remind them.
Meanwhile, AME staff informed each parent of the exercise and
encouraged the parents to relax and observe for any changes in their
child's studying and practicing habits. After a week, in each case
every student was able to reach an understanding with their parents and
earn their trust with studying and practicing responsibilities.
One example of a musical exercise was in coaching members
of a string quartet how to yield the 'solo' to any player regardless of
how the music was written. A musical passage would be repeatedly
played, once with the cello as the focus, the next with the 2nd violin
as the focus and so on. At the conclusion, each player was able to
better appreciate and un derstand the subtleties of the other player's
instrument, and more importantly, how to listen to one another during
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4th term: 2006
| oct 21 |
audition |
| oct 28 |
session 1 |
| nov 4 |
session 2 |
| nov 11 |
session 3 |
| nov 18 |
session 4 |
| nov 25 |
session 5 Master Class |
| dec 2 |
session 6 Dress Rehearsal |
| dec 9 |
3pm Family Concert
6pm Outreach Concert (Waterford Towers retirement home, NJ |
| dec 10 |
Offering Perfomance at Joy
Christian Fellowship |
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Giving Heart
coming soon...
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3rd term: 2005
| apr 15 |
1st session |
| apr 22 |
2nd session |
| apr 29 |
3rd session |
| may 6 |
4th session |
| may 13 |
5th sesssion |
| may 20 |
6th session |
| may 27 |
7th session - Master Class |
| june 3 |
8th session - Dress Rehearsal
3pm Student Family Concert
7pm Student Outreach Concert Sunrise Assisted Living, NJ |
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Compassionate Heart
coming soon...
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2nd term: 2004
| oct 1 |
Audition Day |
| oct 2 |
1st session |
| oct 9 |
2nd session |
| oct 16 |
3rd session |
| oct 23 |
4th session |
| oct 30 |
5th sesssion |
| nov 6 |
6th session |
| nov 13 |
7th session |
| nov 20 |
Family Concert |
| nov 27 |
Thanks Giving Break |
| dec 4 |
8th session |
| dec 11 |
last session |
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Giving Heart
coming soon...
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1st term: 2004
| may 7 |
Audition |
| may 8 |
open celebration |
| may 8 |
1st session |
| may 15 |
2nd session |
| may 22 |
3rd session |
| may 29 |
4th session |
| jun 5 |
5th sesssion |
| jun 12 |
6th session |
| jun 19 |
last session |
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Loving Heart
coming soon...
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6th term