PRINCETON, NJ Restaurant Dining Guide Announcement

VOICES Announces its 22nd Annual Music Composition Contest For Children 5 - 12

VOICES Music Composition Contest for Children is a great opportunity for kids to develop their musical talent and get feedback from a professional composer.

Children ages 5 to 12 are invited to compose a piece of music with a vocal element. They are asked to write it down in any kind of notation (formal or invented) and make a cassette or CD-R recording. Parents, piano teachers, and music teachers are invited to support, but not edit the child’s music, as children hear things in their own imaginations often differently from adults. Submit a recording and three written copies of the child’s music with the child’s name and age, assisting adult’s name, phone number, address, and the child’s background in music, together with a $5.00 processing fee, to:

                 VOICES Composition Contest, P.O. Box 404, Pennington, NJ 08534

                                        Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2010

Established composers will review all entries, and children will receive written feedback and encouragement on their pieces. Because the goal of the contest is to encourage composition, most children are declared gold or silver winners. They will have their pieces performed at VOICES’ Young Composer Concert on April 12 at 7:00 pm, at Music Together in Hopewell, NJ. All children receive a prize for their creativity and performance: a pint of ice cream!

Lyn Ransom, VOICES Music Director and Co-author at Music Together Preschool, writes: “Every child has some ability to sing, dance, and play instruments. Babies coo and gurgle, swoop and imitate. Is this singing or language? Every child who learns how to talk has the ability to sing. Singing, speaking, dancing are all natural and to be shared. Let your 5 year old or 8 year old thrive on creating a song or a dance about a birthday, holiday, family event, or any topic of special interest to him or her. The benefit to the child is in the creation, the pulling together of previous experiences in order to make something new. Most children love to perform and will want their creation acknowledged and applauded.”

To help the children interested in participating in this contest to compose a tune of their own, Lyn Ransom and members of VOICES Chorale will conduct a free workshop on Monday, February 15, from 2:30 - 3:45 pm at the Center for Music & Young Children (Music Together), 66 Witherspoon Street, Princeton, NJ.
 

 For additional information, please contact Debbie Gwynne, Program Chair, at 609-397-0756 or email at dgmusica@comcast.net. Also visit www.VOICESChorale.org and subscribe to VOICES’ newsletter for updates on latest events at www.enewsarchive.com/VOICES.