001good morning Everett String parent it is so nice to see you here it is a pleasure to be able to work with your kids and have our students I will give this um Mrs B the teacher I will give her um the mind in the concert in a second um I just wanted to let you know what the string program is all about as you can see in your program you have the whole string uh spring string Festival um so that you can see how much your kids belong to it is a big program this year we have 550 students and that is why we have concerts in the morning now so up to last year we had two string nights while one was kindergarten through fourth third grade and one was fourth grade through
00212th grade and now this is way too long and very difficult for young students especially kindergarten first grade to sit there and listen and they fall asleep so we decided to split the programs and now we have two string nights which already happened last week um one is grades 3 through 5 and another is grades 6 6 through 12 and then we have morning concerts in every ever at K through a school including the Webster School and this is our fifth concert of the festival um in third grade when the second graders graduate from second grade next year when they go to third grade they will go go to the high school to play the concert at the high school at night very formal but now we're going to do it here we started the
003stream program with Mrs kachmarik in the year 2000 who is the music teacher here at the Lafayette School uh Mrs pska came on board about 12 years ago and Miss delin came on board also um about two years ago so we are very very very happy and very lucky and honored to be able to work with your children thank you very much and I hope you have a great time watching our concert Mrs is poot [Applause] [Music] welcome I'm truly lucky to have such a supporting parents I am blessed I am honored to be a teacher of your children they work really hard for hours for days for weeks for months to play this concert to make you proud to make you happy to show you how the love you so [Applause] enjoy rest position
004song a song We Remember how to hold the violin during rest position this is when we are not and hold it safely under our arms [Music] in scoll strong Mighty check your Bri it should be heing out you and [Music] me those is 1 2 3 4 [Music] [Applause] take strengths of the World created by Mr Kar and Mrs Pula to practice placing the bow on each string this is where we start exploring musical styles around several Concepts the array of styles in the background track makes it educational fun and interesting for students to warm up on their Tre [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] a [Music] [Applause] [Music] song sing is crucial for into violent play unlike the violent are the violin just like the human voice may be predilated to change
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010minutes and then we have to go because we have lunch coming up so thank you