001Okay. Are we live on Zoom now? No. Okay. All right. I'll proceed as we were going just now. All right. Is there a motion to approve the agenda as presented? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Dr. Arian. >> I. >> Mr. Green. >> Dr. Northern. >> Hi. >> Mr. Hansen. >> Hi. Uh, Miss Ashton, can you hear us? She can't hear us, can she? >> Yes. No. No. Okay. U Mr. Monk. >> I. >> And chair votes I. Um, okay. Staff has provided the members of the board with draft minutes from our our last month's meeting. Is there a motion to approve the minutes as presented to the board? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Dr. Mr. Arian, >> I, >> Mr. Green, >> I, >> Dr. Northern, >> I, >> Mr. Hansen, >> I,
002>> Miss uh, Mr. Monk, >> I, >> and chair votes I. >> Okay. Um, moving right along. The board always appreciates being able to feature our wonderful arts programs from across the Commonwealth by having our students perform at our meetings to start our day off in the most perfect way possible. And so, I will now ask Mr. Green, if you would please uh provide us with an introduction of our guests. >> Yes. The uh 2025 Pavan, I think I'm pronouncing that correct. Uh summer regional governor school is a rigorous and engaging two-eek summer program. Verizon High School students of classic theater, I mean classic guitar, theater, visual arts, and voice performing today are students from across the Northern Virginia region as a part of the Pavean summer regional governor school small guitar ensemble. The students
003here today were accepted to the Pavan program by virtue of their talent, hard work, and overall musical maturity in navigating a rigorous audition process for the program. Upon notification of their invitation to attend the pave program, these students volunteered their time and talents to this performance and their willingness to represent the guitar division of Pavan under the direction of Pavan uh guitar faculty harmony middle school director of guitar of guitar in Hamilton Virginia and current Virginia guitar directors association President, Mr. William Hart Wells. These students are excited to share the fruits of their efforts with you. The music they are about to perform are two pieces they started rehearsing at the very start of the PA van program on July 7th and even demonstrated the highest ideals of readiness by attending an additional rehearsal this
004past Monday night in preparation of this performance. These students and their efforts in preparation have demonstrated both mastery and their stages of development and growth in performing together in an ensemble that has only rehearsed together a total of 10 hours ahead of this performance. We hope you enjoy. >> Okay. So, um the board will come down and sit in the front so that we can see you your smiling faces instead of uh having you um not be able to see us. So, Definitely. Brown. Heat. Heat. So that piece um on a landscape um for those of you aren't up on your uh Native American Puma uh language loosely or doesn't loosely translate but it translate to salt river basin. So, if you're familiar with the southern part of Arizona, there's the Salt River that flows
005through uh the southern portion of that. Um, and that's where you find the Pima tribe. Um, that is a favorite location of um the inspiration for that piece, which is a notable guitar conductor from Arizona, his good buddy, the composer of the piece, decided he would dedicate a piece forward based on some of his favorite landscapes. And so, we're keeping the idea of landscapes and rivers, what better way to actually play something about rivers if you're going to do a than to do an arrangement of Shandidor. We hope you enjoy it. Thank you.