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The\u00a0<\/span>Wright State University School of Fine and Performing Arts<\/a> welcomed concert bands, string orchestras and choir ensembles from 12 Ohio high schools and middle schools at the second annual Silver Melted Into Sound, which is designed to promote the music of underrepresented composers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The scholastic performances and accompanying music clinics were held throughout the Creative Arts Center on May 5.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t think anybody\u2019s doing a festival quite like this one,\u201d said Bill Jobert, senior lecturer in bassoon and coordinator of music education in the School of Fine and Performing Arts in the College of Liberal Arts. \u201cThis is ours. This is our festival.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In addition to performing a piece by a traditional composer, each participating group performed music by an underrepresented composer, which is a person of color, a woman or a marginalized gender identity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI conducted Christina Huss\u2019 \u2018Brace for Impact,\u2019\u201d said Michaela Copeland, who instructs middle school students at Greenville Middle School and graduated from Wright State with a bachelor\u2019s degree in music education on April 29. \u201cIt\u2019s crazy because I used to be the person playing on this stage, and now I\u2019m conducting.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The music performances were judged not for competition points but for comments. After performing, each group participated in a 30-minute clinic with one of the festival\u2019s adjudicators and then meet with guest composer Sonia Morales-Matos, a Puerto Rican composer, performer and educator.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThis is such a life-changing experience for many of them,\u201d said Morales-Matos. \u201cMany of them will make this school their choice when they are ready to go to college.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The scholastic groups also took walking tours of the Dayton Campus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jobert said Paul Laurence Dunbar, an American poet, novelist and short story writer, was also underrepresented. Jobert named the Silver Melted Into Sound festival after a line in Dunbar\u2019s poem \u201cTo a Lady Playing the Harp.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Participants also produced an original composition inspired by Dunbar\u2019s works. The winning composition will be performed by Wright State musicians next academic year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cMusic educators are looking for a different experience for their students,\u201d Jobert said. \u201cWe\u2019re glad to provide that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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