{"id":888,"date":"2005-05-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/blog\/news\/?p=888"},"modified":"2005-05-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-17T04:00:00","slug":"serenade-for-strings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2005\/serenade-for-strings\/","title":{"rendered":"Serenade for Strings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo right\" style=\"width: 300px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/images\/suzuki14.jpg\" alt=\"finale number of the concert\" height=\"182\" width=\"300\" \/><br \/>  Photo by Jim Bishop  <\/div>\n<p>Between 80 and 90 students in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/music\/prepprog\/\">Shenandoah Valley Preparatory Music Program<\/a> play variations on &quot;Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star&quot; for the finale number in a Suzuki violin group concert held Sunday, May 15, at Eastern Mennonite University. The program opened with several students performing advanced repertoire. As the concert progressed, the pieces became less advanced and more students were added, culminating with everyone playing the familiar tune.<\/p>\n<p>  The Preparatory Music Program, part of EMU&#8217;s music department, had 193 students enrolled the past year in the instrumental program alone. The program also includes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/music\/prepprog\/svys\">Shenandoah Valley Youth Orchestra and Junior Strings<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/music\/musikgarten.html\">Musikgarten<\/a> classes for a total enrollment of 310 students. Private instrumental lessons and Musikgarten classes are offered throughout the summer months. <\/p>\n<p> Through grants from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the Arts Council of the Valley along with private donations, an &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/music\/prepprog\/stringoutreach\">Outreach Program<\/a>&quot; has expanded into local schools, working with students who can&#8217;t afford lessons or instruments. In addition to fall and spring recitals, Preparatory Music students gave programs at the Massanutten Regional Library, the Harrisonburg Children&#8217;s Museum and the Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Jim Bishop Between 80 and 90 students in the Shenandoah Valley Preparatory Music Program play variations on &quot;Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star&quot; for the finale number in a Suzuki <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2005\/serenade-for-strings\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Serenade for Strings<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17233,8231,17216,7342,6280,7789],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arts","tag-harrisonburg-childrens-museum","tag-music","tag-musikgarten","tag-shenandoah-valley-youth-orchestra","tag-virginia-commission-for-the-arts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Serenade for Strings - EMU News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2005\/serenade-for-strings\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Serenade for Strings - EMU News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Photo by Jim Bishop Between 80 and 90 students in the Shenandoah Valley Preparatory Music Program play variations on &quot;Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star&quot; 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