Music and More: Sara Penny Blog

Connecting Your Concerts and Your Audience Suzuki Association of Utah Conference Jan. 25, 2020 By Sara Penny Communication is a huge challenge in music, just like communication is crucial in any business, school, or family. Let us avoid “secret concerts”. This is a concert that your friends and family wanted to attend, but didn’t know about it. On the handout below the poster examples is a basic marketing plan for concerts. You can have a student or parent be in charge of publicity if you are overwhelmed. I am a big believer in communication to the students, to the parents, and to the community. The marketing research indicates that it takes 10 times seeing the publicity for an event for it to register. That’s why you need posters, flyers, social media posts, and emails to parents. Just telling the students one time is a guarantee that the parents will not know what is going on and there will be students missing concerts. Through the Cedar City Arts Council, I am able to promote...

Setting up for Success Using games helps establish good hand positions and posture. The video helps explain some of the tasks. If you have questions leave a comment and I'll clarify.  Wishing you a very happy musical journey. This gives you a blank template that you can adapt for the student and personalize with holiday and supplementary music. Include a few easy bow games and reminders on good posture and hand positions.  Even the advanced students need reminders to keep bow thumb bent and to keep the bow parallel to bridge. These are some of my favorites for helping set hands and learning rhythms. Video shows a few that I have developed that you may not have seen at a workshop.   Click here:  Video Link to see hand positions and games Sample for early Book 1 students to encourage review and good hand positions. Cut up the pieces to draw out. A few a day for a small child helps reinforce the hand and posture positions. I ca...