Fall Horn Festival
The Fall Horn Festival November 3, 2007
Hurray for Hollywood!
The 2007 Fall Horn Festival features music from the "Silver Screen." Music is essential to providing an emotional landscape to movies, and for decades film composers have used the beauty of the horn's voice to stir our souls. Powerful and majestic, gloriously soaring, haunting or heavenly - the horn does it all! Come join us for "Horns Go Hollywood!"
This event will be held in the Greenhill Center of the Arts on Saturday, November 3, 2007, from 10am-5pm. The festival is for French horn players in grades 5-12. Registrants will participate in both large and small horn ensembles. The event will conclude with a concert, presented by the horn faculty and festival participants. We encourage family and friends to attend!
The $30.00 fee covers instruction, materials and a festival t-shirt. Please bring a folding music stand, labeled with your name.
Attention Band Directors
Don't know how to empty the water out of a horn? Don't know why horn players put their right hand in the bell?
We're presenting a special FREE seminar just for you this year! Guest hornist and music educator Patty Schlafer will offer great ideas and suggestions, plus give you some real hands-on experience.
When: November 3, 2007, 11:00 AM (during Fall Horn Festival)
Where: Room 1005, Center of the Arts UW-Whitewater
Cost: FREE
Registration: For more information, please contact Continuing Education Services at cesevents@uww.edu or 800-622-0350.
Need more than one hour of horn? Then register for the whole day, bring a horn, and play along with any 1 of 4 different level ensembles. The $30.00 registration fee covers instruction, materials and a festival t-shirt.
Schedule
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 9:30 am |
Check-in Check out the Breber Music display, including new horns, music, and equipment. Horns for sale at special festival price! |
| 10:00 am | Getting to Know You |
| 10:30 am | Large Ensemble Rehearsal |
| 12:00 pm |
Lunch Bring your own, order in, or walk to nearby restauraunts. |
| 1:00 pm | Small Ensemble Rehearsals |
| 1:45 pm | Dress Rehearsal |
| 3:00 pm |
Fall Horn Festival Fun Time Door prizes, snacks, photo opportunity, festival t-shirts (to be worn during concert), Breber Music display. |
| 4:00 pm |
Fall Horn Festival Concert Light Recital Hall - Greenhill Center of the Arts |
The Faculty
Linda Kimballis principal horn of both the Madison Symphony Orchestra and the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. Linda also has extensive chamber music experience, performing with the Wingra Woodwind Quintet, and the Whitewater Brass Quintet. She also founded and performed with the Artemis Horn Quartet for almost 20 years, so you can see why Linda considers herself to be one of the luckiest hornists in Wisconsin! In addition to playing the horn, Linda is passionate about teaching the horn and has been on the music faculty of UW-Whitewater since 1984. She started the Fall Horn Festival in 1999 to show young horn students how much fun playing the horn can be, and to offer them an opportunity to meet, rehearse and perform with other young hornists.
Patty Schlafer is a graduate of UW-Madison and has been teaching middle level music for 27 years. Her interests are varied and have led to an active professional life as both teacher and performer. Schlafer currently directs concert and jazz band at Mt. Horeb Middle School and is a facilitator for the Wisconsin Comprehensive Musicianship Project. Ms. Schlafer has completed her Master's degree in Curriculum Theory and Design where her research included a study of musical tastes of the adolescent band student. Patty has also been the guest conductor of numerous summer music camps around the state. As a horn player, she has been a member of the Madison Symphony Orchestra, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Artemis Horn Quartet and Acme Brass.
Cheryl Miracle began playing horn at age ten. She received degrees in both Music Education and Spanish from UW-Whitewater and a Master's degree in Music Education from UW-Milwaukee. She currently teaches middle and high school band in Franklin, Wisconsin, as well as teaching Milwaukee area horn students. In 2007, Cheryl received the Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Fellowship Award. Cheryl also performs with the Kettle Moraine Symphony and with her horn quartet "4 Chicks with Horns."
Michael Szczys received his Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Northern Colorado, and his Master of Music degree at the University of Minnesota. While in Minnesota, Michael was a member of the Duluth Symphony and played with the Minnesota opera. He now lives in Madison where he is a member of the Madison Symphony Orchestra and the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra.
What people are saying about the UW-Whitewater's Fall Horn Festival
"You've changed my son's life...your horn festival lit him on fire...his passion for the horn continues."
- A Parent
"I learned so, so much! I'm looking forward to going next year."
- A Student
"Thanks for a wonderful experience for my students... their eyes have been opened to a whole new world...they were very excited and were already asking about next year!"
- A Band Director
"I'm in awe every single time I go about how many french horns there are!"
- A Student
"I wanted to tell you what a great job you did on that festival...it was truly sensational...I can't get over raving about it."
- Ethel Merker, Professional Hornist
Festival Cost
The $30.00 cost covers instruction, materials and a festival t-shirt.
Lunch is on your own with numerous campus and off-campus locations within walking distance.
Online Application Form
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Special Notice
The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater is committed to equal opportunity in its educational programs, activities and employment policies, for all persons regardless of race, color, gender, creed, religion, age, ancestry, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, political affiliation, marital status, Vietnam-era veteran status, parental status and pregnancy.
If you have any disabling condition that requires special accommodations or attention, please advise us well in advance. We will make every effort to accommodate your special needs.
Contact Information
Office of Continuing Education Services
2005 Roseman, UW-Whitewater
Whitewater, Wisconsin
(262) 472-3165
Email: cesevents@uww.edu
