Yahoo Day One!

What a great way to start our creation process!
Cathy and myself have the good fortune to be able to drive to and from our gig at the school.On the way in we talk about the class ahead and stress about traffic. On the way HOME! WELL! We could not stop talking about what a great experience we had at the school today and what a respectful, cool, creative and smart bunch of young people we get to work with!
Today we dove into the world of opera in the gorgeous library space with the enthusiastic support of teacher Michael Ryan.
We discussed opera form, terminology, process, what to expect over the next 6 weeks of each and then YES! we got busy and brainstormed our opera ideas, improvised with music, made some discoveries and set down the work for the coming week.

Four current themes: Life in Toronto (neighborhood)
Gangs and Guns
Morning Forever
Jesus
We spoke of dramatic conflict, Light versus Dark/Good versus Evil, Jesus Gang (the disciples),
too little daylight.
Comedy or Tragedy?

The challenge for this week:
Using the themes above, write 2 or three story ideas with a clear beginning, middle (big dramatic conflict), resolution?and end.

This class is talented and there are many string players. There are multiple languages available to us. There are dancers!
So don't forget to incorporate your talents and put them to masterful use in our Opera!

Cathy sends her hellos and like me is looking forward to next week at Our Lady of Lourdes.
Deann