Feature Article

Developing a Community Music Group

By Albert Asch

In September, 1968, the University of Wisconsin Washington County Campus opened its doors to the first student body. At 7:30 p.m. on Thursday of that first week the first rehearsal of the Kettle Moraine Community Orchestra was to begin. Everything had been done to attract community musicians to the rehearsal: articles and pictures to the paper; visits to musicians who were interested in a community group who could help recruit; letters to musicians in the community notifying them of the new organization and requesting that they bring a friend and finally letters, a newspaper article and posters announcing the time and place for the first rehearsal of the new community music group.

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