Mount Olivet School of Music (MOSOM)

Call Nancy Nelson or Rebecca Mason, 612.767.2262 for questions or more information.

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Summer School of Music

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Private Music Lessons

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Music in Motion - Early Childhood Music Program
God's Kids Sing!
Summertime Players!
Burroughs Band and Orchestra


Mission Statement
The Mount Olivet School of Music develops and encourages musical skill and appreciation in each student, regardless of age or ability. In an artistic, nurturing environment, teachers provide excellent musical instruction thus educating, strengthening and enriching the intellectual, spiritual and emotional person.

Facilities
Music in Motion - Early Childhood Music Program and private music lessons are available at both the Minneapolis Campus at 5025 Knox Avenue South in southwest Minneapolis and at the West Campus at 7150 Rolling Acres Road in Victoria, MN. Free parking is available in the church parking lots.

A Word from Dr. Claflin

I have never been the type who concerned themselves with talk of the weather.  I guess I have always thought it to be something of which I have no control, so why waste time worrying or complaining about it. But this year has challenged my usual stance of “no complaining about something you cannot change”.  This has been a long winter. It is April, and as I am driving to work through the snow, I am longing for spring.  

Winters can be hard – they require more from us – everything takes more time – more effort – it is easy to get discouraged during winter.  The comparison could be drawn between winter and the challenge of learning new music or learning a new musical technique. Learning something new is a process - a necessary but sometimes difficult season. New concepts require different thinking from us. Learning something new always takes more time. It is easy to get discouraged when we are in the “winter” of our learning. 

But just as I know some day soon, the warm sun will shine, the flowers will start to peek out of the ground, and the feel of spring will be in the air. I also know that eventually the memorization will happen, the fingering will become more natural, and finally the high notes won’t feel so high anymore.    

For those of us who are often impatient with the process, we need to remind ourselves that in the art of music, spring cannot come without first enduring winter. No matter how much we complain about it – no matter how much we dislike it – the slow but intentional practicing, the wood-shedding, the repetition, the memorizing, and the practicing again - It is only those actions that make spring finally arrive for us musically.  Never stop believing that your “musical spring” is just around the corner . . .  any day now it will be here. Spring will come!