Music School with a Star Wars/Jedi Master twist.
This camp is all about music and space. The cosmos has inspired a ton of great music. Historically, music has also been understood to be a reflection of cosmic order, and vice versa. Group activities and projects (drumming, singing, chanting, concentration and music theory exercises and games) focus on space-themed music and films. Along the way, we'll cover same basic lessons about the universe, our solar system, planets, moons, stars, comets, gravity and more. And for kicks, we'll do some goofy things like using pool noodles for light sabers.
Musical source selections will range from famous orchestral film scores by Williams and others to their inspiration in Gustav Holst's The Planets and tone poems like Also spruce Zarathustra by Richard Strauss. We'll tie in other famous tv and film scores, including Star Trek, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Interstellar, and scenes like the playful tone pattern dialogue from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Popular and rock music with literal or metaphorical references to the cosmos, outer space or space travel will also be incorporated, including Bowie's Space Oddity, the jazz standard Fly Me to the Moon, and more modern works by Ligeti (Atmospheres), John Coltrane (Mars), and Miles Davis.
Private lessons on the instrumet of choice included.
Students divided by age and skill level. Beginners and more experienced students welcome.
Workshop tuition for grades 6-8 and 9-12 is $525 per week for full day attendance, 9 am to 4 pm. Tuition is $425 per week for half day attendance, 9 am to 12:30 pm. Workshop tuition includes ensemble performance, small group classes and private lessons.
We offer generous discounts for students who attend three or more weeks. Third and fourth weeks are $300 each week for full day attendance, and $225 each week for half day attendance.
Extended day is FREE for enrollees, and provides for drop off by 8:00 am and pick up by 1 pm for half day morning and 6 pm for full day or half day afternoon.
Various themed CMC Atlanta Workshops are offered at all CMC Atlanta locations. For current offerings, see calendar below.
Workshops are designed for students rising grades 6-8 and 9-12. Recent high school graduates are welcome to attend. We divide students by age and skill, so we welcome absolute beginners and more advanced students alike.
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