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Well Karl,
Since I haven't seen any other post about camp I'll say a few words.
First off, it was great! But what else would you expect? I didn't make it
last year so it was nice to see old faces and meet new ones this year. I
felt it was well organized, with a good variety of levels of classes. There
was -plenty- of stuff for beginners, so no one felt left out as if stuff
would be over their heads. And, like always, so many classes sounded good I
wanted to take all of them, but had to make choices when they were going on
concurrently.
All the teachers were great, and with so many of them there was a very good
ratio of teacher to student. The teachers from Japan were particularly
enthusiastic about getting their teaching across. It was also humorous to
watch as they took a moment to consult each other to, as Kakizakai said on
several occasions, "We need to adjust our opinions." You could see there
was great friendship and love between them.
The student concert night showed everyone making improvements in their
playing. However, one teacher, who shall remain nameless, (eh mate?)
pointed out that we ALL still need to improve on our pitch. So if you plan
to go next year, work on your pitch and make some poor, nameless, southern
exposure teacher happy and not want to give up and switch to digiridoo in
frustration! (All names [from different southern continents] are withheld
in order to protect the innocent.)
The teacher concert night was nothing short of phenomenal! They certainly
played on pitch, to say the least! The playing was exciting and very
inspirational. Modern as well as traditional pieces were played with equal
excitement and passion.
The duet night was a lot of fun. Riley had his debut as conductor,
orchestrating our groupings and playing.
Unfortunately, I had to commute nightly and therefore am unable to report
on the "after, after hours" events. But I did hear something about a hot
tub gathering. I'll have to let someone who actually was there report on that.
All in all, my hat goes off to Cory Sperry and all the other organizers and
all the teachers who did a splendid job and to the participants who added
their wonderful, loving, friendly spirit.
Herb
At 6/26/02 03:09 PM, you wrote:
>any early musings on this years summer camp (i'm anxious to hear as i
>was disappointed i couldn't attend) ?
>
>PS - i hope this doesn't trigger 5000 loopy messages - sorry in advance
>if it does...
>
>-- KY
>Karl Young kyoung@slac.stanford.edu
>SLAC M/S 71 PO Box 20450
>Stanford, CA 94309
>650-926-3380 (voice)
>____________________________________________________
>
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<font size=3>Well Karl,<br>
<br>
Since I haven't seen any other post about camp I'll say a few
words.<br>
<br>
First off, it was great! But what else would you expect? I didn't make it
last year so it was nice to see old faces and meet new ones this year. I
felt it was well organized, with a good variety of levels of classes.
There was -plenty- of stuff for beginners, so no one felt left out as if
stuff would be over their heads. And, like always, so many classes
sounded good I wanted to take all of them, but had to make choices when
they were going on concurrently.<br>
<br>
All the teachers were great, and with so many of them there was a very
good ratio of teacher to student. The teachers from Japan were
particularly enthusiastic about getting their teaching across. It was
also humorous to watch as they took a moment to consult each other to, as
Kakizakai said on several occasions, "We need to adjust our
opinions." You could see there was great friendship and love between
them.<br>
<br>
The student concert night showed everyone making improvements in their
playing. However, one teacher, who shall remain nameless, (eh mate?)
pointed out that we ALL still need to improve on our pitch. So if you
plan to go next year, work on your pitch and make some poor, nameless,
southern exposure teacher happy and not want to give up and switch to
digiridoo in frustration! (All names [from different southern
continents] are withheld in order to protect the innocent.)<br>
<br>
The teacher concert night was nothing short of phenomenal! They certainly
played on pitch, to say the least! The playing was exciting and very
inspirational. Modern as well as traditional pieces were played with
equal excitement and passion. <br>
<br>
The duet night was a lot of fun. Riley had his debut as conductor,
orchestrating our groupings and playing.<br>
<br>
Unfortunately, I had to commute nightly and therefore am unable to report
on the "after, after hours" events. But I did hear something
about a hot tub gathering. I'll have to let someone who actually was
there report on that.<br>
<br>
All in all, my hat goes off to Cory Sperry and all the other organizers
and all the teachers who did a splendid job and to the participants who
added their wonderful, loving, friendly spirit.<br>
<br>
Herb<br>
<br>
At 6/26/02 03:09 PM, you wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type=cite cite>any early musings on this years summer camp
(i'm anxious to hear as i<br>
was disappointed i couldn't attend) ?<br>
<br>
PS - i hope this doesn't trigger 5000 loopy messages - sorry in
advance<br>
if it does...<br>
<br>
-- KY<br>
Karl Young kyoung@slac.stanford.edu<br>
SLAC M/S 71 PO Box 20450<br>
Stanford, CA 94309 <br>
650-926-3380 (voice)<br>
____________________________________________________<br>
<br>
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