Junior Greenwood

Session Dates

August 9 – 24, 2008

Junior Camp

The junior camp is two weeks at the end of August, and accepts students aged 10–13. The fee per student for the two-week session is $2,450 in 2008 and is all-inclusive.

Scholarship assistance is available. Greenwood makes every effort to ensure that any accepted camper can attend Greenwood irrespective of financial need.

Music

On Monday each week, students begin the study of a movement from the chamber music literature. Every morning they meet with a coach. Individual lessons are scheduled with faculty members as often as the students and coaches think necessary to prepare the music for performance.

Concerts

Our first concert takes place at the end of the first week, on Saturday night. Our final concert is on Sunday morning, the last day of the second week of camp.

Orchestra is an integral part of the Junior Greenwood experience. The camp together makes up an orchestra with strings and wind players. Our orchestra performs at the beginning of each concert at Junior Greenwood.

Singing at Junior Greenwood is basic to the campers' musical experience. A shared repertoire of rounds, art songs, and madrigals prompts people to sing together on their way to rehearsals, during work crew, and sitting around the pool. Singing is an important part of our environment and is featured in both of our formal concerts.

See our program from last summer's final concert for examples of chamber music and orchestral repertoire performed at Junior Greenwood.

Recreation

Activities organized and supervised by the counselors include games of soccer, crackabout, softball, capture the flag, a treasure hunt, charades, and a talent show. We hike up Mount Greylock, each year, and some of us visit art museums in the area as well. The last Thursday of Junior Greenwood is the night of our contra-dance; the last Friday we visit the Cummington Fair. During students' free time each day there are opportunities to swim in our large pool, play tennis or ping-pong, or simply to sit and talk with friends.

How to Apply to Junior Greenwood

Auditions are now closed for summer 2008.

Contact the Director, Sally Bagg, via a phone call or letter (snail mail).

Sally Robinson Bagg, Director
PO Box 194
N. Hatfield, MA 01066
413-247-9562

An audition is then set up at a mutually convenient time, usually during January or early February. Most auditions are held in New York and Boston; others can be individually arranged. Depending on the availability of places, and the needs of the camp to balance ages, instruments, level of playing ability, ratio of girls / boys, a student is either accepted, put on the wait list, or turned toward other music camps.

Junior Greenwood takes 45 students, many of whom return from the previous year. Preference is then given to people who have been on the wait list and who still express a desire to come. Junior Greenwood does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed or national origin.