Junior Camp
Session Dates,
August 11 – 26, 2012
Junior Camp
The junior camp is two weeks at the end of August, and accepts students aged 10–13. The fee per student for the two-week session is $2,890 in 2012 and is all-inclusive.
Scholarship assistance is available. Greenwood makes every effort to ensure that any accepted camper can attend Greenwood irrespective of financial need.
Music
On Monday each week, students begin the study of a movement from the chamber music literature. Every morning they meet with a coach. Individual lessons are scheduled with faculty members as often as the students and coaches think necessary to prepare the music for performance.
We are working with composer Geoffrey Hudson on The Quartet Project, a collection of new music for string quartet. Each week Greenwood students premier new works from the collection.
Concerts
Our first concert takes place at the end of the first week, on Saturday night. Our final concert is on Sunday morning, the last day of the second week of camp.
Orchestra is an integral part of the Junior Greenwood experience. The camp together makes up an orchestra with strings and wind players. Our orchestra performs at the beginning of each concert at Junior Greenwood.
Singing at Junior Greenwood is basic to the campers’ musical experience. A shared repertoire of folk songs, rounds, composed pieces prompts people to sing together on their way to rehearsals, during work crew, and sitting around the pool. Singing is an important part of our environment and is featured in both of our formal concerts.
See our program from last summer’s final concert for examples of chamber music and orchestral repertoire performed at Junior Greenwood.
Recreation
Activities organized and supervised by the counselors include games of soccer, crackabout, softball, capture the flag, a treasure hunt, charades, and a talent show. We hike up Mount Greylock, each year, and some of us visit art museums in the area as well. The last Thursday of Junior Greenwood is the night of our contra-dance; the last Friday we visit the Cummington Fair. During students’ free time each day there are opportunities to swim in our large pool, play tennis or ping-pong, or simply to sit and talk with friends.
How to Apply to Junior Greenwood
Contact:
Sally Robinson Bagg, Director
P.O. Box 194
N. Hatfield, MA 01066
413-247-9562
sally@greenwoodmusiccamp.org
There is no application paperwork for Junior Greenwood. Applicants’ families should email, telephone, or write to the director, Sally Bagg, during the Fall and up to the end of December 2011.
Admission is by live audition. If circumstances preclude this, a DVD or CD will be accepted after discussion with the director, and must be received no later than the end of January 2012.
Audition Dates
Western Massachusetts: in Hatfield, near Northampton, during the month of January 2012.
New York, NY: School for Strings – Sunday, January 29, 2012
Boston, MA: New England Conservatory – Saturday, February 4, 2012
All auditions are arranged between the individual families and Sally Bagg, Director, by phone or email, previous to the day of the auditiion.
Junior Greenwood takes 50 students, many of whom return from the previous year. Preference is then given to people who have been on the wait list and who still express a desire to come. Junior Greenwood does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed or national origin.