For the past few years Kris has been teaching for the Newark Performing Arts located at the Life Community Church in Newark, DE. He has taught a variety of classes from percussion to orchestra to chamber music. For this concert he had a percussion class performance as well as a chamber music group. His percussion class performed a super cool piece called "Clappercussion". It was a combination of body sounds (claps, stomps etc...) and drumming on toms.
For his chamber music group I had the honor of being a guest artist. This worked out great except during the concert I started on the wrong piece! Oops!!! Luckily it was in the same key as the real piece so there were only a few funky chords before I got myself straightened out. It was still very embarrassing. In addition to the groups Kris coached they also had a violin class, guitar class, vocal class and a few dance classes perform as well. All the kids did really well and while Kris is going to miss the NPA I know he won't miss the drive all the way up to Delaware once a week!
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