Odean Pope
Odean Pope
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This Rhythm workshop gives hands-on experience with rhythm instruments such as cow bells and wood clays. Educators will learn the correct posture and how to hold the cow bells and wood clays, the names of the notes and how to play them using the specific techniques. This workshop is geared to classroom educators who want to involve music activities in their lessons.
Odean can include a power point presentation of how a Saxophone is hand crafted in a factory in Paris, France (where the best Saxophones are made). Odean will then discuss the history of the Saxophone since 1840 and will demonstrate how the instrument is assembled. A question and answer period will follow.
Four selected participants will receive a hands-on mini lesson, where the four “students” will play the cow bells and wood clays utilizing the rhythmic concepts. The session will end with everyone singing John Coltrane "A LOVE SUPREME".
Odean received his certificate in orchestration, harmony, African rhythms, and Be-Bop Art forms from the Paris Conservatory-Paris France, with professor Kenny Clarke 1980-84. He also studied under the Philadelphia Orchestra’s principal clarinetist Ronald Reuben from 1990-93.
Odean was a guest soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, for the Martin Luther King, Jr. concert performance on January 18, 1999. As a Member of the National Board of Jazz Clinicians, Odean has taught classes in ensemble and improvisation at Amherst College in Massachusetts, Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio, Penn State College in University Park, PA, Drexel University and Temple University in Philadelphia, and Burlington County College in New Jersey. As a soloist with the Max Roach Quartet and Double Quartet for twenty-five years, Odean recorded fifteen CDs with Max Roach.