About the project
Northeast Indiana area fourth grade students nominated by their music teachers participate as FAMEous Student Composers and collaborate with FAME’s Composers-in-Residence David Crowe for Fort Wayne and a guest composer for Wabash to create a musical composition.
FAMEous Composers utilized a music composition and notation
cloud app called Noteflight, along with music technology workstations
to compose their own Musical Signature Compositions then, creatively
collaborated with Mr. Crowe about how their musical ideas would be
orchestrated into a Project Composition inspired by themes from
FAME’s 2019-20 cultural focus on South and Central America.
composers have been composing additional fabulous music compositions
using the app at home!
various reflection assignments, which helped to stimulate creative
input and facilitate feedback for assessment during the music
composition, rehearsal, and performance process.
into a project composition and titled the piece,
DORMITE NIÑITO: A Lullaby for Lost Children. The composition’s
themes weave the beautiful traditional Salvadoran folk song,
Dormite Niñito with musical portrayals of thoughts and messages
derived from the FAMEous Composers’ writings about the plight of
many children in Central and South America who live in poverty,
chaos, fear, and who, in many cases, have had to flee their country.
The messages will be given special “voice” during the composition’s
Premiere with sung choral sections (in both Spanish and English)
performed by the Fort Wayne Children’s Choir Lyric Choir.
Ballet continued this year, as once again, the composition has been
enhanced with originally choreographed dance movements created by
the ballet’s Youth Company to perform as part of the composition’s
Premiere Performance. The FAMEous Composers met with the ballet’s
Youth Company dancers for a pre-premiere presentation of the creative
dance ideas for the composition and engaged in a collaborative exchange
of reflections about the dance’s artistic and thematic meanings.
Each student receives a score of the music with his/her contribution highlighted. This project meets education standards of MENC: The National Association for Music Education.
The 2019-2020 Composition may be heard here.
Composition Project: Fort Wayne
Time table:
- October 4, 2019 by 4 pm: Registration forms due to the FAME office
- October 21-24, 2019, 4–6 pm: Composition and “Composium” sessions with Composer-in-residence David Crowe at Haley Elementary School
- October 24, 2019, 4–6 pm: “Creative Dance” session at Haley Elementary with Fort Wayne Ballet Youth Company Director Lauren Ettensohn
- February 29, 2020, Saturday, 1–2 pm: “Creative Dance” session at Fort Wayne Ballet Studio
- March 14, 2020, Saturday, 10–11 am: Final “Composium” session, holding room E, Grand Wayne Center
- March 15, 2020, Sunday, 1:30 pm: Rehearsal (location TBD)
- March 15, 2020, Sunday, 3 pm: Celebration of Youth Concert featuring Premiere Performance of Composition Project and Fusion of Concert Colors art (location TBD)
David Crowe is this year’s Composer-in-Residence for the Fort Wayne Composition Project. The composition will be premiered at the annual FAME Festival in March at the Celebration of Youth Concert on Sunday afternoon by the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Youth Symphony and Concert Orchestras along with an originally choreographed work to the composition by the Fort Wayne Ballet Youth Company.
Each student receives a score of the music with his/her contribution highlighted. This project meets education standards of MENC: The National Association for Music Education.
To Participate
Register your school in the FAME Composition Project by completing the online registration form, by emailing FAME at info@famearts.org, or by calling (260) 247-7325. School membership is required.
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Composition Project: Wabash
Time table:
- Sept. TBD, 2019: Registration forms due to Judy Ward
- Fall, 2019: Sessions with Composer in Residence
- March 21, 2020: Premiere performance at Honeywell Center
Last year’s Composer-in-Residence for the Wabash Composition Project was Dr. Chris Lessly from Indiana Wesleyan University. This year’s composer will be announced later. The composition will be premiered at the annual FAME Festival in April at the Celebration of Youth Concert on Saturday afternoon.
To Participate
Register your school in the FAME Composition Project by completing the online registration form, by emailing FAME at judyw9538@gmail.com or by calling (260) 571 2279. School membership is required.