{"id":8960,"date":"2018-07-26T11:04:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T10:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=8960"},"modified":"2018-07-26T11:22:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T10:22:34","slug":"hannahs-american-diary-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2018\/07\/26\/hannahs-american-diary-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah’s American Diary: Part Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Reporting in from the French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts as part of Camp America, the second entry in the diary of Music Scholar Hannah Ost<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

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So the first of my three, three-week sessions at camp has come to an end. I can’t believe it but I’m now halfway through the second! Each day seems to pass by so slowly but looking back I can’t believe how fast it has actually gone.<\/p>\n

Both of the shows for which I am Musical Director have opened and closed and went down very well with each audience. The little kids in Snow White<\/em>\u00a0were very cute and even though some of them are only eight, we still managed some two-part harmony with them! James and the Giant Peach<\/em>\u00a0was fantastic – I played Keyboard in the pit orchestra for that as well which was tough since I didn’t have much time to learn the score. It all came together in the end though and we had a fabulous three-night run during the festival weekend at camp.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Moving onto this session, I am the Musical Director for a show called Junie B Jones<\/em>\u00a0and along with my other MD, we have taught just over half the show in twelve one-hour rehearsals! Our dress rehearsal is next week; I am busy learning the piano score for the show as I will be playing in the pit for that show too.<\/p>\n

That’s about all I have for now. I will bring another update after this session ends!<\/p>\n

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Read the first entry in Hannah’s American Diary<\/em> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n