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Greetings!
Happy Holidays! We at MusicMakers wish you and your family a most joyous, safe, and miraculous holiday season! Our Master Classes and Parent Workshops in November were amazing! We had a LOT of students and their parents participate. We hope you enjoyed them as much as we did. We are busy getting our new home ready for you, registering for the Spring semester for private lessons, preparing holiday concerts in house and in the community, registering for Mini-MusicMakers in 6 locations, and registering for our February Performing Arts Workshops. We hope you will help your children to partake in the December Music Money activity. We are hoping that this will give you another opportunity to bond as a family! We can never have enough of those memory-making moments! We also hope you will attend a concert with your children this holiday season. For some ideas, please see the article below. Enjoy the newsletter...if you should have any questions or comments, please let me know!  Happy and Safe Holidays to All! At your service always, Paula Penna, MMed., BMus. Director, MusicMakers Academy |
Performing Arts Workshops/Camps
February 18-22, 2008
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Our annual Winter Performing Arts Workshops are fun, educational, fun, musical, and ... well, FUN!
For ages 5-11, the students will work on a musical play, sing, build instruments, write songs, learn acting and improv skills, explore theater terms, and improve their musical skills. Click here for a description of last year's activities.
9am-3pm daily, Monday through Friday. Performance at 2pm on Friday.
Tuition is $225 for the week. Includes 2 snacks daily! Register for more than one session (Winter, Spring, and 6 different weeks in the Summer) and receive a discount. Sibling discounts available, too!
To register easily, we have opened up our online registration system (usually used only for our early childhood programs) to you:
1. Go to http://www.themusicclass.com
2. Create a profile online using the link in the upper righthand corner
3. Choose Manchester
4. Choose the Winter Performing Arts Workshops
5. Fill in the billing information (you can pay by credit card or check)
6. Click "Submit", and you will receive a confirmation email.
Please let Tina or Paula know if you have any questions.
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Private Lesson Students
Register Now for the Spring Semester
Due: January 1, 2008
Spring Starts: January 27th
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Our Fall semester will be coming to an end on January 26th.
We have significantly simplified the registration for continuing students for the Spring Semester, we are happy to announce! Simply sign the "Lesson Continuation Form", fill out the tuition information, submit to the office, and you're done!
The teachers are handing out the Lesson Continuation Forms at your lessons. If you need another, please email Tina at tina@musicmakersacademy.com and she will get one to you.
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December Mu$ic Money Activity:
Family Concert Time!
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Wow, did we give out a LOT of November Mu$ic Money! Congratulations to all! Many of you already redeemed your Music Money for goodies, and we hope you enjoy them.
For December, we would like our students to perform a music concert for friends and family:
1. Choose at least 3 songs to perform on your instrument, and work on these with your teacher.
2. Create a written program (hand written is fine, and for our youngest students a drawing for each song is fine)
3. Perform your songs for your friends and/or family members.
4. Take pictures!
5. Print out your favorite picture and bring it in with the Mu$ic Money form at the bottom of this email. Bring the form and your picture in to your teacher, who will sign the form for you. Submit the form to the office.
This activity is $100! Due date is January 5th (a little more time in case you are doing your concert on Christmas or New Year's!)
Remember to complete the form at the bottom of this newsletter and have your teacher sign it, then return to the office in the black mailbox next to the office door.
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Mini-MusicMakers Music Pups
Winter "Bunny" classes just a "hop" away!
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Mini-MusicMakers Music Pups is a FUN, family style music and movement class for children ages 0-5 with their caregiver. Not only is it fun, but it provides a great foundation for children to build up their musical aptitude and brain development, all while bonding with mom or dad!Our Fall Lion Collection classes are coming to an end, but there are Rainbows and Bunnies just around the corner! See our website for details on our Winter bunny session which begins in January. Classes are now held in Manchester, South Windsor, Rocky Hill, West Hartford, Simsbury, and Middletown (new!)!Please Note: Middletown is not offering Winter Bunny. If you would like to take Bunny, please register at one of our other locations. You can now register online for your classes (only for Manchester, Rocky Hill, and South Windsor). Click HERE to register online using either a credit card or check online. You can also register over the phone by calling us at 860-646-3096. Simsbury and West Hartford classes should register by calling the JCC (info on our website at the link above). Middletown students should register through the Green Street Arts Center (info on our website at the link above). We have teamed up with the Green Street Arts Center (part of Wesleyan University) in Middletown! We are providing their Music Pups class (called Music Alive!) there on Saturday mornings. We are also providing the Sound Habits/Sound Beginnings keyboard class there, as well! You are always welcome to visit a class for free at any of our locations. Please see below for the Free Class Pass coupon. Visit our website at http://www.musicmakersacademy.com for more information and to register online. The best compliments are your referrals! Refer someone to our Mini-MusicMakers classes and receive a $10 credit when they register! Need to schedule a makeup or absence? Please remember to log on to the music class website...it's convenient, fast, and easy and you won't have to wait for our business hours to take care of it! Your username is your phone number; password is your last name.
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Musical Things to Do This Month: Attend a Choral Concert to Celebrate the Holiday Season
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There are several choral concerts, including Messiah concerts and sing-alongs, to choose from this month.
If you have not attended a live Messiah concert, you don't know what you are missing! No, it isn't attending something with the excitement of a rock concert; but it offers a different kind of excitement--celebrating life, being moved to your soul-level by the glorious sounds, sharing true community experience with voices joined in song, and at the same time introspectively focussing inward, truly feeling what is really important in life.
 Handel, a famous Baroque composer born in 1685, wrote the 250 page Messiah (all 3 parts) in only 24 days (by the way, it is Messiah only, no 'The')! It is a gorgeous, uplifting oratorio (a large composition of liturgical music with choir, soloists, and orchestra). Everyone knows The Hallelujah Chorus (Hallelujah! Hallelujah!). It is tradition to hold Messiah Sing-alongs during the Christmas season culminating with that famous piece (even though the famed Hallelujah Chorus is actually part of the Easter section!) It was first performed in Dublin, Ireland in 1742 to help raise money for a hospital. It is recorded that the King was so moved by that Chorus that he rose to his feet, a tradition which still exists today.
For a lovely history of Handel's Messiah, from Handel's experience, click here. For a more detailed, beautifully written history, click here.
The Association of Connecticut Choruses has a wonderful listing of choral concerts this season. Click here for a listing of concerts this December: Sing!It is interesting to note that Handel's father put him through years of schooling to become a lawyer, having ignored his extraordinary musical talent and refusing to allow him to take lessons for years!
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FREE
Class
Pass
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Mini-MusicMakers Music Pups
Laugh! Play! Sing! Dance! Chant! Tickle! Hug! Learn!These are only some of the things you'll be doing with your child at our Mini-MusicMakers Music Pups Classes! We are SO sure you'll love it, that we invite you to try out a class for FREE!For classes currently being offered, please see our registration website at http://www.themusicclass.com.Please call the ofice at 860-646-3096 or email paulap@musicmakersacademy.com to schedule your visit. Please note that we limit visitors per class so we are not overcrowded, so call now to make your plans.For more information on our Mini-MusicMakers program, including virtual classes you can view online, samples of our music, pictures please visit the MusicMakers Academy website at http://www.musicmakersacademy.com.Please present this coupon when you attend your free class, and feel free to forward this email to a friend, using the link below!
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MINI-MUSICMAKERS MUSIC PUPS!
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December
Mu$ic
Money
Activity
Form
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Student Name: __________________________________________
Teacher Name: ___________________________________________
Date: __________________________
Activities completed (teacher sign next to those completed):
Plan a concert of 3 songs ore more.
Create a written program.
Take pictures and submit at least 1.
Submit picture, program, and this form filled out and signed by your teacher.
Teacher Signature: ___________________________________________
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Offer Expires: January 5, 2008
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The MusicMakers Academy is a division of MusicMakers, LLC, a company devoted to the advancement of music education as an art, craft and science and to the continuing training and promotion of professional music educators. The MusicMakers Academy provides lessons, classes, workshops, parent education classes, and school programs. We are in our 10th year of providing comprehensive music instruction to our community. Our teachers are all degreed professionals who love to work with children and families.
Please let us know how we can be of better service to you!
Sincerely,
Paula Penna
MusicMakers Academy
"Your referrals are our greatest compliment!"
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When is MusicMakers Moving?
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INTRODUCING:
MusicMakers Academy
at
The Victorian
Thanks to many of our students and extended family, the new Victorian is really shaping up! We have been busy restoring rooms and getting it ready for you.
While we were hoping to be in by December 1st, we are finding that we won't be in officially for at least a few more weeks. You will notice over the next few weeks that the "old" MusicMakers will be emptier and emptier.
We'll keep you updated!
Thank you for your help!
Through our students we have been able to rent our garage, clean up our yard, expand our parking facility, do lots of fix up in the house, and a whole lot more!
We are still
in need of:
Snow Removal
Grass Cutting
Window replacement
And, bartering is an option!
If you know of someone, please have them contact Paula.
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Practice Tip
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the Month
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Music is unique in that it is, at once, both an introspective art AND an extroverted practice of performing in front of people.
One of the best motivators for practice is knowing you have a concert coming up!
This month's Music Money activity of doing a Family Concert is perfect for motivation. Why keep it just for the holidays?
Plan informal concerts while making dinner, having friends over, celebrating a birthday, or any other special (or not so special) occasion.
Watch the practice and motivation get a great boost!
Go on to the MusicMakers website and use our online practice games! You can find the link on the home page!
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| Important Dates and Calendar Items |
December 1 and 4:
Sound Beginnings Recital
December 16:
Mini-Recital
Studios of Rebecca Mcnair and Rebecca Francis
December 23-January 1: Winter Break/No Lessons
January 1:
Spring Tuition and Registration Due
January 21-25:
Makeup Days
January 27:
Spring Semester Begins
February 18-22:
Makeup Week/Performing Arts Workshops
March 23:
No Lessons
March 30: Faculty Recital
For the complete calendars in pdf format, please click HERE.
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Instrument Exchange
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Needed: Piano for young student. Please contact Lisa at:
lisasews@yahoo.com
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Kawai Piano for sale: full upright, tuxedo black, 75th anniv. edition. Paid over $5000k. Asking $3500. Email Marge: marge.jordan@sbcglobal.net
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Do you have a musical item for sale? Do you need an item?
Please click on on this link to submit your item for inclusion in next month's newsletter:
Submit a listing
Items can be instruments, sheet music, books, accessories such as benches, music stands, metronomes, or even mp3 players, sound recorders, etc.
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| Snow Closings
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When inclement weather arises, we will post schedule changes and closings on the front of our website.
Weather closings and cancellations will also be posted on the television lists on WFSB.
We will also change our voicemail to reflect weather related closings and cancellations.
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Auditions
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The Windsor H.S. Drama Club is in need of a couch with a tall back for an upcoming production.
Please contact Sue Vinick at 643-6446 if you can help.
The Cirillo Summer Theater will be holding auditions for the Summer 2008 production of Les Miserables. They are in particular need of men/teen males.
Please contact Sue Vinick at 643-6446 for more information. We have flyers at MusicMakers with the detials.
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