Dear Ones,
We are reminded of what a blessing this life is as the autumn comes to kiss us hello. So much gratitude for the harvest, may it get us through another winter until the dandelions come out in the spring.
We have some exciting news to share with you about the Marimba Project. The Kampe Foundation has granted us $4,000 to purchase a bass marimba for the North Fork Valley Embodying Rhythm Marimba Project. We have put in the order with our marimba-maker in Santa Fe and are looking forward to playing it soon (though unfortunately, it won’t be ready for this round of classes starting October 22 – details below).
With the bass marimba, we are getting closer to a full ensemble and are now working to fundraise for a baritone marimba and lead soprano marimba to fill out the full tonal 4.5 octave range of a traditional marimba ensemble. We will be having a fundraising concert and silent auction on the 15th of November. Details are below. We hope to see you there and are looking forward to the unveiling of the Marimba Project. Eric and Aja from the Carbondale Rhythm Collective will be joining us with their marimbas, so you’ll get to hear how the full ensemble sounds in action. We are still gathering items for the silent auction, please contact us if you would like to donate a service or an item for the event.
blessings,
Arlyn and David
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Embodying Rhythm through Marimba Playing and Rhythmic Vocalizations
David Alderdice and Arlyn Deva Alderdice
ages 9-99
Lamborn Concert Hall in Paonia, CO
Wednesday’s 6:30-8:00 pm Oct. 22 – Dec. 17. (note new time)
This is a nine-week series and we ask that you plan to attend all nine classes (or get notes from another participant).
We will explore and expand our rhythmic and melodic awareness through marimba playing, South Indian rhythmic time cycles (solkattu), and gently guided group improvisations. This class is great way to open the door to rhythm and music or to continue your relationship with rhythm and to aide in your musical development. We will learn traditional Zimbabwean marimba ensemble tunes and practice embodying the rhythms beyond the melodies by exploring the subtleties of ensemble playing. *No prior musical experience required, marimbas will be provided. This class is offered through the gift economy.
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David Alderdice with Greg Cooperman Trio
Sunday, November 2 at 2pm in Glenwood Springs at the Library (815 Cooper Ave).
Greg C: keyboard, accordian, harmonica, and vocals
Daniel B: electric bass
David A: drum kit
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Talking music on KVNF
with David, Arlyn and Jeannette from the NFVERMP
A sneak preview of some marimba tunes
Thursday, November 13 at 6pm (mtn time) 90.9fm
worldwide at www.kvnf.org
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The Blue Sage will be hosting a Fundraiser Concert and Silent Auction for the North Fork Valley Embodying Rhythm Marimba Project on November 15th. doors open at 6:15pm, concert at 7pm, $15 (purchase tickets online here or in person at the Blue Sage). The music will feature marimba ensemble music stemming from the southern African region with other fun surprises. Besides marimbas there will be flutes, choir, percussion, and more….
The musicians of the evening will include David Alderdice, Arlyn Deva Alderdice, Jeannette Carey, Susan Ellinger, Eric and Aja from the Carbondale Rhythm Collective, a few local hand-picked music students, the Hotchkiss High School Choir, and other special guests.
Please mark the date on your calendar and come out and experience the joyful sounds of marimba music. If you would like to get involved, find out about playing opportunities, donate a service or an item to the silent auction, or if you would just like to learn more, visit www.embodyingrhythm.com/marimba
The North Fork Valley Embodying Rhythm Marimba Project is co-sponsored by The Learning Council a 501(c)3 non-profit organization committed to bringing complimentary educational opportunities to the North Fork community since 1998. All donations made to the Marimba Project (monetary or in-kind for the silent auction) are tax-deductible. The purpose of the evening is to share our love of marimbas while working to match a grant given to the Project by the Kampe Foundation. All monies raised will go towards acquiring more marimbas which will expand our current instruments to a full ensemble. The Marimba Projects’ goal is to provide full marimba ensemble experiences, classes, workshops, performances, and programs for schools, community centers, libraries, festivals, care centers, and more.
David Alderdice will lead the North Fork Valley Embodying Rhythm Marimba Project and has already been teaching workshops, classes, assemblies, private lessons, and summer-camps on the marimbas. The North Fork Valley Embodying Rhythm Marimba Project’s mission is to create a joyful, safe, and creative environment for students to delve deeper into their personal relationship with rhythm, music, themselves, and their community. We are currently focusing our school marimba programs for 4th – 12th graders to bring musical enrichment opportunities through engaging hands-on group classes. Our community outreach offerings and workshops are usually for anyone interested ages 9 years of age or older. We facilitate musical experiences to help participants acquire a visceral memory that learning music and playing music is fun, uplifting, and inspiring.
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Why Teach Music By R.D. Mooney, Carmel Schools
Music is a science
• It is exact, specific; and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor’s full score is a chart, a graph which indicates
frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of
time.
Music is mathematical
• It is rhythmically based on the subdivisions of time into fractions which must be done instantaneously, not
worked out on paper.
Music is a foreign language
• Most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French; and the notation is certainly not English–but a highly
developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most complete
and universal language.
Music is history
• Music usually reflects the environments and times of its creation, often even the country and.or racial feeling.
Music is a physical education
• It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lips, cheek, and facial muscles, in addition to extraordinary
control of the diaphragmatic, back, stomach and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound
the ear hears and the mind interprets.
Music is all these things, but most of all music is art
• It allows a human being to take all these dry technically boring (but difficult) techniques and use them to
create emotion. That is one thing that science cannot duplicate: humanism, feeling, emotion, call it what you
will.