The Bottom Line Duo offers two distinct types of outreach:

1. Lecture-Demonstration Format - This format is the most popular and is not only great for assemblies but is equally accessible to the community and non-music students. The duo performs and also lectures about the pieces and the instruments in an effective, entertaining, and informative format. Programming includes works from the last 300 years culminating in a disco tribute to Ozzy Ozbourne and a counting sing a long. It is an open performance where the student audience is encouraged to participate through questions and answers with the performers.

2. Demonstration-Apprenticeship Format - This format works one on one with the students and takes a little more preparation on the part of the presenter. The duo may work with the students in a master class setting where the students play a solo they are working on and the duo works with them in front of the other students. It may also incorporate one on one lessons with individual students and is accessible to adult students as well. A well-organized outreach may culminate in a duo solo with a student orchestra accompaniment.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. An increased understanding of written music’s origins.

2. An increased understanding of all musical style’s common basic structure.

3. Exposure to a “humanities” concept of joining acting, dance, and history to create art.

4. Develop improved audience skills.

5. An increased understanding of the art of musical performance.

6. Improved personal skills in the art of musical performance.

7. An increased appreciation for the beauty visually and audibly of master crafted musical instruments.

8. An increased understanding of the development of the modern stringed instrument.

Cross Discipline Connections:

Applications and connections are made in many subjects.

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