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Gift of music

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Luverne Street Music receives grant to purchase instruments
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Lori Sorenson

The historic Carnegie Cultural Center was filled with resonating tones of mallets on metallic and wooden bars of new instruments that were delivered Wednesday, April 6.
Luverne Street Music purchased the instruments — metallophones, xylophones, glockenspiels and other percussion instruments — from the Guitar Center, Sioux Falls, with donated funds.
Continental Western Group and Rock County Red Arrow awarded $4,500 in grants that were used to pay for the instruments.
Guitar Center employees donated their time and skills to deliver and assemble the Orff instruments, which will be used for summer music camp scheduled for the week of July 18-22 using the Orff Schulwerk approach.
Instructors of the camp, 1995 LHS graduates Julie Jacobsma and Mistyn Iveland Kozisek, said the approach “utilizes movement and improvisation and nurtures creativity.”
The camp will be offered to two groups, ages 4-9 and ages 10 and older. Music camp students will create music-themed paintings that will be displayed at the Carnegie.
For camp information or to register, contact Kozisek at 402-367-5045 or mjkozisek@yahoo.com.
The new instruments will also be utilized by the LSM Children’s Choir, and plans are being made to offer after-school sessions using the Orff approach.
Luverne Street Music began leasing the Carnegie from the city of Luverne on March 1, and the historic building has been under renovation since then to provide classroom space and to make the building handicap accessible.
Luverne Street Music will fully occupy the Carnegie by June 1. Until that time, it will continue offering instruction at St. Catherine’s Church, Luverne.
For information about LSM, contact LaDonna Iveland at luvernestreetmusic@hotmail.com, or find LSM on Facebook or on www.luvernestreetmusic.com.

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