March 2010: |
Alash Visits Lansing Schools The four members of the Tuvan throat singing ensemble Alash performed for area school children on Thursday, March 25. Alash visited with Lansing Middle School students in the morning, and met the Lansing Elementary School students in the afternoon. Alash was greeted with cheers and applause by their middle school audience, who were full of questions about their instruments, throat singing, and their homeland, Tuva. After lunch at the China Buffet, Alash headed to Lansing Elementary School. The group played basketball and gave an impromptu concert on the school's xylophones for the Lansing Elementary office staff while they waited for their 900-student audience to assemble. The Lansing Elementary School and Lansing Middle School students were excellent audiences. They were captivated by the otherworldly sounds and the unfamiliar instruments. "The kid's were all great," said Carolyn Singleton, Executive Director of the Carnegie Arts Center. "They were having a wonderful time, but they were so quiet you could have heard a pin drop." Many of the kids were so impressed by what they heard at school Thursday that they insisted their parents take them to the Alash concert Thursday night. "My son begged me to come tonight. 'Please Mom! We HAVE to go!'" one mother told Carnegie Arts Center staff members after the concert.
Four members of Alash with some of their instruments. Read about Alash in the Leavenworth Times! |
The members of Alash jam on xylophones in the Lansing Elementary School music room as they wait for their audience to arrive.
Nine-hundred faces watch Alash take the stage. Both the Lansing Elementary School and Lansing Middle School students were great audiences!
Sean Quirk, Alash's manager and interpreter, speaks to Lansing Elementary students about throat singing in Tuva. |
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| Greater Leavenworth Student Art Show On March 12, the Greater Leavenworth Student Art Show opened at the Carnegie Arts Center. Seventeen schools from Leavenworth, Lansing, Fort Leavenworth, and Easton participated in this year’s Student Art Show, which featured hundreds of pieces from K-12 students. On opening night the main hall of the Carnegie Arts Center was packed with families anxious to see their little artists’ work hanging in the gallery. Kids giggled as they received their “Exhibiting Artist” stickers, eager to show their work to family and friends. It was an exciting evening. Within thirty minutes the Carnegie volunteers at the root beer float station had gone through 20 quarts of ice cream and 10 liters of root beer. The chicken nuggets provided by June’s Cottage and Café were also a big hit. The opening night of the Greater Leavenworth Student Art show is always one of the Carnegie Arts Center’s busiest nights, with over 450 people passing through the gallery in just a couple of hours. The Greater Leavenworth Student Art Show will be on display until April 2, and is sponsored by Cushing Memorial Hospital and Leavenworth USD #453. Top Image: Owl, kindergarten, MacArthur Elementary School Middle Image: Abstract Chairs, 10th grade, Leavenworth High School Bottom Image: Turtle (with shoe armarture), 6th grade, Eisenhower Elementary School |
Schools participating in the GLSAS: Ben Day Elementary - Leavenworth Bradley Elementary - Ft. Leavenworth Earl M. Lawson - Leavenworth Eisenhower Elementary - Ft. Leavenworth Howard Wilson Elementary - Leavenworth Lansing Elementary - Lansing Lansing Middle - Lansing Leavenworth High - Leavenworth MacArthur Elementary - Ft. Leavenworth Muncie Elementary - Leavenworth Nettie Hartnett Elementary - Leavenworth Patton Jr. High - Ft. Leavenworth Pleasant Ridge Elementary - Easton Pleasant Ridge Middle - Easton Pleasant Ridge High - Easton Salt Creek Vallery Intermediate - Easton Warren Middle - Leavenworth | Many Thanks to:
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Lights... Camera... Action! On March 23, a dozen Howard Wilson Elementary School students and their dads gathered at the Carnegie Arts Center for "Dads, Drama, and Dogs." The event was organized by Barbara Carter (Parent Liaison at Howard Wilson Elementary School) and Holly York (Education and Outreach Coordinator at the Carnegie Arts Center). The reception room echoed with tongue twisters like "Unique New York" and "red leather, yellow leather" as Anna Zeck (children's drama teacher at the Carnegie Arts Center) taught the kids how to warm up before taking the stage. The kids and their dads also participated in drama exercises and games. In one game the students and parents were given different personalities or professions to act out, and in another game they used silly props. The kids were also given the chance to direct their dads up and down stage. Like the Father/Daughter dance in February, "Dads, Drama, and Dogs" provides fathers an opportunity to take a more active role in their child's education. In April pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students from Howard Wilson Elementary and their dads will paint together at the Carnegie Arts Center. |
The Carnegie's children's theater teacher Anna Zeck (left) directs the kids and their dads in a series of drama excercises and games. Zeck will teach children's drama camps at the Carnegie over the summer.
The kids and dads rock their air guitars as they pantomime musicians. |
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Michael Winer and Masha Protodyakonova peformed a concert at the Carnegie Arts Center on March 28. The concert was sponsored by the Lansing Kiwanis Club.
Masha Protodyakonova performs a solo on the Carnegie's 1906 | Lansing Kiwanis Club Sponsors Concert at the Carnegie Arts Center In an effort to make more Lansing students aware of the arts in their communities, the Lansing Kiwanis Club sponsored a special concert at the Carnegie Arts Center on March 28. The concert is the brainchild of Natalie Rotkoff, a Lansing Kiwanian and member of the Carnegie Arts Center, who believes that more Lansing residents should be aware of the classes, lessons, events, and other cultural opportunities available at the Carnegie Arts Center. Nearly fifty students and Kiwanians attended the violin and piano concert on Sunday afternoon, most of whom stayed after the concert to meet the musicians and learn more about the Carnegie Arts Center. The concert featured the talents of two Park University students, Michael Winer and Masha Protodyakonova. Both Winer and Protodyakonova are studying music at Park University's International Center for Music. Protodyakonova is finishing her undergraduate degree at ICM, while Winer, who received his Master's degree at Longy School of Music, is working on his Graduate Certificate in music performance. Winer has been performing and teaching violin at the Carnegie Arts Center for almost two years, and also took part in the Carnegie's music appreciation series in the spring of 2009. Winer and Protodyakonova performed pieces by Claude Debussy, Sergei Rachmaninov, Franz Schubert, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, and Fritz Kreisler.
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