CorpusRecord 17994

Fisher Middle School Winter Band Concert January 16, 2025

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Source
YouTube / EwingPublicSchools
Date
2025-01-17
Location
Mercer County, NJ
Material
Transcript
Extent
1,637 words · about 10 min
Collected
2026-06-06

Transcript

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001[Applause] no everyone I'd like to welcome you to fer Winter band concert at this time if you don't mind please silence your phones and without further Ado I want to introduce our band director Mr [Music] ands thank you so much Dr be with you for one more second so thank you h okay thank you for for your patience the concert always goes off better when the microphones all work so thank you so much for your patience we're going to start things off like we usually do here at Fisher Middle School with our national anthem so if you're able please rise for the playing of our national anthem a [Music] Happ [Music] thank you so much this is the seventh grade band and we have three selections for you tonight including Mr bner uh the next

002song we're going to play for you is a really cool piece called dawn of the Spartans so we hope you'll enjoy back [Music] m hey baby hey baby [Music] I [Music] pap the [Music] [Applause] a oh [Music] thank you so much we were very fortunate this semester to have a student teacher from uh tcj and he's with us to guest conduct this next piece his name is Mr mcaffrey and we' like to invite him to the stage everybody have a round for Mr MAA [Music] no [Music] oh oh [Music] a [Music] a [Music] the [Music] let's give it up for our seventh grade band and also for Mr [Applause] mcy I had to sneak this behind the scool so Mr where'd you go Mr back up he took the shortcut Mr mcaffrey thank you so

003much for everything you've done for the students here and thank you we wish you well and all future Denver sir thank [Music] you okay we're going to have a little bit of the scene change so sixth grad is going to be up next so please bear with us we'll be right back thank you that's okay back [Music] I know you [Music] [Applause] [Music] come on girl [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] w [Music] look okay next up we have our sixth grade band and this is their da you as a Fisher Middle School Ensemble so let's give him a round of a hand Applause I love the Winter concert because you get to see the students starting out here in their first concert then you get to hear the eighth graders and where they are and the

004seventh graders and where they are and I'm really proud of these guys and they're going do a fantastic job first song we're going to play for you guys is called a new world Adventure is [Music] somebody fore speech [Music] the [Music] oh [Music] the [Music] thank you so much the next song we're going to play for you I think is the their most favorite song ever is that about right guys this one's called mechanical monsters and there's a bunch of surprises in this one and now I think the stakes are raised because I have to find something like it for the spring right guys okay all right well we'll see what we can do here so here's mechanical monsters [Music] what [Music] baby [Music] la [Music] la [Music] it's here for sixth grade band what

005a debut thank you so much next up is going to be our stage fans so sit tight we'll be right back [Music] w e am sorry [Applause] right w e excuse me we'll be right back we have to make a guitar swim hang on one second e [Music] okay so we're going to be looking for guitar text for the next concert so if anybody has any experience come see me after the show and we'll get this party started this is the Fisher Middle School Stage Band so we play jazz music and uh these guys are really cool they auditioned to become a part of this group and uh they rehearse every Monday night from 7 o'clock to 9:00 because Jazz is meant to be played at night so that's why we you go when they

006have a late night and they kick butt so first song we're going to play for you is called work song [Applause] [Music] [Applause] a la [Music] [Applause] n n n [Music] [Applause] [Music] the [Music] a [Music] it's City the next uh song we're going to play for you is one of my favorite songs of all time it's called Stolen Moments and it's an Oliver Nelson tun I hope you guys enjoy it [Applause] [Laughter] spe all [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] la [Music] oh [Music] he [Applause] [Music] n [Music] [Applause] a [Music] [Applause] [Music] la [Music] here for us all as [Applause] [Music] inod so this next one that we're going to do is a vocal chart and it's going to uh feature our vocalist Avery we're good there comes Avery so [Music] oh she didn't sing

007that you're already that's right and we're going to play a song for you called haven't met you yet [Music] n [Music] many tried so very hard not to lose it I came up with the mil I thought I thought of every [Music] [Applause] possibility you make work so we out can I promise you that I'll give so I get I just haven't met you [Music] come out ofwhere know that we can be so amazing baby your love is going to change me now I can see every possibility [Music] you'll make me work so we work out and I promise you that I'll give so I I just haven't met you yet they say all St in love I won't need to F get be [Applause] United know the we can be so amazing being in

008your life is going to change me and now I can see every single possibility oh anday I know it'll all [Music] and out I promise you kid I'll give more than I get I get I get I get know it'll all turn out and you'll make me work so we get work to we get out and I promise so I I just Haven you yet I just hav [Music] I said I just met you [Music] yet I just you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] one more round for the entire stage thank you so much ath grade Dan is next if be with us we'll be right back for w [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] h look [Music] no [Music] are [Music] okay here is our eighth grade band and the first piece we're going to play

009for you is called counterbalance this one's a real Lively one so we hope you guys enjoy it [Applause] I [Music] la [Music] I and [Music] no wa [Music] la a [Music] la n [Music] thank you so much next song we're going to play for you is called apparitions and it's going to be a perfect counter to what you just heard uh so this one's going to be really soft and uh it's supposed to give you kind of an eerie feeling like there may be Spirits Among Us you know looking for you know somebody to uh connect with so this one's called apparitions [Music] know [Music] wa [Music] that [Music] I [Music] oh [Music] la [Music] [Applause] all [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you so much you can tell we picked that one out around

010Halloween time so so this next one is very very appropriate especially for today cuz I think I saw a couple flowes so this one is uh called Snow Day celebration and I have to tell you a quick quick story this one's a cursed song so the first time I played this piece with an eighth grade band we had to postpone the concert five times because we got so much to know that that that time around so fast forward to about two weeks ago when we had that storm on Monday that kind of happened at the perfect time just to make sure we got school in I was very happy because we had a rehearsal that day but I think the poor salt in the wound uh we we had a start out with Snow Day

011celebration and the kids were not very happy with me that day so this one's a really fun one I hope you guys enjoy it Snow Day celebration [Applause] why a [Music] n [Music] a [Applause] [Music] la [Music] la [Music] a [Music] let's here one more time for thank you so much we have one more Scene change to go this is through our big finale with our honor Symphony orchester so sit tight we'll be right back thank you so much [Applause] y oh e yeah Jordan [Applause] w [Applause] Co [Music] read [Music] thank you so much for our patience I have the great privilege here CH Middle School to co- te the honor Symphony Orchestra which is a combination of our Orchestra members and some of our 7th and eth grade band members and 7th and

012eth grade Orchestra members and uh Mrs TR is our co-c conductor first piece that she's going to play for you guys this is called Shahara by rimy corov and we'll be following it up with another rimsky corov piece Caprio after this one's over so please sit back and relax for [Applause] she original and arang famously feature um a violin solo um our soloist this evening will be my first you will he Elizabeth Mart and then you'll no [Applause] [Music] morning [Music] EX [Music] ha a [Music] la h n [Music] Hal [Music] you [Music] am [Music] [Applause] let's here one more time for Mrs TR before I introduce our last piece there's a uh we can't really do this without any uh all by ourselves we obviously need a lot of help uh there's a lot

013of students you saw go on and off the stage today so I really want to uh take a moment to thank the people who made this possible so first I'd like to say thank you so much to our Board of Education I know we have a few board members here so thank you so much for your support uh supporting the Arts in Ying Township and also to our students here so thank you so much for next up I would like to thank our superintendent uh Dr Gentile uh he is extremely supportive of us as well as long as as as well as our assistant superintendent Dr BR so thank you very much to both our superintendent I like to thank uh Dr Hannah also for being here tonight our principal here at Fisher Middle School

014and for setting us off right and getting us going today so thank you Dr Hannah also like to thank the rest of our Administration here um also Mr DWI Mr shlock Miss rco and also miss Freeman so thank you for all of your support and everything that we do next up I have to uh say we have a great problem fa Fisher Middle School we have so many students and uh we don't have enough teaching periods in the day so I have some great support here Mr Price who unfortunately could not be with us tonight but Mr Price comes down from the high school to work with our percussion students so we like to thank Mr price for all of his hard work also like to thank Miss Wright who works with our Woodwinds and

015she is here as well she's backstage there she is thank you we also have ant Elementary School teacher uh Miss marison backstage too helping us out and doing sound and and she think she's still back there so come on out there she is M and I'd also like to thank our amazing supervisor Mr mland who's in the back there also too work at the soundboard and keeping things so thank you Mr also would like to thank our custodial staff here our teachers our chaperons that are here that are staff members who volunteer the time to come and help the students backstage and also to all the rest of the teachers here fish middle school for allowing me to take the kids from for lessons and for working with me and helping us get our rehearsals

016in and I know we have a bunch of Staff members here today so thank you for everybody without any further Ado with the last piece we're going to play for you is called capricio espol and it's one of my favorites and I think it'll set you off right so here we are capricio [Applause] espol for [Music] la [Music] n all [Music] oh [Music] w [Music] one more time [Music] for thank you so much for being here today and uh we hope you get home safe and we'll see you in the spring Take Care thank you so [Applause] much e

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