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Powered by ZoomGrants™ <br />City of Pleasanton <br />FY 2024/2025 Community Grant Program - Civic Arts <br />Pacific Chamber Orchestra <br />Discover Music Elementary In-School Assembly Program <br />Requested Amount <br />$ 7,500.00 <br />Official Amount <br />$ 4,000.00 <br />Provide a brief summary of the project for which your agency is seeking funding for (no <br />more than 3 sentences; this text will be used widely during the review and implementation <br />process to describe your project.) <br />Pacific Chamber Orchestra's “Discover Music” elementary school assembly program <br />qualifies for the Californian School instructional minutes by introducing and teaching music <br />fundamentals utilizing a mixed quintet consisting of flute, clarinet, trumpet, violin, and cello <br />performing the music of diverse countries, cultures, styles and time periods. <br />The assembly program demonstrates in detail, in an entertaining and engaging manner, a <br />different music fundamental theme each year (i.e. acoustics, rhythm, melody, scales, <br />harmony, form) which helps students to distinguish musical elements and guides them <br />through a cumulative process of understanding basic concepts though successive years of <br />programs. The instructional packet of materials provided to the teachers in advance of the <br />assemblies contains useful explanations and classroom activities designed to augment the <br />concepts being covered. <br />Describe the following:a. The problem(s), need(s), issue(s) or service gaps to support the <br />need for this project in Pleasanton. b. How your project relates to the problem, need, issue <br />or service gap. c. How this relates to the Cultural Plan. <br />This In-School Assembly Program aligns with several City of Pleasanton Cultural Plan <br />Goals: <br />Goal 2 of the Cultural Plan urges Pleasanton to "Expand arts learning opportunities to <br />Page 77 of 116