The National Symphony Orchestra's American Residency Program

2008 NSO American Residency: South Carolina

The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts has accepted the South Carolina Arts Commission's invitation to make South Carolina the site of the National Symphony Orchestra's 2008 American Residency. Between February 8 and 16, 2008, the members of the Orchestra will participate in approximately 150 education and performance activities throughout the state. Read More.

What is an American Residency?

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South Carolina
2008 Residency

All Residencies

South Carolina (2008)
Kansas (2007)
Nebraska , 2006(75th Anniversary)
Nevada, 2005 (75th Anniversary)

North Carolina, 2005
Tennessee, 2004
North Dakota, 2003
South Dakota, 2002
Oklahoma, 2001
Vermont, 2000
Mississippi, 1999

Alabama, 1998
Arizona, 1997
Montana, 1996 Wyoming, 1996
Maine, 1995
Louisiana, 1994
Alaska, 1992

What is an American Residency?
In 1992, the National Symphony Orchestra of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts began a project unique throughout the world: The American Residencies. On behalf of the Orchestra, the nation's center for the performing arts accepts one invitation each year, making a state or a region the focus of a host of activities. Because of the generous support of many organizations — principally the Kennedy Center and the United States Department of Education — all proceeds from any ticket sales resulting from these events remain within the state to support local arts organizations. Since its inception in 1992, a hallmark of the project has been its responsiveness to the artistic and educational wishes of each state. Each state prepares a list of requests ranging from in-school appearances to workshops for teachers to full orchestral concerts, and prioritizes them for the National Symphony Orchestra, with the Orchestra then fulfilling as many of those requests as logistics, scheduling and budgetary limitations allow. American Residency Goals to share all elements of classical instrumental music throughout a given region, to explore the diversity of musical influences within the state, and to give the region a musical voice in the nation's center for the performing arts through training programs, career development opportunities, and commission.
Typical Residencies Activities Include: full orchestral concerts chamber music performances in-school ensembles lectures workshops for teachers workshops for students with disabilities pre-concert discussions concerts for students coaching sessions master classes music appreciation classes Suzuki method workshops, and artistic exchanges.* (Past artistic exchanges have included meetings between an NSO violinist and an Athabascan fiddler and a school program shared by a string quartet and the Two Eagle River High School Salish-Kootenai drummers and dancers.) In addition, organizations are welcome to submit new ideas for activities. For example: a composition teacher at the University of Maine requested an NSO ensemble to perform his students' compositions, critiquing them from the point of view of professional instrumentalists, explaining what worked and didn't work in terms of instrumental writing. Information for Potential Presenters:* (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) Activities Menu Activity Request Form Activity Check List

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