March 4, 2023

Toward the end of last week, I instructed a class of pent up wiggly six year old first graders. I taught them ‘opera style’.

Almost all of my lesson was done in scale form or in an arpeggio for emphasis. My voice rang out continually in ‘warm up’ mode. Occasionally there came bellowing out of my throat a full blown tune, along with the intermittent ‘Mama Mia!’ and ‘Bravissimo!’

Surprisingly, I accomplished quite a lot. The students were a perfect combination of terrified, amused, puzzled, irritated and amused all over again. At one point, one of the boys looked up at the ceiling and screeched.

All in all, an afternoon well spent. March madness indeed…