001Good morning everybody. Thank you so much for coming. This is always one of my favorite events of the year because we get to see all of the progress that these students have made since the beginning of the year. Um want to thank Mr. K and the music department. Um it's a wonderful opportunity that our students have to play the violin. So thank you for your support at home as well. Um hearing them practice very delightful. So thank you for everything and um good luck everybody. Thank you. We can hear all the progress you've made. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Welcome to our eighth um concert in the uh string festival. This year we have concerts. Uh two weeks ago we had the 3 through five concert at the high school. Uh
002we also had the uh 6 through 12, grades 6 through 12 concert at the high school where we featured the high school orchestra. We had uh concert K through two in every school in the district and this is our last one. This concludes our um uh string uh festival for this year. The string program was started in the year 2000. I we started it and we had only a few students uh at the Lafayette school. uh we did a pilot program and now we expanded to all the schools including the high school and expanded it down to kindergarten. So we are very lucky that we have 550 students across the city and you can see that in your program. Uh we gave the program uh as as a festival so that you can see what
003a big part what a big thing uh your students your children are part of. Uh this is this is a small part of the string program. There is hundreds more. And the cool thing is that second grade, second grade sitting over there. They will >> get to play at the high school at a night concert next year. So this is their last concert here and next year they will move up to the high school and play a night concert. and they are going to have to dress all black for that concert. Here we dress nicely and fun, but at that concert is a little more serious. So I would like to thank the administration. We are very lucky that for all these years the administration in the Ever public schools has supported us. Um but
004firstly I would like to thank the students who work so hard and practice to in order to be able to play. Secondly, I would like to ask uh I thank the parents you for all your support in getting them the violins, bringing in the violin to school and doing all those things that I I know it's not easy. I'm a parent myself. So, thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. King, our director of fine arts and visual arts for always supporting us and being in every single one of our concerts. And we will start Oh, and thank you, Miss Develin. Uh we've been uh we go together to all the schools including the high school with Miss Develin ex except for the La Hayet school which is taken care of by Mrs. Holska. >> All
005right guys this um concert we will explore. We will travel around the world. We will travel around different techniques violin techniques. We are going to dance and sing a lot. We sing because the violin does not have frets or keys like a guitar or a piano. So the pitch the way you play is very important. The the the the way you recognize your pitch. So that is why we sing a lot in violin. So we start recognizing our pitch. All right. All right, let's start with our first song. No violence yet, just song. Right. >> Here we go. >> Nice and loud. Sing from God's might change your cross and the sea. This is how 2. >> Excellent. Very good job. >> Now you will see we'll tra travel across several continents. You're going to
006hear music from Asia, music from Latin America, and so on and so forth. And we're going to show you how to play on each one of our violin strings. One, two, three, four. Stop the violin out. Clip the bottom part of your violin. Place the sponge on your shoulder, not in your throat. In your shoulder. Move the pointy part of your chin on your chin. Slide your thumb back. Wiggle your finger. Say hello string. >> Hello string. >> Stringing. Flip your bow and place your bow in the middle of the contact area on the skinniest string on the E string, please. Ball on the E string. And here we go. Hold on the E string. Straight. E E go. E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
007E E E E E Go. Roll it over to the D string. Second string. Go. Hey dog roll straight dog back from the east side. on top G fast roller. Cross them all. All right, we are going to sing to show you that we know our violin parts and Bridge and chest. Scrub and shoulders. Bridge and chest and hands and finger board. >> Excellent. >> All right, guys. One, two, three, four. Stop. Violin out. Flip the bottom part of your violin. Place the sponge on your shoulder on the side. and the bottom touching the part side of your neck under your ear. Then put the pointy part of your chin on the chin rest. Slide your thumb back. Wiggle your finger. Say hello strings. >> Hello strings. >> Flip your bow. Make sure your pink
008is on top of the stick. Do your best. And now place your bow on the E string, the skinniest string. Roll it over once to the A string. And roll it over one more time to the D string. We're on the D string. And now we are going to go to Manhattan for some bluing. Here's Manhattan blues four times. Go two times. Go to D. Time 17. Push my shoulder. push it in please. >> Okay, >> thank you. Very good job. Now we are going to Now we are going to sing our about our bow parts. The the reason the violin is only on one hand, meaning that the violin goes on the left hand and the bow goes on the right hand, and people who who are left-handed still play like this, is because
009the violin left hand technique and the bow technique, they are equally as difficult. So, it doesn't matter if you're left-handed or right-handed. One of your hands is going to have a hard time or one of the hands is going to be the winner. Whatever you however the glass is full or half full or half empty, but they are equally as difficult. That's why we all hold the violin on the same side. All right. Ready? One, two, three, four. Stop. Violin up. No. Back to rest position. I'm ahead of myself. Let's sing our song about our ball parts. Ready? Go >> screw stru. >> Very good. Yay. Excellent. We never touch the horseair because this horseair has rosin on it and the rosin is a sticky. It's a tree sap that is sticky and very dry.
010And if we touch it, the the oil from our skin gets sucked into the bow and then the bow does not the the horseair does not accept any rosin anymore. And then the ball doesn't make any sound on the strings. So we are not allowed to touch the horse hair. Right. >> Yeah. Don't touch it. Good job. All right guys, now we are going to play something very very emotional. It's called sailing home. And we are going to play long bows. And please try not to cry because this is very emotional. One, two, three, four. Stop. Violin out. Flip the bottom part of your violin. Put the sponge on your shoulder and button touching the side of your neck. Pointy part of your chin on your generous. Slide your thumb back. Wiggle your finger. Say
011hello string. >> Hello. >> Here we go. Sailing home. >> On the D string again. E A E string over big ball starting from the frog down up down open the Hey God, I got down. up and freeze all That was very very nice position. All right, second grade, you are going to sing first and kindergarten and first grade are going to answer you. We are going to do an African call in response response song called chool. >> So first second grade is going to sing and then kindergarten and first grade are going to answer. After we are going to repeat it. We are going to do the same song again. Second grade will play but we will answer with our violins. So let's hear it how it's go how it goes in the singing.
012Right. >> Mhm. >> All right. Here goes. JJ Kool-A. I am coming. >> One more time. Ready, second grade? Good job. >> Go. La. >> Excellent. Very good job. Good job. Okay, second grade, you're still doing the same thing. Now we are going to answer you with our violins. Okay, ready? 1 2 3 4. Stomp violin up. Play the bottom part of your violin. Put the sponge on your shoulder and button touching the side of your neck. Slide you come back. Wiggle your finger. Say hello strings. >> Hello. >> All right. Here we go. >> All the two middle strings. The D string and the A string. Pizza I got La. Excellent. Um, at the end of every class, we sing a song that will remind us when to bring our violins and uh not
013to forget our violin day, right? >> Yep. Yes. >> Yes. >> And to pack up our violins, right? But we're not packing up. >> We're just singing the song. Okay. So, don't pack up. Thursday. Then day th and of course my vin th is my vent day. th that is when I play and I practice every day. >> Excellent job. >> And that is how we remember to bring our violins. >> Every week. Every what? >> ON WHAT DAY? >> There we go. Very good. Um, second grade, you're not going to come up here right now. You're just going to stand up and go to play position. Okay, you can move. You can move over to help them spread a little bit. >> Okay, we are going to play the techno symphony for you. This
014is a piece about endurance. This is how we can hold the violin for a long time without getting tired. 1 2 3 4. Stop. Violin out. Put it on your shoulder. Pointy part of your chin on your chin rest. Slide your thumb back. Wiggle your finger. Say hello strings. Hello friends. >> Stringings. >> Ball on the A string, please. A string. Second. Second skinniest string. May radio hey radio hey radio hey radio hey radio hey Hey, hey, go. Hey, hey, hey. Easo. Hey R me Fire. There you go. Heat. Heat. Hey. And good job. Good job. All right. So, now we are going to bow. Everybody is going to bow. Let's bow together. One, two, three, four. Bow. Stay. Stay. Stay up. Together, guys. Together. One more time. One, two, three, four. Bow. Stay. Stay.
015Stay up. >> All right. Excellent. Good job, kindergarten. >> So, why don't you go up to the hole, but don't go anywhere. Just go up in the hole for a second. >> Don't Don't stop. Stop right there. Go ahead. Keep going. All right. >> So, what we will do now is we have we need a couple seconds to um to get the uh our second grade on the stage. So, first grade, you guys are going to move up this right there. Very good. Wait, wait, wait. a little bit. Perfect. >> And let's go in. All right. And right. >> Okay. So, are they more or less? I thought Okay. I'm going to this one around. Stay right there. You guys are doing a great job. This is not easy to do to stand here and
016wait like this. This is not easy in between in between the people in front of you. Okay, very good. Are you um >> okay? Okay. >> Are we good? >> No, there's four more. >> Four more. Okay. >> You are going to stand for now. You're going to stand right here. Right in between. You're going to move your leg here. Stay down. Stay. >> All right. Okay. Perfect. We uh after first grade is finished, then second grade is going to move up forward so we can see them better. Okay. All right. But that's just the way it is in concerts when we have a lot of students, right? Yeah. >> All right. So, we are going to sing. Oh, wait. It's your turn. >> Okay. So, our next piece here um with first and second
017grade is called Old McFiddler. So, this is just um our version of Old McDonald, which is pretty fun because the students get to sing a familiar melody and also um play on their violin. Ready? You should sing super loud. One, two, three, four. Stop playing out. Put it up onto your shoulder, chin over onto your black chin rest. Slide your thumb back on the neck and with your fingers and say hello. All right, we're going to place our ball on the east, but we don't play first, right? Oh, finger had a string. E I E I O. And on that string with a E I E I O. had a string I >> viol next piece is uh called rock and roll fiddle. So, the students get to play in more of a rock and
018roll style. And we're going to use both uh long uh bows and short bows in the same piece. One, two, three, four. So, out onto your shoulders from the chin rest. We're going to start on the A string. Long A's, right? E A second string. Long A, short. Can you do this one? A ready Short A star. Okay. Hang on. position. >> Okay, now we're going to switch it up a little bit. Uh, and their next song is called Sweet Eyes. And this one is another um long emotional song with the long bows. 1 2 3. We're going to place our bow on the D string. B A D. Third string. Okay. Sorry. Don't talk to me. Go deep. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Okay. All right. Our last piece for this uh portion uh of
019the show with first grade is called Train. I think it's everybody's favorite song. Um and in this piece we're going to introduce um the use of our fingers on the fingerboard. So we will play with our first finger. All right. 1 2 3 4 out shoulder. We're going to start on D again. Third string. 35. Heat. Great. Heat. All right. Okay. All right. Let's together. 1 2 3 4. All right. This is our second grade portion of the concert. We are so excited. As I said before, they are going to the high school next year and they're they are going to show you how ready they are. We are going to play a piece that is called Little Picato and ichicato means what? >> Pling. It means pling. It's a technique on the violin. I
020mean, it's it's a probably the simplest technique, but they have to learn how to put their arm around and plop on the violin. So we have arco which means bow and then we have piticato which means plucky. All right. Ready? A little picato. Here it goes. 1 2 3 4 piling out. Put it on your shoulder please. Point of your chin on your chin wrist. Slide your thumb back. Wiggle your fingers. Say hello strings. >> String leadings. >> Good job guys. We're doing a great job. Okay. Ready? Open a A and Ready go a long long a circle. Go a circle. A1 A1. A circle and exposition. Good job. That was by far our most difficult piece that we had for this program. I didn't want to say that before so we don't get nervous.
021All right. Now we go to a very crazy part of our concert. We are going to go with a little delay to Ireland. Um we uh couple days ago we had um St. Patrick's Day, but uh it's a little with a little delay, right? Somebody has a green earphones there. >> One two three four. Stomp violent out. Put it on your shoulder. the pointy part of your chin on your chin rest. Place your tip of your pointer finger on the first tape, the tape that is farthest from your face on the D string, the third string over. And this is swallow G. Heat. Heat. Come on. Get up. Okay, that was a good ride. All right. Now, we're going to go back come back to sort of Louisiana. We are going to do a um
022another um blues. Uh this time with a harmonica and ready. One, two, three, four. Stop. P up. Place the sponge on your shoulder. Slide your thumb back. Wiggle your fingers. Here it goes. Okay. Go. go Go. Ready. Okay. Rest position. Everybody, please don't forget. Very good job. Now we are going to do we're going to travel to Brazil and we are going to do dansa doa. Ready? Here's dansa doa for you. 1 2 3 4. Stop. Violin up. Put it on your shoulder. Point the part of your chin. On your chin. Slide your tongue back. >> Okay. Here it goes. Stop. Hey. Hey. Stop. This way. Up. This way. Up. This way. Up. Up. Up. Together. Good. Together. Ready? One, two, three, four. Bounce up. One more time. One, two, three, four. Bounce. Sing up.
023Kindergarten and first grade. Stand up, but don't go anywhere. Just stand up. We are going to do the grand finale. This is the hippophony. And this one, you are going to see gissando where we slide our fingers up and down. You're going to see some wrapping and other things. So, let's go have fun. And this piece, we end every single concert in our festival. We end it with this piece because everybody loves it. Okay. Ready? 1 2 3 4. Stop. Violent out. Put it on your shoulder. Point your part of your chin on your chin rest. Ready, guys? Are we ready for this? >> All right. And then slide your fingers down. Go. The one for one G. Ready? GO. R I A. FIRE. Here we go. GO AHEAD. I'll say it again. Heat. Heat.
024Awesome. Let's all bow together. One, two, three, four. Bow, stay, stay, stay up. Very good. Make sure you don't hit your nose on the table. One, two, three, four. Bows, stay, stay up. Excellent. Good job, everybody.