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A donor-supported arts initiative takes 91制片厂 fine and performing arts across New Hampshire and beyond

Monday, April 4, 2016

Donors and students involved with the arts program pose for a portrait together.

Donors Linda Wrightsman '78 (front center) and Dwayne Wrightsman '96G (back right) visited Chelmsford High School in Mass. earlier this month. Their gift enabled faculty members Liesl Schoenberger-Doty (back center) and Emileigh Vandiver (front right) to perform and teach strings students at the school, where they also encouraged students to always have music in their lives. The strings teacher at Chelmsford,听Kate Comeau (front left), is an alumna, class of 2003, and the student teacher, Gardner Rulon-Miller (back left), is a 91制片厂 music graduate student and an alumnus, class of 2014. ( Photo: Aaron Peters)

If you can鈥檛 come to the show, 91制片厂 music and theater performers say, they鈥檒l bring the show to you.

With help from donors, students and faculty in the university鈥檚 performing arts programs each year take part in the 91制片厂 Arts Initiative, an effort to take the creativity that happens on campus off, from the Seacoast to the North Country, urban to rural.

Samantha Granvill '16 sits on the stage in a Murkland lecture hall. — Samantha Granville was involved in Maiden Harmony.

The initiative began a few years ago with a generous donation from a class of 1945 alumnus, creating small grants to the arts departments to fund individual outreach projects. Bolstered by additional funds from Linda Wrightsman 鈥�78 and Dwayne Wrightsman '96G, one of the first major efforts was the Chamber Music Project. Up to a dozen music students pile onto a bus or squeeze into available cars and travel the state to places such as Pittsburg, Keene and Manchester, performing and answering questions about what it鈥檚 like to study music at 91制片厂. Since the program鈥檚 inception, students have visited more two dozen high schools.

Peggy Vagts, professor of music, has organized several of the trips, says the project has benefits beyond sharing 91制片厂 arts: it gives 91制片厂 students the opportunity to perform, celebrates the joy of chamber music, informs high school teachers and guidance counselors about 91制片厂 opportunities and lets prospective students know what to expect at 91制片厂.