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2009 MUSIC CAMP RECAP

 

The first St. Andrew Music Camp held July 13-19^th in Aptos, CA went beyond everyone's highest expectations. Thirty-eight students in grades 1-6 spent 3 hours a day for five days learning rhythms, playing bells, feeling the beat, singing and moving in more ways than you can imagine. They left the campus enthused and anxious to return. Parents remarked on the number of camp songs being repeated at home each day.

 

Those attending church on Sunday, July 19 were amazed and delighted with the wall-to-wall attendance. Parents, siblings, grandparents and friends of the participating Music Campers made it look like Christmas Eve at St. Andrew and filled the air with childish glee. Campers provided a bell piece written by Eileen Mihm for the Introit and sang an African folk song, Obwisana, as special music.

 

Campers and their familes joined St. Andrew members in an after-service potluck. Congratulations to the potluck team. Food was in abundance for everyone and gave the spirited children energy for the full 25 minute concert which followed.

 

During the concert first graders sang She'll Be Comin Round the Mountain accompanied by Don Adkins on ukulele, Melody Pouls on fiddle and Natasha Nogueira on bass. They "killed the old red rooster" and ate "tofu and dumplings" when the rooster got away. Getting the children in place was a delight in itself. As Don exclaimed, "It's like trying to herd grasshoppers."

 

Upper grades played bells and sang in harmony on every song. Three combined grade pieces included hand gestures, solo percussion and dance by 5th/6th grade girls in the last number, Shoes N Kazoo Blues. Yes, those really were kazoos they played.

St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, 9850 Monroe Avenue, Aptos, CA 95003

Phone: 831-688-4211, Fax: 831-685-2078, Email: kathy@standrew-aptos.org

Registration for the 2010 St. Andrew Summer Music Camp is full. To be placed on a waiting list, contact Kathy at:  688-4211 or <kathy@standrew-aptos.org>.

 

Music Camp enrolls children entering grades 1-6. Classes will be held from 9:30am to 12:30pm, Monday, July 19, through Friday, July 23.

 

Cost is $45 per camper or $55 per family. Music campers will be taught music through fun games and movement. They will learn about rhythm, pitch, singing, harmony, note-reading, chime bells, recorders, kazoos and percussion instruments.

 

In addition, campers will hear two noon-time recitals (open to the public) Tuesday, July 20, and Thursday, July 22. Last year, noon-time recitals included David Brewer presenting an entertaining look at bagpipe music and also student scholarship winners of The Talent Bank Awards Festival performing Beethoven, Chaminade, Haydn, and Shostakovich.

 

Teachers at music camp include:

Don Adkins is an instructor of orchestra, music history and theory and the musical director of many Broadway musicals. Don teaches at Cabrillo College and Bethany University. He is the guest pre-concert lecturer for the Santa Cruz Symphony.

 

Kathryn Adkins is an instructor of acting, musical theater and voice technique at Cabrillo College, Bethany University and in her home studio. Kathryn has many years of experience performing and directing Broadway musicals. In the Fall of 2008, she produced Seussical for the Cabrillo Theater Department.

Register now! Camp classes: July 19 - 23 & final concert: July 25, 2010

The 2010 Music Camp Is Full!