The personal story: Back in 2000, Beth and I were in the early stages of developing a free-lancing teaching and performing career, just a few years after completing our graduate degrees at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. We had both become involved in teaching a New Horizons adult string group coordinated by the Eastman Community Music School. The group loved the experience, commraderie, and music making throughout the academic year, but wished for some summer opportunity for music making.

One evening in February of that year, we went out to get dinner at Pizza Hut and said to eachother... "Well, we'd like to do some summer teaching, and these folks want a summer musical opportunity. Why don't we just start a camp?" Being young, adventuresome, and of course a bit naive, we didn't know that 'just start' and 'a camp' don't really belong in the same sentence together! However we would have plenty of time later to discover that.

Of course it would need a good name that was short and catchy. Already in our brief careers we had seen far too much of musical programs being named with such effective branding as: "The Anytown University School of Music Community Program Adult String Summer Program". You know.. "AUSM CP ASSP" for short! Ahem. So we wanted to create a brand for this camp that was distinctive. After many brainstormed permutations of words such as "strings, camp, adults, rochester, music, etc.", cheesy acronyms, and of course many cheesy pieces of pizza, we hit upon it: SCOR!. An acronym for "String Camp of Rochester!". Plus it had that wonderful ring evoking the thought of a musical "score".

The name being settled then, the rest was just, uhh, a few details! So that wintery evening in Rochester, Scor! was conceived as a unique music camp specifically designed for adult string players.



cello power!

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