Music Arts Activities: Summer Program '99

Summer Quarter at Music Arts is always exciting! A variety of courses are typically offered in such areas as ensembles (including French Horn, Flute and Cello) and group activities including such popular courses as "You're The Boss," a conducting class, and a vocal class which encourages talented young students.

In Summer 2000, Summer Quarter started May 29 and ran for 13 weeks. We had another great summer with the Student Intern Program.

Following are classes, workshops, and other activities commonly offered during the Summer Program curriculum. Please call us at (865)482-5614 to inquire more about the program, or visit descriptions of Summer Programs 1998 and 1999.

French Horn Ensemble
Emphasis is on ensemble playing, with technical instruction, sight reading, music theory and history. Intermediate and advanced students will enjoy working on open horn calls using the natural open horn as well as their own instruments in open position. For the advanced group, players need to be able to transpose from E flat music.

Who Invented Music?
Take a guided tour, starting with the hot issues back 5000 years ago. Learn where our orchestra and band instruments came from! Find out how people started writing notes, and how scales evolved. Visit the Middle Ages, Classic Greece and Europe of the Baroque and Renaissance eras! Everything you ever wanted to learn about music history.

Vocal Vibes
Sing Broadway, pops, opera and the latest Disney hits with the gang! Build up your confidence in singing and learn more about vocal control, stage presence and other aspects of pulling off a good tune. Lots of positive encouragement and constructive suggestions will build up your confidence in singing. Want private lessons but don’t know if it’s for you? This could be your stepping stone into private instruction.

Flutes, Flutes, Flutes and Piccolos!
Are you just one flute out of 30 in a band, all playing just one part? Or perhaps you’ve never played with a group? Here’s your chance to be in an ensemble with as many as eight different parts. You’ll develop special listening skills for pitch as well as rhythm, as you fit your part with the others. And you’ll certainly enjoy playing a great variety of works written or arranged just for flutes! Visit Strauss, Bach, Schubert, Wagner, Sousa, Rachmaninoff, Mozart, Rameau and others.

The Cello Crowd
Tired of playing the same old plodding cello line in orchestra? Here’s your chance to really sing! Students will play works written or arranged for small and large groups of cellos. Whatta sound! Depending on level of advancement, they’ll share solo lines with one another. This wild and reckless fun will be augmented by exercises in how to listen to other parts while playing . . . a valuable talent which all orchestra and chamber music players need! Cello technique and some music theory will be offered.