001good morning and Welcome to our sixth spring string Festival concert this year we had to split all our concert into many many concerts because we have 500 students 550 actually violin students in the city of ever and we've been teaching them all Miss delin has been coming with me to all the schools um and we teach uh all the K through um eight Great Schools except for the Lafayette school that is where Mrs PSA is teaching and um we also go to the high school where we co- te the high school orchestra um and so in the past Mrs kachmarik my wife who is a teacher at the Lafayette school and I we started the straight program in the year 2000 and we had about 80 students in the first year and now we've grown
002to 550 and it's really really happy happy times for us however we have growing paints so at first we started with one concert at night everybody dressed up and came at night K through 12 then we had to split it into two concerts we had too many kids so K through three came to one concert and uh 4th through 12th came to another and now we have to split into many more concerts because there is just one way too many of us and also young students like kindergarten students at night they get tired it's difficult for them this is a much better opportunity for them um so now we have all together we have eight concerts so this is our sixth concert in the series and we are very happy to announce it we put
003the um the program so that you can see how your kids what kind of a part of a big program they are so you can see in the program all the concerts are mentions mentioned and all the programs are mentioned too so um we thank you very much for your support uh your students are doing great they have been practicing and um we hope to continue and students in SEC who are in second grade now they will move on to the concert at night next year um all right so I hope you enjoy we hope you enjoy the concert and let's get started we start with a piece that tells us how to hold the violence safely when we are not playing are we ready yes right [Music] rest POS feet in line scoll in
004That's mighty check your Bri it should be peeking out at you your fing this is out 1 2 3 4 take up thank you good job guys excellent are you going to be okay right in front of this would you like her to stand over are you sure can you get them all all right good all right so as you notice we've been singing and not playing and we sing a lot in violin class because pitch recognition is very important we have to know how high or low at note is because in the violin There's No Frets or keys so if you put your finger a little higher or a little lower it's like the voice it goes up and down so we have to establish a good hearing and a good pitch recognition that's
005why we're seeing a lot in violent CL now we are going to play 1 2 3 4 stump violent out put it on your shoulder please please and button touching the side of your neck pointy part of your chin on your chin wrist slide your thumb back wiggle your fingers say hello string hello string string Lings flip your ball try to put your pinky on top of the stick ball on the E string and now we are going to do a traveling around the world with all the strings you will hear sounds from instruments from all around the world [Music] go e e e go [Music] [Applause] [Music] GRE down three down [Music] keep stream go [Music] go roll [Applause] [Music] [Applause] together please very good all right now the the next part we are
006going to do is we are going to sing about our violin parts and we are going to point out our violin parts scroll ready ready go scroll and shoulders brige brige and Bridge and scroll and shoulders brid and chins and finger [Music] our next piece is we are going to do some blues it's called Manhattan blues and uh we are going to play it on our D string and a string one two 3 four stump violent out put it on your shoulder please and button touching the side of your neck pointy part of your chin on your chin wrist Slide the thumb under your violin neck away from your face and wiggle your fingers above the strings and say to string string both feet firmly on the ground please ready [Music] go 2 4 [Music]
007[Applause] [Music] go good job together rest position all right we continue with our singing and showing that we know our bow parts now right so let's sing about our bow Parts screw screw stick never touched the horse it by EXC very good now we are going to travel to Africa what yes we're going to travel to Africa and we're going to sing a song that is simil Simon Says and it's called JJ koule and and um we are going to do a call and response so our second graders sitting over there are going to call and our kindergarten and first grade are going to respond so this is your first PE pitch ready ready goak [Music] excellent good [Music] job so now that we sang it together we are going to play the same thing
008the second grade will sing and will'll respond but with our violins not with our voices one two 3 four stump violent out put it on your shoulder please and button touching the side of your neck pointy part of your on your chinrest slide your thumb back wiggle your fingers say hello string good good now flip your ball and place your ball on the E string and then roll it over to the D and a string the two middle strings we're playing two strings at once what are we ready yeah what [Music] take [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] and viol very [Music] guys good job position please you can come in I would like to thank Mr Barrett for supporting us and for being here our principal of our school rest of the staff thank you
009very much thank you they're doing a great job all right guys now we are going to continue with our pitch recognition and how we um go up and down and also it reminds us to bring our violins to school every Thursday so this is what we sing Thursday Thursday is my violin day THS THS that is when I my bring myen and of my THS th is my viol day th th that is play Hey and I practice every day hey excellent good job all right and um our last piece for kindergarten for this section of the concert is a called techos Symphony I put it together uh I don't know probably 25 years ago and it's been a hit and it's been been ahead uh ever since what this piece is about is to
010uh provide um students with uh strength to hold their violence for a long time in a fun way so this is what we're doing right now uh Tech no Symphony 1 2 3 4 stomp violent out put it on your shoulder chin on your chin [Music] rist hey hey ready go e ready go [Music] go [Music] go d e ready go a a ready go [Applause] ready go ready [Applause] go ready now e e ready go e e ready [Applause] go e e ready go without 5 6 [Music] 3 go [Music] [Applause] [Music] 1 back we go on the E string 4 A for each 10 times in the r hey hey ready It Go [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Bravo bra excellent position position please we in rest position now please let's go to rest
011position okay let's all bow together ready one two 2 three four bow stay stay stay up excellent One More Time 1 2 3 4 bow St stay St up we will now switch guard our kindergarten students are going to exit gently and quietly kindergarten first grade stays kindergarten goes to the back now please follow Miss delin please kindergarden students very good first grade students I would like to up forward excellent more a little more a little more a little more yes very good very good A little one more step one more step to the edge of the carpet how about that excellent thank you good second grade please stand up is do you guys want to go to the okay over here no no no no all right yeah we need to stay at a
012safe distance because we don't want any ey shishs here that's that was a joke for okay can you guys you are a little too far can you move this way and forward second grade I here carpet in the middle of yeah there we go that's that's better all right now we are going to go to a farm where we are going to meet a fiddler who is a violinist ready one two three four stump violent out put it on your shoulder chin on your chin wrist slide your Tong back wiggle your fingers say hello strings hell string stringing anding string all right sing nice and Loud [Music] please a e i e i [Music] o e i e i [Music] [Applause] [Music] excellent rest position very good job now the first grade helped by the
013second grade is going to go to South America a little bit with LA ready 1 2 3 4 stump pent out put it on your shoulder lift your bow go [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] go that was quick and can ladies I don't like the way this is so there we go that's better right all right now we are going to travel a long long way with we are practicing this next piece we are practicing very long bowls and sustained bows and nice sound quality right yes and it's called sailing home we are going to go home we're going to sail home 1 2 3 4 stop P it out through shoulder and this piece we call it the emotional one it's the emotional piece very emotional go on the D string please third string and
014big long Downs please D go down up down Ball [Music] Up Down B up down [Music] [Applause] [Music] g b [Applause] [Music] g open a long [Music] and [Applause] and excellent good job good job and now we are going to do a fun one with quick notes and fun movements right all right this is a favorite of our class one two three four stump B it out put it on your shoulder CH on your chin [Applause] wrist ready now [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] W hey [Music] [Laughter] all right guys let's B together one two three four B St stay up one more time one two three 4 bow St St up all right first grade only first grade please follow Miss delin and you will sit down back and rest position please
015very good second bre just one more step forward there we go and now we are going to play um piece that is called little Pato and it teaches us how to pluck the violin Pato means plucking but we add a little bit of attitude on the plucking right yes so it's Pato with a little attitude little Pato let's just wait for m goodby good job one two 3 four stump violent out put it on your shoulder chin on your chin wrist [Music] a go a one more your finger a long a long a circle uhuh a A1 a open e a e [Music] a a one a long a he 1 hey [Music] C [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] A uhuh y excellent when we we good okay now we are going to travel to
016Ireland to do a little H jig yes okay swallow ta jig one two three four stop vient out put it on your shoulder slide your thumb back wiggle your fingers [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] open and ready go [Music] go [Music] good job and now we are going to do one uh Military Star style where we March and we are little violin soldiers right all right one two three four stump Violet out put it on your shoulder chin on your chin RIS don't forget to start marching right away [Music] up [Music] up a b a [Music] mar go [Music] a [Music] b okay our last piece of this section before we play our grand finale our last piece of this section we will ladies and gentlemen in the back our last piece of this section will
017take us into all over South America and a lot of countries uh sing this song it's called toito pinto and it's about a little bull a little Spotted Bull one two three four stump violent out put it on your shoulder flip your bow and you will also recognize that bow technique that is called tremolo where you go up bow and down bow very fast right and you shake your cheeks like this don't forget to do that yeah there we go El Torito Pinto [Music] G [Music] quick [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] b g e ay very good job one 2 3 4 P stay stay stay up one more time one 2 3 4 I would like to uh thank Miss Ella she always helps us she always makes everything happen so she's always
018at the front door helping everybody so thank you Mella for all your help thank you all right thank you custodians too thank you very much for all your help yes thank you um kindergarten and no first grade please come up first grade can you guys back up now rest position stand where kind of where you were standing before black back black back up you have to back up kinderg back up a little not too much that's too far up middle of the road mdle there we go and position okay right here that's fine that's fine right here right here that's good okay kindergarten coming up and the piece that we are going to play now is called the hipop and I put that together with uh to a monzer quartet piece that is called which
019means um a little serenade but it's nothing like a serenade it's a it's a hip hop song right can you move thank right there all right and we are going to have some wrapping we're going to have some some sliding some singing and some dancing this this is fun this is our grand finale and students love this so much that we even play it in the at the end of the concert that is uh 6 through 12 they all want to play it so this is a fun one and everybody reminisces how when they were little they used to play this so one two three four stump violent out put it on your shoulder slide your thumb [Music] back all right guys let's take it home ready [Music] Dan Dan slide your finger up and
020down go [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] e i o i n again [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] again one more time [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] go [Music] [Applause] [Music] e i o i [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] he [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] and and rest position very good guys awesome Miss bow one two three four bow stay stay stay up one more time one two three four B St say stay up good job guys excellent all right Miss do you want to stand there we are going to stand here for um about 50 seconds for everybody to take pictures we're going to show out Bly whites going to smile so everybody gets a picture