Feedbacks from the course 2008 as they arrive

Thursday  21st August 2008-

Dear Arlette

 Thank you very much for the last two weeks.

 The course was magical and everyone was very friendly. I made lots of new friends, loved the countryside and went on refreshing walks.

 It was very lovely to meet foreign friends and share a dorm with them.

 I've never been to Shrewsbury before and it was very beautiful.

 The student concert was the longest concert in my life!!

 It was very fun teaching Adash even for a short amount of time.

 He played very well!

My mum still misses playing and teaching him.

 I would love to help little children next time~~

 There was always something to do other than practice, which I loved.

 I also liked the swimming pool very much and tennis and football!

 My mum enjoyed it very much as well.  We still talk about it all the time!

 I miss the music course especially friends but we have email.  Please send the cards to the teachers!~~

 Thank you very much,

 Love

Julia Hwang  12 years old violin (Bristol) Korean

Masterclasses Richard Crabtree and Alexander Trostiansky

and Jasmine

Bristol UK

 

Friday, 22nd  August 2008

Bien chère Arlette,

 Je ne saurai vous remercier assez pour ce séjour magique où je vous ai découvert comme étant la maman d'autant de gens, allant du petit enfant de 13 mois à l'élève ou étudiant ou encore professeur ou parent. 

 Bien à vous,  Dr. Ragneta Stepanian  (Student in Russian and Advanced English)

For Sevane 5 years old  Peter Pan Course -piano, violin, cello and English-

Geneva Swiss

 
Saturday, 23 August 2008-
Dear Arlette,
I wanted to thank you and everyone from LMFL for such a fantastic experience 
Last week. 
I had an amazing time, learned so much and had so much fun as well.
Thanks again, hopefully see you next year!

Lucy Ford

Clarinet, Saxophone, Russian and Spanish

 

Sunday, 24 August 2008

Dear Arlette

 

On behalf of my children, Manuel and Maria Abecasis,  that participate for the 2nd time, I would like to express our deep-felt thankfulness to you and Alan for organising such a wonderful course that gives them the opportunity to benefit from the contact of great teachers/artists as well as from the very challenging and warm atmosphere you create there.

To meet so many young  (and not so young) people from all over the world that share a common passion-music-is really a magic idea that can help build their characters so that they can become better individuals.

Specially for my son Manuel this has become a most expected moment of the year and landmark for his life and love for music has he had the great chance of have met the wonderful teacher and amazing violinist Alexander Trostiansky that was generous and patient enough to teach him for the 2nd year in a row.

I would like to extend our thanks to all the other great teachers present in the course that contributed to make it so great and appreciated.

Also for parents it was again a great joy to witness the happiness of our children and the progress they made both in music and English but also regarding self-esteem, autonomy and independence.

You can count with us for next year.

 

Clara Moura Guedes

 On behalf of Manuel (violin, violin master class, strings orchestra, orchestra, chamber music and piano) and Maria (violin, cello, strings orchestra, orchestra and chamber music)

from Portugal

 

dimanche 24 août 2008

Chère Arlette,
Une fois de plus, le rendez-vous estival du LMFL fut une grande réussite.

Le passage de Frensham à Moreton Hall a montré que, plus que le lieu  (le nouveau collège est par ailleurs magnifique, à la lisière du mystérieux Pays de Galles), ce sont les hommes et les femmes que vous avez choisis qui font le miracle de ce stage qui permet à chacun, du débutant au musicien confirmé, d'y trouver son bonheur tout en améliorant sa pratique des langues.

L'intensité de ces 2 semaines est telle que l'on s'en trouve un peu dépossédé une fois replongé dans le quotidien de l'existence.

Heureusement se profile déjà l'espoir du prochain été qui sera, j'en suis sûr, aussi studieux, aussi convivial, aussi enthousiasmant pour nous tous.

Avec toute ma reconnaissance et mon affection,
Dr Alexandre-Pierre GASPAR

 

Monday, 01 September 2008

Dear Arlette,
we just returned now in Milan from a place in which internet was very
trembling and shaky, so that's the reason of our silence until now!
Albertina and Arturo have been,  as all past years,  very engaged and involved
in all musical activity, and it seems that every year ,  more and more.
They are very happy at the idea to return next year.
Albertina the morning of all the departures was so moved when she had to say
good-bye to William and Vira!
In any case there had been a lot of changes certainly this year in
Moreton: because of the different site, because of the different
"urbanite" dislocation of the buildings of this always fascinating
boarding-school, because there was a larger presence of very young musicians
with all their families, and so on.
We are sure that in all this changes the LMFL will always maintain the
spirit of brotherhood and fraternity that doing music together inspire in
all these young musicians from all over different nations.
With all our profound gratitude for your generous, passionate and clever
work that every year is so successful, we send to you and Alan and all your
family, our love and our friendship
Elisabetta and Adalberto Del Bo

Milano

For Albertina violin andr piano and Arturo Composition and piano

PRE-COURSE AND COURSE

 

Tuesday, 02 September 2008

Dear Arlette,

Thank you very much for the follow up of the course and the pictures.

We only got back home 2 days ago and are still enjoying talking about the wonderful time we had and the wonderful people we met.

We spent all the way back home in the car (2300 km!) singing together Ave Verum, All things bright and Beautiful, etc. (William would probably have fainted if he had heard us!). We definitely want to come back next year, so please, put the four of us on your list (we will wire the reservation tomorrow).

We can really tell our children have discovered how to enjoy music in the Peter Pan course; their teachers (Nadine and Gilad) were fabulous!

 

When we decided to enrol the children for the course this year we were not sure about taking classes ourselves.

Thank you for inviting us to do so, we discovered you are never too old to learn and to overcome your fears.

We would like to thank Sarah (Colman) and Alex (‘Forsyth) for their excellent classes, their enormous patience and for being such wonderful peoples.

A special thank for our English teacher Alan, who is not only the perfect English teacher but also an inspiring person to see as a model: his temperate manner and warm personality did not go unnoticed and were very much appreciated by everyone.

Maybe you were unaware, but many of us saw you holding hands and embracing each other during the final concert.

Also our expression of gratitude for Ashley (and his lovely wife Aneta), who, in all circumstances, no matter how exhausted, worried or upset, always kept a smile and friendly attitude.

 

And, of course, many many thanks to you for being the heart of this life enhancing project.

No cultural clashes, misunderstandings, broken mattress springs, bad pianos, rainy weather or hard to digest liver with gravy can spoil this wonderful experience!

 

Take a well-deserved rest. We will keep in touch,

Rosa ,  ( Vocal jazz and advanced English) Charles,  (saxophone an advanced  English

) Carolina and Nicholas Janssen Telders  (Peter Pan Course)

  

Charles Janssen

Director

Janssen Executive Search & Recruitment

Madrid ( Spain )

M (+34) 606 44 75 25

cj@janssensearch.com

http://www.janssensearch.com/

 

Saturday, 06 September 2008

Dear Arlette, Alan, Alex, William

Eneko arrived at home after his second summer at LMFL, delighted and inspired.

He is dying for returning next summer.

Thank you very much for your help at picking him up from Liverpool.

Thanks to Alex Forsyth and William Godfree for the stimulus and motivation they transmitted to Eneko (a brief feedback from them would be very much appreciated). Thanks also for the English professors, Eneko improved it significantly.

This year we missed the opportunity of joining you at the end course auditions. Last year we enjoyed that very much, the atmosphere, the enthusiasm and joy of the young performers,

We hope to see you again next year.

Thanks again,

Jorge and Virginia Unda

 for Eneko pre-course and course saxophone and EFL

 

Monday, 15 September 2008

 

Arlette

Encore un très grand merci pour le stage. Ce fut une expérience magnifique.

 Pour l'année prochaine, le stage aura t il lieu au mois de juillet ou plus tard au mois d'aout? 

 Cordialement,

 

Isabelle Grimaldi

Pour Isabelle guitare, chant jazz et russe

Claire violon,

Louis, piano et guitare

Carl Francois violoncelle

Pierre-Francois  Advanced English

 

 

Wednesday, 17 September 2008

Arlette

We thank you for your Love with music and children. Antoine and Martin enjoyed very much the company of all musicians. Martin wants to come next year to work classical percussion with Gerald Fromme , jazz drumming  and of course cello with Huge Nitzan.

Antoine would like to come back but it’s more complicate. As soon as possible we’ll register .

Say  Hello to your large and musician family

Receive our friendly kisses

Helene Wiget & Edouard Beux

For Anoine, jazz violin + composition

and Martin Drums and cello

 

Saturday, 20 September 2008

Dear Arlette,
I am sorry we did not get a chance to see you and thank you at the end of the summer course.
Chandni had such a fantastic time seeing old friends again, making new friends and playing music.

She was so enthusiastic she said she wanted to stay longer next time.
She is already looking forward to next year.
I hope all is well with you and best wishes,
Karen Pagarani

For Chandni violin, French and theory

 

 

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