After-School Music

I offer several music opportunities in the after-school activities program.  Students may be registered for these classes through the "Current Families" section of the OWS web site.  A second trimester is beginning the week after Thanksgiving, and for it I am offering three classes:

CHOIR meets Wednesdays 3:30 to 4:30 in the music room.  We learn mostly folk songs and sing them with recorded accompaniment, with attention to breathing, vocal production, and enunciation.  The last class each trimester ends with a concert for parents, after which choristers take home their folders of lyrics and a cd of the recorded accompaniments.  Lately most of the participants have tended to be in third grade or younger, but I choose songs which are good for singing at any age, and I welcome older singers.

EXTREME RECORDERS meets Tuesdays 3:30 to 4:40.  It's for kids who want to play harder music than we do in our noontime recorder classes.  Some participants play at a very high level, and others are less advanced; I provide parts of varying difficulty so that all can be challenged and have fun playing all kinds of music.

For the very first time, this second trimester I am offering a singing group only for older students (4th - 8th grades).  This class has already filled.  If I like the way it goes, I'll offer it again in the third trimester (after February break).