November 8, 2024: Friday Medley
Happy Friday!
We are open for lessons on Veterans Day, Monday, November 11, 2024.
(See way below in this email for information about our next scheduled off-days around Thanksgiving.)
As you know, we operate on a quarter calendar system. Membership / tuition payments default to monthly, but the calendar is based on quarters. Our quarters are not traditional, so that we can work out three-month periods with the same number of off-days for every day of the week.
Our Fall quarter comprises September, October, and November. December is the first month of the Winter quarter, which encompasses December, January, and February.
Families who wish to pay quarterly upfront (rather than monthly) receive a 5% discount off your locked-in-for-life rate. Families paying quarterly agree to remain enrolled at least for the full quarter. This option is optional for those who wish to take advantage. Families can receive this discount beginning their first full quarter, or at the start of any subsequent quarter. Since the next quarter coming up begins in December, families who wish to begin paying quarterly can do so beginning December.
Please email Dr. Dennis if you would like to make the switch to quarterly payments.
Upcoming Recitals
This email contains upcoming recital information. We encourage all students to participate in as many recital opportunities as possible. Studio recitals at the Dennis Frayne Music Studios strive to be joyful, fun, collaborative, tension-free, rewarding, social, music-making events, and not anxiety-laden, pass-fail-succeed-bomb, once-a-year, high-stakes assessments! Making music brings joy and satisfaction to musicians, including student musicians, and frequent recitals gives performers a sense of purpose, and an ongoing incentive to plan, practice, and prepare!
Christmas & The Holiday Season Recitals
Now accepting sign-up requests!
We will have FOUR options to attend a Christmas & Holiday Season Recital, over two dates and two time options each date:
Wednesday, November 27, 2024 (the day before Thanksgiving Day), 2:00 and 3:30 pm, at the Laguna Hills Community Center.
Sunday, December 8, 2024, 4:00 and 5:30 pm, at the Norman P. Murray Center in Mission Viejo.
Please use this sign-up form to request one of these recital days and times.
(In the past you have RSVP/replied via email, but starting this season we would like you to use this form.)
We will confirm, and as recitals fill up, we will remove them from the option list.
(We are striving to keep each recital under one hour.)
https://www.dennisfraynemusicstudio.com/studio-recital-sign-up-request
Special Theme Recital coming in January
Yes! Your student can participate in Theme recitals!
All levels, ages, instruments, and styles are welcome and encouraged!
We will have our first special Theme recital on Friday, January 10, 2025, in the evening, at the beautiful and acoustically brilliant venue, Chamber Music OC, in Lake Forest. This will be an audition-only recital for students and teachers wishing to participate. But don’t let the audition scare you! Performers can be at any level, including beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Teachers may also perform at this recital. The recital will be recorded. Here is a photo of the beautiful venue:
The theme for this recital is “Sets of Music”
The requirements for participation are:
a) Play a full set of some music (could be several compositions from the same composer, or the same film, or the same franchise; perhaps the first five songs, or any complete Part, in the Presto! It’s Piano Magic book series; maybe all three movements of a sonatina, or both parts of a two-part published work; or many other options and combinations - please discuss with your teacher or email Dr. Dennis with questions and ideas - we have many!);
b) Play from memory;
c) Complete your audition (and be invited to participate).
Feel free to email Dr. Dennis with any questions.
CPT Represents!
Our third Concert Performance Team recital is on 11/17/2024, 2:00pm, at Palm Terrace Healthcare & Rehab Center in Laguna Hills. CPT proudly represents our music studio!
Destination Recital - SAVE THE DATE!
Our first destination recital will be a day trip to the Los Angeles or San Diego area on Saturday, May 10, 2025.
Save the date for now, and we will be sending more information and an opportunity to sign up soon.
FSP
Our Families Support Performers program is shaping up, and we appreciate the families who have signed up to help out at our studio recitals so far! You can sign up for upcoming recitals here:
https://forms.gle/kiERAk8rmRuqREus8
Additional Lesson Rooms and More Music-Making Opportunities!
The Laguna Niguel School of Music has expanded into Suite 205, on the second floor of our Crown Valley Pkwy location, bringing you even more opportunities for music-making, including our Friday Medley events! We will have additional lesson rooms and a larger ensemble space for choir, string quartets, wind ensembles, and musical theater.
One of our lesson rooms will be specially designed as a sensory-safe “soft” room, while another will be equipped with state-of-the-art technology for music composition and production. Students can learn how to compose, arrange, engrave, record, and mix tracks to produce music and distribute it in electronic formats!
Forum is coming! What is forum?
Forum is a weekly practice-performance opportunity for students. At no additional charge, students can attend forum with a group of other students and families, and practice their performance pieces in front of a small audience.
Benefits of forum include:
1. Regular performance practice.
2. Encouraging students to practice during the week to prepare for forum, in addition to lessons and recitals.
3. Helping students to become more and more comfortable performing in front of others.
4. Providing an opportunity for students to collaborate (for example, playing duets, trios, quartets, accompaniments, combos, and even musical theater numbers, dances, or skits).
5. Keeping music more purposeful and meaningful in students’ lives. Students can make music, perform, and entertain, and experience more frequently the rewards of this real music-making.
6. Providing an additional social aspect to music learning.
7. Offering exceptional value to students and families.
Forums will take place Friday evenings, Saturday mornings, and Sunday afternoons. There will be two 30-minute sets, back-to-back. Participating students must agree to stay for the whole 30 minutes of a set, and they can optionally stay for both sets.
Thanksgiving Week Off-week
Our next scheduled off-week is the last week of November (Sunday through Sunday), 11/24 through 12/1.
Regular lessons will resume on Monday, December 2.
(December is the first month of the Winter quarter, which encompasses December, January, and February.)
Have a magical Friday, a musical weekend, and a blessed beginning of November!
Thank you,
Dennis Frayne
"Dr. Dennis"
Laguna Niguel School of Music
Dennis Frayne Music Studios
30110 Crown Valley Pkwy, Suites 105/107/108
Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
(949) 844-9051 (office cell)
(949) 468-8040 (personal cell)
www.lagunaniguelschoolofmusic.com
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