A brand new website is being created by my wonderful friend John Kyle.

Although it is still under construction, it is already on-line and I think it looks lovely.



www.singingawake.com

New School Year Kick-Off! 

Vocal mastery is an important key to success

Two exciting sign-ups are now live: Reserve your seat! 

• First Saturday of the Month, Private Lesson Day

(PLEASE NOTE: The November date for private lessons is on the 8th)  

Singing can get you there!

Singing lifts your spirits, sharpens awareness of yourself and your surroundings, balances emotions and provides focus and stamina. 

Kick-off your new school year with a singing lesson this Saturday, September 6th (the day after tomorrow). 

It's a bit last minute, but sometimes last-minute works best in September. 

Please go to the sign-up page online and reserve your spot. 

No commitment beyond the one lesson needed. take it one lesson at a time or sign up for several. 

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0845ada62ea0f49-monthly

If you would like your lessons at a different time during the week and/or more often, please contact me asap. I am finalizing my schedule this week. 

EMPOWERING WORKSHOPS: 

• You Deserve to Sing 2

Theme: Entering the World of Vowels

Saturday, November 1st, 9:00am to 12:30pm

 at: Rudolf Steiner College, 9200 Fair Oaks Blvd, Fair Oaks, Ca- 95628

sign up here:  http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0845ada62ea0f49-empowering

Enjoy powerful group-singing activities, an in-depth introduction to Werbeck singing exercises and plenty of fun, practical advice.... Come and make the kind of progress with your singing voice you could never achieve on your own - and have funwhile you do it! Fantastic support for teachers, musicians, public speakers and choral singers and anyone else who would like to gain confidence in singing.

Please no children under the age of 12. 

Cost: At the door: $50.-

Pre-registered: Regular: $45.- 

RSC Employees, Seniors, Students (student ID required): $35.-  

No pre-payment necessary: Please pre-register and pay the discounted price at the door. Cash or Checks only

Keep singing! 

Eva Cranstoun

NEW:    The Once-A-Month, Saturday Voice Lesson Marathon!
Now with dates through the Summer

Although my weekly schedule is now quite full, I am happy to be able to offer an alternative to those who would still like to have individual lessons:

Saturday Voice lessons are now available once each month. There are time slots available throughout the day. Last month filled up quickly. 

No need to commit to more than one at a time, but you are welcome to sign up for several.


Finally there is a super easy way to sign up on-line! no payment in advance necessary.

Please use this link:



http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0845ADA62EA0F49-monthly

Save the dates: 

New Saturday Morning Workshops coming up: 

You Deserve to Sing!

 Flyers, sign-ups and more details are now available. Look for the Easy On-line sign up on the right!

Enjoy group-singing activities, Werbeck exercises galore, plenty of practical advice.... Come and make the kind of progress with your singing voice you could never achieve on your own - and have fun while you do it! Open to ALL! I would especially like to encourage teachers and Choir singers to come and enjoy the benefits of these courses.

Three Saturday morning -intensives at Rudolf Steiner College in Fair Oaks:

March 29th 2014

April 26th 2014

May 24th 2014

Here is a link to my new On-line Flyer! Share , print it out... 

http://1drv.ms/1fG05wK

Dear Friends,

It has been a while since I've taken the time to update my pages here - please accept my sincere apologies.
I have been quite busy teaching music and singing at Rudolf Steiner College

 http://www.steinercollege.edu/

For the full time training programs as well as the two wonderful Waldorf Teachers' Conferences in January and February. It seems that word-of-mouth is filling my schedule quickly with private lessons and I am hard-pressed to find windows in my full weeks for the many new private students, some travelling and workshops.

The sales of my book
You Deserve to Sing  www.createspace.com/3970323
 have gone up sharply this winter and my group work at the conferences has had rave reviews. I am grateful and humbled by so much enthusiastic support.

So please, if you have been wanting to come and work with me or invite me to travel to your place, let me know as soon as possible! make sure you're on my e-mail list or you are subscribed to this blog, so you are informed of my spring offerings!
Updates will be coming in before the end of this Month - and some of it this weekend!

Keep Singing!

Eva

Singing Workshops at Rudolf Steiner College coming up! 
it is not too late! Just come and register at the door

2 Saturdays, November 16th and 23rd.
 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM

You Deserve to Sing! 
An Introduction to the School of Uncovering the Voice

Everyone can benefit from the healing power of song!
This Werbeck method is a powerful tool for the development of consciousness, self-awareness and vocal mastery. Exercises and new vocal techniques will be applied to seasonal songs.
These vocal development exercises are invaluable for beginners and advanced alike.
These two dates will be sequential, so I strongly recommend taking both. However, you may also just take one Saturday. (For beginners I recommend the first one, more advanced students the second).


To register on-line, please use the link below. Online registration will be closed by Wednesday before the event, but you can still call the phone number for registration, or simply show up at the door.

www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?EventID=1280071

Dear Friends,

There has been a lot of interest and enthusiastic response by those who have taken a look at the new book.
If you have read it and enjoyed it, please consider writing a review for Amazon and/or my online store

www.createspace.com/3970323

Of course a comment on this blog page would be wonderful as well.
Thank you all for your support!

Finally, my first book is published:
You Deserve to Sing! Thoughts and Questions about the Value of Singing for the Modern Human Being

I have priced it at $9:00

You can order it here:

www.createspace.com/3970323

It has been a much longer road than I anticipated but I think the result is quite nice. Take a look!
It will still take another week or so before it will be available on Amazon, but you can already get it through my e-store with my self-publishing company CreateSpace.

Now I am on to the next big learning curve: Marketing.
Wish me luck!

Fine-tuning the Listening

With Exercises from the School of Uncovering the Voice

A Werbeck Singing Workshop with Eva Cranstoun

April 20^th 9:00AM to 12:30PM

At Rudolf Steiner College, 9200 Fair Oaks Blvd.

In the Barn (Red building behind the bookstore) 

This class is open to anyone who is interested in a thorough introduction to the "Werbeck" method. Recommended for people who love to sing but have trouble holding a melody against a harmony or singing in tune. We will study the patterns of scales and intervals and exercise our musical memory. We will work on ear-training and harmonizing with exercises from the Werbeck method. (School of Uncovering the Voice) and then apply the practiced techniques to easily accessible songs and rounds. 

No previous musical training required.

  

Cost:At the door: $50.- Pre-registered at least three days in advance:  $45.-

To pre-register, please simply e-mail me your intentions to: singsoundintegrity@gmail.com

Make sure to include your full name and a phone number to reach you by.

For further questions about your registration please call me at: (916) 860 9594 or send an e-mail.

Techniques to Teaching and Leading Songs

Saturday, March 16th 
9:00AM – 12:30PM

An intensive tutorial for teachers who use (or would like to use) singing in the classroom and/or in group gatherings. Basic musical skills (note reading, ability to matching pitch) are recommended for this session.

Please make sure to preregister  3 days in advance (Under-enrolled classes will be cancelled)

to pre-register, please send me an e-mail with your full name and phone number to: singsoundintegrity@gmail.com

Excerpt from the PREFACE of my book

You Deserve to Sing! Available soon through Amazon and other sources.

  ....The Creator has given us everything we need through the countless miracles of nature, but also the responsibility of its stewardship.  We have also been given, by the same Source, all the tools we need to heal ourselves, to make progress in our spiritual journeys and to become more and more awake as humanity. We need to foster this inner growth in order to become true stewards of this Planet.

   I have found that the human voice is one of these essential ‘tools’ of human development. Its use and growth is dependent on the perfect interplay between all the other ‘tools’ and human capacities like Speech and Communication, Thinking, Feeling, Imagination, Listening, Awareness….

Please note: The Tuesday evening class Join in Joyful Song at Rudolf Steiner College ends at 8:30PM, not 8:45 as previously posted.

I Have Submitted my little book for review. This is the cover preview (Front and back). It should be available very, very soon! I got my ISBN today and   submitted my manuscript for review to Create Space, a self-publishing company connected to Amazon. If all goes well it should be available for sale at Amazon and other sources before the Month is over.

What a long process this has been! Over two years of collecting ideas, discarding, re-thinking and re-writing, self-editing, other people editing, fiddling with formatting..... Only to realize that I need to be done for now and get the first edition out. So here it comes and I'm proud of it. Simple, affordable, readable and hopefully helpful. I will let you know when it comes out!

Join in Joyful Song!

Community Singing

Group-lesson

12 Sessions, Tuesdays, 7:00PM to 8:30PM 

At Rudolf Steiner College, 9200 Fair Oaks Blvd, 
Fair Oaks, CA-95628

in the Barn

Beginning January 15^th

All 12 Tuesday Dates are: January 15th, 22th, 29^th; February 5th, 12th, 26^th; March 5th, 12th, 19^th; April 9th, 16th, 23rd

This is a Community Choir and Basic Vocal Training class open to all, ages 8 to 100. Children under 12, please come with at least one parent! Learn lovely Rounds and Part Songs to sing with Family and Friends and to share for special occasions, get really good at harmonizing and spontaneously bursting into song! 

This class is always open to new members, as long as there is room!

E-mail me to save your seats and to make sure I have sheet music for you; space is limited! singsoundintegrity@gmail.com

Cost: Adults: $50,- for six sessions in advance; $10.- drop-in fee.

         Students, Seniors (65 or older): $40.- for 6 sessions in advance, $8.- drop-in fee.

         Children under 12 years: $25.- for 6 sessions in advance, $5.- drop-in fee

More and more private students, especially young ones, are finding their way into my schedule; more and more people are contacting me about my work, asking for more workshop options, getting excited to enrich their lives with Song. I am humbly grateful to be able to offer this important work! Sometimes my schedule is impossibly crammed, sometimes it's precariously empty - but those are the times when I have time to practice, write, create.

  I have posted the new schedule for 2013  on my page titled: "Upcoming and Current Events in Fair Oaks" Check it out!  I'm excited to see it manifest.

On this day, 12/12/12, I am inspired to move forward, to make things happen.
 Ring out the Old, Ring in the New!

Blessings to All

Many of you have expressed to me your wish to take another lesson or two, someday, if you could only fit it in!  Some of you simply had unsolvable scheduling conflicts this past Fall; maybe you need another reminder to schedule your long wished-for lesson, but maybe this "someday" is now, during the Winter break? 

As it turns out, I am going to stay home and I'm hoping to spend some time during this break doing what I love: teaching singing and helping teachers with their classroom music. 

Don't hesitate to contact me, I'd love to work with you this December! 

Have a wonderful Advent time! 

Gems-in-the-Rough originals

Gems-in-the-Rough originals
Click on this title to hear some of my original songs!

these songs were recorded with a simple one-track digital recorder. Just my voice and one instrument (Piano on some, guitar on others) played and sung by yours truly.

I' packing and preparing for a week in Carmel and Pacific Grove, working at the Monterey Bay Charter School, helping the teachers with their music in the classroom. As I was there last year as well, I have an idea of what to expect: I am anticipating a very full, exhausting yet rewarding five days with an enthusiastic group of people and a couple of amazing walks at Carmel Beach and Asilomar...
The school has requested a Parent Education Evening about "Building Social Awareness and Compassion through Song" - the workshop title I will be offering Saturday, November 17th in Fair Oaks.
I have the feeling that for me this theme will be particularly important for my work in the near future.

My schedule for the school year is filling up rapidly -
I am already running into the usual puzzle -challenges of a crowded schedule. How to consolidate family schedules with work? I had to make some corrections on my Fall-program. If you were looking into it, please look again! The September Saturday classes may need to move to the last week of September (29th)

Nice problem to have, in the end... Thank you all for your support!
I'm looking forward to a productive, wholesome and harmonious Semester.

Planning the new Semester: Schedule

                                                                                

                                  

Sound Integrity Singing Studio

Fall/Winter 2012

Immerse Yourself in the Joy of Singing!

 ^{(Eva Cranstoun performing with the Sacramento Master Singers)}

Enjoy any of the Five Saturday Intensives and

A New Singing/Choir Class on Tuesday Evenings!

Instructor: Eva Cranstoun

 Experienced Waldorf Music Teacher,

 Performer and Certified Instructor of the

School of Uncovering the Voice

Each Event is scheduled for 3 ½ hours

     September 29^th 9:00AM / 2:00, October 20^th 2:00PM      

             November17th 9:00AM, December 8^th 9:00AM     

                                                                                                       

All events will be held at: Rudolf Steiner College,

9200 Fair Oaks Blvd. Fair Oaks, CA-95628

in the ‘Barn’(the small, the red building behind the bookstore)

For more info: www.soundintegrity.blogspot.com

I) Introduction to the School of Uncovering the Voice

September 29^th  9:00AM – 12:30PM

If the School of Uncovering the Voice is new to you, this class is strongly recommended as a foundation to any of the other classes!

With beautiful exercises designed to discover and cultivate the subtleties and potential capacities of the singing voice, we will take first steps to explore this modern, wholistic schooling path with its depth and esoteric implications, developed by Walborg Werbeck Swaerdstroem.  All levels of skill are welcome!

II) Techniques to teaching and leading songs

September 29^th  2:00PM –5:30PM            

An intensive tutorial for teachers who use (or would like to use) more music and singing in the classroom and in group gatherings. Basic musical skills (note-reading, ability to matching pitch) are recommended for this session. Optional: bring soprano or Alto recorders, if you have them.

This class will be repeated/continued in December.

III) Fine-tuning the listening

October 20^th  2:00PM to 5:30PM

This class is recommended for people who love to sing but have trouble holding a melody against a harmony or singing in tune. We will get to know and recognize the patterns of scales and intervals and practice our musical memory and melody- imitation.

We will work on ear-training and harmonizing with beautiful exercises from the School of Uncovering the Voice and the application of the practiced techniques to easily accessible songs and rounds.

IV ) Building Social Awareness and Compassion through Singing

November 17^th 9:00AM – 12:30PM

Group exercises and games to awaken heightened awareness and appreciation of others as well as ourselves; Round- and part-singing as part of a social healing process. These wonderful, simple, musical activities are invaluable mood-setters for any conference or meeting, class-bonding or as community ice-breaker. Come ready to move, listen and dare.

II a) Techniques to teaching and leading songs

December 8^th 9:00AM – 12:30PM

(Repetition/Continuation of the September Session)

An intensive tutorial for teachers who use (or would like to use) singing in the classroom and in group gatherings. Basic musical skills (note reading, ability to matching pitch) are recommended for this session. Optional: bring soprano or Alto recorders, if you have them.

Tuesdays, Beginning September 25^th

( 12 sessions, last class is December11th)

7:00PM to 8:45, at Rudolf Steiner College, in the Barn

Let us Join in Joyful Song!

Community Choir and basic vocal training open to all, Ages 8 to 100. Children under 12 please come with at least one parent! Learn lovely Rounds and Part Songs to sing with Family and Friends and to share for special occasions, get really good at harmonizing and spontaneously bursting into song! Please save your seats, space is limited!  

Cost per session:

Saturday Classes:

At the door: $50.-

Pre-registered at least one week in advance:  $45.-

Pre-register for two or more Saturday classes and save: only $40.- each session or $160.- for all four!

Tuesday Evening Class:

Drop-in at the door: Adults: $10.- Students/Seniors: $8.-

Save! All 12 Sessions: Adults: $100.-  (you can split this into 2x $50 if you like)

                   Students/Seniors:$80  (you can split this into 2x$40.- if you like)

Family discount: Kids under 12 who come with a parent pay $5.- per session or $50 for all!

Everyone qualifies to participate in my classes, but due to the space only limited number of participants can be admitted. So please save your seat, Register Early! (NOTE: under-enrolled classes will be moved to a different location or cancelled)

To pre-register: please e-mail me your intentions: singsoundintegrity@gmail.com   include your full name, the dates you intend to participate and a phone number to reach you by in addition to your e-mail address; make a check out to Eva Cranstoun;

mail your check to: Eva Cranstoun, 4758 Amelia Drive, Fair Oaks, CA-95628

For further questions about your registration please call me at: (916) 860 9594 or send an e-mail.

Watch for events at other Locations: SF Peninsula, Napa and Nevada City

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