Project 21: El Sistema collaboration sets record with 30 student pieces

On March 12, Project 21: Music of the 21st Century held a historic student-performed and -composed concert in cooperation with local nonprofit music organization El Sistema, titled the Project 21: El Sistema Collaboration, with a record-breaking 30-piece concert.

For this concert, Project 21 paired with El Sistema Oklahoma, a 3rd- to 12th-grade after-school conservatory that teaches composition, instrumental lessons, and ensemble work for children

April 13:

OCCC Symphony Orchestra Concert

OCCC Visual and Performing Arts Center

April 18:

Jazz Band Concert

Petree Recital Hall

April 21-23:

OCU Opera and Music Theatre

“Sunday in the Park with George”

Kirkpatrick Auditorium to have a creative extracurricular.

The program originated from Venezuela to help keep children off of the street and has since branched across the world.

Kiegan Ryan, an OCU student and El Sistema faculty member, explained that “there’s two branches in Oklahoma, one in Oklahoma City and one in Tulsa, so of course we serve the Oklahoma City area.”

Ryan explained that the roots between El Sistema and OCU run deep, saying, “there’s always been a long sharing of musicians, teachers, and even some students who come here, like one of the teachers at El Sistema was a student at OCU and went to teach at El Sistema.”

“Primarily for this concert the composition team has always been interested in El Sistema and one of the things we study is educational music … so one of the things we wanted to do is have the composition program at El Sistema be able to have a facete and a place to perform these works and so it was only natural for OCU,” Ryan said.

Ryan explained that the concert Continued at MEDIAOCU.COM made to start a series, Dr. Eaton reached out to his former professor and invited him to come,” she said.

Dr. Floreani also explained the process that went into the decision to have Jericho Brown, saying, “the Thatcher Hoffman Smith poetry series is guided by an advisory committee made up of Arts & Sciences

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