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The Monthly Newsletter of ACAM

January 2023 | Issue 114

And now let us welcome the new year,

full of things that never were.

– Rainer Maria Rilke

ACAM is looking to forward 2023 and discovering new things. One new experience will be being part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Partners in Learning, a program providing peer to peer support and inclusion in the YOLA National Symposium in July. This will give our teaching artists and the program to grow and become more effective.

As we begin our fourteenth year, ACAM looks forward to encountering more new things, new students, and hopefully new classes.

Thanks for being on this journey with us. Happy 2023!

Ellen Sell

Director

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PowerPoints & Videos

ACAM PowerPoint

Bulgarelli Documentary

Young Artists in Action

Level 1 Students Performed

in Showcases 1 and 2

Josued Hidalgo, Teaching Artist, guides young drummers as a bucket ensemble.

Each of these drummers also played the drum set during Showcase 1. All of them love to show their mastery of the rhythmic exercises on the drum set. One ambitious four year old also plays in the ensemble.

Theatre students perform in Showcase 2.

Above are three of the littlest group, ages 4-6, beginning their "Shopping" scene for Showcase 2. The other picture shows the older group enacting a "Holiday Meal" scene. Amber Jones, Teaching Artist, meets 3 groups of actors twice a week for scene and improvisation work.

Beginning clarinet students perform for the first time in Showwcase 2. Joining them are trombonist and Teaching Artist Bill Masonheimer.

Teaching Artist, Nick Siu plays along with the beginning recorder players, also in their first performance.

ACAM Bids Goodbye to Mr. Ballard

With heavy hearts ACAM and our young cellists are biding goodbye to Clavis Ballard, our cello teaching artist of seven years. His expertise and master teaching style will be greatly missed. We wish him well.

ShSShowcase 3 Features Upper Level Classes

Students in guitar, recorder, chorus, and percussion performed with their classes and also with the Ensemble. Playing with violin, cello, flute, and brass classes, students joined the orchestra which featured the brass and percussion in Wagner's “Procession of the Meistersingers.”