Concurrent
Session IV

Using an Inquiry Process for Making and
Observing Art

142 Massachusetts Avenue, William Davis Room

This interactive session will explore an inquiry process as
experiential learners and as contemplative teaching artists.
An inquiry process uses questions and questioning strategies
to activate learning, deepen reflection, and prompt curiosity.
In this session, the inquiry process is focused on a specific
work of art. Questions are used for a multitude of specific
purposes, among them: to consider choices in an art-making
process; to reflect upon and assess one’s learning; to help
learners develop their own questions; to go deeper into a
work of art under study; and to prompt contextual research.
—Presented by: Joy Arcolano and Jean Taylor (Teaching
Artist at Lincoln Center Institute)

—Hosted by: Bridgette Hayes

Three-Horn Writing and Arranging: Exploring

Options and Creating Colorful Contrasts
150 Massachusetts Avenue, Room B41

In this session, the Manuel Kaufmann Sextet will actively
demonstrate the creation of more effective and exciting
three-horn (voice) arrangements. The concepts and
techniques we will touch upon are equally effective for any
application in any style, genre, or instrumental combination,
although the writing and performance focuses on three
horns. The session will emphasize contrasting approaches to
show the full spectrum of alternative solutions. This lecture
and live band performance format allows us to turn dry
snippets of score samples into three-dimensional and colorful
musical impressions which can be tweaked at the spur of the
moment to zoom in on more creative options. Participants
will reawaken the arranger within and walk away with a wider
array of ideas of how to approach a given melody and turn
problematic areas into opportunities for more musically
satisfying solutions.

—Presented by: Manuel Kaufmann, Rick DiMuzio, Fernando
Huergo, Doug Johnson, Peter Kenagy, Randy Pingrey, and
Mark Walker

—Hosted by: Brian Curr

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