[Cynnabar] St. Cecilia at the Tower: Workshop or Event?

[Heidi Lemon]

The question I keep coming back to after reading all of these posts is:  Is
this a Musician Event or a Baronial Event?

Ilse

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Monique Rio <mrio at umich.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> My vision for St. Cecilia at the Tower (Cecilia Day) is a workshop by
> musicians for musicians. As long as there are multiple interesting
> tracks of music classes during the day, that vision will be met.
>
> Whenever we suggest a new event or demo, there’s always some concerns
> raised about getting burnt out from running too many events. I
> specifically planned for this concern with Cecilia Day by keeping the
> vision small enough that it could be run without a great deal of work
> by the Barony as a whole.
>
> But I’ve been getting some indication that people want or expect there
> to be a larger Baronial presence at the event, so I’d like to get an
> idea of the level of involvement the general populace would like to
> have in Cecilia Day.
>
> The evening activity is the primary thing that would change based on
> how involved the Barony wants to be. Below are some examples of what
> both Musician Focused Evening and a Baronial Event Evening could look
> like.
>
> Musician Focused Evening:
> -Jamming
> -Reading through some new music
> -General Hanging out
> -Performances
>
> Baronial Event Evening:
> -Recreation of the Duke of Burgundy’s party where 28 musicians played
> music in a pie.
> http://www.globalgourmet.com/food/egg/egg0598/didyouknow.html#axzz1VxibKyHM
> -Performances
> -Musical Activities for everyone not just people who read music (ex:
> rounds, ballads with choruses, etc.)
> -An evening court with lots of music and dancing and entertaining
> interspersed. Maybe a talent show... but not Cynnabar’s Got Talent.
>
> As a reminder, this event would be about a month after Terpsichore.
> (May 12th is the date we’re looking at now; that conflicts with
> Kalamazoo but I’m not sure how many potential attendees would be going
> to that anyway.)
>
> I’m still leaning toward this event being a low-impact musician
> focused workshop because it’s the first year and I’d rather not have
> Cecilia Day be the cause of burnout.
>
> That said, I like some of the event ideas too. Particularly the pie
> and the evening artsy/entertaining court.
>
> So, what I want to know is where you fall on this scale:
>
> 5: I don’t care what you do, I’m coming to the event. I will be happy
> with whatever.
> 4: I’m coming to the event for the classes, but I’d prefer [Musician
> Focused | Baronial Event ]
> 3: I probably won’t go to the classes, but I’m really excited about
> those Baronial Event activities and would definitely come to that.
> 2: If you had the Baronial Event activities I’d feel like I ought to
> come, but I’d rather stay home and rest up for Battle of the Inland
> Seas on the next weekend.
> 1: People play music in the SCA?
>
> Also if you have any other ideas or comments regarding the event let me
> know.
>
> Yay music!
> -Jadzia
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