SSC News
'Broadway Favorites' in Hingham to benefit Horizons for Homeless Children
HINGHAM — Local musicians will present the third annual 'Broadway Favorites for Charity,' at 5 p.m. Feb. 12 at the House of Prayer 916 Main Street. The musical review benefits Horizons For Homeless Children, a nonprofit daycare center in Dorchester. The center has some 1,400 volunteers who work with homeless children and their families. It partners with 140 family shelters in the state. The benefit is organized by Sally Davenport of Hingham, a faculty member of the South Shore Conservatory. Read more:
CONSERVATORY NOTES: Our personal top ten reasons
Hingham — This year we are co-chairing South Shore Conservatory's annual Chase Away the Winter Blues event, along with fellow Hingham resident Linda Jones, and we are thrilled! South Shore Conservatory has been a big and important part of our family's lives, and we welcome the opportunity to give back to this community asset. From our children attending preschool and early childhood classes, to family members taking lessons, to serving as Conservatory overseers for a number of years, to one of our husbands serving as a trustee and newly appointed Chairman of the Board, we have been part of the Conservatory family for years. Read more...
A donation worthy of a concert
They are under the bed, in the closets, in the hallway and the basement.
Peggy Clark’s late husband Homer Clark loved woodworking and the many violins and violas tucked throughout her Salt Lake City home are the results.
Now, thanks to her, the idea of handmade hand-me-downs never sounded so good.
With no plans to start her own orchestra, Clark is donating some of the instruments so they can be used by promising musicians.
“I don’t want them to be in somebody’s closet,” Clark said, adding she wants them to go to people who will appreciate and use them. “Violins are not any good unless they are played. They get better with playing.”
Clark will donate 15 violins and four violas to the South Shore Conservatory in Hingham, Mass. The 19 instruments are never to be sold and will be loaned or given to advanced students to use.
CONSERVATORY NOTES: Thankful for dedicated volunteers
Cohasset — At this time of year, it's natural to turn our thoughts to the many blessings that we have in our lives. From our health, to our thriving families, plentiful friends and good cheer, our blessings seem too numerous to mention! However, considering that my New Year's resolution for 2011 was to be more vocal about my appreciation of all parts of my life, it seems fitting that I end the year talking about something near and dear to my heart — volunteerism. In my job as Director of Performance at South Shore Conservatory, I interact with many different people. As a staff member I work closely with faculty musicians and staff members, and as a faculty member I attend department events, teach wonderful students every day, and I also interact with a very special group — our corps of volunteers. Read more:
South Shore Conservatory announces new piano scholarship
The South Shore Conservatory announces the establishment of The Foundation for Creative Achievement Piano Scholarship to provide an opportunity for a serious piano student to study at the Conservatory. The merit and need-based scholarship will be awarded to a deserving student who exhibits the motivation and musical interest to pursue the study of piano, as well as the need for financial assistance. The scholarship underwrites a full year of weekly 45-minute private piano lessons. The application process will include an interview and audition, and applicants will be asked to submit a financial aid application, which may be downloaded from the Conservatory website, www.sscmusic.org. For information, call Mary O'Connor at 781-749-7565 ext. 27, or m.oconnor@sscmusic.org. Read more:
Listen to Songs of the Season
Wicked Local.com has posted music excerpts from our December 4th Songs of the Season Concert. Here is a link to the concert program if you wish to follow along!
South Shore Conservatory names new director for summer music festival
South Shore Conservatory announced Monday that Eric Laprade, chairman of the music department for the Randolph schools, has been named music director of its summer music festival. He takes over for Malcolm W. Rowell Jr. The festival exposes woodwind, brass and percussion students to a variety of musical art forms . Read more:
Scituate teens realize dreams: Closer Than We Appear moves on as finalist in SchoolJam Battle of the Bands competition
Most of the boys in Closer Than We Appear were in class when they found out they were chosen as one of the eight finalists in the SchoolJam USA National Teen Battle of the Bands Competition. They had some tough competitors, yet even with over 118 total entries, the Scituate High School students' band advanced to the final round, winning $1,000 for the SHS Music Department and the opportunity to perform at the National Association of Music Merchants Conference at Disneyand in Anaheim, Calif., on Jan. 21. Their reactions? Pure joy. Read more:
So. Shore Conservatory hosts national arts education conference
More than 60 community musicians and educators from across the nation came to the South Shore Conservatory of Music Saturday to see and hear just how the arts can be done at the local level. The Conservatory is New England's largest community school for the arts. It was selected for a visit by the annual Conference for Community Arts Education, taking place in Boston this weekend. Read more:
Hingham's Shore Conservatory is a hotbed for the arts
With fresh approach, school reverses drop in enrollment. Read More:
Hingham's South Shore Conservatory serves all ages
boston.com - By Jessica Bartlett, Town correspondent
From 9 in the morning until 9 at night, the activity never stops at the South Shore Conservatory in Hingham.
Preschoolers run into the building in the early morning. Kindergarten classes run until 2:15. There is yoga for kindergarteners, followed by semiprivate recorder lessons, then Music Together classes for toddlers, a drumming and singing group, and Suzuki method music lessons.
And that’s just for the students younger than 9.
The number of classes reflects the growing enrollment, which increased 23 percent in the last three years to 2,700 students at the Hingham and Duxbury campuses, the conservatory says. Private instruction, group classes, movement workshops, and music ensembles are all on the rise. Read more:
South Shore Conservatory youth concert
Wicked Local Plymouth - More than 80 young area musicians performed in South Shore Conservatory's Bay Youth Symphony (BaYS) fall concert Nov. 9, at the Duxbury Performing Arts Center, offering works by Mozart, Bizet, Dvorak and other well known composers. Music Director Jonathan Lam took the podium for his first performance with the BaYS program. Read more:
CONSERVATORY NOTES: Combining the old with new
Wicked Local Hingham - I'm extremely pleased to announce that South Shore Conservatory's Summer Music Festival (SMF) has named educator Eric M. Laprade as Music Director. For more than 30 years this special wind ensemble program, with its many educational components, has offered young musicians a comprehensive music education experience during the summer months, and this year is no different. We have some exciting new additions to the program! Read more...
Flutist Rose Lombardo joins San Diego Symphony
Rose Lombardo, former student of Donald Zook and Summer Music Festival and Duxbury Music Festival alum was recently signed as principal flute with the San Diego Symphony.
Read the Sign On San Diego article
Hingham's South Shore Conservatory recognized as national model for success
boston.com - The thump of a drum reverberated through the floorboards of Hingham's South Shore Conservatory as Conservatory President Kathy Czerny stood in front of members from the National Guild for Community Arts Education, telling a story of humble beginnings. An initial offshoot from the New England Conservatory, South Shore Conservatory branched off on its own in the 1960s after a group of parents refused to let the languishing studio founder. Now, 41 years later, the Conservatory has been recognized as one of the leading cultural and artistic centers in the nation, drawing the attention of Guild members who came on Saturday to explore the Conservatory's revolutionary model to success. The Guild was visiting Boston as part of this year's Annual Conference for Community Arts Education, and visited only the Hingham Conservatory along with the Huntington Theatre, The Institute of Contemporary Art and Boston Ballet while on their trip. Read more...
CONSERVATORY NOTES: So much more than a school
Wicked Local Cohasset - This past September our oldest daughter turned 6 years old. Like all parents do, my husband and I had one of those amazing moments leading up to her birthday where we thought, "I can't believe it's been six years!" While raising three little girls certainly has had its ups and downs, the one constant in our lives over the last four years has been the nurturing and support we have received from the South Shore Conservatory Preschool and Early Childhood Programs faculty. Read more:
South Shore Conservatory Honored by National Arts Education Conference
Plymouth Patch - South Shore Conservatory, New England's largest community school for the arts, has been selected for a site visit by the annual Conference for Community Arts Education, hosted in Boston from Nov. 10 to 12. Approximately 500 delegates, community arts providers and education leaders from across the country will converge for the annual National Guild for Community Arts Education event. Many attendees will travel to Hingham to tap into SSC leadership team's expertise in their "continuum" model, a programmatic philosophy designed to engage students from birth through adulthood. Read More:
CONSERVATORY NOTES: Chris Botti 'strikes a chord'
Wicked Local Cohasset —As South Shore Conservatory's director of private instruction I tell people about the importance of arts education in a child's life every day. It's something I truly believe in and am passionate about. Sometimes, however, I sense that they think I'm just saying that because they think it's my job. So, when the advocacy for early arts education comes from someone better known and more influential than little old me, I'm absolutely delighted. And that's what happened recently. This summer a young mother, Stephanie Rose Lussier, told me she was interested in signing her son up for music lessons, and that the inspiration to contact me was brought on by her attending a Chris Botti concert at South Shore Music Circus. Here's her story: Read more:
Be smART campaign kicks off
Wicked Local Hingham — Each Massachusetts town has a cultural council and receives funds from the state to support local programs. Programs must benefit the community and promote the arts, humanities or interpretive sciences. Last year the Hingham council awarded 18 grants totaling $7,000. This year the council has $3,800 to grant. Read more: