Words of the Campers

How did you feel coming to camp today?
Excited • Glad and excited • Confident • Sleepy sleepy • Tired • Surprised • OK • Impatient • Good

Facts I learned today
• > < means to get louder or softer as you sing
• How long a whole note lasts
• Extending a word adds emphasis to it in music
• I learned how to ring bells
• I learned what a triad is
• I learned that there are lots of ways to mark breaths in music
• Some harps don't have sharps and flats
• The harp stayed alive in Wales
• The harp has three sections of strings
• A comma means take a breath
• In Bali, orchestras of Orff instrument players say thank you to their instruments for giving them music
• I learned that a piano was basically a harp
• I learned that triads have a base, a third, and a fifth

What I'm grateful for
• Mom
• My family
• My family and the roof over my head
• Being able to sing
• Choir and teacher
• Having an opportunity to see the history of the Cathedral
• My cats
• Comcast digital cable and on-demand
• Ms Sunde
• My brother
• God
• Being in camp

One word to describe camp today
Exciting • Cool • Interesting • Fun • Scary • Hot • Long • Enthusiastic • Totally cool • Exploring • Delicious • Fantastic • Good • Physical • Surprising • Wonderful • Amazing • Creepy • Awesome • Lovely • Musical

Thank you to Ms. Patella
• Thank you for coming and teaching us.  It was very fun.  I really liked the "Jabberwocky" poem.  It was very interesting and fun.  Thanks again!
• Thank you, Ms. Patella.  I had fun today with you and yesterday.  I wish you could stay longer so I could play more games with you.
• Beware of the Jabberwock, Ms. Patella!  And make sure you are able to see us sing!  You have helped not only build a great cathedral, but a community too!
• Thanks for teaching us about text!
• Thank you so much for teaching us more about St. James.
• Thank you for coming and working with us.  You were fun, creative, and encouraging.  I hope to see you again.  Mimsy-ishly yours...
• Thank you for the fun and exciting times with you.  They were a blast.
• Thank you for helping us musically as well as mentally for the coming Schola year.  Thank you also for helping with enunciation.
• Thank you very much for working with us.  I loved the activities you planned for us.
• I'm so happy that you were here to teach my class the Jabberwocky poem!  I had fun.
• Thank you for doing all the work you do!
• Ms. Patella, thank you for being so funny!  Camp was more fun with you around.
• Thank you, Ms. Patella, for teaching the two classes for us.  I really enjoyed them and you really made us think!  I look forward to seeing you again this Friday.
• Thanks for letting us enjoy the art of poetry.
• I want to thank you for coming and taking the time out of your day to teach us and to lighten our day with your presence.
• Thank you, Ms. Patella!  You really helped me learn the meaning of text and how to emphasize my words.  Jub-Jub!
• It has been extraordinary listening to your expression in your voice when you speak poetry.  Thank you for giving me a wonderful time in your class.
• Thank you for teaching us all those neat poems.  It was so much fun!
• You have opened my eyes to good poetry and text.  Thank you.  P.S. It was great having such a postive and wonderfully optimistic person to spread joy and happiness.

We began our day with a surprise visit from Bill McJohn, a cathedral parishioner and an expert on early music.  He showed us harps like those that were played in the 13th century.  They were based on a diatonic scale (no sharps or flats).  In the 17th century, larger harps were made with sharps and flats (the chromatic scale).


At Morning Praise we place our lit candles before the image of St. Cecilia, patron of all musicians and our patron.


Father Brant presided at Morning Praise today.  He told us about three great patrons of musicians:  Saint Cecilia, King David, and Saint Gregory.  Do you remember why these three became the patrons of music?


Our adventure for the afternoon was to climb into the attic, high above the ceiling of the Cathedral.  There we could see some of the original ceiling, from Bishop O'Dea's time, before the dome collapsed.  Almost the whole ceiling of the cathedral is held up by thousands of thin but very strong wires.


Doing what we do best--singing!  It's important not just to sing beautifully, but to express the meaning behind the words and to watch Ms. Sunde!


Choral Scholars for Tuesday.


Project Managers of the Day.