IU Composition Majors:

The Composition Department has agreed to participate in Kids Compose, a community outreach program now in its second year. Kids Compose aims to foster children's natural talent for composing melodies. Children (grades 2 - 6) may submit melodies of which four will be selected by IU Jacobs School of Music Composition Faculty as winners. These melodies will then be arranged and orchestrated by IU Jacobs School of Music composition students and performed by the band and orchestra at MCCSC MAC series performances. Composition students and winners will be present at the performances, and may take part in a question and answer session at the completion of the performance, as time allows. IU Jacobs School of Music recording students will record, edit and press CDs, which will be presented to the winners, IU composition students and kept for archival purposes.

The four composition majors selected to participate in this venture will each receive an honorarium of $500 which will cover their honorarium and the expenses of providing performance materials. Two works will be for orchestra and two will be for wind ensemble.

The resulting arrangements will be less than two minutes in duration, and will be relatively straightforward, preserving the identity of the Kid's melodies, and making no elaborate or unusual demands of the ensemble, as there will be very little rehearsal time. Faculty will discuss this more with the selected composers. The arrangements should be effective and interesting, but also clear and concise.

More information can be found at the Kids Compose web-site.

If you are interested in being considered for this project, please send Prof. Dzubay an email indicating the same and your preference of band or orchestra, and also submit an example (complete work or excerpt) of your orchestrating for either band or orchestra by noon on October 10. You may leave material for Professor Dzubay at the mailroom.