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About New Millennium Strings
New Millennium Strings was born out of a need for amateur stringed instrument players to have a venue for growth and performance in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Many members have had professional instruction or are currently studying with private teachers as well as performing with various Bay Area community orchestras, symphonies, or other musical groups or organizations. Each member of NEW MILLENNIUM STRINGS brings a wealth of performance technique, expertise, and years of playing his or her stringed instrument: Violin, Viola, Cello, or String Bass.
The performance of benefit concerts is the driving force for NEW MILLENNIUM STRINGS, and this program at Saint Ambrose represents our second opportunity to fulfill our goal of helping to raise funds to meet specific needs.
NEW MILLENNIUM STRINGS
New approaches will create a new concept of string
Expression: Where strings are given a new freedon
Whole new vistas arise for innovative string players.
Millennium heralds a new beginning - an opportunity for
Innovation in method and new focus for string technique.
Live sound - will be grown from a new creative approach
Lending itself to a willingness to experiment with new
Expression and new dynamics for stringed instruments.
Now is the time - to join with fellow string players in
NEW MILLENNIUM STRINGS - whose time has come - with the
Intent of developing and nurturing a new approach by
Utilizing new group dynamics - coaching - workshops
Methods breaking away from timeworn conventions.
Strings provide the foundation for instrumental sound.
Traditionally stringed instruments imitate singers.
Recognizing the potential yet untapped string sound
Inherent in our finely-crafted stringed instruments,
New possibilities are awaiting a new unveiling.
Gather with fellow string players striving for a new
String sound to be grown by NEW MILLENNIUM STRINGS.
Acrostic by Hal Bosworth
November 18, 1997 (founding date)