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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Art Songs, Solo with Piano Accompaniment

Art Songs, Solo with Piano Accompaniment

Gems-in-the-Rough originals

Gems-in-the-Rough originals

A new summer, a new schedule, new ideas

I have not visited this blog in a long time - it's overdue for an update! I'm still trying to figure out how to make it look just right. Summer Courses at Rudolf Steiner College www.rudolfsteinercollege.edu have just finished for me. It has been an incredible experience once again, meeting hundreds of people: experienced working teachers and those who are still aspiring to become teachers; established musicians and those who are terrified of tapping into their musical side; people older than my parents and people barely older than my oldest child, all sharing the experience of discovering Waldorf Education. Soul-Healing can take place here in record time, laughter and tears sit really close together, enthusiastic energy and deep fatigue seem to be hopelessly entangled on a daily basis. Many new connections have been made and many inspired, hopeful plans discussed. This last month alone over 30 people have looked at my embarrassingly outdated blog page! I better pick up the slack.
The next couple of weeks are set aside for creating a new schedule for the coming school year, packing it as full as possible without losing valuable family time.
I am gearing up for another fun block with the waldorf-inspired home schooled children at www.wholisticlearningresources.net, planning another couple of group singing-lessons and teaching-aid courses for music in the classroom, scheduling mentoring and music support-visits with several Waldorf schools and reserving a limited number of time-slots for private lessons.
And of course, I am looking forward to another awesome season with the Sacramento Master Singers!
www.mastersingers.org

My schedule for the upcoming school year will be posted within the next three weeks. Please subscribe to get notification of new postings!

summer activities

Some people are at the beach, in the mountains, tropics, rivers, visiting new places. Some day I will do that, too. But this Summer I am busy exploring a new place right here in my own home. I love being in this new room!

Bill helped me re-finish an old bookshelf I found at the thrift store. It looks beautiful now! I have a few folding chairs now, although I will need a few more, a water dispenser and a wooden music stand that sits on top of the piano. I have a little metal cash-box and books to keep my records in.

Dozens of folders with sheet music and workshop packets are being sorted into Binders while the cat looks on - my new air-conditioner is cooling the space beautifully. I never seem to be able to finish the task - there is always more, but my new bookshelves can hold it all in the end. I knew I had a lot of music collected over the years, but  only now am I realizing just how much. And I also know: I'm only scratching the surface: there is so much more amazing music out there, ready to be explored. I am searching for music to sing with my 2 new groups of children at Holistic Learning Resources and it's hard to do without knowing the children at all.

Practicing the piano is my activity when I take a break. It's fun and yet terrible, because the poor instrument is so awfully out of tune. I'm saving up for a good tuner. Not yet....

Gradually, occasionally, students begin to find their way to my new studio this August. Soon I will have many, a constant stream of enthusiastic singers, blessing my work space.

teaching is inspiring!

I am now in the fourth week of teaching summer courses at Rudolf Steiner College. So many people from all over the country are there, seeking inspiration, information and transformation. Many have come and found new courage and joy in their singing, many have overcome their fear and resistance and want more. They wish me to teach in Southern California, Colorado, Arizona, Oregon, New Hampshire, Ohio.... Although I cannot possibly be in all these places, I could visit - and so my work grows. I am grateful for so much support from the Universe, because I am energized, warmed to the core and in the flow of intuitive teaching all day and then deeply exhausted when I am at home. Sleep is the only thing that still works then.

If all teachers could sing, listen, teach and simply BE with this immense joy I feel when I teach, I think they would never again have classroom-management problems, or struggle with those seemingly unsolvable, heartbreaking conflicts with their colleagues or parents. Blessings on your Songs!