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

 

Dear Arlette,
We miss you and all the time spent there but we will have a big treasure inside us

. In Italian we say: abbiamo fatto una esperienza molto arricchente.
Yours 

Stefania Jade Trucchi

 Main course and Peter Pan Course

 

vendredi 3 août 2007

Le retour de The course est toujours difficile, encore plus cette année 
pour Karl et Wilfried. Ils y sont encore...

Je voulais vous remercier pour toute cette organisation et la qualité 
de ce stage qui apporte chaque année un peu plus aux enfants.

Karl et  Wilfried ont beaucoup appris de Rustem, la vie de collégien plaît 
particulièrement à Wilfried qui regrette sa chambrée, Héléna toujours 
réservée et qui redoute la vie en collectivité a vécu cette année son 
meilleur stage... Quant à Emma, elle chante et joue de la flûte tous 
les jours depuis son retour. Le plus grand, Alexandre, a trouvé une 
vocation tardive, il veut se réinscrire l'année prochaine mais avec 
Karl cette fois, il ne faut pas perdre de vue les objectifs...

Nous restons encore un peu dans l'ambiance du stage car nous reverrons 
peut-être la semaine prochaine Claire, Elsa, Axelle et les enfants. 
J'espère que pour Alan et vous, l'après n'est pas trop dur, encore une 
fois félicitations et merci pour to
ut.

Béatrice.Gaspar for Alexandre (conducting course) Karl piano masterclass, Helena flute,

Wilfried  and Emma Peter Pan course

Paris

 

Tuesday, 07 August 2007

The new place you choose for next year sounds and looks great!

Our trip is a little bit like one of Bonnie and Clide or Humbert Humbert and

Lolita (in my case 2 Lolitas): I am moving every day to a new place.

 The   children didn't check anymore, in which city they woke up.

Now I am in  Berlin and plan to stay here longer. We need a rest of our holidays!

So I   don't have a constant access to Internet.

.

Changes are good  anyway.

"Thank you for the music!" And for the nice part of our holidays!

My  children were very happy and are already eager to come the next year.

Please, try to organise a better weather next Summer!

Say hallo to Alan

 From  all of us.

With best wishes.

 Masha Polynceva –Brockstedt  for Maria, Sophia and Lousha

Moscow

 

Wednesday, 09 August 2006

Chère Arlette,
Vous avez créé un monde à part, en invitant toutes les générations à se
retrouver autour de la musique, du plaisir et du travail, et pour cela nous vous serons toujours reconnaissants et fidèles a
. Le plus difficile est, comme nous l'avions prévu, de se retrouver dans le monde "normal".
Quand le DVD sera-t-il prêt?
Et les photos en ligne?

Dr Alexandre-Pierre GASPAR

 

Dear Arlette –

We are home and all exhausted.  Rosie took herself off
to bed again this morning, which is a first.
We had a good time at Frensham, despite the awful rain on Friday. 

 I find the music very challenging, and will have to work very hard this
year to undertstand and play more, including a lot of aural training. 
The piano with William was a good idea, and the voice with Laetizia was
just a little more comprehensible than before. 

The children had a good  time, and miss  their friends there.  James is keen to carry on the clarinet......  –

After having my dinner, and relaxing, I thought my last
message to you was not completely what I wanted to say. 

Wonderful time with the children doing excellent things and learning at
the same time...... Their French lessons; Hester is a mystery to me in some ways, but she liked doing the morning session with Alan (they all enjoy their lesson with him). 
I worry that she will get too old to be able to join in with the
smaller children before she works out how to fit in with the teenagers,
but next year is a long time off.
I enjoy my music very much, and intend to work hard on it during the
year, and it is a great pleasure to meet your lovely staff and other
students on the course.
Lots of love

Romayne  Odgers-Campbell (vocal jazz)

Hester cello and French, James clarinet and recorder +French

and Rosie violin+ French

London

 

 

Dear Arlette
 The experience of having the three children
to myself in London for two weeks has reinforced my view that two weeks in the course was a stoke of genius for us. 
 I'm not suited to sole care of the house and children by myself!
We had a very, very enjoyable two weeks.  It is much more interesting than
having a traditional holiday, and it occupied the children very happily while
giving them exposure to wonderful music and musicians.  They moved around
the campus so confidently that it has rather expanded my expectations of
what they can achieve, and they loved being given the sort of independence
, which is impossible in London.  Rosie, as you know, led the way in showing
her older brother and sister how to organise her life with almost no reference
to me for two weeks!  It was miraculously good timing to be out of London
for the hottest July ever, and the pool was quite wonderful.
I myself enjoyed the two weeks very much as well. It is a wonderful opportunity
to meet new people who come from a rather different world from my own, and
to share their enthusiasm for the music.  The course has a very good atmosphere
, which comes down to your skill and choices in staff. 
 I hope that the students felt that they had learnt something from their
time with me.  John enjoyed the concerts and felt that all three children
had really developed during the two weeks..
 You do a magnificent job to put such a scheme together. 
You were right to say that it was strange to be back home again - I missed
being in the collegiate atmosphere and did not like having to get back to shopping, cooking and driving again! 
Talk to you soon, best wishes to Alan and the family
love

Romayne  Odgers.Campbell

 

Feedback course 2007 as they arrived

segunda-feira, 30 de Julho de 2007

Dear Arlette, Alan and Various Teachers:

 

As newcomers to your summer course and on behalf of Manuel, Rita and Maria I would like to thank you for the great experience they had in The course that, for different reasons, was very significant for each of them, according to their different personalities, approaches to life and interests.

 

Our “full time musician” Manuel ( in the sense that music is central and his main interest in life…) was overwhelmed by the opportunity of  attending  Sasah (Alexander Triostiansky) ´s classes, with  the benefit he took from what he learned  and the great pleasure of listening to him playing so beautifully , as well as the great  piano classes with Vera, the Orchestra which was a premiere for him and for Rita  the wonderful sessions with David Heyes.

Thank you very much for all your organisation.

 

Best regards

 

Clara de Moura Guedes

For Manuel, Violin Masterclass with Alexander Trostiansky

 Maria and Rita Peter Pan Course

Portugal

 

 

Sunday, 29 July 2007

 

Dear Arlette, Sacha, William, Alan, and others,

An elated, inspired and happy Theodor has just landed in Geneva, a thousand thanks.

On occasion, we would be most grateful for getting an echo from his main teachers with observations on his performance and potential, including any useful practical advice.

With warm regards,

Peter Kung

For Theodor  Violin masterclass

01/08/2006

Dear Arlette

Just a short e-mail to say thank you to your husband for such a wonderful week at Frensham.

I really enjoyed meeting so many new and wonderful people and it was great to have the opportunity to work with William and conduct the orchestra.

I did give Ashley some photo's but since coming home I have edited and improved many of my pictures.

I will post you a CD of them so you can use them if you need to. 

Once again thank you.

Every blessing

Alan Combes   Conducting Course

01/08/2006

 

Dear Arlette

Just to say thank you for allowing Stefan the Anne-Sophie Herrenschmidt Scholarship

Without it he would not have been able to come

He had a wonderful time and made some wonderful friends

He also grew extremely fond of both Jean-Luc Borsarello and Alain Villard and was very sad to say good-bye to both.

When he got home he has a letter from his piano treachery, who is 84 years old saying that he passed Grade 7 piano with distinction, which was wonderful because he has only been playing the piano for the past 2and half years.

He was so sad to leave everyone that Saturday; I n fact I ‘ve never seen Stefan so upset, he fell asleep in the car, tears still running down his face. It was a log journey home and we arrived back late at 3.30am.

We cannot say thank you enough, Arlette. You do a wonderful job.

We are trying to save every hard for next year because I know how much Stefan wants to come back.

We all enjoyed the concert very much, it was a lovely evening and very emotional because Stefan was about playing his violin without score and also he ‘s never played the piano in public before, because he never though he was good enough.

 It was a very difficult thing for him to do, but he did it and we thought very well

Best wishes Glenn, Barry and Stefan Spencer

Kingsley

Stoke on Trent

 

 

Dear Arlette,
We miss you and all the time spent in the course but we will have a big treasure inside us

. In Italian we say: abbiamo fatto una esperienza molto arricchente.
Yours 

Stefania Jade Trucchi

 Main course and Peter Pan Course

 

 

Hi Arlette,

 

How are you after another summer course? I hope you are feeling well and you are resting. I am only writing few words to let you know how happy I have felt this year there.

 

Personally I think it has been the best year in all aspects. I am not only happy because  I really have worked hard (something I enjoy doing it), but because the quality of the concerts.

 I think the teachers concert has been the best in all these years, quality pieces and short (the idea of including Letizia in it I think it was great and I hope she continues singing in the teachers concert in future summer courses). Also the kids concert was great, the idea  of doing one for the Peter Pan Course before lunch was fantastic as good as living for after dinner the best students.

 

I do not have any negative point (apart of the food) about the musical part, I can see how every year is improving and getting better this course and it is nice. I think the rest of the teachers are excellent and I am very fond of Jean Luc (great man and person). I

 

Well I wrote more that few words, but to resume I want to congratulate you and every body who has helped you in the success of this years summer school and I hope the future brings more joy, fun and happiness to you and the summer course.

 

Yours friendly

Inigo Alonso Viribay

 

Dear Arlette, Dear Agnès,

This was my 4th time in Frensham.

Every year is different: the weather, the number of students, the teachers, the program,  ... All that may vary except one thing: 15 days of intense work in a very friendly and congenial atmosphere.

For those who were not with us, here is a summary of these 15 days.

- The weather: what an English weather! 30° C every day and 34°C (the highest temperature in record in England) one day. I'll remember that because of the beautiful "coup de soleil" I have got.

- The swimming pool: thank God there was a swimming pool; very useful when we got 15 minutes between 2 rehearsals or lessons.

- The pub: not enough time to go to compare the atmosphere of ALL the pubs around Frensham

- Tea time:"some" times it was preceded or replaced by cup washing sessions in  (men) lavatories.

- The food/ catering: Very good for a diet. I never ate such a lot vegetables and oranges in 15 days!

- The accommodation: we already knew that Frenham Heights is not a 4 star hotel but we were very lucky in the main building: the room was clean, no spider in the shower, and the must: hot water!

- We’ve got a lot of new friends: wasps. I don't understand why you invited so many wasps this year, and I forgot the instrument they played.

Thank you Arlette and Agnès for having managed that so well for over one hundred people. 

Now, I am (back to work) in Paris: 17 °C (hard to believe that we are in August!), tired but happy to have spent my holidays working hard with Sarah Pool (classical singing), Letizia Morelli (jazz singing), Cedric Pytel (percussions), and Edwin Rolles (chamber choir and choir).

See you next year!

Tatiana - Paris

40+ years old (classical and jazz singing, percussions)

Philippe 40+ piano with Rustem Koudoyarov

 

 

Chère Arlette,

Encore un fois merci.

Stefano il est un petit peu fatigué cette année... je crois qu'il a bien vécu ces deux semaines à Frensham.

 Gino est très très content et sa femme aussi.

Marco est enthousiaste, comme Vittoria.

Je te dois faire mes compliments pour ce que tu arrive à organiser.

Tout le monde que j'ai rencontré à Fresham était heureux, même plus que d'habitude (et c'est difficile!).

Le voyage à été agréable, pas de problèmes. Je dois dire merci à William, qui m'a aidé avec la recherche du taxi.

Encore: Alexander Trostiansky vient jouer à Genova en septembre, mais je ne sais pas où et quand. Comment pourrais-je faire pour avoir des nouvelles?