I love having friends who help make my crazy ideas come to life. Sometime back in January of this year, I contacted my friend Morgann and asked her if she would be interested in co-hosting a summer flute camp for high school students this summer. After numerous emails, Zoom calls, and planning on both of our parts, we completed our camp last week. We were small but mighty! Morgann is the flute warmup queen, I think. She had a great variety of different physical and flute warmups. We learned new ones daily. Our other activities included daily flute ensemble reading sessions, geeking out over flutists on social media and YouTube, learning about our flute family tree, strategies for our district band audition piece, improvisation games, juggling, intonation, a funny reference to trolls, and more. We certainly crammed a lot of information into our short time together. I learned a lot from our time together. Thanks to Morgann, I have a host of new flute warmups to try and great reminders about posture and the physicality of playing. Most important, I am reminded to keep seeking out new ideas and information for myself and my students. There is a quote attributed to Michelangleo, saying (at age 87), "I am still learning." A good goal for me, and maybe you, too.
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