Boot Camp Schedule and Format Coming Soon!

Hello Everyone,

As soon as Kathie and Janet finish the agenda (sometime this week, I believe), it will be posted here and on the wiki.

Also, the wiki will soon have a folder called "Bios" where I encourage you all to post a bio of your self, your musical life, your non-musical life, whatever, so that everyone in the workshop will know something about you before you get there.

This year we have two (2) brand new workshop participants, as well as a couple of folks who are coming back after a brief absence.

I've seen a draft of the workshop agenda and it appears that the spa-like atmosphere that ran rampant on my watch will be but a fond memory under the tutelage of Commanders See and Stewart . . .

More soon.

kp

2012 Housing Application Now Available

Hello Everyone,

The housing application is now available.

From the workshop web page, click here: 2012 Baroque Housing Application.

More news as it happens.

Kathie Stewart will be posting the PPotW (Practice Pieces of the Week) soon.

Baroque Flute Boot Camp XIV: Message from the Director

Dear Baroque Flute Enthusiasts,

For the 2012 Baroque Flute Boot Camp I will be on hiatus. Many of you know that since September 2008 I have been pursuing a PhD in Musicology at the University of Oregon. It has been intellectually stimulating and very enjoyable. One requirement for the PhD is writing a dissertation. Another aspect of the PhD program in music history/musicology is the opportunity to teach undergraduate lecture classes. The dissertation and teaching not one but two summer sessions this year will keep me from participating in the Fourteenth Annual Baroque Flute Boot Camp (14 years? Really? Wow!). 

This is only a one year hiatus. I expect to be back at the helm in 2013. But the boot camp will only miss my personality this year. My collaborator, friend, and colleague, Janet See will be there, as usual, and after a two-year apprenticeship, our friend and colleague Kathie Stewart, Baroque flute teacher at the Oberlin Conservatory, will be the other boot camp instructor. 

The participants will continue to be pushed out of their respective comfort zones to acquire new skills and knowledge of Baroque flute and Baroque performance practices. My patented Forehead Slap of Despair (FSD) may be missed, but other than that, the Boot Camp Experience will be the same. You can expect lots of flute playing, technical exercises, improvisation theory and practice, camaraderie, encouragement, and the feeling that your brain has been filled to capacity each day.

I will, obviously, be sad to not be a physical part of the BFBC XIV, but feel confident that Ms. See and Ms. Stewart will conduct business as usual. If anything, the environment may be more intense, challenging, and stimulating than in years past, because that is how we roll at the BFBC. 

See you physically in 2013. See you virtually all the time. 

kp

14th Annual Baroque Flute Boot Camp, July 29-August 4, 2012

Alert the media! 


BFBC XIV: July 29-August 4, 2012, in Seattle, at Seattle Pacific University. 


The website will be updated soon. 


For you past participants, we will be using the same workbook as last year. 


Watch this space for details and updates. 


More information to follow. Soon! 


Thank you. 


-- The Management

PPOTW: 16.xii.2011

In the absence of specific pieces, and to mark the end of my two-week hiatus from serious practice, I remind myself (and you as well) about these two things: 


The Twenty-Minute Workout


And . . . 


Smoke and Mirrors


Ready . . . go!

PPOTW (Practice Pieces of the Week): November 17, 2011

OK, so I'm a few weeks behind on these, and the cross posting. Let's keep the whining down and the posture up. 

• Telemann, TWV 40.6, and 40.7 (Fantasias 5 & 6)
• Quantz, Capricci 2 (Presto) and 42 (Courante)
• Hotteterre, Preludes in c-minor
• J-D Braun, Sonata (1740; found in the pieces sans basse collection)

Practice Pieces of the Week (PPW) for September and October

Apologies for the delay in posting these. I forget that not everyone is using Facebook.

I'll be more diligent about the cross-posting.


Hotteterre Preludes in A-major (3 & 4); in Bb-Major (1 & 2).
Quantz Capriccen: Number 6 (Fantasia Presto); Number 31 (in Bb).

Hotteterre, g-minor preludes 3 & 4; Braun, Menuetto (p.10; this will get your lips in shape) & Capriccio (p. 12); Couperin, Concerts royaux, Quatrieme concert, Prelude (Gravement), Courante Francoise, and Sarabande tres tendrement (yeah, I like E-major).