Cherry Odelberg is accepting Private Piano Students

Cherry Odelberg is once again accepting private piano students

When music is at your core, you cannot stay away from it very long. Over the past forty years, I have: taught private piano lessons to students age four to eighty-three; tutored beginning trumpet players; taught Core Knowledge music in the classroom for a total of eight years; offered group lessons in trumpet, drum, clarinet and keyboard; switch hit on organ for funerals, weddings, and memorial services around the world; jammed and performed with a seniors oldies band; planned and led worship and praise teams; and raised three children to adulthood (all of whom are working musicians).

It is with great pleasure that I announce my availability once again for private piano students. I am accepting students age four through ninety.

My aim in teaching piano is to help students achieve musical dreams and goals. Emphasis is on enrichment and fluency at the keyboard and lessons are tailored to the goals and musical genre dreams of each individual student. Study books / curriculum are chosen to support goals and individual needs.

Beginners through age ten: 30 minute private lesson – $20.00
Advancing students and beginners age 11-adult: 40 minute private lesson – $25.00
Payment for lessons for the month is due on the first lesson of the month, $80.00 for the 30 minute lessons; $100.00 for older / advancing students. In months where a fifth lesson day occurs, the day will be used to make-up any missed lessons.

 

Ah, Music!

Not sure what to think about classical music yet?  Follow this link to be entertained and enlightened!   ">Benjamin Zander on Classical Music and Passion.

 

Music, according to some famous people

“Sometimes it is the artist’s task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.”  Itzhak Perlman

 

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.  Aldous Huxley

 

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”  Victor Hugo

 

“Life is like a piano, what you get out of it depends on how you play it.”

 

“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other (for education) because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful.”  Plato

 

“You lads and lasses should always remember that 24 record companies turned the Beatles down and that John’s Aunt Mimi said, ‘The guitar’s all very well, John, but you’ll never earn a living with it.’”

 

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC AT CAPROCK

As we wrap up the 2009/2010 school year at Caprock Academy, I would like to celebrate the progress of the instrumental music program this year.  Caprock High School was in session for the first year ever, and with that first ninth grade class came the first ever, Caprock Drum Bugle and Fife Corps. Four ninth grade students had the opportunity to take a semester of band, and they made the most of it. The Drum Bugle and Fife Corps had their debut in the Lion’s Club Parade, and wrapped up the year by performing at the musical production, “Round”

Instrumental music classes were offered afterschool, four nights a week, to interested students in grades 5-9.  Instrumental offerings were:  flute, trumpet, drum cadence, piano keyboard and wind and percussion ensemble.  Approximately 30 Caprock students participated in this opportunity.

Keep Enjoying your music, students!  I look forward to hearing good things from you as you take your basic, beginning skills and move toward musical excellence!

 

ROUND – THE REVOLUTIONARY MUSICAL

Round-A Revolutionary Musical-Staring: Caprock students in grades K-5

Singing, speaking, dancing, and playing instruments, about things that make the world go round – with opening beats by the Caprock High School, Drum, Bugle and Fife Corps.

Friday, April 16, 2010

6:30 P.M.  Fellowship Church Auditorium

I-70 and 24 Road

Doors open for seating at 6:15 P.M.

Please see call times for individual class rehearsals on reverse.

 Directions to the Fellowship Church performance site: From Caprock Academy, go north to G Road, turn left and go west on G Road to 24 Road.  Turn right on 24 Road and proceed north , through the two traffic circles that cross I-70.  Once past I-70 and the traffic circles, turn left into the Fellowship Church property.  The second entrance to the parking lot will take you past the administrative offices.  Immediately after the administrative offices you may drop your performing student off on the sidewalk to a waiting Caprock staff member. There is additional parking and another entrance for audience on the West side of the building.

Things for students and families to remember:

1.  Eat a nutritious meal with water to drink, before you arrive.
2.  Plenty of seats – invite your friends and family
3.  Meet your teacher or staff member at the drop-off location at the appropriate time for your grade
4. Double check your four part uniform (grades K- 4th):  Shirt, Bottom attire, Shoes, Belt, from the list below.

Kindergarten:  School uniform Blue shirt, Blue bottom attire, belt, school shoes.  Kindergarten will be the field of blue.  All appropriately dressed kindergarten students will carry a star.

First Grade:  Red uniform shirt, Khaki uniform slacks, skirt, bottom attire, belt, school shoes.  First grade will make up the red stripes of the Star Spangled Banner.

Second Grade:  White uniform shirt, Khaki uniform bottom attire, belt, school shoes.  Second grade will be the white stripes of the Star Spangled Banner.

Third Grade:  Mrs. Vidmar’s Class: Red shirt, Khaki uniform slacks or skirt, belt, school shoes.  Mrs. Miller-Forrest’s  Class: White shirt, Khaki  uniform slacks or skirt, belt, school shoes. Third grade will form a red stripe and a white stripe on the flag.

Fourth Grade:  Red shirt, Khaki uniform slacks, belt, school shoes. Fourth grade will act as the bottom and top red stripes of the American flag.  Red shirts will double as the Red Coats in the revolutionary portion of the musical. Khaki slacks will double as buckskin pants in the Colorado portion of the musical.

Fifth Grade Boys:  Caprock uniform:  Shirt, Slacks, Belt, Shoes. Blue shirt and blue slacks for the Union soldiers.  Blue shirt, Khaki slacks for the Confederate soldiers. Long sleeve shirt is best.  Short sleeve is okay.

4:30  PM  Caprock Fifth Grade students – Dress rehearsal on location

5:00 PM  Fourth Grade Students – assemble in lobby and wait call for dress rehearsal on location

5:45 PM  Caprock students grades  1,2,3 rehearsal

6:05 PM Kindergarten Students-run through on stage

6:15 PM  Doors open for seating for friends and family

Departure Times: My aim for a performance is 90 minutes maximum.  If there are no unexpected delays or technical difficulties, everyone will be finished by 8:00 PM.  Students who have arranged to leave immediately after their part of the show should check out with the homeroom teacher.  With the exception of Kindergarten, all students will remain seated with their homeroom teacher in the assigned area for the duration of the production. Kindergarten parents, meet your student in the  aisle after the singing of The Star Spangled Banner.

 

Round – A REVOLUTIONARY MUSICAL

Taking the COST out of COSTUMES

Dear Parents,

Do you love a great theater performance?  I do.  Part of the fun, fame, and glamour of a dramatic musical is in the wearing of costumes!  The Kindergarten through Fifth Grade students at Caprock Academy anticipate the fun of looking great for our performance on April 16, 2010. On the reverse of this sheet you will find a list of the costume needs for each grade.

As part of our opening number, we are making a huge American flag out of students. Kindergarten will be the field of blue.  Grades one through four will represent the red and white stripes.

In order to take the COST out of costumes, wherever possible, I have built the costume around the four piece school uniform already in the student’s closet: shirt, slacks, belt, classroom shoes.  If it happens that your student does not have the color specified (on the reverse) for his or her grade, following are eight suggestions for taking the cost out of costumes.

1)      Borrow from a sibling in another grade at Caprock.  The color is the main thing for our musical, so it will work if the Khaki pants have to be rolled up or tucked under or are a tiny bit high-water.  The same goes for the red or white shirt: The uniform color is the important thing, the size may be a bit big or snug.

2)      Borrow or trade with family friends: Perhaps you have a cousin or close family friend in another grade and the two of you can swap shirts for the performance.

3)      Buy the proper color if you have out-grown your current school uniform and must purchase another.

4)      Buy the proper color, gently worn, from our Goodwill neighbor.

5)      Contact the Caprock Uniform exchange coordinator and see what you can trade. The exchange coordinator is Julie Dixon.  Her email: julied233@aol.com

6)      Come to a Caprock Uniform exchange

7)      Ask around to see if a classmate has an extra shirt you can borrow for the show.

8)      Fifth grade girls:  Ask a Caprock girl in grades six, seven, or eight if you can borrow her costume from last year.

 Note: If , for some reason, the student arrives at the rehearsal and performance in a Caprock uniform other than the specified color, the student will be allowed to perform with his or her class numbers, but, I will not embarrass that student by placing them in the flag in the wrong color. This concert is considered  a semester final and is how students earn a performance grade and demonstrate knowledge-the rhetoric portion of the classical education (Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric).

The second side of this note gives details on specified uniforms / costumes for each grade performing in the Spring musical: Round- A Revolutionary Musical.

If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at Caprock 970243-1771 or by email: c.shellabarger@caprockacademy.org

What Shall I Wear?

As part of our opening number, we are making a huge American flag out of students.  Kindergarten will be the field of blue.  Grades one through four will represent the red and white stripes.

Kindergarten:  School uniform Blue shirt, Blue bottoms, belt, school shoes.  Kindergarten will be the field of blue.  All appropriately dressed kindergarten students will carry a star.

First Grade:  Red uniform shirt, Khaki uniform slacks, belt, school shoes.  First grade will make up the red stripes of the Star Spangled Banner.

Second Grade:  White uniform shirt, Khaki uniform bottoms, belt, school shoes.  Second grade will be the white stripes of the Star Spangled Banner.

Third Grade:  Mrs. Vidmar’s Class: Red shirt, Khaki uniform slacks or skirt, belt, school shoes.  Mrs. Miller-Forrest’s  Class: White shirt, Khaki  uniform slacks or skirt, belt, school shoes. Third grade will form a red stripe and a white stripe on the flag.

Fourth Grade:  Red shirt, Khaki uniform slacks, belt, school shoes. Fourth grade will act as the bottom and top red stripes of the American flag.  Red shirts will double as the Red Coats in the revolutionary portion of the musical. Khaki slacks will double as buckskin pants in the Colorado portion of the musical.

Fifth Grade Boys:  Caprock uniform:  Shirt, Slacks, Belt, Shoes. Blue shirt and blue slacks for the Union soldiers.  Blue shirt, Khaki slacks for the Confederate soldiers. Long sleeve shirt is best.  Short sleeve is okay.

Fifth Grade Girls:  Ankle length Civil War era dress: Southern Belle, Conservative Northern Woman, Teacher, Nurse, or Slave.  If you want to provide your own costume, that is great.  Another option is to check with girls from the older grades who have one of last year’s costumes they are willing to lend to you.  See the note that follows:

Adopt a Fifth Grade Girl: Calling all Caprock mothers and girls grade six and above!  Are you eligible for Caprock’s  Musical Adopt a Fifth Grade Girl Costume Challenge? Here’s how it works:  If you  have an ankle length Southern Belle costume or prairie dress in your trunk or wardrobe; if you think you could clothe a Civil War nurse or a kitchen or field slave from 1860; would you kindly take a look at the girls in Mrs. Kelly’s and Mrs. Meier’s fifth grade classes, find a girl who looks like she would fit your costume, and ask if you can adopt her for the fifth grade musical, The Blue and the Gray?

Note: If , for some reason, the student arrives at the rehearsal and performance in a Caprock uniform other than the specified color, the student will be allowed to perform with his or her class numbers, but, I will not embarrass that student by placing them in the flag in the wrong color. This concert is considered  a semester final and is how students earn a performance grade and demonstrate knowledge-the rhetoric portion of the classical education (Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric).

 

After School Music opportunity and sign-up sheet

Caprock After School Instrumental Music      Opportunities, Spring, 2010

Monday:  Beginning Trumpet and Bugle Calls is now Beginning Wind Instruments. This class has expanded  to include Clarinet and Flute (grade five and up). This class will run for a full hour, 3:00-4:00 P.M., with a class enrollment of three or more students.  If the enrollment is less than three, class will end at 3:30.

Tuesday:  Beginning Piano Keyboard (grade three and up) 3:00-4:00 P.M. This class will run for a full hour with a class enrollment of three or more students.  If the enrollment is less than three, class will end at 3:30 P.M.

Wednesday:  Caprock Wind and Percussion Ensemble (by audition and invitation) 3:00 – 4:00 P.M.

Thursday:  Marching cadences for snare and bass drum (grade five and up) 3:00-4:00 P.M.

Materials Fee: There is an innitial materials fee for any of these classes of $10.00.  As students advance an additional book purchase may be necessary (approximately  $7.00).

Trumpet, Flute, or Clarinet students must have the instrument of choice and bring the instrument to school on the designated day.

Piano Keyboard students must have a keyboard to bring to school on the designated day.

Wind and Percussion Ensemble participants must have the instrument of choice and bring to school on Wednesdays.

Marching Cadence students need only a drum practice pad to bring to school on Thursdays, and a pair of drumsticks with which to practice on the pad at home.  Cadence students will; however, need a snare drum, or snare drum and bell set-up,  at such time as they successfully test and pass into Wednesday Wind and Percussion Ensemble.

You may buy or rent instruments at any of the local music stores.  Several department / discount stores also have basic musical instruments from time to time.

For links to local music stores, click on the music store to your right under blogroll. Contact me at Caprock Academy, 243-1717, c.shellabarger@caprockacademy.org

After school instrumental classes begin the week of January 18, 2010 for incoming students.  Deadline for returning sign up sheet: January 14, 2010. 

Note to those students who have already been a part of after school music: Please fill out the sign up sheet on reverse and mark the “continuing” box.

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Sign-up Sheet for the Caprock After School Instrumental Music Program, Spring, 2010

Name of Student____________________________________________Home Room/Grade______

Please circle the class(s)  you wish to attend:    

Monday   Trumpet   Monday Flute   Monday Clarinet

Tuesday Piano Keyboard

Wednesday Caprock Wind and Percussion Ensemble

Thursday Beginning Drum Cadences

_____I am new to after school music at Caprock.   My $10.00 materials fee is attached. (Please make check payable to Caprock Academy).

_____I am a returning participant and paid my $10.00 materials fee last fall.

I understand that after school music is an enrichment privilege and I may remain in the class as along as I exhibit proper behavior.  In order to progress, I will need to have my instrument and appropriate materials with me each time class meets.  Only official class members are to be in the music room after school  (no friends or siblings)

Signature of Student _____________________________________________________________

Parent Signature_______________________________________Phone____________________

 

Excellence

                                                                                    Bravo!

Grades 4,5,6,7 and 8; you turned in an amazing performance on Friday the Thirteenth. 

You made them laugh, cry, and applaud wildly—every performer’s dream.

                                                  Overheard:  “How Will You Top That?”

And that, Dear Students, is a question to keep asking yourself the rest of your life as you  single-mindedly pursue excellence.  You have the privilege of obtaining a classical, core knowledge education.  You have great teachers who stand ready to hand you the tools and experiences for success.  Wield them deftly, students!  Break a leg!  And keep asking yourself, “What can I do today to top that?”

 

Caprock Celebrity USO Camp Show Final Information

Caprock Celebrity USO Camp Show, Friday, November 13, 2009 Final Information

All parents are asked to feed their performance troop a nutritious hearty snack or early dinner with water to drink and transport troop to drop –off location at the following prearranged times:

4:30 P.M. Eighth Grade

4:45 P.M. Seventh Grade

5:15 P.M. Sixth Grade

5:45 P.M. Fourth and Fifth Grade

 

All parents are asked to insure that troops are attired properly.

                Fourth Grade: Red Shirt, Khaki slacks, Caprock Uniform

                Fifth Grade: Blue shirt, Khaki slacks, Caprock Uniform

                Sixth Grade: Toga or Chiton (with khaki shorts or slacks under)

                Seventh Grade: Boys-White shirt, Blue Pants, Caprock uniform

                                    Girls – White shirt, Blue Skirt, Caprock uniform

                                           Or approved costume of the era 1920-1950

(Boys – dark dress slacks, white shirt with tie; Girls – dressy calf length dress)

Eighth Grade:

First half of program all eighth graders; Caprock uniform blue shirt and blue slacks. 

Second half of program, you may continue to wear your blue shirt and blue slacks Caprock uniform

OR change to appropriate dressy dresses for girls (era  1920-1950); and dress slacks, dress shirt and tie for guys.

LOCATION:  Fellowship Church Auditorium 1-70 and 24 Road. 

Student Drop- Off:  24 Road entrance and East Auditorium entrance – your teacher will be waiting on the sidewalk.

Doors open for family and guests at 6:15.  Show begins at 6:30 and will end by 8:00 P.M.

 

Caprock Celebrity USO Camp Show

October 26, 2009, General Music Teacher is now calling for volunteers in order to insure successful completion of USO Camp Show maneuvers!

Bivouac scheduled for November 13, 2009.  Allied parental troops needed to join forces with staff of Caprock  Academy for staging the biggest show of the season.  Location: the new auditorium at Fellowship Church, I-70 and 24 Road.

Parents!

Be all you can be in the Caprock USO Camp Show!  Enlist now by emailing Mrs. Shellabarger at c.shellabarger@caprockacademy.org or leaving a message with Colonel Hoge at 243-1771.

The few, the proud, the stage parents.

Troop transport:  Caprock wants YOU!  All parents are asked to feed their performance troop a nutritious hearty snack  or early dinner  with water to drink and transport troop to drop –off location at the following prearranged times:

4:30 P.M. Eighth Grade

4:45 P.M. Seventh Grade

5:15 P.M. Sixth Grade

5:45 P.M. Fourth and Fifth Grade

Cargo Transport: Brains, brawn and convoy needed to transport portable stages and musical equipment from Caprock to Fellowship.  Men with trucks, please call Dan Sherrill at 243-1771.

 

Central Supply Clothing issue:  All parents needed to insure that troops are attired properly.

                Fourth Grade: Red Shirt, Khaki slacks, Caprock Uniform

                Fifth Grade: Blue shirt, Khaki slacks, Caprock Uniform

                Sixth Grade: Toga or Chiton (with khaki shorts or slacks under)

                Seventh Grade: Boys-White shirt, Blue Pants, Caprock uniform

                        Girls – White shirt, Blue Skirt, Caprock uniform

Or approved costume of the era 1920-1950

(Boys – dark dress slacks, white shirt with tie; Girls – dressy calf length dress)

                Eighth Grade: First half of program all eighth graders; Caprock uniform blue shirt and blue slacks.  Second half of program, you may continue to wear the above or change to appropriate dressy dresses for girls and dress slacks, dress shirt and tie for guys.