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

Greg Less greg.less at gmail.com
Wed Aug 24 17:28:37 UTC 2011


I'm not sure that I see a difference between a musician's event and a
baronial event...

-Gregoire.

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Heidi Lemon <heidi.ma2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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