{"id":41882,"date":"2019-04-18T15:05:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T19:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=41882"},"modified":"2019-04-23T10:04:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T14:04:03","slug":"sidewalk-art-emu-students-bring-music-to-the-streets-in-hmta-play-a-thon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2019\/sidewalk-art-emu-students-bring-music-to-the-streets-in-hmta-play-a-thon\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidewalk art: Students bring music to the streets in HMTA Play-A-Thon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eastern Mennonite University students performed in downtown Harrisonburg last weekend as part of the first-ever Harrisonburg Music Teachers Association (HMTA) Play-A-Thon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The four-hour benefit for music education was centered around an acoustic upright piano on the outdoor courtyard of the Massanutten Regional Library Central Library. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41890\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41890\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-41890 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2019\/04\/theater-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2019\/04\/theater-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2019\/04\/theater-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2019\/04\/theater-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2019\/04\/theater.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Eby and Isaac Longacre perform selections from &#8220;Beauty and the Beast.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Performers ranged from beginners to professionals and spanned genres from classical to bluegrass. They included EMU musical theater artists\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Elizabeth Eby<\/strong>, <strong>Tyler Goss, <\/strong><strong>Isaac Longacre,\u00a0Andrew Stoltzfus, Richard Vo<\/strong>\u00a0and<strong> Lucas Wenger,\u00a0<\/strong>plus singer-songwriter <strong>Alexa Lahr<\/strong>, violinist <strong>Evelina Kilimnik<\/strong>, clarinetist <strong>Robert Chaplin<\/strong> and violinist <strong>Ada Zhang<\/strong>, who is dual-enrolled at EMU and Eastern Mennonite School.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EMU professor and HMTA president <strong>David Berry<\/strong> and preparatory music instructors <strong>Kelly Wiedemann<\/strong> and <strong>Megan Tiller<\/strong> also performed, as did local piano students.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41901\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41901\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41901\" src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2019\/04\/feature-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2019\/04\/feature-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2019\/04\/feature-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2019\/04\/feature.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Preparatory music instructors Kelly Wiedemann (left) and Megan Tiller perform bluegrass fiddle music.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The audience was also invited to participate in a walk-up community art painting project provided by Shenandoah Valley Arts Mobile. Additional event sponsors also included Whitesel Music, the library, and friends and family of the performing student musicians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A grant from Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance provided major funding for the event, a benefit for the Family Music Project, which helps provide music education to children with fewer resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Additional photos are available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=ms.c.eJw9UskNRFEI6mjivvTf2OSh~%3BiNREVBjqXQhqaBu~%3BhmwKnDW4LQObqP2qzPqRYM7~_mE3GWxuUsHkufPN7ZJasXWix2dmx2ezb~%3BuDgas~%3B3G~%3BeffWUCPTI7nPTh5VWf3q9~_XQ9~%3BdjHtPtChr9OXxT4cvXF~_KvzFwq~_yuWriODWL5~_wAH8vdtenN8TOL49fPezA2ovTX3~%3BS~_fFAHr55myC~%3B9MuvHPnK6W3w8~%3Bk1wb2Mb74wH739Dv0m330rkdfp9XTs1~_sv5Ctx~%3B1Ezf~%3BdwMuRv9w~%3B~_8tS6eycPfy9~%3BCj09dv~%3BR418~_~%3B9XDv~%3BpfmhXMvHyN~%3BLQvP2~_BXj7Mg7tvX2GfXZ3wTxF3P0rs0~%3BwDv~%3B~_f~_A~-~-.bps.a.412873386194506&amp;type=1&amp;__tn__=HH-R\">on the HMTA Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern Mennonite University students performed in downtown Harrisonburg last weekend as part of the first-ever Harrisonburg Music Teachers Association (HMTA) Play-A-Thon. 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