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Keverian Spring String Festival 2025

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Source
YouTube / Everett Public Schools, MA
Date
2025-03-13
Location
Middlesex County, MA
Material
Transcript
Extent
1,473 words · about 9 min
Collected
2026-06-06

Transcript

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001all right so welcome everybody thank you so much for coming we have we have so many violent students especially this year that we had to change around the whole schedule we used to play uh we used to have our concerts uh all at night and kindergarten through uh 12th grade play two concert at night but it got to be so big and so long that we have to split them up we have uh about 550 students in ever fin students which we are very proud of and we decided to split it up and I think this is going to work out great so kindergarten first grade and second grade will always have a concert in the morning during school and it's not going to be so huge and then second grade next year we'll move

002up to the concert at the high school which happened already last week um so we are very proud to have them they are doing a wonderful job it's amazing how fast and how well our students learn we are very proud of them and we would also like to thank you so much for your support for all you do so that your kids can have uh wonderful Ving classes practice they're all ready to go to the concert it is a wonderful thing thank you very much and thank you Mr ran for coming and supporting us and we are and we teach together with Miss delin all the classes we split them around we go to all the schools except for the Lafayette school Where Mrs POA teachers of the Lafayette school which we have a lot

003we have about 200 students just at so um so there and we are ready to begin and I hope you enjoy it than you and thank you Mr Brian for coming Mr Brian is our mus coordinator and without further Ado we will start our concert all right are we ready guys the first thing you will notice is that we are playing a little bit but we're singing a lot the reason we sing a lot why we learn violin is because we need to learn how to recognize pitch the violin doesn't have Frets doesn't have keys so you have to be very very you have to hear the pitch very well so we sing a lot because singing is very similar to playing the violin in the sense that your pitch you have to put your

004finger in the right places so that you produce the right pitch so that's why we sing along all right ready [Music] might take your this is one for of [Applause] okay guys ready to play yeah all right one two three four stop B out this way flip the bottom part of your B put this SP your shoulder and touching the side of your neck pointy part of your chin on your chin slide your thumb back wiggle your fingers say hello strings hello string stringling in lifp your ball try to your pinky on top of the stick and th thumb pleas and place your in the middle of the area we going to start with the Easter and this is violence strengths around the world you will hear sounds from all around the world [Music] [Applause]

005e ready [Music] stop [Music] third [Music] go ging down [Music] go [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right now we are going to sing our we are going to sing about our violin Parts ready gooll shoulders [Music] [Applause] [Music] finger now we are going to take a little trip to Manhattan and we're going to play the Manhattan Blues 1 2 3 four St out put it on your shoulder please silent on your shoulder please Point part of your chin slide that thumb back wiggle your fingers say hello strings hello stringing excellent with your ball place your ball on the E string roll it over to the a string and one more time to the D string he goes [Music] on go [Music] sprad up the [Music] upep deep deep [Music] [Applause] all right

006we in position now we will sing about our B parts we will show everybody where both hearts are and what their names are together ready ready go screw [Applause] screw excellent good job second grade would you move over to the edge of the this first bench here leave your violence there that's fine just move over all the way all the way all the way all the way thank you now we are going to travel to Africa and we are going to have a call and response song where second grade is going to call and kindergarten and first grade are going to answer so here it goes [Music] J J [Music] [Applause] [Music] EXC [Music] now we're going to do the same now we are going to do the same thing but playing a violet so

007let's do it one two three four stop F out put it on your shoulder please and T the side of your neck put that pointy part of your chin or that black chin and hold that violin with your chin slide your thumb back wiggle your fingers we're not touching the Str yet clip your bow place your bow in the middle of the contact area and two middle strings the a string and the D string other here go [Music] the [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the next song helps us remember how to come back to school every Monday with our violin ready to practice violin it's our day song Ready [Music] guys Monday Monday that is when I play [Music] myay is [Music] [Applause] all right our last piece for kindergarten this is kindergarten is last piece

008for this section it's called the technos symphony it's a lot of fun then kindergarten will get off stage and second grade Will Go On Stage first grade will remain and then at the end of the concert kindergarten will join us again to play one more piece Okay so so let's do our techos symphony 1 2 3 4 stump fin it out put it on your shoulder chin on your chin wrist slide your Thum back wiggle your fingers on the middle of the contact area PL please [Music] go [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music] 6 7 [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] 3 a for hey hey hey [Music] go hey [Music] hey hey hey [Music] [Applause] and let's bow together ready we're going to look at our shoes when we Vol one 2 three four five stay

009stay 2 second grade get your vence ready we are not backing out yet guys just put your all right now first grade and second grade are going to travel to a farm and we'll see how that goes one two 3 four stump B it out put it on your shoulder chin your chin wrist [Music] hold my finger Str e i [Music] [Applause] right now we are going to dra a little bit South America with L smile 1 2 3 4 stop it out put it on your shoulder chin on your chimers slide your down back wiggle your fingers [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] a all right on this next piece is for us to learn how to do very long long balls and hold the balls and not go quick go very long and nice

010all right ready one two three four stump vient out put it on your shoulder please and but touching the side of your neck pleas slide your thumb back wiggle those fingers make sure you're holding the vi with your chin lift your B your E string roll it over the a string roll it over one more time to the E very emotional right long balls [Music] please long go up down down Apple open a apple a [Music] down a e apple G down G [Music] [Applause] [Music] down and freeze [Music] [Applause] and now this is going to be our finale for first grade we are going to play one of our favorites right what is it train yes we're going to play Train one 2 3 4 stump five it out put it on your shoulder

011on your CH slide your thumb back place the ball again on the D string right fast train Here It Go [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey go [Music] [Applause] 3 first grade all right all right sometimes you do plug the violin it's called and we are going to learn how to PL and we're going to play the song Little Pato with little attitude 1 2 3 4 stump out on your shoulder your B little [Music] a CLE a good job a e a [Music] s hey [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] now we are going to very upper move to Ireland for one short song going to go to Ireland for one short song Ready one 2 3 four stop out put it on your shoulder chin on your chin slide with backp your the E

012ready [Applause] got [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] go all right now we are going to do a little March right one 2 3 four STP out on [Music] shoulder go [Music] a b [Music] hey go long [Music] he hey [Applause] and now we are going to travel even further down South America and we're going to play El Torito Pinto which is a lot of fun because we start with tremol tremol is a b technique that you play back and forth really fast right guys all right one 2 3 4 stop out put it on your shoulder CH on your chin [Music] J [Music] he [Music] where [Music] [Applause] and our last piece we are going to do today is the hipop where we all play together and we sing together and we dance

013together and we have a lot of fun uh first grade could you please stand up first grade please stand up go to rest position with your violin first grade rest position only first grade only first grade [Music] only okay kindergarten please stand up and bring your V please any position please stop right there thank you all right guys we are going to do the we're going to do Theon now don't forget to say really loud right all right ready one two 3 four stump f it out put it on your shoulder this one everybody loves so much that even the high school seniors ask me to play it in the concert so we always play every concert at the end now so here goes youry [Music] [Applause] and [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] go

014I I again I [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] again more [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] be ready [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] from [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] one more time [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] 1 2 3 4 St up one more time one 2 3 4 by thank you today's performance have a wonderful afternoon and um we we can't wait to have many many more classes we just love having learning together how to play The V all right guys excellent thank you goes first up their vience thank you very much

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