WCO Offers Second Annual Summer Orchestral Music Workshops

MUSIC CAMP 2011 WILL BE JULY 11-15, MARK YOUR CALENDAR!!  
            The Wickenburg Children’s cultural Organization is proud to announce the first annual Wickenburg Orchestral Music Workshops, June 28 – July 2, 2010 was a huge success.  The workshops were open to young people ages 7-18.
            Two workshops were designed to offer great musical experiences to young people, regardless of previous musical experience. The first workshop, the Music Explorers Workshop, was designed to provide an introduction to music and the instruments of the orchestra. The second, the Young Performers Workshop, places young instrumentalists in the Workshop Orchestra, where they will meet, practice, and perform with an array of local musicians, guest artists, and students from throughout the region.
            Registration for the workshops is$45.00 for the Explorers and  $75.00 for the Young performers; however, a limited number of scholarships are available. For registration materials or additional information, visit www.wco.org or call (928) 684-7473.

Registration forms and scholarship applications will be available closer to the camp dates.  In the Spring, check with your school office or homeschoolers association.  WCO members will be auditioning students for next  year's camp.  See what happened in 2010:
WCO Music Explorers Sample Day

Monday June 28, 2010

PIANO KEYBOARD DAY

8:45a

·         Listening to Background music as students enter

8:45-9:30a

Music listening, featured composer, music history

·         Bach:  “Anna Magdelena’s Notebook”

·         Name tag activity (Randomly give name tags to students.  Students find their names.) Bach’s 23 children, 76 relatives, 50 with the name “Johann”

  • Lead into BACH’s brief biographical background, mentioning one of two wives, one immortalized in “Anna Magdalena” (featured piano piece Monday: Piano.
  • Stress active listening

9:30a

Introduction  Orchestral Section

DVD: Young Person’s Guide to The Orchestra

“Piano” Section

9:45a

Rhythmic
Awareness

15 Min

Bols: Rhythmic System from India (TA is the down-beat), using hands, learning rests (quiet is not stop).

Materials: Presentation Set-up: Dry-erase/markers, Laptop/projector, invite children to write their own, paper, markers

10:00a

Note Reading

25 min

 

Create a Giant Staff on Floor, students will use their bodies to represent notes by moving, jumping around.

Move to keyboard: Students will practice Rhythms they just learned and transpose them to a piano keyboard. Treble

Painter’s tape (1-1 ½ inch)

10:30a

Guest Performance

Musician

 

Kay Anderson

Performance and Q&A

Hands-on

Is it possible to have a real piano available?

 

11:00a

Snack

Q: for students to think about

During snack:

IF you think about how a piano is built do you think you could make one?

Build an Instrument

11:15a

20 min

Building a Piano

Materials: cardboard, tubes, bottles, PVC piping, boom-whackers

Pre-cut (to cut down on time). Masking tape, electrical tape, glue, fishing line, Sharpies (for personalizing instruments).

11:35a

Singing 

15 min

2-note song: “Hey! Hey! Look-at-me” (p.245 Spotlight to Music, Grade 2) and “In and Out”

 

*Final Performance Practice Song:

“Are You Sleeping” and “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”

11:50a

Responding to Music

5 min

Bach “Anna Magdalena.” Movement to show high and low.

Different versions of same song introduced.

 

12:00p

Dismissal

 

Sample Young Performers Schedule (Young Performers' did not have a separate breakout in 2010 but we anticipate it will in 2011.



Young Performers' Workshop

Daily Schedule

9:00 – Sectionals

            Warm-ups

            Ear Training: Match pitch, blend and balance, singing parts

            Technique: Posture, breathing, colors and dynamics

 

10:00 – Ensemble Rehearsal

            Basic conducting, phrasing, listening; as necessary for music

 

11:00 – Guest Presentation

            Monday - Keyboards: Kay Anderson, Diamondbacks Organist

Tuesday - Brass: Tim Johnson

Wednesday - Strings: Quartet

Thursday - Woodwinds: Elizabeth Wagner (Music Therapist/Clarinetist)

Friday - Percussion: Rebecca Duncan, Matthew Britton

 

11:30 – Lunch

 

12:15 – Theory and Appreciation

Monday: Time signatures and counting system – Gershwin: Preludes; Debussy, Claire de Lune

Tuesday: Clefs and reading notes: F, C, G clefs; major and minor keys (handout: mini keyboard) – Shostaokovich: Novorrossisk Chimes (PR brass version), Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite (Viennese Musical Clock), some fast brass quintet music?

Wednesday: Key Signatures: order of sharps and flats, handouts for circle of fifths, how to figure from signature,  (handout: list of labeled key signatures, order of sharps and flats) – Copland: Hoe-Down from Rodeo, Barber: Adagio for String, Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

Thursday: Tempos and dynamics, review: lists and definitions – Tchaikovsky: 4th Symphony, mvt. 2, Grainger: Linconshire Posy, The Brisk Young Sailor; Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee

Friday: Form and Roles – Blast!: Marimba Spiritual,

 

Tuesday-Thursday Afternoon

 

1:00 – Games (Music games, team building)

            Monday – Pass the Tempo (clapping team-building exercise), name learning

            Tuesday – Note-Reading Bingo, Spell-the-Word (on the staff)

            Wednesday – Building a machine, drawing music symbols with the body

            Thursday – Musical Jeopardy

 

2:00 – Ensemble Rehearsal

 

3:00 – Dismissal

Friday Afternoon

 

1:00 – Games

            The Cup Game, Balloon Volleyball

 

1:30 – Ensemble Rehearsal

 

2:30 – Distribute T-shirts and Take Pictures

 

3:00 – Dinner

            Pizza Party

 

4:00 – Rehearsal with Community Orchestra

 

5:00 – Concert

 

6:00 - Dismissal
   
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