Workshop Series 2011-2012 Flyer and Registration – Click HERE Workshop #1 - Composing, Arranging, and Improvising Saturday, October 29, 2011, 9am-1pm (registration & coffee at 8:30 am) Clinician: Jay Broeker Location: Orchestra Room, Boston University College of Fine Arts, 855 Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA 02215 PARKING: Agganis Arena underground parking lot- $1 per half-hour 808 Commonwealth surface parking - $8 flat rate Directions Jay Broeker's teaching experience spans preschool through college programs. He is currently on the faculty of The Blake School in Hopkins, Minnesota, where he teaches general music for grades K-5. Jay has been a music teacher at schools in Texas, Indiana, and Oklahoma, and was on the faculty at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, where he taught courses in music education and aural skills and accompanied the Westminster College Choirs. Mr. Broeker holds Kodály and Orff Schulwerk certification, and is a frequent clinician for national and state music education organizations. During the summer he is an instructor in music teacher training courses at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, and the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Jay's commissioned choral works have been performed by OAKE National and ACDA Regional Honor Choirs, Oklahoma and Ohio All-State Children's Choirs, and the Westminster College and University of St. Thomas choirs. His choral arrangements are published by Santa Barbara Music Publishing and by Boosey & Hawkes. A packet of children's choral music included in workshop. Registration MUST be in by September 15 in order to be guaranteed a choral packet. NOTE: In addition to the choral packet you will receive, Jay asks that participants bring a copy of a "classroom" song of their choosing. Jay will teach us how to transform that piece into a setting for a choral performance. It will definitely help with those of us who do not have auditioned choirs, those with "mandatory" choruses, as well as those with brilliantly polished, excellent choirs. Registration information available for download at http://www.bostonareakodaly.org/calendar.html . Workshop #2 - Middle Eastern Music for Classrooms and Choirs Saturday, November 19, 2011, 9 am-1:30 pm Clinician: Joan Litman Location: Orchestra Room, Boston University College of Fine Arts, 855 Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA 02215 PARKING: Agganis Arena underground parking lot- $1 per half-hour 808 Commonwealth surface parking - $8 flat rate Directions Joan Litman is a native of Los Angeles and has taught students and teachers in the New York City area for thirty years. Ms. Litman is a member of the music faculty of the United Nations International School in New York, where she directs the UNIS Mothers’ Chorus and a children’s choir. She is the Artistic Director of the Cantigas Women's Choir in Hoboken, New Jersey. With a longing to stimulate curiosity, trust and enjoyment of often misunderstood cultures, Ms. Litman has focused her musical research on the Middle East, which she shares with teachers in cultural context. Ms. Litman is the author of Caravan of Song which will be completed in 2011. Ms. Litman has enjoyed teaching (and learning from!) both students and teachers throughout the United States and abroad, most recently in Spain, Syria, and Lebanon. From Joanne Crowell: Hi Everyone, I must rescind my invitation to dinner with Joan Litman when she comes to Boston. She is in fact available to join us for lunch near BU after her workshop. So no dinner on Friday. I look forward to seeing you on Saturday, the 19th. Joanne Crowell Workshop #3 - Ballads and Play Parties Saturday, January 14, 2012, 9am-1pm (registration & coffee at 8:30 am) Clinicians: Jill Trinka Location: Orchestra Room, Boston University College of Fine Arts, 855 Commonwealth Ave, Boston MA 02215 PARKING: Agganis Arena underground parking lot- $1 per half-hour 808 Commonwealth surface parking - $8 flat rate Directions Dr. Trinka is a singer, dancer, performer, teacher, and textbook writer who resides in South Carolina. Dr. Trinka has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in music education at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. Professor Trinka specializes in American folk music---including performance on guitar, autoharp, dulcimer, and banjo--musicianship, folk song analysis and classification, elementary music education, and world music. She was a 1974-75 Ford Foundation Ringer Fellow at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary. Dr. Trinka has recorded and written four volumes of folksongs, singing games, and play parties for kids of all ages: My Little Rooster (1987), Bought Me a Cat (1988), John, the Rabbit (1989), and The Little Black Bull (1996). Her collaborative recordings with John Feierabend, Had a Little Rooster, Old Joe Clark, and There's a Hole in the Bucket were released by GIA publications in 2006. She was president of OAKE (2000-2002) and received their Outstanding Educator Award in 2003. Jill is also a contributing author to Pearson/Scott Foresman/Silver Burdett's Making Music, Grades 5-8, and has also served as a recording artist. OAKE EASTERN DIVISION FALL TUNE UP November 4-5, 2011 Adelphi University, Garden City, NY (26 Miles East of New York City, on Long Island) http://www.oake.org/Documents/Downloads/Eastern_Division.pdf 2012 Kodály Music Institute Mary A Epstein and Jonathan C. Rappaport, Directors The Kodály Music Institute, located in Massachusetts, will hold its annual summer course with four concurrent levels July 2 through 20, 2012. New! Exciting location to be announced soon! Same great faculty! Same great quality! 6 Graduate credits available per level per each summer! Downloadable applications and information will be available soon Early Bird Application - April 1, 2012 For questions about the certificate program, contact Mary Epstein (mepstein@kodalymusicinstitute.org). KMI's focus is on improving the content and pedagogical knowledge of K-12 music teachers through content-rich areas of study based on the principles and philosophy of Zoltán Kodály. Participants improve their own musicianship by singing in both moveable do solfège and fixed letter names, conducting, and performing choral repertoire. Participants expand their pedagogical skills through singing/dancing multi-cultural folksongs, dances, singing games, jazz and classical art music; through researching, analyzing, and codifying musical materials; and through writing lesson plans and curriculum projects. Children attend on-site music classes/rehearsals that participants observe as live application of Kodálys principles. Music-teacher participants who successfully complete this institute will deepen their knowledge of the MA Arts Curriculum Framework concepts and skills as well as the MTEL music-teacher test content knowledge. Four concurrent levels are held each summer during the three weeks. KMI's full certificate, worth 20 graduate credits, is endorsed by the Organization of American Kodály Educators. Endorsed by Organization of American Kodály Educators
	Vocal Vacation Choral Arts Festival July 9 – 20, 2012 Children’s Program Director - Joanne Crowell jcrowell@kodalymusicinstitute.org Early Bird Application - April 1, 2012 New! Exciting location to be announced soon! Downloadable applications will be available soon Vocal Vacation is a cross-cultural summer music choral festival where urban and suburban children gather together for friendship and song. An innovative component of the Kodály Music Institute, this two-week program for children Grades 2-12 provides in-depth artistic experiences. Each student has a daily group music class taught via the Kodály approach, daily chorus practice, and other arts-related activities such as folk dancing, recorder, and visual arts "treks" to local museums. Music classes and chorus are taught by master Kodály educators and are observed by teacher participants attending the Kodály Music Institute as part of their training.
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