This is not just a playground game. It’s rehearsal. Isaacson is the founder and artistic director of the nonprofit Classical Uprising. Nearly two years ago, she and composer Judd Greenstein started working with these students to develop an original piece of music… “Growing Up Maine” is a concert-length work that was born out of their poems and hand clapping games and interviews.
“It’s a musical portrait of a community in transition, told by the children who are transforming it,” Isaacson said.