Continuing Studies: Sundays at Longy
Take advantage of free parking on Sundays to join Longy friends and faculty for adventurous workshops throughout the year. Learn new ways to listen to music. Brush up your performance skills or explore a new world of folk music and storytelling. Please note registration deadlines are September 12 for Fall workshops and February 27 for Spring workshops.
Performance Workshop for Instrumentalists
Fee: $150/semester
Course:CS051
Instructors: Yau, Patramanska, Fox
Scripp and guests
Meets: Fall: Sept. 18, Oct. 9, Nov. 13 and Dec. 11
Spring: Mar. 11, Apr. 8, May 13, Jun 10
1:00–3:00 PM
Often serious amateur and semi-professional musicians of all ages find it challenging to find a goal-oriented and encouraging environment to improve their performing skills. Taking private lessons without a performing component can be frustrating, yet having only one or two performance opportunities per year is not enough to reach a high level of proficiency. The Performance Workshop is the perfect course for those musicians who feel ready to move from the living room onto the concert stage.
Performance Workshop for Singers
Fee: $150/semester
Course: CS052
Instructors: Anker, Catt, Fortunato and Romney
Meets: Spring: Apr. 22 & 29, May 6 & 13
1:00–3:00 PM
Often serious and semi-professional singers of all ages find it challenging to find a goal oriented and encouraging environment to improve their performing skills. This workshop is meant to enhance private lessons with additional coaching to help singers polish songs for performance or auditions. Issues explored will include musical gesture, communicating a text, developing a more keen sense of body awareness, and strategies for nerves. For singers who are prepared to sing solo songs in a workshop setting.
Twa Sisters Ballad Workshop
Fee: $175/semester
Course : CS053
Instructor: Catt
Meets: Sunday, October 2
1:00–3:00 PM
Sunday, Oct 16
1:00 PM–5:00 PM
This popular ballad with medieval roots is a twisted tale of love and murder. Versions are found throughout England, Scotland, Ireland, Scandanavia and the United States. Come fiddle with guest Eden MacAdam-Somer, sing with Cristi Catt and explore arrangements foraccordion, guitar and piano as well as foot percussion with guest Jeremiah McLane. The workshop ends with the group performing a telling of the Twa Sister story based on variations explored.
Open to singers, strings, keyboards, winds and percussionists.
Longy Trumpet Technique Class
Fee: $350/semester
Course : CS055
Instructor: Aston
Meets: Sundays, 6:00–8:00 PM
Bi-weekly beginning Sept. 21 and March 5
Longy Trumpet Technique class is open to all trumpet students age 12–adult who are currently taking private lessons at Longy or elsewhere. Topics covered will include trumpet literature, performance etiquette, practice strategies and ensemble playing. There will be performance opportunities throughout the semester.
Contemplating Music and Energy
Fee: $195/semester
Course : CS056
Instructor: Morrison
Meets: Sundays, Oct. 23, Oct. 30, Nov. 6 and Nov. 13
3:00–4:30 PM
Do you ever wish you could really study a piece of modern music without having to know a lot of jargon, using your natural insights to gain a deeper understanding? Or do you already know a lot of jargon, but find the deeper understanding still elusive? The course will offer an immersion into musical listening that gets at the root of how consciousness and music interact. It’s an approach that allows the knowledge you already have to carry you deep into a wide range of styles and genres. No knowledge of music theory is necessary, nor will any level of experience in theory be a disadvantage.
Introduction to Baroque Dance
Fee: $85/semester
Course : CS057
Instructor: Pierce
Meets: Fall Sundays: Oct. 16, 23 & 30
1:30–2:30 PM
A workshop introducing some of the basic steps and step sequences in bourrées, menuetes, gavottes and other dances of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
Introduction to Renaissance Dance
Fee: $85/semester
Course : CS058
Instructor: Pierce
Meets: Spring Sundays: Mar. 11, 18 & 25
1:30–2:30 PM
A workshop introducing some of the basic steps and simple dances of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, such as branles, pavanes, galliards and canaries.
