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According
to Pastor Ness, Third Lutheran Church has hosted for approximately four years a
Spring
Music Festival that Monica Gabryszewski and Cara Silvernail-Thomson organize one
week
prior to the NYSSMA festival.
NYSSMA stands for New York State School Music
Association.
Every spring, NYSSMA hosts a solo and ensemble festival where each student who
participates
prepares a solo, chosen from a manual NYSSMA provides, prepares scales and
performs
an exercise that they've never seen before with sight-reading. It is the church’s hope
that
the festival, which this year was held Saturday April 17 at 6 p.m., will provide a perfect
opportunity
for these students to share their music that they’ve been working so hard on, with
family,
friends, and community members.
It gives them a chance to perform their piece, work
out
any "bugs", and have another performance above and beyond the 10-15 minutes they'll be
with
the adjudicator. Of
course the festival is not limited to NYSSMA participants, but does
encourage
them to participate. Refreshments usually are served at the end of the festival (which
this
year had about forty people in attendance), including chocolate-covered strawberries.
Pastor
Ness says that the church also tries to hold a Winter Music Festival, provided enough students
are available to participate. —
Karla R. Cook
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