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Friends Music Camp
P.O. Box 59311
Chicago, IL 60659-0311
(773) 573-9181
musicfmc@yahoo.com

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FMC Benefit Concert Auditions

The FMC Benefit Concert provides campers and staff the opportunity to perform for an appreciative public, and to raise several thousand dollars for a worthy group. This year the beneficiary will be Glen Helen, a nature preserve in Yellow Springs , Ohio .

The concert, held at Mills Lawn Elementary School in Yellow Springs, showcases the camp's large ensembles: chorus, orchestra and band in alternating years and often a jazz ensemble. In addition, staff and student performers are featured. Student performers are selected by a committee based on an audition during the first week of camp.

Please keep in mind the following criteria when deciding to audition:

• Pieces should be learned and thoroughly polished before camp.
• You must tell your teacher that you would like to audition when you meet with them on the first day of camp.
• If your piece requires piano accompaniment, you must bring the piano part with you to camp and give it to your teacher the first day of camp.
• Memorization is not required, but is preferable.
• Total playing time should not exceed 10 minutes.
• Any era or style of performance is acceptable. You are encouraged to enter your own compositions.

If you wish to contact your teacher prior to camp to discuss any of this, please let us know (musicfmc@yahoo.com) and we'll give you contact information for your teacher.