{"id":2682,"date":"2008-06-10T10:35:15","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T14:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icsom.org\/senzasordino\/?p=2682"},"modified":"2020-02-10T10:38:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T15:38:10","slug":"philadelphia-orchestra-project-music-from-the-inside-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icsom.org\/senzasordino\/2008\/06\/philadelphia-orchestra-project-music-from-the-inside-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Orchestra Project: Music from the Inside Out<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

A<\/span> ten-year project meant to reach new audiences, educate young listeners, and engage musicians of every age is now coming to final fruition for Philadelphia Orchestra members. The core of the project, Music from the Inside Out<\/em>, a documentary film completed in 2004, has seen many milestones. It was released nationally in arthouse theaters in 2005, seen on PBS nationally in May 2006, and released by New Video as a DVD in 2007. <\/p>\n

The project has now reached its final mission by being published as a textbook (by Daniel Anker, Carol Ponder, and Donna Santman, preface by Eric Booth, published by Alfred Publishing Company) with an accompanying \u201cteacher\u2019s guide\u201d DVD. A group of very innovative educators led by Eric Booth conceived of the text for grades 5\u201312. Moments from the film (and some moments that never made the film) are viewed by the classroom as a send-off for various units of study and discovery. Some of these many lessons include: discovering one\u2019s musical personality, creating an individual musical timeline, explorations of composition, and developing listening strategies by creating musical listening journals and listening discussion groups. <\/p>\n

The inception of this entire project dates back to the orchestra\u2019s strike in 1996. The resolution of that strike empowered musicians and board members to create new educational electronic media projects. What was first meant to be a television series became a movie to explore some basic questions: What is music? How is music made? Why does it exist? What are the human stories behind music-making? The resulting film was not at all a Philadelphia Orchestra story, but a music\/musician story, going deep into the exploration of motives and aspirations we all share as music makers. The discussions and the interviews of musicians that were filmed touch upon universal stories and themes about how we came to be musicians, how music affects us, and how our music-making relates to every day life. This film is a snapshot view of our musical lineage, without regard to the name of any particular city, person, instrument, or orchestra history. <\/p>\n

Award-winning producer\/director Daniel Anker and his company, Anker Productions, filmed Philadelphia Orchestra musicians over a period of years on three continents. Over five hundred hours of footage were molded into a ninety-minute film. Our gratitude for the editing prowess and perseverance of Anker and his company is profound. One member of the Philadelphia Orchestra\u2019s artistic committee commented on an early screening, \u201cI am glad there was so much music-making that was allowed to be heard and seen.\u201d The new textbook\/teacher\u2019s guide with its accompanying hour-long DVD is their culmination as well. The film\u2019s themes and message\u2014 including that music will always be an expression in sound that performers and listeners alike can equally and deeply experience\u2014have an audience far beyond that for the film\u2019s release. The curriculum incorporates many writing activities and extensively utilizes principles of literacy-based learning. It was piloted over a three-year period in New York and Nashville schools. The text and DVD represent a fresh new approach to teaching music. <\/p>\n

Philadelphia Orchestra musicians learned some important lessons from this project. Some of these include: <\/p>\n