Technique Class: All the parents got to participate today. We got to be the soft bunny, and say "Ahh!" if the child squished us with their left hand. We also got to be the mouse in the hole, and say "Eeeek!" if we got squished there... the spot in between thumb and first finger on left hand. Mr. Smilie got stamped on the side of the left hand by the pinky, and if the child wasn't looking at Mr. Smilie the whole time they were playing, we got to say "BZZZ!" Macy really liked all those games.
Repertoire Class: Played pass the cup with bows. Played Tuckas Down the Line- working on Unison. Played Twinkles and other songs with dynamics and echoes.
Theory Class: Macy worked on some more games. She's learning the notes on the piano. She's still really great at pitch games, and rhythm games are harder for her. It's interesting how all the children learn differently. The program we are using is very educational. Mrs. Dalgleish says she likes it better than Sibelius as far as educational value.
We stopped and got Macy's hair done in a Princess Up-Do with glitter spray for $3, as well as sparkly Twinkle stars on both our cheeks. She was thrilled with that! We also got to have cake with lunch today, to celebrate Institute's 30th Anniversary. Yay for Costco buttercream frosting! :)
The Honor's Recital at 1:00 pm was good. I especially loved the stunning rendition of the Mendelssohn violin concerto by a young lady who looked to be about 12 years old. I played that song in college, and today she played it better than I did back then! We observed two more classes during our "break". The first was Robert Richardson's class that was saw on Monday- some good progress has been made in 4 days. We also went to see Terry Durbin's late Book Two Rep Class. He was HILARIOUS. The kids were obviously having a great time in his class. Lots of fun stories to go along with the songs, that it seemed like he was making up as he went. Tons of energy and great facial expressions. The warm-up was Twinkle Twinkle GPS star, where they had to turn a different direction depending on which finger they were playing- it looked like lots of fun.
Master Class: Macy was happy and cooperative during her turn. She got to go first. Worked a little bit more on the quick quick slow bows. Also worked on keeping thumb bent, and keeping 1st finger off the bow stick. She did a great job with it.
We saw a fun Fiddle Concert with Goran Berg's enrichment Swedish Fiddling class at 5:00. Then the Fun Night Presentation started at about 5:45. It was the Suzuki Olympics. We were regaled with such events as Baseball, Weight Lifting, Synchronized Swimming, Hurdles, and Gymnastics. These events were basically all the teachers doing lots of silly things with their instruments. It was entertaining, and somewhat surprising. Lots of "illegal" things were done- such as hitting a whiffle ball with a violin acting as bat, Jumping over things while playing songs with "lifts" in them, and of course, bribing the judges. Pretty funny. :)
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