STARS Performance Programs

In these programs, your students can get hands-on, real-world advice geared toward several performance career paths. Bands and choirs will score an actual movie scene and dancers will learn how to ace auditions and more. All of the workshops are developed to align with National Core Arts Standards and focus on career readiness.

Sound Design: Music and the Art of Foley

This program is newly enhanced and designed by Robert W. Smith to reinforce National Core Arts Standards. Students will sync music, choral arrangements, Foley, and digital sound effects to real movie scenes.

Designed by Robert W. Smith to reinforce National Core Arts Standards, orchestra, band, and choir students experience life as working movie musicians performing original underscores, creating Foley effects, and selecting digital sound effects for animated movie scenes. Choose from hits like:

• • • Illumination’s The Secret Life of Pets
    • DreamWorks Trolls
    • Illumination’s Despicable Me
    • The Lorax

Standards Alignment

This workshop connects to three Artistic Processes of the National Core Arts Standards: Create, Perform, and Respond. Within each of the Artistic Processes, workshops reinforce specific performance standards in:

• • Describe and demonstrate how sounds and musical ideas can be used to represent sonic events, memories, visual images, concepts, texts, or storylines.
  • Select, develop, and organize multiple melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas to develop into a larger work that exhibits unity, variety, complexity, and coherence using digital and analog tools, resources, and systems.
  • Preserve draft musical works through standard notation, audio, or video recording.

Selection Criteria

Participating groups should have a minimum of 40 attendees. Each group should submit a completed application at least six weeks prior to the proposed workshop date. The entire workshop experience will last approximately 60-90 minutes. Along with the completed applications, groups should provide the following: a link to a video of your group’s most recent performance up to three minutes in length per group.

Groups will be provided the sheet music prior to their workshop. Groups wishing to sight-read may do so at their director’s discretion. Park-to-Park admission tickets are required.
Group Requirements
A minimum of (40) youth participants is required for the workshop (additional workshop fee applies) as well as a minimum ticket purchase of at least (40) Park tickets inclusive of chaperones.
Wardrobe
Uniforms are not required for Sound Design: Music and The Art of Foley and will be up to the discretion of the group’s director and based on the provided and signed Performance Guidelines.
Technical Assistance
Music and The Art of Foley workshop. Timpani (set of 4), Concert Bass Drum, Marimba, Xylophone, Vibraphone, Chimes, Orchestra Bells, and Congas are provided upon request as listed on the STARS Application. All scheduled workshops are subject to change.