
Lever Harp Teacher's Symposium Daily Schedule
Subject to Slight Change
Updated 3/31/2008
Friday May 30, 2008
Exhibits open at 3:00 pm, Meadow Lodge Lobby
Hotel check-in Fairfield Hall 3:00 pm
Symposium Registration Club Lounge of the Meadow Lodge 3:00 pm
Dinner 5:30 - 7:00pm Fairfield Hall
Intro and Selected repertoire, played by the Clinicians. 7:30 - 9:00 pm Club lounge of Meadow Lodge. Come hear the clinicians play their favorite student repertoire. Reception will follow.
Saturday May 31, 2008
Breakfast 7:00 to 8:00 am Fairfield Hall
Classes - Club Lounge
● 8:00 am Ray Pool - Harmony, Part 1 Why it's important to develop a parallel between spoken language and written music and How to present it in the lesson "bit by bit"
● 9:00 am Ray Pool - Harmony, Part II Why and How Harmony is important in sight reading
● 10:00 am Elizabeth Etters Asmus - How to teach technique to Adult beginners, Part I
● 11:00 am Elizabeth Etters Asmus - How to teach technique to Adult Beginners, Part II
Lunch noon - 1:30 pm - Fairfield Hall
Classes - Club Lounge
● 1:30 pm Sally Perreten - Teaching the Advanced student
● 2:30 pm Sally Perreten - Stumbling Blocks for Adults
● 3:30 - 4:30 pm Teaching Aids and Repertoire. Clinicians will present and play samples of teaching aids, to help you develop a repertoire list.
●4:30 Panel Discussion: The Real World of the Teaching Studio - a round robin discussion of the clinicians with the attendees.
Dinner 5:30 - 7:00pm - Fairfield Hall
Evening program - Club Lounge
● 7:30 Basic Lever Harp Maintenance - Lee Gayman
● 9:00 Informal jam, and harp circle session until midnight
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Breakfast 7:00 - 8:00 am - Fairfield Hall
Classes - Club Lounge
● 8:00 am Ray Pool Harmony - How it facilitates playing from a "fakebook"
● 9:00 am Ray Pool - How to teach improvisation after building a "harmonic vocabulary"
● 10:00 am Sally Perreten - Celtic Techniques
● 11:00 am Elizabeth Etters Asmus - Adaptation - the Key to Survival - teaching the adult beginner in the Real World
Lunch noon - 1:30 - Fairfield Hall Presentation of Certificates
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