CHILDHOOD MELODIES: KIDS WRITE OWN SONGS TO SING.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Daily News Staff Writer With some help from professional musicians, 60 students from the Palmdale School District The Palmdale School District is a school district that serves a major part of the city of Palmdale, California (USA). The Palmdale School District was first formed in 1888. Approximately 28,000 students are enrolled in the Palmdale School District. have composed music and written lyrics for their own original songs. The five-day Brad Bailey Music Camp, held in memory of a musician who died in 1995, will culminate culminate, in astronomy, the maximum height in the sky reached by a celestial body on a given day. At the culminate the body is crossing the observer's celestial meridian and is said to be in upper transit. today when the students, 8 to 14 years old, perform their music from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Barrel Springs School. ``Brad did one camp at Barrel Springs in 1994,'' said his widow, Rita Gujral-Bailey of Lake Elizabeth Lake Elizabeth may refer to
The camp was financed this year with funds raised through a sale in 1997 of art created by inmates at the state prison in Lancaster. The 1998 art sale, open to the public, will be held May 29 and 30. The money pays stipends to professional musicians who help the children write lyrics and compose music. Musicians at the camp this year were percussionist Tre Balfour, who works with singer Michael Bolton Michael Bolotin (born February 26, 1953), better known as Michael Bolton, is an American singer-songwriter, known for his soft rock ballads and powerful tenor vocals. ; singer and composer Michelle Cole, who has just finished recording a compact disc; bass guitarist Brendon McNichol Brendon McNichol (born June 1966), is a lap-steel/guitar player, who has played with bands including Queens of the Stone Age, Masters of Reality and Rattlebone.He is now working as a contractor. , and guitarist Richard Vittallo. The students divided into groups at the camp. ``Each group writes a song, and the musicians help them with their lyrics,'' Gujral-Bailey said. ``The musicians come up with the music, and we perform and do choreography choreography Art of creating and arranging dances. The word is derived from the Greek for “dance” and “write,” reflecting its early meaning as a written record of dances. .'' The students created rap, classical-style music, rock 'n' roll rock 'n' roll: see rock music. , rhythm and blues rhythm and blues (R&B) Any of several closely related musical styles developed by African American artists. The various styles were based on a mingling of European influences with jazz rhythms and tonal inflections, particularly syncopation and the flatted blues chords. and country music. ``The gist is to come together and put together a performance where children learn how to work together (and) learn about music - writing music, harmony, rhythm, and the structure of composing a song,'' Gujral-Bailey said. ``We put a lot in there for five days.'' Brad Bailey, a music composer, writer and producer, died in 1995 in a car accident on Lake Elizabeth Road. He had received platinum and gold record awards for an album by Nelson,``After the Rain,'' and a gold record award for a Nelson single, ``Love and Affection.'' CAPTION(S): 3 Photos PHOTO (1--Color) Flute player Mykael Campbell, 10, foreground, gets some help from Rita Gujral-Bailey, sponsor of a music camp at Barrel Springs School for Palmdale School District students. (2--Color) Layna Sinclair, 7, gets a high-five from Tre Balfour, a professional percussionist, at a music camp in Palmdale. (3) Singer-composer Michelle Cole coaches kids at a music camp on performing a song that they wrote. Jeff Goldwater/Daily News |
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