her Junior charges. The Seniors were under the masterful baton of Australian Phillip Green, who’s superb musicianship, professionalism and personality proved to be the perfect mix. For the grand finale, a work commissioned especially for this event, both orchestras took the stage to a backdrop of 17 double basses on risers – spectacular! MS Strings Director and AMIS Board member Darrell Townshend and I would like to thank our fellow committee members Janis Bell Lim (housing), Kristin Symes (food and special events) and Michael Cox (schedule and transportation) for their excellent work and collegiality.
Also, thanks to our administration for being receptive and supporting us throughout the planning process. Finally, thank you and congratulations to the following IHO delegates from SAS for their dedication and accomplishments: Junior Orchestra: Lakshmi Batachari, Yoo Shin Jang, Min Kyong Kim, Deepti Varathan, Winston Yoo, Clare Kang, Young-Min Kim, Joo-Yeon Oh, Sylvia Shim, Kei Yoshikoshi, Young Ju Sohn, Celine Chang, Kelly Chang, Lena Jung, Anika Kim, Matthew McDermott, Isabelle Mulder, Ryan Zu.
Esther Jang, Yoon Ku Kang, Nancy Li, Vindhya Rao, Becka Ruan, Irene Tung, Duncan Benjamin, Julie Kim, Tyler Martawibawa, Woo Wan Jang, Phillip Lee, Vivian Yang, Avery Lim, Leah Zulkoski .
Senior Orchestra: Preeti Varathan,
A Collaborative Project on Eric Carle’s Works By Matthew Steuer, ECC faculty and Barbara Harvey, HS faculty Photo by Zulkifri Monsor, HS Art Instructional Assistant
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he world-renowned and highly celebrated children’s book author and illustrator, Eric Carle, with his distinctive style of collage art, served as an inspiration for a collaborative project between Mr. Matthew’s preschoolers and Ms. Harvey’s HS Studio Art classes. After an in-depth exploration of Eric Carle’s work, including watching a video of him painting tissue paper and making a collage entitled “The Very Hungry Caterpillar and One Green Leaf Left,” the preschoolers headed for Ms. Harvey’s art studio. In our first session we painted on tissue paper, making a library of all kinds of brightly colored tissue paper with fascinating patterns and designs, just as Eric Carle would do. Then the preschoolers returned for a second meeting and teamed up with small groups of HS art students to make their collages. This time the preschoolers were the artistic bosses, and the high schoolers were the skilled hands that helped put what was swimming in those oceans of imagination onto paper in the form of some stunning collage illustrations. What was most impressive about this collaborative project, beyond those gorgeous works of art, was the engagement between the preschoolers and high schoolers. They worked together with such intensity and joy that observers were mesmerized. Hats off to Ms. Harvey’s Studio Art classes and Mr. Matthew’s preschoolers… you are all amazing illustrators and collaborators. In fact, perhaps this whole experience should be made into a book of its own, making all of these buddies, big and small, well-deserved published illustrators… now there is a thought…
SAS NewsFlash – March 2009
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