Welcome to The Walden School's FirstGiving page.
The Music-a-thon, a creative musicianship marathon to support Walden's finiancial aid programs, will begin May 15, 2012!
Dust off your manuscript paper. Put your improvising hat on. Dig out your books of etudes and your Walden musicianship manual. It’s almost time for the Music-a-thon, the spiritual successor to 2010’s Compose-a-thon! This is a great opportunity to set yourself a musical goal: to get composing again, to practice cello 90 minutes a day, to improvise fearlessly, even to blog about your favorite recordings and performances. Friends and family can demonstrate their support of your efforts by making a donation to Walden. All funds raised will support financial aid. Donations may be solicited from April 9 through the conclusion of the marathon. Participants raising at least $100 are eligible for prizes, and every dollar they raise will be matched dollar for dollar by a group of anonymous donors, up to $10,000! You can support Walden by donating towards the efforts of the participants, and you can participate yourself.
Want to donate? Click here and pick a participant to support, or here to donate.
Want to participate? Just click the green "Start Fundraising" button.
About The Walden School:
The Walden School (founded 1972) is a summer music school and festival offering programs that emphasize creative application, specifically through music improvisation and composition. In residence since 1983 on the beautiful campus of the Dublin School in Dublin, New Hampshire, the school provides an inspiring retreat-like environment ideal for creative music making. The Walden School is the successor organization to the Junior Conservatory Camp.
There is no other program that teaches young people such a direct, hands-on approach to creating music. There are no musicianship text books at Walden, no recorded listening examples - if you are learning about inverted triads, you are singing inverted triads, and you are creating improvisations and notated compositions with inverted triads. Music lives at Walden, not just on the page, but in the minds and hearts and ears and voices of everyone who is touched by it: students, faculty, guest artists, and members of the audience at our free concerts.
