Camp Support

Cantor Will works with camp management and program teams to consider how music works best at their camp in liturgy and beyond, and how to support the songleading team to implement that vision.

With decades of experience at camps, as a camp songleader, and as a trainer of camp songleading, Rosalie is uniquely positioned to not only support the musical leaders, but to recognizes the challenges senior staff, faculy, and summer staff face in changing music culture, and as a professional working with senior teams for decades, understands the complicated and important relationship between camp leadership and songleaders.

Vision and Strategy

Working with your team during the year, Rosalie will help understand your short term and long term goals for music and prayer at camp. Sometimes a single summer of implementation is all that is needed, while in other cases a slower 2-3 year strategy for deep change is necessary. Involving stakeholders (lay leaders, current and past staff, current and past songleaders) will help understand the needs and hopes for a powerful singing culture at camp.

Songleader Support

Different leaders have different skills. In partnership with the senior leadership's goals for music at camp, Rosalie would work with the songleader to help build repertoire, understand the way music can be used in new ways at camp, help with teaching and leading techniques, and provide on the ground assistance at camp in the summer through observation and real time support.

Supervisory Support

Creating a shared language for evaluation, troubleshooting, and goals clarification is key to a successful summer. Rosalie can meet with the songeader(s) and the supervisor(s) before the summer to help set up managable expectations and ways to work together through the fast-moving days of summer.

Working this year with Rosalie was an amazing experience. She worked closely with our team to help us grow our camp's song leading programming and experience without sacrificing the tried-and-true traditions that our community looks forward to.

She encouraged us to think about new ways to engage with prayer and provided training to enhance the work that our song leaders do on a daily basis. It was so helpful to not only work with her throughout the planning year but to have her come on site a few times throughout the summer to see the progress that we were making and support our growth.

I could not imagine going through this change process without her help and guidance.

Ellie Tepper Schulman,

Camp Harlam, Associate Director