001good evening thank you for our for coming to our second concert in our spring coming Spring Festival spring string Festival we this year we changed things around a little bit so because we have so many students last year we had about 140 less students than this year so this year we are uh reaching about 550 students so we had to change our concerts around a little bit this is why you see only older students here this is the 6 through 12 concert grade 6 through 12 uh two days go we have the three through five concerts grades three through five and next week every day we will have a different concert in every school ele K throughh school for grades kindergarten first and second and so all together we have seven concerts so the festival
002is doing great uh we thank you so much for your support without your support we wouldn't have all these beautiful wonderful students I um the other thing thank thank you thank you very much for the ambassadors you guys are fantastic uh thank you very much you always help and everything is run very smoothly thank you very much thank you Mr O'Brien for helping us with everything I would also like to thank um the uh band directors uh Mr Holm we have Mr Castellano uh Mr Spencer Mrs Logan and Mrs blal right there so they are going to play they agreed to play Ken with us which is a piece that is going to be full Orchestra which is pretty amazing you'll see there too many concerts I'm completely confused at this point we are so
003glad we fit on the stage and even though it's raining a lot of students came a lot of parents came we hope you enjoy the concert this is not going to be a very long concert but it's going to be an awesome one so we hope you enjoy we are going to open with Mrs PSA leading our groups uh to play three songs one is going to take us around the world it's called string uh travel in around the world the second is going to take us to Nepal it's called Nepali folk song and the third piece is going to take us to a Disney movie uh it's called bellan note and it's from the movie lady in the I don't know if you forget it it will melt your hearts thank you very much
004and without further Ado let's begin our concert [Applause] [Music] la [Music] for ha [Music] w [Music] la [Music] sh [Applause] la [Music] [Applause] [Music] la [Music] [Applause] [Music] h I [Music] all [Music] h [Music] [Applause] one two three four [Applause] okay [Music] you before we continue our journey into the night and the symphony which is what this SP is called uh we chose all classical music repertoire which is not really classical some of it is got rock some of it is romantic but we call it clal I would like to thank uh the tremendous support of our Administration from the schools and uh Mr Clark is here so thank you very much for your support always and now we are going to do something that we haven't done in a while so we are going
005to do a full Orchestra this is like a symphony orchestra where you have strings in the string section we have violin one violin 2 viola cello and Bas and then you have the woodwinds can you raise your hand Woodwinds we have brass the brass the trumpets the trombones the tubas we have percussion thank you very much and what else do we have that's it that's it my head is just spinning I'm going to tune aello now because our instruments are very very delicate and they go out of tun all the time especially when you have weather going up and down and also uh we have always tremendous support from our state representative Joe mcal and he's here tonight as well thank you very much thank you Mr ran for pointing it out thank you very
006much [Music] okay for for [Music] la [Music] n la [Music] [Applause] okay now we are going to have to do some shuffling but stay put just for a second I would like to acknowledge some people first of all students who are doing double duty meaning if you played violin and now you're also playing a woodwind or a brass instrument please stand up stand up just be acknowledged good job double duty strings and band instruments both good for you excellent thank you very much and now I would like the whole band to stand up thank you very much for participating with us good job that sounded awesome thank you very much guys thank you thank you so very much that was wonderful and now we just have you have to give us a couple minutes we
007have to shuffle around hello thank you for your patience this is like Hill [Music] show I hope you know all so you like see this is what our or our class Nots every time I group group around and I they stay around so um we are now going to go into a little more serious mode and well the first piece is a Brazilian piece it's also played in other parts of Latin America and it's called Mita and we're going to perform this for you now [Music] the [Music] w w [Applause] the following piece will bring us to the Baro era the 1600s the Royal fireworks This Is Res [Music] la the la n [Applause] the next piece is called Jupiter it's from a larger work where it's called the planet and it's by Gusta Hol
008and it's um the end of the 19th century um I hope you enjoy we are also going to perform this piece for our upcoming Memorial Day show which I hope you all attend and um that's going to be our Orchestra contribution to the memorial show this beautiful piece I hope you enjoy it e [Music] all for [Music] all [Music] [Applause] now we are traveling back to the Baro era and this is a Biblical piece it's called entrance of Queen Sha up the la [Music] n the [Applause] [Music] the n [Music] n [Applause] [Music] and now that our hands are all falling off because we are tired after that one that's a lot of notes um Mrs Kar would like to do it's our little ceremony that we do every single year this is the Waterworks
009this is it this is it guys so um I would like this is the time to recognize in high school so middle first of all middle school students who learn all this music so far please stand up we would like you to recognize you this is Art music congrat very good and and for those who are not playing the New World Symphony you may you may go and sit down in the audience um and we have just one more piece to play but before we do that I would like to recognize our freshman please freshman stand up High School freshman stand up please all our freshman that [Music] freshman okay thank you sophomores please stand up for our sophomores and juniors ining your Juniors thank you and we are not going to have the senior
010stand up because I will start crying so they are not standing up they're doing something else so I will give the mic to Mrs Kar we'll continue now so we'll have the seniors remain up here all right all right so this is always a very sweet time for us because we love watching you and come become indult including our own children gr to so this going to be hard practice for next year when our son graduates so in no particular order okay we'll start with cythia has in our program kindergarten and she is going to stud Communications in the fall um not committed to a particular College just yet it's a little early for some KS so congratulations next we'll have Shaye come on up Shay sh also started violin in kindergarten as well first
011grade sorry first grade and a wonderful part of our program as well and you are going to study nursing in the fall and uncommitted right to a [Music] [Applause] college come on up so Ricardo joined us this here right Mr K but playing previously in years past um and so welcome Ricardo and you will be studying biotech at some point in in the fall and I'm committed to a college just yet and next we'll have Bri coming up and Ranna has been a part of our program since kindergarten as well and we've enjoyed watching you br and I know that you're excited to do you're working right now and continue that and see what happens in the fall it's good I know we're so happy to have you back here next have [Music] Evelyn and
012will be studying at the Berkeley College of Music in the fall so we studing music music therapy and music book theater so congratulations [Applause] and our seventh senior is [Music] Amelia again another student with us is kindergarten and she will she's committed to Eastern Connecticut and we will be studying exercise and health science also Evelyn and IIA have been studying with Mr katchmar private lessons um and that's very exciting we'll miss you guys and um can't wait for the rec so these are our seniors congratulations to all we are we are missing one senior who wasn't able to be with us tonight and that's berlene right so congratulations gine and now we take our grou picture right okay and Mrs Pula if you could join us as well [Applause] I would like to uh I
013will like to thank somebody very special who does not play an instrument and has been with us helping us every single concert taking pictures uh doing everything Miss [Music] B thank you so much [Applause] thank you for your support you're always here always ready and always helpful thank you we appreciate it and we miss you very very much and there's a couple more people I would like to thank Mig who always here always helping us teacher English school but she was my student when she was school schol she did all this and now she's helping every single concer without without so thank you very much we also would like to thank MRSA for all you do for all your arrangements for teaching kids the orchestra sounds like this because of thank you Arrangement very much
014thank [Applause] you and um this thank you so much for all your help [Music] to all the schools and we just uh go here and there this move these table move that this that move the table Yeah but thank you so much for all the programs all the contacting people all the teaching the students and everything thank you it's a pleasure having you thank Youk you and of course started the program with me 25 and a half years ago thank you so much for all you do love you very much and [Music] [Applause] I for as says I don't know who's been cutting onions around here but everybody's here right so I um we are going to our last piece is themed from a very long War it's from a Czech composer from the Romantic
015area area era sorry from the 1800s his name is BJ he came to the United States to teach to teach a little music and when he came in the 1800s his impression of America is what made this work possible so this is this is a work that is about this country so we would like to perform that for you [Music] n [Music] for [Music] h [Music] w [Applause] thank you very much for com to conclude this program and next year be ready for some all Disney pieces for our next program it's going to be Disney Disney Disney Disney Disney all Disney so we're going to start working it now so thank you very much and have a good evening [Applause] no they want to do hip hopy you know the one that the little kids
016do going to do that [Music] stand up everybody please stand up [Music] h [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] we I'm I'm again [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] w [Music] [Applause] again [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] go [Music] [Applause] okay and this will conclude our performance thank you very much and have a wonderful evening thank you