The Composer Apprentice National Outreach Endeavor (CANOE) is off the ground. There are five 2015 participants, and we’ll have our first orientation meeting next week. I’ll be facilitating the sessions throughout the semester, in the various participant’s locations. It would be great to support and encourage our first round of participants, who are on the road to composing their first works for string quartet. Each participant will write their music by hand on paper (without a computer program) resulting in their more meticulous and thorough understanding of music notation. So, if you would, encourage, support and applaud our CANOE participants!
On an additional note, my visit to Lori Mueller’s 4th grade class last week was educational and entertaining. Her students sent me the most lovely letters of appreciation, many of them with hand drawn portrayals of flute playing and the spinning of bird roars in class (whistles attached to the end of a string). Here’s one such illustration of me playing flute with the spinning of bird roars by two students:
- Lyndsey Agar (Bowler H.S.)
- Drew Payne (Bowler H.S.)
- Tatelyn Ferguson (Gresham H.S.)
- Kalisa Jones (Gresham H.S.)
- Rayna Kupsky (Gresham H.S.)
- Shawn Stevens (Stockbridge-Munsee Community).
On an additional note, my visit to Lori Mueller’s 4th grade class last week was educational and entertaining. Her students sent me the most lovely letters of appreciation, many of them with hand drawn portrayals of flute playing and the spinning of bird roars in class (whistles attached to the end of a string). Here’s one such illustration of me playing flute with the spinning of bird roars by two students:
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