Archive through April 17, 2001
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Archive through April 17, 2001
Schoolmarm | Saturday, April 14, 2001 - 07:16 pm   WOW!! Tess, this has made my day!! Your friend will LOVE the Orff classes at St. Thomas...I've done 3 levels and the Mastery Certificate and studied in Europe twice. I get to travel and do workshops for teachers. I teach students how to be music teachers, after having spent over 10 years in the elementary music classrooms in Iowa. Hey, maybe I can scare up a few more people to interview for my dissertation. It's on music education in the rural and one-room schools from 1900-1950. You wouldn't believe how many neat and interesting people I've met with this project. Lots of one-room schools in Western Pennsylvania where I now live. And for those of you who don't know what "orff" is....it's a WONDERFUL way to teach music created by composer Carl Orff (Carmina Burana) and Gunild Keetman. It uses movement and folk dance, and playing instruments--xylophones and other barred percussions, recorders, and all kinds of percussion instruments. The best part is that the STUDENTS create and improvise. There's lots of drama and multi-cultural materials used. It's wonderful for the soul and spirit. Oh, I could go on and on, but I'll stop.... I'm always amazed at the interesting people here at the Clubhouse! Hugs to everyone!! |
Tess | Saturday, April 14, 2001 - 07:59 pm   Schoolmarm, I have a college student right here in my own home learning how to be a music teacher. She's student teaching in the Edina school district right now. (Her fiance already has a job in the Hopkins school district teaching band.) She is principal flute at school and will be teaching my daughter piano come fall. I hope that age 5 isn't too young to start. You won't believe this either, but I have in-laws in Western Pennsylvania -- Baden, to be specific. We get there approx once a year and it is so beautiful. Wow, this is a great day. Nice to meet you, Schoolmarm. Good luck with your dissertation. You're doing things I've only dreamt of. |
Twiggyish | Saturday, April 14, 2001 - 08:05 pm   Marm, wish they had Orff here. It sounds wonderful. |
Schoolmarm | Sunday, April 15, 2001 - 04:46 am   Tess, Age 5 isn't too soon for piano! Some traditional teachers will think that it is. If she can read words, then she can get into a regular piano series. I've been loving the "Faber and Faber" lately. If she doesn't read yet, try "Music for Little Mozarts" by the Alfred company. It has CDs and games to play and lots of time on pre-reading skills. There has been some research that shows that early piano lessons strengthen brain function...especically in spacial tasks. Your college student got a good education at St. Olaf. And Edina is such a top notch school district. Did you all know that Kevin Sorbo (Hercules) grew up in Edina? His mom and my mom are cousins, though I haven't seen him since he got famous. I drove through Ambridge and Baden on my round-about way back from the Pittsburgh airport last time. Now for beautiful, you need to get up in the forest by where I live. Take your pick...state gamelands, Cook state forest (largest virgin forest in PA) or Allegheny National Forest. Eastern Pennsylvania is beautiful, too. I laugh when people around here refer to PA as "God's country"....Don't they know that God's country is in Wisconsin? Help me, my midwesterness is showing! Happy Easter to everyone! |
Nancy091158 | Sunday, April 15, 2001 - 04:53 am   lol whenever i hear "st. olaf's" it reminds me of the golden girls and betty white's character ;-) But i have heard the choir on tv and it does seem like an impressive place ;-) |
Schoolmarm | Sunday, April 15, 2001 - 05:02 am   Hi Nancy! When is your trip? I wish that I could get the St. Olaf choir on TV here....man, those Lutherans can sing!! Went to grad school with lots of St. Olaf grads. it's a tiny college in a tiny town, but music is one of their specialties. Their grads had what it takes to surive at Indiana...the largest music school in the world. (Well, it was when I was there...I think North Texas is bigger now). Think of a huge "Julliard" in the cornfields and that would be about right. I'm missing the great music of Easter here at my tiny town, tiny church. I've had to TV on this morning to get a shot of excellent music "from the big city" I think we need to start some new threads....travel and music. I don't know how to start a new thread. It's probably simple, but I'm working on a text-only interface and can't use many of the commands with the new format. |
Nancy091158 | Sunday, April 15, 2001 - 05:07 am   HI school--My plane leaves at 8pm tomorrow night..(i have to be at Logan International(boston) airport by 6pm tho as for starting a new thread its fairly simple..at the main "general discussions" area down the bottom is a button to press to start new threads.. |
Tess | Sunday, April 15, 2001 - 06:28 pm   Schoolmarm, thanks for the advice on piano lessons. My daughter will be 5 in September. She's reading a little bit now but we just found out she needs some further testing on her eyes and will need glasses so we need to get all that on the right track to give her the best possible chance for success. We still have another year of pre-school ahead of us, too. We're definitely on for lessons starting in October. We just had 2 former St. Olaf students here for Easter dinner along with our resident student. They are all professional musicians and music teachers. My daughter was in heaven. She loves music so much. I was just in the hospital a couple of weeks ago for my lungs and therefore wasn't up to singing at our Easter Vigil service last night but we did go and hear our children's choirs sing this morning at Mass. They played their Orff instruments and rang handbells while they sang. Very impressive for such little kids. |
Twiggyish | Sunday, April 15, 2001 - 06:34 pm   My daughter started piano in first grade but some of her friends started at 5. They either love it or they hate it. The hardest part is getting them to practice, especially at a young age. It takes a lot of patience, too. |
Tess | Sunday, April 15, 2001 - 08:31 pm   Lol about the practicing Twig. I was so shy when I was little that I would never practice if anyone could hear me. I was too young to be left home alone so, of course, there was always someone within earshot. Ergo, practicing was agony. To this day I can play pieces in private that fall apart the minute someone walks in the room. |
Schoolmarm | Monday, April 16, 2001 - 03:15 am   Tess....I recommend thee Music for Little Mozarts then. It's game-like and has CDs that go along with it. There are little stuffed dolls "Mozart Mouse" and "Beeethoven Bear". My niece got this for Christmas. With the pre-reading format she should be able to practice by herself. If she loves music, practive shouldn't be a problem. Things have really changed since WE all took piano lessons. Most students go through a "slump" after a year...it's not new any more, but they don't play well enough to just pick up music and play. Once you get over that, it's better. Oh, and all the new series have cool duets with lots of the pieces...maybe you can get over your "stage fright" by playing with your daughter!! Best of luck! |
Willi | Monday, April 16, 2001 - 06:22 am   I wanted to welcome you Tess...I've been away from the boards for a few days (house full of company) but saw your posts today... Welcome! (I love the name Tess & lobbied hard to name my daughter Tess...I lost to a best out of 15 games of ping pong...I think my stomach got in the way but I digress...) Glad to see you here...Post On! |
Tess | Monday, April 16, 2001 - 10:24 am   Hi, Willi. Good to meet you. Welcome back. I think if you could play 15 games of anything while pregnant you should get to pick the name but that's jmho. Now, back to coloring with the cutest 4 year old in Minnesota.  |
Tess | Monday, April 16, 2001 - 10:35 am   Schoolmarm...Mozart Mouse, I love it! We have a couple of good music stores in town here so I'll check it out this week. It'd be great if sweetie cakes and I could surprise dear husband and resident student. I could go look tomorrow during pre-school. I'm sure if they don't have what I'm looking for at the store they can order it for me. Our church and many friends all order music there continually. Thanks so much for the tip. Resident student loves Mozart so the mouse is a must. Now to work on my shaking fingers. Ooooh. Hm, I don't think little sweetie cakes will get tired of music and practicing any time soon. It might be hard to focus her on one instrument at a time, though. She wants to play them all. When she first arrived from Korea and needed comforting I would sit at the piano and play a little tune. After the first time she would push my fingers out of the way so she could do all the playing. And we were off... |
Twiggyish | Monday, April 16, 2001 - 01:19 pm   Tess, good luck. It is a lot of fun. Marm, once again, you are right on target. |
Tess | Monday, April 16, 2001 - 02:28 pm   Thanks, Twig. Can't wait to get her started. I think it sound better than when she's acting as a one-person marching band. It gets loud, loud, loud but we do have fun. |
Grod | Tuesday, April 17, 2001 - 05:01 pm   hello, i'm just new, i have lurked? since Survivor2 began. I'm going to try figure out how to get around this site and see what else is on this site. |
Lancecrossfire | Tuesday, April 17, 2001 - 05:10 pm   Hi Grod--welcome! And Tess, I don't think I've said welcome to you either--sorry for taking so long. No concern on my part that you are someone else! Enjoy yourselves, and I look forward to talking with you over the weeks to come. |
Lancecrossfire | Tuesday, April 17, 2001 - 06:15 pm   Cookie, a welcome to you as well! Have a good time here. There are lots of different things to talk about. And lots of different people too. |
Misha | Tuesday, April 17, 2001 - 06:21 pm   Lance sees cookies? I don't see any cookies. Can I have a cookie? BRB, gotta go get some milk. |
Grod | Tuesday, April 17, 2001 - 07:03 pm   thank you for welcome lance |
Tess | Tuesday, April 17, 2001 - 07:19 pm   Um, Lance?? Do you mean that it doesn't bother you that I'm some one else or you don't think I'm someone else so I'm okay. OHHHH my head is spinning. I swear I don't know how to be anyone else. I don't even know what MIRC is, what it does or how to make a folder. Resortgirl made my folder for me as a sweet surprise. And who is Cookie? HELP! BTW, Lance, you said hi to me the other day. Remember when you said that Fruitbat was a-okay (I'm paraphrasing here) and I shouldn't tell anyone you said that and I promised I wouldn't? Hi again. I didn't tell. YET.  |
Grod | Tuesday, April 17, 2001 - 08:12 pm   laughing tess... my head is spinning, I just clicked on the "new message" link and found a whole new easy way to read postings instead of going through each folder. |
Lancecrossfire | Tuesday, April 17, 2001 - 08:53 pm   Tess, you are indeed correct now that you mention it--I apologize for not remembering that was you I said that to. I was saying I didn't think you are someone else--but hey, I've been wrong before! Cookie--another new name I saw on another thread, and thought I'd come over here to say hi while I was greeting others. Misha, did you get your glass of milk? Grod, yes, that new message feature! Isn't it great? |
Tess | Tuesday, April 17, 2001 - 09:29 pm   Thats okay, Lance. You've been busy. Now, what do I do with the new message link? My folders turn different colors when I've read all the new stuff. They turn back to the old color when there's something new but I still have to scroll down through everything to get to the new stuff. Things had slowed down so I went out to play a game of Alchemy. Still can't crack that 13,000 mark. I hate being 3rd class anything let alone a 3rd class Alchemist. |
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