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ABSTRACT The purpose of this research project is to provide participants with a personal experience in opera, to change their perceptions and provoke further interest in the art form. By introducing community opera into a society, we can educate and perhaps expand the acceptance of opera in a population. This document uses The Survey of Public Participation of the Arts by the National Endowment for the Arts in order to provide an accurate account of the declining attendance of opera. Only through education and exposure can we improve opera attendance. In order to create opera appreciation the researcher introduced an applicable opera performance situation in a small community. The process in which the opera was implemented has been evaluated and separated into the following eight components: preparation, rehearsal, set construction and props, pamphlets, budget, advertising, dress rehearsal, and performance. Each will be considered separately. The benefits of that community program and the process in which the opera took place are included in this research.
ContributorsYekel, Amy Louise (Author) / Doan, Jerry (Thesis advisor) / Mills, Robert (Committee member) / Dreyfoos, Dale (Committee member) / Rogers, Rodney (Committee member) / Kopta, Anne (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2012
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The purpose of this study is to examine how community-based youth theater ensembles create conditions for youth to practice cultural agency and to develop a sense of themselves as valuable resources in a broader community development process. The researcher employed a qualitative methodology, using a critical and interpretive case study approach which enabled her to document and analyze three community-based youth theaters in New York City: Find Your Light, a playwriting/performance program for youth associated with the NYC shelter system; viBeStages, an all-girl youth ensemble (part of viBe Theater Experience or "viBe"); and Ifetayo Youth Ensemble (IYE), a multi-age ensemble for youth of African descent living in Flatbush and its surrounding neighborhoods (part of Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy). All three programs are youth-based performing arts ensembles with a mission-driven focus on positive youth development and community building; they are long-term engagements, active in their communities for at least three years; and they are all part of arts organizations that value artistry as their principle means of impacting communities. All of the young artists involved in these programs participated in a sustained process of creating original performance pieces based on stories relevant to their lives and/or the lives of their communities. This dissertation examines how, through their playmaking processes, they began to identify, critique and experiment with commonly held beliefs about human agency and interaction, to activate and embellish the symbolic systems and repertoires that make up their communities, and to practice new ways of coming together. Through their use of artistic practices, the youth developed a sense of themselves as viable shapers of their communities and, in varying degrees, also used other aspects of culture (values, rituals, traditions, aspirations and the arts) to make meaning, contribute, and shape their cultural locations, offering new forms, symbols, structural models and imaginings.
ContributorsIkemire, Heather (Author) / Underiner, Tamara (Thesis advisor) / Catlaw, Thomas (Committee member) / Woodson, Stephani E (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2010
ContributorsSchildkret, David (Conductor) / Chamber Singers (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2018-02-10
ContributorsGlenn, Erica (Conductor) / Evans, Bartlett R. (Conductor) / Oh, Eun-Mi (Conductor) / Thompson, Jason D. (Conductor) / Schildkret, David (Conductor) / Concert Choir (Performer) / Arizona Statesmen (Performer) / Women's Chorus (Performer) / Gospel Choir (Performer) / Barrett Choir (Performer) / Chamber Singers (Performer) / Choral Union (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2017-11-30
ContributorsUniversity Choirs (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2000-11-16
ContributorsSchildkret, David (Conductor) / White, Jamilyn (Performer) / Krison, Danielle (Performer) / Barefield, Robert (Performer) / FitzPatrick, Carole (Performer) / Chamber Singers (Performer) / Choral Union (Performer) / Symphonic Chorale (Performer) / University Symphony Orchestra (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2007-04-26
ContributorsLyne, Gregory K. (Performer) / Stutzman, Gina (Performer) / Woodgate, Lyn (Performer) / Cornner, Charles B. (Performer) / Rozukalns, Andris L. (Performer) / Women's Choir (Performer) / University Choir (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1996-11-24
ContributorsCherland, Carl (Performer) / Fuller, Charles L. (Performer) / O'Brien, Robert (Performer) / Hooper, Wm. John (Performer) / Graduate Chorale (Performer) / Recital Chorale (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1987-10-01
ContributorsRoueche, Michelle (Performer) / Partin, Darrell (Performer) / Wiest-Parthun, Karen (Performer) / Harvison, Emery (Performer) / Hernandez, Rene (Performer) / Foley, Laura (Performer) / Women's Choir (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1994-04-21
ContributorsParthun, Karen (Conductor) / Hickman, Miriam, 1955- (Performer) / University Choir (Performer) / Vocal Jazz Ensemble (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2000-11-19