Singing | Penny Anderson | All Levels | Period 1 | Week 2 (July 14-19, 2024)
Come join in a 220-year-old American tradition of harmony singing. You will learn to read the shape notes and sing this soulful, joyful music. We’ll look a bit at the history of the tradition and draw songs from the Sacred Harp and some of the newer collections too. No need to read music, we will learn everything from the ground up.
About the Instructor
Penny Anderson is a life-long singer of choral music and traditional folksong. She is classically trained in music theory, voice, and piano, but not enough to ruin her singing. She has a repertoire of several hundred traditional folk songs from the American, British Isles, and French traditions. She has written dozens of original songs and choral pieces.
Penny’s musical obsessions at the moment are organizing the Pittsburgh monthly shape-note sing, singing a grab-bag of music from many eras as part of the duo Monongahela Harmony, composing and arranging choral pieces and solo songs, singing with the Compline Choir in the University of Pittsburgh’s Heinz Chapel, and playing the concertina. She would rather sing than do anything else.