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My mom, her younger brother and two other kids. Probably taken about 1930 in Elizabethtown, Indiana.
Every year since 2002, I have played my trumpet in Elizabethtown College's Open Door Recital, for area children and music therapy clients. It's an interactive concert which features serious music performed on a colorful stage accompanied by costumed actors and vivid sets.
Each of the soloists include three additional elements into their performances:
1) A description and demonstration of their instrument and its features
2) A description of a musical concept like tempo, stacatto, beat, pitch. This description should be explained so the children can understand.
3) An interactive component in which the audience may participate during the performance of the piece.
Afterward, we mingle with the children, show them our instruments, and eat small triangular peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches with them.
The Open Door Recital is one of the highlights of my year, and I was delighted to be asked to come back to play for a fourth year, even though I had graduated already. Each year they feature an instrument for the finale. This year, the featured my trumpet. It was so nice of them to do so, especially since I didn't even fomally study music during my time at Elizabethtown.
I'll miss Zug and all the marvelous people who teach there and who studied there during my time at Elizabethtown. God has blessed me through them.