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\"SeattleEMG\"I recently had the opportunity to meet with leaders of several arts groups in Seattle. One was Gus Denhard, executive director of Seattle’s Early Music Guild<\/a>. In the course of the conversation, he told me about a fundraiser his organization has been involved in. Ordinarily, I am not enthusiastic about fundraisers as community engagement activities since they usually simply involve giving a portion of an event’s proceeds to some worthy cause with little involvement or investment by the arts organization in the organization whose cause the event supports. EMG’s fundraiser is different on several counts.<\/p>\n

After Ebola: Bringing Hope to Life<\/em><\/a> has been presented the last two years to raise funds for Liberian Transcontinental Christian Ministries’ provision of housing, food, clothing, and education for\u00a0children who have been orphaned as a result of\u00a0the Ebola crisis. The 2014 concert was described as follows:<\/p>\n

The crises caused by various plagues in human history have inspired artistic responses \u2014 art that does the work of mourning and remembering the victims and offering consolation to the bereaved. The special Early Music Guild concert will focus on the musical response of Medieval European composers such as Machaut, Landini, and Dufay to the devastating bubonic plague of the late Middle Ages. These will be juxtaposed with readings and songs from West Africa.<\/em><\/p>\n

The concert will suggest parallels between Europeans\u2019 reactions to plague in the 13th and 14th centuries and the ongoing tragedy in West Africa. This Ebola Relief program will feature performers including Eunice Yonly, Erin Calata, Erika Chang, and Marian Seibert, voices; August Denhard, lute; Shulamit Kleinerman, vielle; Bill McJohn, harp; and Peggy Monroe, percussion.<\/em><\/p>\n

The 2015 concert featured a trio performing on harp, jarana, guitar, quinta, voice, lute, Baroque guitar, therobo, oud, andereta, bendir, teponatzli, caj\u00f3n, zils, cascabeles, and rattles.<\/p>\n

To me these events are remarkable in several ways. First, the fact that an early music group is sufficiently invested in contemporary events to consider something like this is heartening. Second, awareness of the parallels between the origins of (very) old music and contemporary issues demonstrates a real concern for community and the potential of even Renaissance music to have continued relevance. Finally, the 2015 concert demonstrates a willingness to expand understanding of the group’s mission by including decidedly non-traditional (for an early music group) instruments in its offerings.<\/p>\n

Bravo EMG!<\/p>\n

Engage!<\/p>\n

Doug<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An early music group’s well-designed response to Africa’s Ebola crisis and aftermath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Engaging Early Music: An early music group's response to Ebola.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[12,13,25,36,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-4397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-examples","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-community-engagement","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-partnership","12":"tag-relationships","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/engage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SeattleEMG.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1G6h9-18V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5197,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/engage\/2018\/01\/share-what-you-have\/","url_meta":{"origin":4397,"position":0},"title":"Share What You Have","author":"Doug Borwick","date":"January 31, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Simple ways of engaging become apparent when an organization identifies itself as a community member willing and able to contribute its life.","rel":"","context":"In "The Practice of Engagement"","block_context":{"text":"The Practice of Engagement","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/engage\/category\/the-practice-of-engagement\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/engage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SharingBread-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4101,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/engage\/2015\/05\/parsing-engage\/","url_meta":{"origin":4397,"position":1},"title":"Parsing “Engage”","author":"Doug Borwick","date":"May 13, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Parsing \"Engage\": considering definitions and implications of similar sounding concepts.","rel":"","context":"In "Principles"","block_context":{"text":"Principles","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/engage\/category\/principles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"EngagementRing","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/engage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/EngagementRing-e1429555281389.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":481,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/engage\/2011\/09\/what-is-engagement\/","url_meta":{"origin":4397,"position":2},"title":"What Is Engagement?","author":"Doug Borwick","date":"September 24, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I am teaching a course this fall called Arts in the Community. 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