Registration for the Vocal/Choral Camp for ages six – 18/Grades 1 – 12 at Good Neighbors Theatre is in progress, with students already signed up.

There is room for more, so call Erica at 931-284-7968 or Linda at 931-864-3133 to sign-up your child. Registration forms are available at Regions Bank in Byrdstown.

The annual music camp program will again be under the direction of Janice Hay Warhurst of Albany, Kentucky, who has been instructor for the music camp since its beginning in 2010.

Dates for the music camp are July 6 – 10 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.. Registration fee is $70 per student and the registration deadline is July 1.

The week will include many aspects of instruction in Vocal and Choral Technique, learning note reading, singing, and musical terms and signs. This year’s program will feature music of American composer Aaron Copland .

He was concerned with crafting sounds that would be seen as “American” in its scope. Copland was an author, conductor, teacher, and Pulitzer Prize winner for the music he composed to Martha Graham’s 1944 dance, Appalachian Spring .

Ms. Warhurst will instruct the class using Copland’s many genres including chamber music, vocal works, opera and film scores, ballets and orchestral works. Notable among them will be The Tender Land, an opera that tells of a farm family in the Midwest inspired by the Depression Era.

Also of note, Warhurst will feature a life lesson for children in the composer’s work on The Red Pony. Copland composed the score for the 1949 production of John Steinbeck’s screenplay based on his short stories, The Red Pony.

Based on memories of his own childhood in these stories about a boy who embodies both the rebellious spirit and the contradictory desire for acceptance of early adolescence, a young farm boy, who can’t seem to communicate with his father develops an attachment to a young red pony and learns a hard lesson.

Parents and all interested in attending will enjoy a performance to see what the participants have learned on Friday, July 10 at 2:00 PM.

Warhurst is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music with a degree in Music Education and operates The Music Studio in Clinton County.

Her students take Classical Piano, Classical Voice, and Choral Music and include pre-school through adults. She is a frequent competition and workshop judge in addition to teaching her own students.