National Symphony Orchestra
Instrument Petting Zoo 10am-12pm
Get up close and personal with orchestral instruments as seen professionally played on the Kennedy Center stage. Meet NSO musicians and try out a violin or a trumpet or whatever you'd like. This hands-on musical instrument space is for children and adults.
NSO chamber musicians will also perform from 1-2pm in the Hirshhorn's Ring Theater.
A project of the The Women's Committee for the National Symphony Orchestra (WC/NSO) was founded in 1941 to provide educational and financial support to the orchestra. Over the years, it has given its support, both as members and volunteers, through a variety of activities. It provides funding for the Principal Oboe Chair, the sixth NSO subscription week and one NSO guest conductor week annually. Women's Committee members organize and staff music education programs for all ages and meet in six regional chapters and as a whole for business, social and musical events.
Instrument Petting Zoo 10am-12pm
Get up close and personal with orchestral instruments as seen professionally played on the Kennedy Center stage. Meet NSO musicians and try out a violin or a trumpet or whatever you'd like. This hands-on musical instrument space is for children and adults.
NSO chamber musicians will also perform from 1-2pm in the Hirshhorn's Ring Theater.
A project of the The Women's Committee for the National Symphony Orchestra (WC/NSO) was founded in 1941 to provide educational and financial support to the orchestra. Over the years, it has given its support, both as members and volunteers, through a variety of activities. It provides funding for the Principal Oboe Chair, the sixth NSO subscription week and one NSO guest conductor week annually. Women's Committee members organize and staff music education programs for all ages and meet in six regional chapters and as a whole for business, social and musical events.
The Eidophone apparatus is used to show the shape of sound (with the help of a voice, sand and a vibrating membrane). Depending on the kind of sound which is sung and the pitch of this sound, various patterns emerge. Just as we are all unique, so too are our "acoustic autographs." Stop by to give it a try!
Grace Digney
Based in Northern Ireland, Grace Digney (MA Fine and Applied art) has developed a range of artwork in response to sound. Grace primarily uses eidophones as both an artistic medium and also as a tool in speech therapy.
Grace Digney
Based in Northern Ireland, Grace Digney (MA Fine and Applied art) has developed a range of artwork in response to sound. Grace primarily uses eidophones as both an artistic medium and also as a tool in speech therapy.
Sonic Twister
Twister has a new twist! Each pad activates a unique layer of audio, building into a welter of discordant sounds.
Will Atwood Mitchell is a programmer and electronics hobbyist in Washington D.C.
photo: Susan Gravatt
Twister has a new twist! Each pad activates a unique layer of audio, building into a welter of discordant sounds.
Will Atwood Mitchell is a programmer and electronics hobbyist in Washington D.C.
photo: Susan Gravatt
DIY Windchimes Come turn silence into music - build your own wind chime. All materials donated by Community Forklift (a salvaged home improvement supply center in town). Bits and scraps can be a dissonant mess but in the right hands they can be transformed into song. Build one (or 2 or 3), hang it up to add to the sounds of the Hirshhorn's outdoor plaza -- but don't forget to take it home with you when you leave. Yours to keep (free)!
Photo credit: Lynzphotos