001e e e good evening everyone I'd like to welcome you all to our second concert of our spring series the orchestra concert before I introduce them I'd like to give you some reminders first reminder is bathrooms are right there in front in the lobby if you're interested second reminder out of respect for the performers please silence your phones last reminder is if you're interested we are running two fundraisers tonight the Fisher parent Association at red berries and ceros if you're hungry now without further Ado let me introduce the Fisher Middle School orchestra Mrs trass the conductor all right good evening so um my name is Colleen TR I teach Orchestra here at fiser middle school and Ying High School something I like to do at our concerts it's get all of our thank yous out
002of the way at the very beginning one so I don't forget two so that we have our really exciting honor and feed finale and we all get to just rush home afterwards so sixth grade take your time getting settled in we talked about finding as much as you can but being careful of that back Gap there getting settled in finding a little bit of space airbo test out your space here um so there's a lot of people to thank for um for the evening we get to put on tonight uh the first um large group people to thank is our students for their hard work and dedication to putting on this concert uh we would like to thank the parents Guardians family friends and attendance or joining us on the live stream thank you for
003your support of our students thank you to Bob Cesar and the rest of the custodial staff here at fer the structure we are on right now is not always here they build it um an addition uh we had to break this all down on Friday uh me and Bob put it all back you know the the chairs all back together this morning so they're a huge help um thank you to our classroom teachers and our chapon our department supervisor Mr mislin uh billing administrators um here tonight we have Dr Hannah um as well as Mr DWI shlock Freeman Romano thank you to our superintendent and our assistant superintendent Dr bogus who is here tonight thank you for being here thank you to the board of ed including Mrs Henderson who is here this evening to
004support um and then finally my music colleagues Mr zapino um Mr Price Mr msport Miss mayerson Miss Wright Miss Davon Miss Hall Carney Miss Miner so big round of applause for all those people who make this possible especially my mus colleagues um who taught these students a lot of what they know they come to me knowing so much already miss miss ranport and miss Wright and I just kind of get to take them from there uh for the rest of this concert you are going to hear students who volunteer to announce the pieces so we're be passing the mic to students and they will be doing a lot of the talking from here so I'm going to start that by passing the microphone good evening and welcome to the spring orchestra concert on stage now
005is the sixth grade Orchestra and first piece will be night watch Night Watch is a new piece that was just written in 2023 by Cooper Ford who teaches High School orchestra in North Bus New Jersey throughout the piece you will hear the melody be passed on throughout the different sections for [Music] the [Music] oh [Music] l [Music] la [Music] [Applause] our next piece will be Dragon dances by Sun newold Sun newold is a Coran Aman composer and was inspired by the use of dragons as a symbol of strength in many Asian cultures she wants listeners to imagine a lively an exciting New Year celebration where you would find colorful costumes and Dragons used as symbols of power strength and good luck for n the [Music] the for [Music] w our final piece will be Red
006Line This is a program piece which means the composer is telling a story through the music in this case the story is about a fictional hero who has bright red hair and fights with the strength and courage of a lion playing this piece required learning how to play new new notes C natural and F natural in addition learning a variety of Dynamics and bar articulations we hope you enjoyed our portion of the concert next up will be the sixth grade chamar exra [Music] la n [Music] la [Music] J yeah on stage now is sixth grade chamber orchestra a chamber orchestra is simply a smaller Ensemble the students on stage were selected earlier in the year to learn an additional piece deep sea fan dingo you may recognize the opening theme from the famous film draws
007this piece largely features the cello section in the intense beginning and section and the violin andas in the middle section we hope you enjoy deep fanga for [Music] n [Music] h [Music] true [Music] you [Music] n [Music] [Applause] [Music] so I'm going to give them some time to get ready but our next group is the sixth grade quintet so a chamber group made of five students um got to give them some credit this group kind of um formed with help but they kind of um picked their people they said we want to learn another piece we want more music um many of our students have performed at things outside of the regular responsibilities in this case we formed this for music in the library We performed in the library for music in schools months um
008a few of our students um performed at a holiday event some of these students also performed with the cgma uh Middle School honors Orchestra so our students really do go above and beyond including these students here put in a lot of extra work um into this additional piece they didn't have to have another piece they just wanted one and happy to oblige we've been calling them the Dragon Hunter quintet and quintet quet trios Etc they work without a conductor so I'm going to get out of the way and then you guys take it away from there okay [Applause] the [Music] out [Music] la [Music] la n [Music] h [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] for for we are the seventh grade Orchestra and our first will be an arrangement of William Boyce's Symphony Number Four Boyce was
009a composer in the Baroque Era and composed music in the 1700s this piece largely features the violin one section but requires all players to listen and balance volume at different sections or feature e [Music] go [Music] the the [Music] la [Music] [Applause] [Music] is a piece inspired by the AFR Cuban jazz j it has sections a recurring call and a response withi a lyrical melody in four part harmony and solely sections playing over a two cord van this piece is an excellent example of how string orchestras can play any genre of music two [Music] he [Music] e [Music] [Applause] our final piece will be Spartacus which quickly became one of our group's favorite pieces to play it is a programmed piece meaning it tells a specific story this is the story of the gladiator sparus
010who was a significant leader during the third survial war a major slave Uprising against the Roman Republic around the year 70 BC the music tells the story through harsh sounding harmonies and rhythms and the intense repeating melodic themes we hope you enjoyed our portion of the concert next will be the eighth grade Orchestra for [Music] for [Music] [Applause] [Music] la [Music] for [Music] [Applause] cool what for [Applause] for on stage now is the eighth grade Orchestra our first piece will be Flight by Susan H day something interesting about this piece is that even though it is largely in a minor key it maintains an optimistic sound if you listen you can hear the melody being passed to different sections this put arpegios and the cellos Bast skill passes gives a piece a sense of constant
011motion [Music] for [Music] she [Music] I [Music] [Applause] our next piece will be Canarios by Gasper son It Was Written in Spain during the Baro era and was originally for a single musician playing a Spanish style guitar this is music that would a lively dance which would include fast movements and jumping [Music] for [Music] [Applause] all right so before our final piece which will be mom Mia I'll let a student tell you all about it we'll have drum kid joining us as well and to really quick acknowledge one more hand for our eighth graders who are going to be leaving fer at this year so especially proud of the eighth grade this year um they had a lsh start um to music right with all Co and school closure um but I really they they
012caught up so fast and it progressed really quickly um they're playing pieces flight is something I gave to my high school kids at one point they're playing some really challenging music and have come a long way considering how bumpy the beginning was like you guys had some of you had virtual Orchestra right yeah crazy um so they really have come a long way as a group and I'm really proud of their progress uh they have more pie to play for you but just want to acknowledge while it was still just eth grade out here so really proud of all of eth grade but um a lot of them also do a lot of they do music outside of school um you know whenever I have opportunities to like play at the mall they did Holiday
013Tour like they're always like hopping on these extra performances and I really appreciate that so I'll let you tell them tell you all about M Mia our final piece will be a mle of songs from M Mia M Mia is a dbox musical and was later a movie which features the music of the Swedish pop group ABA ABA is famous for their pop music which is known worldwide this mie will feature three of their most famous songs Mama Mia SOS and Dancing Queen way [Music] oh [Music] la [Music] oh [Music] for [Music] w all right I'm going to give our next group time to get settled in we have another quintet for you so a chamber group of five students uh from musicians um again student formed group umot what we made this group for
014how did this start just like I don't know um it's been a while they've been a group for while I feel like um they played at the concert together you may remember some last concert they played Ry from Coco um really great group of here what they're going to play for you is going to be a medley of mtown songs um so we have my girl Stop in the Name of Love I Heard it Through The Great Vine and I'll be there all great mtown Classics um it's just a little piece of each one so it does go from song to song kind of quickly um and again they work without a conductor so I'm going to let them finish getting set up and I will um hop out of the way okay [Music] d
015[Music] he [Music] dad [Music] go for [Music] for [Music] h [Music] w for e spe [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah e for for the seventh and eighth grade Orchestra will be combining to perform music from the 2003 movie Pirates of the Caribbean curse of the Black Pearl the exciting movie score was written by Han Zimmer and Claus badet and heavily features string instruments through the piece you will hear many different tempos Dynamics and L changes as we play different themes from the [Music] movie e I [Music] t [Music] question [Music] [Applause] n [Music] St the [Music] you so that was our seventh and eighth grade orchestras combined uh to play a really big piece of soundtrack music um our final Group which should be coming out any second now will be the honor Symphony Orchestra um
016it's a very big group we combine both band and Orchestra students um and we'll be playing boheman Rap City I will have a student um tell you all about that piece in a moment um and should be out here shortly e [Applause] the rapsy is by the greatest rock band Queen originally written by Freddy Mercury unlike typical pop songs it is 6 minutes and consists of multiple sections without a chus the sections are introduction valid optic Hard Rock and slowera the song became instantly famous after its release in 1975 cre in several records and continues to enjoy success following the 2018 movie by the same name this piece will be conducted by Mr Peter silip [Applause] let's hear one more time from Mrs TR [Music] you the [Music] the [Music] a [Music] oh [Music] la
017[Music] a [Music] the [Music] a the [Music] this's is TR everybody all right thank you um I forgot to mention this earlier sorry about that we have a fundraiser afterwards rber SOS thank you so much for coming out for supporting us we really appreciate it uh get home safe thank [Applause] [Music] you e