Thursday started at 8a.m. with Publisher Showcases. Julie attended Yellow Cat Music Publishing. The presenter lives in Saudi Arabia and gave out colorful bookmarks. The presentation was about incentives for practicing. She uses color-coded notes which she feels helps with reading problems. You can see more at her website: www.ycmused.com and Cindy attended Hal Leonard's presentation regarding their newest publications.
After an interesting keynote address by Alan Walker regarding Listz, the Man as Ambassador, we attended workshops.
Cindy attended The Dynamics of Group Teaching and learned how to interact with students during a group lesson. Julie attended The Top 40 Intermediate Pieces with Jane Magrath. She said it was wonderful and she will present to APT.
Julie visited the exhibits in the morning and had a long conversation with Keith Snell and Gayle Kowalchyk. She got some autographs from Keith and Christos Tsitsaros as well as getting her program signed by 18 out of 33 exhibitors. She's hoping to win a prize of a basket full of piano teaching goodies.
Cindy visited the exhibits after lunch and then fell on the bed exhausted after all that shopping; however, she is not deterred from shopping some more tomorrow. Cindy has not gotten any signatures and needs to get on the ball!
In the afternoon, Julie attended a workshop on students with disabilities and Cindy got to watch a live streaming event as it was being set up and asked a lot of questions. She now has the ability to live stream our recitals! After a teaching demonstration by Cathy Lysinger, which was very informative, we attended another publishers' showcase.
Julie went to FJH with Keith Olson and Cindy attended The Royal Conservatory Music presentation on how to prepare for assessments.
We then searched for a restaurant and ended up at Scarletti's, an excellent Italian restaurant in Downer's Grove. The excitement of the evening was the seven trains that went by us and blew their very loud horns.
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