001Last time I was there. Wow. I got up because you said you wanted I don't know. has been going because their names. What does it terrible That's what mean. Hey everybody, how are Thank you for being here. Uh excited to perform a night of great music for you. Uh if you could all if you are able, please rise uh and join us in standing for national [Music] Do you [Music] want heat? [Music] [Applause] Well, Before resetting the stage here for our jazz band, again, I just want to thank you for being here and welcome to Cson High School for our high school band concert. Uh I'm Dr. Malia. Uh I'm fortunate to be able to be here tonight, share some beautiful music uh that our students have been working on all semester. Uh please take
002a moment to silence your cell phones and make sure that their hard work can be heard uninterrupted. Uh and if you could wait until performances and enter, that would be greatly appreciated. Also, someone back there wants to close Who's over here? That's fine. Thanks. [Music] One, two, one, two, three. [Music] One, two, [Music] three. All [Music] right. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Hey. Hey. [Music] Hey. Hallelujah. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Hey [Music] man. Another [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Oh no. Stop. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] One heat. [Music] [Applause] I'm going to use this now. Great. Thank you very much. Uh this is the, as I said, the CHS Jazz Band. Uh it's an extracurricular group that meets once per week and studies the various
003facets of jazz music and improvisation. Uh we'll be performing four pieces of music for you this evening and each solo that you hear performed is fully improvised or as I like to be more accurate spontaneously composed. Uh you just heard Bags Groove, a standard 12 by uh 12 bar blues written by Milt Jackson. Uh it featured Robert Jacob, Deshawn Miller, Jia Massenberg, Jared Lorenzo, Kyle Shomitz, and Rose Carol. Uh all improvised solos. So uh let's hear it for them. Uh, our our next tune will be the Blues Brothers classic Soulman. Here we go. One 2 1 2 3 [Music] 1 3 Hey, hey, hey. [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Yeah. Heat. [Music] Come on. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hello. Hello. [Music] Yeah. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Mother [Music]
004Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Thank you again. That last tune was called Likely Suspect, uh, composed by Jeff Jarvis. Uh it featured Robert Jacob on tener saxophone. Uh jazz band will conclude their portion of the concert uh with Moon Dance by Van Morrison featuring Payton Sarzasti on vocals. It will also include solos by Jules Vargas Melendez on flute and Kyle Shom meets on trumpet. Uh and we hope you've enjoyed the CHS Jazz Band. Hello. Hello. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] that Let's do this. [Music] I love this. [Music] It's a marvelous night for moon dance with the stars up above in your eyes. A fantabulous night to make moment the cover of October skies. And all the leaves in
005the trees are falling to the sound of the breezes that blow. You know I'm trying to please to the calling of your heart shrinks. I play soft and low. You know the night magic seems to whisper and hush. You know the soft moonlight seems to shine in your flesh. Oh, can I just have one more moon dance with you, my love? Oh, can I just have one more romance with you, my love? [Music] [Applause] [Music] Hello. Yeah. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Okay. [Music] [Applause] Just one second to reset the state. We'll go right back at you. Absolutely. He's getting [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat.
006Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Thank you again. This is the Cinem High School Concert Band. Uh this is our curricular instrumental course at CHS. You notice I read everything off a script. I'm not good at winging it. Uh which means every day to work on pieces of various musical styles and genres. Excuse me. It's a workout. Uh you just heard the Maelstrom by Robert W. Smith. Uh the next two pieces of music are our student choice pieces for the year. First, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince featuring Pedro Duza on alto saxophone and Colin Donovan on trumpet. Next, after that will be our senior choice, which honestly surprised me. Uh the beautiful air for band. We hope you enjoy. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause]
007Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Hello. Ah. [Music] Glory. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Yeah. Come on. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] Heat. [Applause] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Applause] Our next selections will bring you to a faster and more chaotic places. Uh first the Danny Elfman song known around the world themed to the Simpsons. Uh after this we'll perform Randall Stand's Frecus, a chaotic love letter to horned bands and jazz musicians including Earthwind and Fire, Blood, Sweat, and Tears, Buddy Rich, Bill Chase, and Stan Kenton. Featuring our mighty percussion section, the program notes for this piece instruct us, do not play this safe or politely. If your only concern is creating a beautiful pyramidic sound, this piece is not for you. It's called Frecus for goodness
008sake. We hope you enjoy. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Awesome. [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] For a final piece of the evening, I'd like to invite any miss alumni who'd like to join us for our final section to please come on up to the stage and feel free to join us. Um, in the interim, I would like to take this time to acknowledge our students who are selected for honors ensembles this year as a part of our Western Burlington County Honor Band. Please help me in welcoming or in congratulating the following students. And
009please rise slashwave from the back as I call your name. Sorry, that's a that's a quick one. Uh Rose Carroll, uh Emily Herbert. Yeah, stand up. Yep. There you go. Madison Mosy, Jules Vargas, Melendez. Stay standing. Yeah. Uh, Taylor Wait, Robert Jacob, Ethan Shrier, Deshawn Miller, Kyle Schomitz, Ben Jacob, Maggie Gynan, Carrie Pacer, and Jared Lorenzo. All right, you can sit now. It's fine. For our final selection of the evening, I'd like to take a moment to recognize our graduating seniors uh and their accomplishments in music throughout their time at CHS. Uh I've been lucky enough to know many of this superb group of humans for the last seven years. Uh they are many of them my first batch of sixth graders uh when I started at CMS. Um I've had the pleasure of watching
010them grow, seeing them succeed and was fortunate enough to get uh a few more years with them before they go off to their next great adventure. Uh I'm proud of the outstanding musicians and people they've become and can't wait to see what's next for them. Each concert band member will receive a certificate and a pin commemorating their time here at Cinnamonson High School Concert Band. Uh, hey, as I call your name, please come on down, grab grab what Mr. Bacon's gonna give you, and just hang tight up front. Uh, as part of the CHS concert band, uh, for four years, the Cinemon High School marching band and jazz band, Western uh, County Burlington Honor Band, pit orchestra, and pep band, Rose Carol. Rose is a bright, passionate young musician who will be attending Franklin and
011Marshall in the fall for PMID. as part of the CHS concert band for one year. Sarah Delgado. Sarah first started playing the saxophone this year. Uh but you would never know it for all the work she's put in. Uh uh she she's been down here grinding several times a week really working on that uh instrument for her first horn. And we've been really proud of her. um as part of the CHS concert band for four years as well as the jazz band, marching band, and Western Burlington County Honor Band. Colin [Applause] Donovan. Sorry, I lost my my thread here. Um Colin has grown enormously in the time I've known him and is always on hand to help out for our department activities. Uh Colin will join the workforce after graduation and we're very excited to
012see him continue to go on and do great things. As part of the CHS concert band for four years, as well as the jazz band, marching band, and indoor drum line, Ryan Driscoll, when I asked our senior survey if there was anything that they thought we should know, Ryan typed out the entirety of the lyrics to the 1987 CBS Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song. He also mentioned that he found my LinkedIn and that it still says that I teach in Westampton and that I should update it. I will Yeah, you've been submitted too. I will absolutely miss Ryan. Uh as part of the CHS concert band for one year, Ava Lusk. Ava is a brilliant artist whose work is featured in the lobby right now. As a matter of fact, uh one of my
013band members at Cinnamonson Middle School. Uh, and I've been working hard to get her back in the band each year since I came here. And this year I finally succeeded. Now we just have to work on Carl. We'll get there. Are you out there, buddy? Anyway, uh, as part of the CHS concert band for one year, Buki Mustafa Bookie is often featured on our Cinem uh, and she decided to try her hand for the first time at instrumental music this year. We're so very glad that she did. as part of the CHS concert band for three years as well as being involved in the CHS choir and the school musical. Timmy O'Conor Tim is very very talented, respectful, and hardworking. He also mentioned on his survey that he can do a backflip, which I find
014exceptionally impressive, especially at his height. It's a lot of leg to move, man. Good for you. Right out the front. As part of the CHS concert band for two years, as well as the jazz band, pit orchestra, marching band, and indoor drum line, we have Gail Reed. It's apparently eternally Gail's birthday. Every time I'm reminded that Gail's only been in the program for two years, I'm shocked just saying it. He's always the first to volunteer to help out, no matter the task. Also, apparently you can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from over two miles away. Neat. That was on their senior survey. Listen, I just write what they tell me to write. I don't know. Uh, as part of the CHS concert band for four years, as well as the jazz band, marching band, indoor
015drum line, pit orchestra, Jules Vargas Melendez. Jules is a multi-instrumentalist, always wanting to learn something new. She specifically requested that I not say the things she mentioned in her survey. And I'm a nice guy, but I'm not that nice. Uh, just know that she used the word skibbidity at least once. Yeah, that one. As part of the CHS concert band for three years, as well as the jazz band and Western Burlington County Honor Band. Uh, we have Taylor Wait. Taylor's been in the band since sixth grade and came to me last year with the tragic news that she couldn't fit band in her schedule for her junior year. Uh, and I was so very happy uh when she came back for her senior year. Uh, it just would not have felt right without her. Uh,
016let's have a round of applause for our seniors. We can find our seats now, folks. Have your seats. Finally, I have the honor to distribute three awards this evening. Uh first is the uh I'll I'll distribute the Leonard Bernstein award which was actually awarded uh at our choir concert last week uh which honors a student whose musical contributions, dedications, and creativity set them apart as deserving of the highest recognition for their achievements. Uh Mr. Bacon and I have the honor and had the honor this past week of presenting the Bernstein Award this year to Timmy O' Conor. We also have the Louiswis Armstrong Jazz Award uh which is given to a graduating senior for musical achievement and dedication to the program over their time at CHS. This year the Louiswis Armstrong Jazz Award goes to
017Jules Vargas Melendez. And finally, we have the John Philips Souza Award, which is given to a graduating senior who demonstrates superior musicianship and outstanding dedication to the band program over their time here at CHS. This year, the John Phillips Award is given to Ryan Driscoll. [Applause] Let's hear for all our seniors. and I wish you all the best of luck as you continue your junior. Before we uh Hey, I know that guy. Uh before we uh finish tonight, uh I do just want to have a couple thank yous I want to throw out there. Uh thank you all for your Hey, couple people. Yeah. Hey, folks. Hey. All right. Sorry, I'm distracted. Um you need a chair. You can't see. That's fine. Grab one, Mosie. You know where they are. Um I'd like to thank
018you all for your support uh for the continued support of these young musicians. Uh, I'd also like to thank uh all the Cinnamonson music staff throughout the district. The strong music department comes not from any one of its groups or programs, but the sum of the total. The music that we made this evening could not have been possible without your guidance and the guidance uh you've given these fine young musicians. I want to thank the Cinnamon Schools administration who've been ardent supporters of our program and our vision for growth. Special thanks to high school administration, Mr. Gorman, Mr. Wilkinson, uh Miss Gelfazadi, and Miss Fischer. Um, thank you to the CHS music faculty, Brian Bacon and Dave Hurock, uh, for being some of the best human beings I've ever had the pleasure of working with
019and being truly valued friends. Thank you to, uh, the man, the myth, the legend, Daniel Bubba Gaffne, for Yes, clap for him. For being an absolute mench, uh, for being an excellent role model for our students, uh, and for helping to keep them performing and moving while I was out on my paternity leave, and for always being here for us. Thank you, Bubba. Um, yes, for him again to our custodial staff, particularly Judy Rex and Dan Woods for setting up the event and to Mr. Shawn Wilson for Lights and Sound. We could not have done it without you. Um, yes. Uh, and finally, the cinemates and community, students and parents alike. Uh, you've allowed this small corner of the globe that we call home to become a space for the arts to flourish. Whether it's
020rides back, rides to rehearsals, new reads, new mouthpieces, drumsticks, concert black at the last minute, even though they've known about it for weeks. All of this is possible because of your support. Uh the boon I ask every time you come and gather with us for these events is simple. If events like this are important to you and your family, if your child has found their outlet, uh if you've seen your child grow in music, please do not be quiet about it. Uh community support is more important than ever right now uh in performing and creative arts. Post about your experiences in music on social media. Reach out to administration and tell them your child's story and what music in our schools means to you and to your family. Uh thank you again for joining us
021this evening to celebrate the work of our young musicians. And without further ado, we will conclude our performance with Robert W. Smith's To the Max on the Truck. Welcome [Music] to heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Thank you all so Have a wonderful day. [Applause] Oh my god.