AETHERPHON, global theremin family

Well, the demonstration for the three music classes at my daughter Sarah's
school went well. We had 6th and 7th graders. The program went like this....

1. Showed about 12 minutes of a heavily edited theremin video. Peter was
first up.

2. Me and the teacher would do a short number after a brief explanation of
how the theremin worked.

3. Have 2 or 3 kids come up and try to play "Mary had a little lamb", while
the teacher played along on keyboard.

4. Play another tune with the teacher.....and so on.

I think breaking it up was brilliant of Mr. Spradley, play a little, demo a
little, have some kids come up. I believe it was probably close to 100 kids
in the 3 classes total. The pieces we played together were "America the
Beautiful", "Marine Corps Hymn", "Over the Rainbow". I did one solo of
"Amazing Grace".

Yes I made mistakes. We all do. But totally gone was the nervousness. I
guess kids are not threatening since I have two of my own. My daughter Sarah
helped out immensely by passing out informational flyers to the students.

What felt good was the kids applause. I would put my hand out towards her
teacher. After all, I'm only an underpaid engineer, not a professional
musician......

It was a good day. Let me figure out how to post some video somewhere for
you good people to look at.

Philip

On 20 May 2006, at 13:05, Philip wrote:
>
> It was a good day. Let me figure out how to post some video  
> somewhere for
> you good people to look at.
>
> Philip

I see you figured it out already!

http://www.veoh.com/videoDetails.html?v=e65535zCcxdBxN

http://www.veoh.com/videoDetails.html?v=e655362JMnnZ6M

I'm downloading the full versions as I type.

Gordon

The list does have a files area where you can upload files, but I don't 
know how much it holds.  It's at 
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/spellbound-l/files/


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Philip wrote:

> Well, the demonstration for the three music classes at my daughter Sarah's
> school went well. We had 6th and 7th graders. The program went like this....
> 
> 1. Showed about 12 minutes of a heavily edited theremin video. Peter was
> first up.
> 
> 2. Me and the teacher would do a short number after a brief explanation of
> how the theremin worked.
> 
> 3. Have 2 or 3 kids come up and try to play "Mary had a little lamb", while
> the teacher played along on keyboard.
> 
> 4. Play another tune with the teacher.....and so on.
> 
> I think breaking it up was brilliant of Mr. Spradley, play a little, demo a
> little, have some kids come up. I believe it was probably close to 100 kids
> in the 3 classes total. The pieces we played together were "America the
> Beautiful", "Marine Corps Hymn", "Over the Rainbow". I did one solo of
> "Amazing Grace".
> 
> Yes I made mistakes. We all do. But totally gone was the nervousness. I
> guess kids are not threatening since I have two of my own. My daughter Sarah
> helped out immensely by passing out informational flyers to the students.
> 
> What felt good was the kids applause. I would put my hand out towards her
> teacher. After all, I'm only an underpaid engineer, not a professional
> musician......
> 
> It was a good day. Let me figure out how to post some video somewhere for
> you good people to look at.
> 
> Philip
> 
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