For the amateur musician or music lover who can’t attend rehearsals and concerts, Classical Uprising offers workshops designed to enrich the listening experience and improve musical skills. These workshops meet for 45 minutes a week for 4 weeks via Zoom, and all supplementary materials will be shared via DropBox link. Taught by visiting artists and Classical Uprising artistic staff, class sizes are limited to ensure individual attention and active participation.

Music in Non-Western Traditions
Mondays, April 5–May 3 (no meeting April 19) • 7:00pm • $30
Instructor: Patia Maule, Visiting Instructor

This four-week online class will explore unifying themes such as where and when music is played, how music is taught, and what instrument families are found around the world. In the final week, we will examine African and European throughlines in the Americas across a wide range of genres.

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Sight-Reading Boot Camp
Instructor: Scott Wheatley

Get your choral skills in shape with this sight-reading workout program. 

• Beginner - Tuesdays, May 11–June 1 • Noon • $50: For musicians with little to no experience. Learn how to sight-read. In this class no question is too silly. 

• Intermediate - Tuesdays, May 11–June 1 • 1pm • $50: This course will ​teach sight-singing ​using the​ major and minor scales, arpeggios, and the most commonly used intervals​.

• Advanced - Wednesdays, May 12–June 2 • Noon • $50: This course will include complex rhythmic patterns, all intervals, modes (scales other than major and minor) and strategies for performing leap-driven melodic lines. 

Scholarship funds are available through the Carolyn Johnson Fund. To request assistance, email Emily Southard, Managing Director, at oratoriochorale@gmail.com before registering.

This series is made possible in part by a grant from the Margaret E. Burnham Charitable Trust.