{"id":45,"date":"2013-09-05T04:25:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T04:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walden.ws\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2014-09-28T05:17:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T05:17:41","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/avivo.com\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"Our History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"one_fourth\">\n<div class=\"historyHead\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-184\" alt=\"history1b\" src=\"http:\/\/avivo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/history1b.png\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"http:\/\/avivo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/history1b.png 100w, http:\/\/avivo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/history1b-66x66.png 66w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Junior Conservatory<\/h2>\n<div>1940<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<div class=\"one_fourth\">\n<div class=\"historyHead\"><a href=\"http:\/\/avivo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/history2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-195\" alt=\"history2\" src=\"http:\/\/avivo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/history2.png\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"http:\/\/avivo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/history2.png 100w, http:\/\/avivo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/history2-66x66.png 66w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Walden School<\/h2>\n<div>1972<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<div class=\"one_fourth\">\n<div class=\"historyHead\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-196\" alt=\"history3\" src=\"http:\/\/avivo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/history3.png\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"http:\/\/avivo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/history3.png 100w, http:\/\/avivo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/history3-66x66.png 66w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Teacher Training Institute<\/h2>\n<div>2004<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<div class=\"one_fourth last\">\n<div class=\"historyHead\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-197\" alt=\"history4\" src=\"http:\/\/avivo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/history4.png\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"http:\/\/avivo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/history4.png 100w, http:\/\/avivo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/history4-66x66.png 66w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Avivo<\/h2>\n<div>2013 to Now<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div><div class=\"clearboth\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"one_fourth\">\n<style type='text\/css'>\n\t#imageframe-1.imageframe{float:left;}\n\t#imageframe-1.imageframe img{border:4px solid #f6f6f6;}\n\t#imageframe-1.imageframe-glow img{\n\t\t-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 3px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* outer glow *\/\n\t\t-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 3px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* outer glow *\/\n\t\tbox-shadow: 0 0 3px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* outer glow *\/\n\t}\n\t#imageframe-1.imageframe-dropshadow img{\n\t\t-moz-box-shadow: 2px 3px 7px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* drop shadow *\/\n\t\t-webkit-box-shadow: 2px 3px 7px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* drop shadow *\/\n\t\tbox-shadow: 2px 3px 7px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* drop shadow *\/\n\t}\n\t<\/style>\n\t<span id=\"imageframe-1\" class=\"imageframe imageframe-bottomshadow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-269\" alt=\"cushmanbw\" src=\"http:\/\/avivo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cushmanbw-248x300.jpg\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/avivo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cushmanbw-248x300.jpg 248w, http:\/\/avivo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cushmanbw.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><span class=\"imageframe-shadow-left\"><\/span><span class=\"imageframe-shadow-right\"><\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"three_fourth last\">\n<div class=\"title\"><h2>Junior Conservatory<\/h2><div class=\"title-sep-container\"><div class=\"title-sep\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><b>Grace Newsom Cushman<\/b>, a graduate of Oberlin College and the new England Conservatory, established the Junior Conservatory of Music at St. Johnsbury, Vermont in 1940. Over a period of twenty years, Mrs. Cushman developed a program for children from the first to the twelfth grade that she called \u201c<i>Musicianship\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>In the early fifties, Grace Cushman was hired by the Peabody Preparatory School to institute her creative <i>Musicianship<\/i> program as an alternative approach for learning music theory. She based this program on her then-developing course for children. Meanwhile she started the Junior Conservatory [summer] Camp at the Putney School in Vermont to provide a place for young musicians to further their musical skills and to create and hear their original music. Later in the sixties, Mrs. Cushman was invited by the Director of Peabody Conservatory to teach music theory to a select group of 12 undergraduates. Her class included\u00a0two of the future co-founders of The Walden School, <b>Pamela Layman Quist<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>David Hogan.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Before Mrs. Cushman\u2019s death in 1972, she told\u00a0<b>Lynn Hebden<\/b>, the director of the Peabody Preparatory School, that she knew Pamela Layman [Quist] and David Hogan would carry on her work to teach and nurture\u00a0<i>Musicianship<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"clearboth\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"one_fourth\">\n<style type='text\/css'>\n\t#imageframe-2.imageframe{float:left;}\n\t#imageframe-2.imageframe img{border:4px solid #f6f6f6;}\n\t#imageframe-2.imageframe-glow img{\n\t\t-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 3px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* outer glow *\/\n\t\t-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 3px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* outer glow *\/\n\t\tbox-shadow: 0 0 3px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* outer glow *\/\n\t}\n\t#imageframe-2.imageframe-dropshadow img{\n\t\t-moz-box-shadow: 2px 3px 7px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* drop shadow *\/\n\t\t-webkit-box-shadow: 2px 3px 7px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* drop shadow *\/\n\t\tbox-shadow: 2px 3px 7px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* drop shadow *\/\n\t}\n\t<\/style>\n\t<span id=\"imageframe-2\" class=\"imageframe imageframe-bottomshadow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-251\" alt=\"waldenfounders600\" src=\"http:\/\/avivo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/waldenfounders600-300x268.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"http:\/\/avivo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/waldenfounders600-300x268.jpg 300w, http:\/\/avivo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/waldenfounders600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><span class=\"imageframe-shadow-left\"><\/span><span class=\"imageframe-shadow-right\"><\/span><\/span>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<style type='text\/css'>\n\t#imageframe-3.imageframe{float:left;}\n\t#imageframe-3.imageframe img{border:4px solid #f6f6f6;}\n\t#imageframe-3.imageframe-glow img{\n\t\t-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 3px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* outer glow *\/\n\t\t-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 3px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* outer glow *\/\n\t\tbox-shadow: 0 0 3px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* outer glow *\/\n\t}\n\t#imageframe-3.imageframe-dropshadow img{\n\t\t-moz-box-shadow: 2px 3px 7px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* drop shadow *\/\n\t\t-webkit-box-shadow: 2px 3px 7px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* drop shadow *\/\n\t\tbox-shadow: 2px 3px 7px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* drop shadow *\/\n\t}\n\t<\/style>\n\t<span id=\"imageframe-3\" class=\"imageframe imageframe-bottomshadow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/avivo.com\/headshots\/lynn-hebden-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><span class=\"imageframe-shadow-left\"><\/span><span class=\"imageframe-shadow-right\"><\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"three_fourth last\">\n<div class=\"title\"><h2>Walden School<\/h2><div class=\"title-sep-container\"><div class=\"title-sep\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Pam Layman Quist, David Hogan, and Lynn Hebden founded the Walden School in 1972 to continue the legacy of the Junior Conservatory. Many of the camp traditions of the Junior Conservatory were carried on, and\u00a0Cushman <i>Musicianship<\/i>\u00a0was the core curriculum. Pam, David, and Lynn hired many wonderful teachers and performers during those years, including two students of theirs at the Peabody Conservatory,\u00a0<b>Leo Wanenchak<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>Patricia Plude<\/b>. Patricia Plude eventually served as Executive Director and Leo Wanenchak became the Director of the Choral Program.<\/p>\n<p>While Plude was Executive Director, Walden School added <i>Computer Musicianship<\/i> to its core curriculum created and directed by renowned electronic composer, <strong>Tom Lopez<\/strong>.\u00a0<b>Bill Stevens, <\/b>who\u00a0started as a student at Walden, later joined the faculty and developed his unique Jazz Musicianship Course.\u00a0<b>Brooke Joyce <\/b>also joined the faculty as a skilled composer and a talented teacher with a delightful sense of humor<b>.<\/b>\u00a0<strong>Marshall Bessi\u00e8res<\/strong>, a software engineer, musician, and photographer, joined the faculty and received his training through the complete spectrum of the core <i>Musicianship Course<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The Walden School continues to host about 50 young student musicians who compose and hear their music performed every summer in Dublin, New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"clearboth\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"one_fourth\">\n<style type='text\/css'>\n\t#imageframe-4.imageframe{float:left;}\n\t#imageframe-4.imageframe img{border:4px solid #f6f6f6;}\n\t#imageframe-4.imageframe-glow img{\n\t\t-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 3px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* outer glow *\/\n\t\t-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 3px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* outer glow *\/\n\t\tbox-shadow: 0 0 3px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* outer glow *\/\n\t}\n\t#imageframe-4.imageframe-dropshadow img{\n\t\t-moz-box-shadow: 2px 3px 7px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* drop shadow *\/\n\t\t-webkit-box-shadow: 2px 3px 7px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* drop shadow *\/\n\t\tbox-shadow: 2px 3px 7px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* drop shadow *\/\n\t}\n\t<\/style>\n\t<span id=\"imageframe-4\" class=\"imageframe imageframe-bottomshadow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/avivo.com\/headshots\/pam-quist-moderating-300x336.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"336\" \/><span class=\"imageframe-shadow-left\"><\/span><span class=\"imageframe-shadow-right\"><\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"three_fourth last\">\n<div class=\"title\"><h2>Teacher Training Institute<\/h2><div class=\"title-sep-container\"><div class=\"title-sep\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>In 2004, Pam Quist started a pilot program of the Walden School Teacher Training Institute in order to disseminate <i>Musicianship <\/i>to a wider group of adult musicians and music teachers. Patricia Plude became director of the program in 2005 and Pam Quist, Leo Wanenchak, Tom Lopez, Brooke Joyce, Bill Stevens, and Marshall Bessi\u00e8res joined as teaching faculty. Hundreds of aspiring and already established musicians and music teachers broadened their understanding of music and their pedagogy through TTI from 2004 &#8211; 2011.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"clearboth\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"one_fourth\">\n<style type='text\/css'>\n\t#imageframe-5.imageframe{float:left;}\n\t#imageframe-5.imageframe img{border:4px solid #f6f6f6;}\n\t#imageframe-5.imageframe-glow img{\n\t\t-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 3px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* outer glow *\/\n\t\t-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 3px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* outer glow *\/\n\t\tbox-shadow: 0 0 3px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* outer glow *\/\n\t}\n\t#imageframe-5.imageframe-dropshadow img{\n\t\t-moz-box-shadow: 2px 3px 7px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* drop shadow *\/\n\t\t-webkit-box-shadow: 2px 3px 7px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* drop shadow *\/\n\t\tbox-shadow: 2px 3px 7px rgba(0,0,0,.3); \/* drop shadow *\/\n\t}\n\t<\/style>\n\t<span id=\"imageframe-5\" class=\"imageframe imageframe-bottomshadow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/avivo.com\/headshots\/pat-plude-singing-300x336.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"336\" \/><span class=\"imageframe-shadow-left\"><\/span><span class=\"imageframe-shadow-right\"><\/span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"three_fourth last\">\n<div class=\"title\"><h2>Avivo<\/h2><div class=\"title-sep-container\"><div class=\"title-sep\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>In 2013, Avivo is born to conserve, promote, develop, and spread Cushman\u2019s concepts of creative integrated learning as originally presented in her innovative program for children, humbly and simply called \u201cMusicianship.\u201d <i>Teaching Artists<\/i> Patricia Plude and Pamela Quist serve as Director and Assistant Director, and are joined by Leo Wanenchak, Tom Lopez, Brooke Joyce, Bill Stevens, and Marshall Bessi\u00e8res, who bring their unique and considerable talents to Avivo<i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"clearboth\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/avivo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/avivo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/avivo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/avivo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/avivo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":101,"href":"http:\/\/avivo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"http:\/\/avivo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/avivo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}