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pennysaverNEWS www.tspennysaver.com • FREE • Volume 50 • Number 104 • June 24, 2009

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camp house. The program will also include solo and duet piano performances by Sonatina faculty members, playing Chopin, Barber, Dvorak, Olson and other works. Twenty years ago, students who were then enrolled in the camp performed the Pachelbel Canon and have never forgotten the experience. Rosamond van der Linde, the camp’s founder, created this idea and will be in attendance for the reenactment. Van der Linde, an avid punster,

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Forty years! 4000 pianists! 40,000 fingers! Sonatina in Old Bennington Vermont, an international piano camp for children and adults of all levels of piano ability, will be celebrating its 40th year on Saturday, July 4, with a public concert. This is not your typical concert – there will be 42 young pianists, between the ages of 7 and 16, performing the Pachelbel Canon in a round on 31 different pianos that are placed in various unusual locations in the Sonatina

began the program by shooting off a cannon and from the loud downbeat, the students started playing. Film director Joel Gardner, of Camp Gardner Films, will be on hand to capture more footage for a full-feature documentary film that is being done on the camps, the house, the faculty and staff, and the large number of pianos tucked into every nook and cranny at Sonatina. Camp Gardner Films was recently awarded a Billy Rose Foundation Grant to document the piano stories that many have experienced while in attendance at camp. The magic of the Sonatina programs has spread worldwide, with piano participants coming from as far as Japan and New Zealand. Sonatina alumni hold reunions or visit with each other throughout the country to renew friendships and support each other’s musical progress long after they’ve come to camp. Noah Adams, a host on National Public Radio, attended

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