Glow Music Newsletter 2024

Experience the Pulse of Glow Music: Where Dynamic Performances, High-Caliber Talent, and Authentic Connections Converge

Table of Contents

• Giving Tuesday is Approaching!

• We have a new website! GlowMusic.live

• Application Open for Concert No.5!

• Concert Number Four: Connecting the Dots

• Thank You for Your Support!

• Administration Updates

  • We Are Looking for More Board Members!

  • Mission Statement

  • Diversity Statement

Giving Tuesday is Approaching!

Thanksgiving has been blissful, the Christmas shopping is on the way, and Giving Tuesday is approaching! The first Tuesday after Thanksgiving is the day you can support your favorite nonprofit. We welcome you to join this movement to maximize our efforts to create a better community. Your donation will helpt to pay the venue, musicians, video engineers, grant writers, and administration fees.

The goal is to raise $600 for two weeks, which will pay two musicians!

• Our PayPal remains active.

• You can also donate through Venmo @glowmusic,

• or send us a check. Check should be made payable to Glow Music and mailed to:

Glow Music
5829 Woodbridge Ln. West Chester, OH 45069.

Every dollar matters! We greatly appreciate your contribution. Through your support, we can continue serving our mission and community members. Glow Music is a 501(c)3 charity, so your donation may be tax-deductible.

We have a new website! GlowMusic.live

Glow Music now has an independent website with a cool domain! As we send out calls for applications regularly, accumulate archives of past concerts, and make it easy for our patrons to donate and volunteer, this new domain will be incredibly useful. Hop over to the new website, enjoy the pictures and blog posts, and check out what’s new!

Application Open for Concert No.5!

We are excited to announce that our annual spring concert will be held at the First Unitarian Church of Cincinnati on May 4, 2025! It will be a presentation of wonderful music and rising star musicians. Plus, they will visit MY Cincinnati, the community orchestra program in the historically underserved area of East Price Hills, as guest artists to work with students in the program. We just opened the application, so please spread the word so every music student in the Greater Cincinnati Area knows about this!

In the spring, we will ask for volunteers. We will need ushers and helping hands at the reception. Your small help goes a long way!

Concert Number Four: Connecting the Dots

Our concert in April 2024 was a huge success! We had more than 50 people in the audience, including community members from Price Hills, followers of ARCO, students and families of the MY Cincinnati program, faculty and friends from Northern Kentucky University, and our faithful supporters from the Community of Faith and CCM. We kept adding more chairs! Our performers were very friendly and made the music accessible for the audience by giving their introductions to each piece. Our YouTube channel features the works at the concert. It was the first concert with the two-group format, and it worked so well that we are repeating the format in 2025.

We commissioned Kevin Li for a song set and Saebyul Woo for a solo violin piece. Kevin’s song set consisted of two songs set to words by Sara Teasedale, a 20th Century poet from Missouri. Saebyul’s violin solo work, ‘misfit,’ includes unconventional usage of percussive violin sounds and is a presentation of her bold and beautiful confession.

The performers and composers also gave a meaningful visit to a community music education organization. They spent a couple of hours with students of MY Cincinnati. The students are beginner-elementary music learners, and middle school-high school students in the Price Hill area. Our artists gave a mini-concert, led an ensemble improvisation, introduced advanced music making, and answered the students’ questions. They also helped the students’ orchestra rehearsal time by assisting individual students in reading music and following the conductor. This community outreach program creates connections between the advanced musicians in the conservatory and the elementary students in our community.

Click this link to the blog post by Yeon-Kyung, written post-concert.

Thank You for Your Support!

In the year of 2024, we received financial support from the following donors. We tremendously appreciate your donation!:

Bill and Becky Lindsay, Hyejung Yoon, Christina LaLog, Dana Stevenson, William Perry, Ariadne Antipa, Risa Kaneko, Dawn and Dan Farwick

Administration Updates

We Are Looking for More Board Members!

If you support Glow Music’s projects and our mission, consider joining us to make a more direct impact on our work and the community. We are looking for more board members, and currently, in need of a treasurer. The treasurer's responsibilities include: creating annual and operational budgets, submitting a couple of forms to IRS, on top of tracking donations. The workload could be none in a month, or a few hours a week sporadically.

Mission Statement

Glow Music serves young classical musicians and their community. It provides the musicians opportunities to perform as artistic professionals. It provides the audience opportunities to be connected with the musicians of their community. Glow Music also serves to promote both traditional classical music and contemporary works, especially those by historically underrepresented groups of composers.

Diversity Statement

Glow Music promotes diversity and inclusion in our concert programming and event planning. We celebrate and promote the unique artistry each musician brings to us. We see the appreciation and curiosity that the audience bring to us. We see the quality and sincerity of service that employees and volunteers bring to us.   

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