001Don't go. Is that all your seniors? theater. Do you want to come over here? Roblox. Thank you. Yeah. I know. How are you? Everybody bring your chicken. Snazzy shirt. You I don't know. I can't see. Thank you. Yeah, I don't need that. Oh yes, This girl push me over. >> Hey Good to see you right here. Right. >> That's what I thought. He's doing good. >> Okay. >> He moved to Florida. >> He did. >> Uh his wife's uh family is down there. She's had a sister down there that she's I will I'll let him know. >> Yeah, I know. >> I will. I'll let him know. All right. Good evening. Uh my name is Colleen Trust. I am the orchestra director here at Euing High School and also at um Fiser Middle School. Welcome
002to our winter instrumental music concert. Um before we get started um we have some students who are just grabbing something from backstage really quick. So, they need a little bit of time. Um, but also before we start, I just want to take a moment to thank um some folks for their help the past school year. Um, specifically, I would like to thank um I was on a maternity leave from May and I came back in Thanksgiving. So, I want to take a moment to thank um my student teacher all the way back to the spring. Um, Miss V, who was my student teacher and then my substitute in the spring. Um, and I also want to thank Miss Carly Sienko, who was my, um, maternity leave sub in the fall. Um, I got to give
003her so much credit. She got the students prepared with, um, three of the four pieces you're going to hear tonight. Um, she did a lot of the work to get them ready for this. So, I really appreciate her um, work with the students, making sure they were prepared and kept playing while I was on my leave. Um, so, quick round of applause for those two really amazing musicians. Um, nice and um, again did an amazing job keeping them playing while I was out. Um, it was great to come back and just like jump right into concert season. Um, our first piece that we're going to play this evening. Um, was a choice of Missenko. Excellent choice. Um, it is the jig from the St. Paul suite by Gustaf Holst. Um, he's an English composer. He's
004known for a lot of his like big loud orchestral things. Um but he also wrote things for just like small chamber orchestras. Um this piece he wrote when he was teaching at the St. Paul school was an all girls school in London and he was incorporating music that was popular from like the folk music culture. Um and he wrote it for his um girls orchestra um to challenge them and also like teach them while also keeping in mind their own kind of like musical traditions. Um so this is the jig from the St. Paul suite. Happy birthday. Glory to Hallelujah. Heat. Heat. Glory. Glor. Heat. Heat. Glory. Wow. Hallelujah. Okay, our Next piece is Adante Festivo by um the Finnish composer uh John Cibellius. Um the title is kind of simple. Adante just means walking
005pace. So not super slow, not super fast. Festivo means kind of like a joyous sound, like a happy sound. Um and it was written and used for um like the world the New York World's Fair in the 30s. Um it's a really simple sounding song at times but very like beautiful and it was meant to kind of help demonstrate um they were showing off like the newest radio technology and how smooth it was. So using a piece like this where was very like smooth and sustained sound um was ideal to kind of like demonstrate that like no breaks in the sound. Um so this will be on Dante Festivo. Hallelujah. Amen. Single hallelujah. Heat. Heat. King of God. Happy birthday. Heat. Heat. Earth. Amen. We will be together. Okay, our next piece for you is
006the finale from the serenade first strings by Chaikovski. Um it's the kind of piece where it's really popular um among like percussion musicians like everyone knows it in that kind of like bubble community. Um but outside it's not as popular as his other pieces like everyone knows Nutcracker Swan Lake 1812 overturn so it's not super popular outside of like kind of musicians. Um it was kind of big at the time because Chaikovsky and everyone was doing these really big huge orchestras symphony orchestras. Um and he kind of like took a step back instead went back to like how Mozart and they kind of did things and said like let's just have strings and like kind of show off how beautiful and powerful strings can be by themselves. So it was a little like different at
007the time when it first came out. Um but it's become a really standard piece of like string literature that we still play today. So I hope you enjoy Serenade for Strings. Hey, hey, hey. Hallelujah. Happy birthday. Hallelujah. Amen. Hallelujah. Yes, Tchaikoski will always let you know when it's over over and couple makes a big deal about it. I promise. Um, so our last piece is going to be the Odyssey by Sunni Nubal. It's a programmatic piece, meaning it tells a story. It paints a picture. You're supposed to imagine something. Um, in this case, uh, we go to kind of like Greek mythology. Um, we have Odysius returning home from the Trojan War. Um, he's away for years, but of course on the way home it's not so easy. There's like journey by sea. There's like
008monsters and like trials and like storms and stuff like that. So, um, it's his whole crazy journey back home. Um, we hear his theme at the beginning. It comes back at the end a little more resolved. So, we kind of assume he gets home right. Um along the way you hear the strings use some um extended technique. Um they play something called harmonics where you hear kind of like the ghost of a note. It's not a fully played note. Um you hear cheno which is where they tap the string instead of playing it. Uh you hear some chromatic 16th notes. Um again all meant to kind of make you picture this epic kind of story. So we hope you enjoy the Odyssey by Sunny New. Ever heaven? Happy birthday. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Heat. Heat. Thank
009you very much. At this time, we're going to have the orchestra transition offstage. Take your time. Um, I'm going to bring on down um, Mr. George Nichols, who is the president of Tempo, which is the Euing Parents uh, music parents organization. My goodness, I'm sorry. Um and he's going to talk to you a little bit about um tempo. So um orchestra, you can make your way off stage um using our backstage doors. Take your time. Oh, that is bright. Uh good evening. Before I talk about tempo, let's give a hand that hand to our wonderful student musician. As the parent of a senior, it has been quite a journey seeing our kids grow from fourth graders just beginning in the music program to more and more accomplished performers each and every year. So, let's not
010just thank Mr. Price, Mrs. Tra, and Mr. mentor here at Euing High, but to all of our music educators at Fiser, Lore, and Thailand Parkway. Uh for those that do not know, Tempo is the UIN music parents organization, and our goal is to support and fund raise for our music programs and students. I would like to thank all that have volunteered their time and donated over the past four years that I have served as president of this organization. Currently, we are planning for our second annual coffee house fundraiser in April, as well as our fourth annual end of year music banquet to be held at Cooper's Riverview in early June. With the majority of our active board being from families of the class of 2026, we are in desperate need of families of underassman to
011step up or Tempo may cease to be able to support our students in the future. Uh please join us at our virtual meeting tomorrow and if you can please consider volunteering your time to allow Tempa to continue to grow and help our programs. Thank you and enjoy the rest of the performance. Good evening everybody. My name is Mr. Price. I am the director of bands here at Euing High School. The group behind me is our concert band. Um we have three selections for you this evening. The first one uh is called miniature overture and it's based upon three ideas. The first one you'll hear right away. It's a short three note motif or pattern and it will be expanded upon throughout the beginning and the end of the piece. The second one is a melodic
012idea based off of the interval of a fourth which if you think um here comes the bride that's a fourth. So that is a melody that we use in this and the third part of it is a folklike melody. So here is miniature overure. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Excuse me. All right. Thank you so much. Our second selection is one I have been looking forward to doing since I was in high school. When I knew I was going to be a band director one day, I wanted to do this piece. Now, this part that we're going to do is one section of a larger work. Um the composer is Gustav Hulse. He was a British composer, wrote a lot for military band and orchestra. Um wrote the planets if you're familiar with the with that
013piece of music. Um, but this is the first movement of his Sweet and F. And each movement is based upon a bunch of folk melodies from the British Isles. So this march features three of those melodies and it also will feature Dylan Rowski on Euphonium in the middle of the beat. So here is March from Sweet and F by Gustav Hol. Heat. Heat. Heat. Oh, Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. All right, our percussions have a bunch to get ready in the back for our final number. Um, so this time like to just say a few things. one, the first two pieces um go in a theme that I like to do at our winter concert, and that's to play classic band literature that is a part of the repertoire that has
014been kind of solidified over the last century or so for the band world. Um things that I think the students should play before they leave high school, uh while playing with our band. Um our third selection is a little bit different. It's a multicultural piece that I chose this year that we've had a lot of fun with. But before I tell you about that, I just want to do a few of our thank yous. I want to thank our uh superintendent, Dr. Gentile, for being here this evening and supporting our performer. So, thank you very much. Um our supervisor uh Mr. Mizlin is here as well. Um and our one of our principles and this is Jared is here. So, thank you all for being here supporting our performers. Um, I want to thank Miss
015um B in the back for doing sound for us and lights this evening. So, thank you. Thank you very much. And I want to thank all of you, parents, family for supporting your students and your children, grandchildren, friends, neighbors, whoever's here tonight. Thank you for supporting these young musicians. Um, I will give them another round of applause while we're at it. Great job. without your support, right? It really, you know, it really helps them to to keep going and and doing their best. And finally, I want to thank all of you. Sorry for turning my back. Thank all of you for all your hard work all the time and for doing as great as you are. It really is a lot of fun to be working with you guys. So, great job. Um, our final
016selection is a piece entitled Arabian Dances. Um Brian Balmages is a working composer right now. Um and he wrote this piece using three melodic ideas. Two are traditional Arabic melodies. And what's interesting about that is in Arabic music, there's not a reliance on harmony as much as in our Western European style of of music. So you'll hear these melodies represented that way with just percussion accompaniment and single melody, but then he also incorporates a more modern and western style by incorporating harmony. So it kind of gets this blend of of cultures which is musically which is really quite uh fun. So here is uh Arabian dances. Hallelujah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Ready? Hey. Hey. Hey. Everything. Heat. Heat. Heat. Thank you so much. Thank you all so much for your support of our young musicians and
017please be safe driving home and we'll see you in the springtime. Thank you so much. Have a great night.