Camden Music School (CMS) is celebrating five years of making music, fun and friends. Take this quiz to find out a little more about what's been goin' on at CMS for the last half decade.
1. On what date did CMS first open its doors to students?
2. What is the name of the famous trumpeter and composer whose practice tips are distributed to all CMS students?
3. What is the heaviest instrument you would find at CMS?
4. What is the name of the week that allows current CMS students to choose their lesson days and times before others?
5. What has traditionally been the final song at CMS's Holiday Sing-Along?
6. What is the name of a rhythmic pattern that is also the Spanish name for key? (Hint: CMS offers this along with classes in hand drumming.)
7. What is the CCC? (Hint: You can hear this at CMS on Monday nights.)
8. What great composer was inspired by the melody for Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, a favorite CMS recital piece?
9. Name two of the six CMS music scholarship FUNdraisers that have begun with the phrase, "As Much Fun As You Can Have With Your ______________."
10. What are the different stringed instruments that a student can learn to play at CMS? (Name at least three.)
11. Where can you find CMS besides in Camden?
12. What is the name of the traditional Norwegian flatbread that you can find at CMS's Holiday Sing-Along and Bake Sale?
13. What type of garden does CMS have?
14. What flower is given to students immediately after they perform at a CMS recital?
15. What are you a part of if you practice and play music with others at CMS?
16. What is the name of CMS's free concert series?
17. According to CMS, how can you find your Inner Beatle?
18. If CMS students are singing a cappella, what are they doing?
19. What is the name of a type of music that is sung in many churches and taught at CMS?
20. Not including voice, how many different instruments could you study at CMS?
Judy Horn is a CMS parent and member of the CMS 5th Anniversary Super Power Committee.
Answers: 1) January 15, 2005 2) Wynton Marsalis 3) Piano 4) First Dibs Week 5) Handel's Hallelujah Chorus from The Messiah 6) Clavé 7) Camden Community Choir 8) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 9) As Much Fun As You Can Have With Your...Ears, Taste Buds, Taste Buds 2, Elbows, Vocal Cords, Sweet Tooth 10) Violin, viola, cello, upright bass, fiddle, harp, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar 11) Northeast Minneapolis 12) Lefse 13) A Musikgarten 14) A long-stemmed rose 15) A CMS ensemble 16) Second Saturdays at Camden Music School 17) Take CMS's music theory classes 18) Singing without instrumental accompaniment 19) Gospel music 20) 17 instruments: Violin, viola, cello, upright bass, fiddle, piano, guitar, bass guitar, drum kit, hand drums, harp, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, French horn, baritone.