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

[Aaron Elkiss]

I think the distinction, to put it bluntly, is:

A "Musician's Event" - The event is put on by musicians, for
musicians, with effectively no support from the larger Barony required
other than sponsorship. There would not be anything to do for
non-musicians at the event and no reason for them to attend. The event
would still be planned to break even financially with modest
attendance.

A "Baronial Event" - Activities are planned that would appeal to a
larger audience which would likely require greater support from the
Barony. Some have expressed concern that doing this kind of thing
might lead to general burnout from putting on too many events/demos.

I think it's perfectly fine to have a small, focused event where not
everyone in the Barony feels like they need to come, but if others in
the Barony are excited about the event and want to help with it we
should channel that energy rather than discouraging it.

Does that clarify things?

-a

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Greg Less <greg.less at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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