CorpusRecord 18004

Antheil 5th Grade Spring Concert June 3, 2024

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Source
YouTube / EwingPublicSchools
Date
2024-06-04
Location
Mercer County, NJ
Material
Transcript
Extent
2,253 words · about 13 min
Collected
2026-06-06

Transcript

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001e e e [Music] y [Music] ch good evening and welcome to an elementary school for our fifth grade spring concert thank my name is Kip Harrison our principal here at anal I'd like to recognize a couple of people here to help make this possible uh Dr Gentile our superintendent in the back over your right shoulder Dr Gentile giveaway some other folks that could to make it include our Dr bogus our assistant superintendent um um Miss psos is our director of special services and Mr mislin who is our U supervisor for humanities which covers music and the [Applause] Arts before we begin the program i' like to mention two quick things number one if you don't mind please uh turn off your your cell phones or lower them so much that cannot affect the uh performance

002feel free to take pictures video please do so we are also recording this program on our YouTube channel so we'll be available to see in the future uh and number two if the need arises outside the exit to the left or the bathrooms please talk yourself and we'll see you back here shortly without any further Ado we'll introduce the band on our direction of Miss marrison the victory [Music] B welcome to the fifth grade spring concert My Name is Oliver and I play percussion over the past few months we have grown as musicians and a band and we are excited to share the progress we've made a big focus in our rehearsals and lessons has been creating ways we can share emotions stories and ideas through playing our [Music] instruments hi my name is n

003Trumbo as our time at an elementary school comes to an end the fifth graders have been looking forward to a new start at sixth graders Great Beginnings was also written to express emotions such as excitement in anticipation we may feel as we begin a new chapter in our lives playing this piece has has also been a great way for us to reflect on our time at anel and think about how much we learned here [Applause] s [Music] la [Music] the [Music] [Applause] [Music] la [Music] w [Applause] [Music] my name is Ian and I percussion something special about music is that each part of the world has its own unique Style music plays a big role in every country and Community serenada is a piece of Latin music mean that from a Spanish speaking country such

004as Brazil the Dominican Republic or Spain the piece is named after a type of Latin music a s is a type of song that's heard at a party or an event my name is Brian and I play saxophone as you listen to serada you'll hear some characteristics of Latin music our percussionist play Maracas and heroes which are commonly heard in music Across Latin America we've also learned new rhythms like the dotted quarter notes and single e notes the trumpet section will use help mutes to create some interesting sound effects with their instruments [Applause] [Music] a [Music] sh [Music] oh [Music] a [Music] Happ my name is jel and I play percussion music has the power to make us feel intense emotions such as fear aggression and excitement the fire Fury is about the frightening and

005destructive power of a fire spreading uncontrollably the power of the percussion section minor key and unsettling harmonies and the woodwinds and Brass section and a special effect you'll see really makes this song interesting and interesting to play my name is and our Pat we hope you enjoy Great Beginnings and Sana and we know you will love the fire Fury as a family choose to end our concert with the with fire Fury so we could go out with a bank thank you to our teachers families and friends for joining us tonight for our final concert at anti Elementary School [Applause] [Music] m [Music] la [Music] a [Applause] wo [Music] thank you guys so much for coming out tonight let's give our fifth grade band one more huge round of applause the moment I came across that

006last piece last year at the end of the year I knew we had to do this um and Not only was that past song so much fun our whole year has just been so much fun in Bandon Orchestra these students are a really special group to me these are the students who um are my first group of students I've taught from Day Zero where they chose their instruments um and they've come just so far and it's been just been so incredible seeing you guys grow I want to thank you parents and families for supporting our students in this journey and I know that they're going to continue to do great things in fer and Beyond so I'm so proud of you I've had an amazing time being your teacher and I will definitely miss you

007and wish you all the best we're going to start with our first transition of the evening in a moment our fifth grade band is going to exit the stage and our fifth grade Orchestra will be up shortly thank you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we [Music] f [Music] where [Music] Co [Music] my name is Amar and I play violin our next group tonight is the fifth grade Orchestra we had a great year music making in the fifth grade throughout the year we were able to improve on our instruments build friendships and learn together to work [Applause] at my name is Naomi and I play violin our first song tonight exhilaration is about feelings of joy and excitement as we learned the song in class we talked with each other about things in our lives that bring

008us happiness whether it's playing a sport creating artwork running a roller coaster or even playing video games getting to do things we enjoy is a big part of growing up exhilaration helped us improve our Rhythm and dyamics diamic we also learn how to play slurs with our bows [Applause] [Music] the [Music] I all [Music] [Applause] the [Applause] [Music] my name is London and I play Viola our next piece breakbeat is a really Unique Piece breakbeat is written in a hip hop style and uses [Music] pado SE section wait style of playing even though our Orchestra doesn't have a precussion section we are able to use our use our hands feet and instruments in a different way to make it sound like a drummer is playing along with us this piece taught us a lot about

009listening to each other and keeping a steady tempo [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] my name is anonio and I play the Chella the final piece the fifth grade Orchestra will perform tonight is Gant giant uses intense Rhythm Harmony in accent to help us imagine we transporting into a story book and are slaying a fire buing dragon we also use percussion instruments to help make the music more [Applause] ex my name is Siana and I play the viola Dragon s will be our final song tonight we choose to perform this piece last because it's been our favorite to play the fifth R Orest should would like to thank you for joining us tonight we hope you enjoy your adversary and have a happy end of your school year the [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh I l [Music]

010[Applause] [Music] [Applause] let's give our fifth grade orchester one more big round of applause they are amazing tonight as I mentioned to our fifth grade band students um for you guys as well it has been such a pleasure being your teacher it's been amazing seeing you grow over these past two years you are always welcome back I will miss you um but I'm so excited to see where all of you go um next year and Beyond so again congratulations on a great concert before I hand the microphone over to miss stensson for our chorus portion of the evening um I have two quick things um number one I want to give so many thank yous to so many people around here um these nights these concerts are so amazing amazing getting to see all the

011hard work our students have put in um so the first group of people I need to thank is our anti teachers our faculty staff some of them are here tonight hiding backstage so let's give all of our teachers and staff a huge [Applause] on Mr Harrison and Mr mlei um are fearless leaders and they have been wonderful support for our program as well so let's give them a big round of applause Mr gallano and our custodial staff do so much work to uh keep our buildings up and running and their work is so appreciated so let's give them a big round of applause Miss Craig and Miss Greg in the office are so incredible um and they deserve so much so thank you to them as well as our PTO for helping us out with

012everything we need lastly I'd like to thank our Administration um Dr Gentile who I think I saw here tonight uh Dr bogus Mr mlin um and all of our Board of Education members for making this such a great Community for music um it's really great our students get to participate in these programs um I also want to give a quick shout out to Miss Pagano as well as Miss vento and Mrs brindle if you hadn't had a moment please take a second and check out the awesome artwork um and if you were able to attend the ace and aim fair I'm sure that was amazing as well so big shout out to them um we're going to do one quick transition to get our Orchestra students off stage and we actually have a special treat

013tonight so hang tight we're going to transition and I'll see you shortly [Applause] [Music] think so as our students are filing into the classroom um Ethan our student up front playing the piano comes into my classroom every day and instead of setting up his violin he goes straight for the piano and over the past year he's been playing this piece um and every time I ask him about it he goes uh I learned it on YouTube and he's worked right exactly YouTube can be good um so I'm going to give him an opportunity to share all of this amazing hard work um that he's put in um so Ethan as soon as you're ready you may take it [Applause] [Music] away for [Music] d [Music] [Applause] excellent job Ethan that was so impressive I can't

014do that so very shortly our boys and girls Ensemble is going to come out and Mrs David we'll take over the program thank you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I you good evening and welcome to fifth grade spring concert featuring our fifth grade course this year we'll be starting our part of the program with two small ensembles the first is our boys Ensemble they have been rehearsing several extra times throughout the past few weeks to bring you this song they will be singing Giants in the sky from Broadway shows into the woods we are sure you will age this song was very difficult and was definitely not written for elementary school the music that stepen storheim writes is not easy even for Broadway actors please welcome our voice assemble into the oh wait no Giants in

015the sky [Applause] there were giants in the there are big tall terrible Giants in the [Music] sky when you up high and you look below at the world you left and it things you know a little more than a glance is enough to show you just how small you are [Music] when you're way up high and you're on your own in a world like n that you [Music] ter not till the star only just when you made a friend and all and you know she's big but you don't feel small [Music] what you [Music] down all the you [Music] after Giant in the [Music] [Applause] w our next Ensemble is a is our girls group they have also been rehearsal in several times over the last few weeks their song is one that they suggested

016and is definitely a winner they will be singing Pure Imagination from Wily Wonga and the Chocolate Factory they will start out singing in small groups and then join all together please welcome our girls Ensemble singing Pure [Applause] Imagination come with me and you'll be in a world of P [Music] imagination take a look and you'll see into your [Music] imagination we begin with the SP tring the world of my cre will def explan [Music] your imagin [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] come with me and your be in a world of Pure Imagination the and you imag in the world of cre will see will explanation if you [Music] to I know to compare with your [Music] living there you'll be free if you TR [Music] [Applause] w okay [Music] hey we now have our fth grade

017chorus ready to perform for you would everybody please rise and join us and sing in our national and [Music] can you see the sooud we at [Music] the [Music] [Applause] [Music] Starck is [Music] in the still [Music] there and the of the pr [Applause] [Music] W want you our next elction is peace we sa at Acappella in our Winter concert the title is Don no P we'll be adding piano compan to this piece as well as some percussion instruments Don noi's patum is sung in Latin and talks about peace here is Don noi's patum [Applause] [Music] be [Music] [Applause] [Music] be a [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] our next song is very different from our last song it was written by a Swedish composer but we will be singing it in English singing all together

018has six very different parts that are sung with the same piano accompanyment we hope you enjoy singing all together [Applause] [Music] sing all together Sing For Joy singing all together every girl and boy every everybody singing a song Everybody singing a song Everybody sing sing [Music] and sing it all day long sing s and sing all you have a you can just re if you have a you can [Applause] [Music] our next song is perfect for this time of year some call them fireflies some call them lightning bugs whatever you call them they officially start summer for many people when they show up at night we hope you enjoy Firefly with several Harmony sections included [Applause] [Music] fireflies shining in the night fire [Music] flinging in the night are you hiding in the of the

019day only when [Music] fcking fing [Music] firly in the night firly firly light [Music] so bright shining in the night are [Music] youing only when the evening is [Music] flashing flashing flickering Firefly firly firly [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] our final selection tonight is the title song from Steven Sim's Broadway show into the woodsa with her very own Little Red Riding Hood sung by Mason Marlo Naomi family will be joined with the rest of the course please enjoy into the [Applause] [Music] the woods time I I have the wood and beginne Tre am' into the woods to Grandmother's house into the woods to Grandmother's house the way into the woods the the the stra I know it well into the woods and tell waiting on the journey the wood the the woods and Grand's house the

020woods and Grand's house the way is clear the light is good I have no fear no one should the woods are just trees the trees are just wood I to ask a [Music] baset journey w [Music] [Applause] well they are your children this is our fifth grade chorus once again of Round of Applause we would also like to acknowledge and a special thank you to Mrs be McDonald our companis for the evening thank you so [Music] much and I'm sure you want an encour so we're not going to let Mr Harrison talk yet we have a t tiny little Encore for you because we know that you need an [Music] [Applause] [Music] encore Al [Music] Al [Music] Al that's here for the fifth grade course the boys that's also here for the the B the

021orchestra and Ethan pigilan on piano under direction of Miss Merson and [Applause] YouTube conclude our program your kids did a fantastic job we're so so proud of them very excited for their future on your way out if you have not seen the art show please stop by the name hallway take a look at that some of your uh your children's artwork is posted there uh and without further Ado we have a wonderful evening and thank you all for coming great job

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