Piano Camp 2007

The first week of piano camp ended today with a splash...literally! We started out our final party with a few (somewhat) calm relay races in the backyard, and ended up having a hilarious water fight which left us soaked from head to toe on a beautiful 85-degree San Diego day! With 10 kids enrolled, ages 6-13, and three fabulous assistants helping me, the week was terrific--full of all kinds of music, laughter, kick-ball, crafts, pizza and Popsicles!

I'll start by telling you a little about the music...we started off each day as the students rolled in, with one of my assistants playing music from different periods. As I greeted students or talked with parents, another assistant escorted students to a seat around the piano to hear the music being played. The first day, we heard Baroque music. The second day we heard music from the Classical period. The third day we heard Romantic music, and the fourth day, Contemporary music. We talked about the different time periods and also discussed characteristics which are typical of each period of music. While enjoying live music, students worked on simple crafts, such as "shrinky dinks" or lanyards.

~Lori