001as you know it's a string Festival I would like uh Mr O'Brien our coordinator of Music here in ever to say a couple of words great welcome to uh stream night part one it's wonderful the students been up here the past few days along with many of you welcome to Everett High School the big house this fire night Center we're going to have a wonderful night tonight okay and we're going to be want to welcome you to ever high school and i' like to thank uh superintendent Mr Bill Hart give round Applause of Mr har he's had a great job for our [Applause] support the members of the ever school committee Round of Applause for our school committee [Applause] members our state senator s d Dominico oh he supports us let's here for s [Applause]
002and i' like to thank uh music teachers that took time out of their busy schedules will be here to support tonight's train night Mr Holmes over here our band director over here miss Amo from the English [Applause] School Miss Devin teachers a strings here miss delin Mrs POA and of course Mr catar let's have a great show thank you very much as you know our string program has been growing tremendously just last year we were at about 400 students this year we have 550 students and as you can see thank you for your support it's wonderful as you can see we have to split up our concerts tremendously we had to um move our K through two students to a different concert because they were the poor things that were falling asleep here it was
003too long too many students and now with more students it was completely impossible so every single School catr H School including the uh Webster school is going to have a concert during school next week for kindergarten first and second grade and if you have uh students there you will be attending those concerts so there will be five more concerts next week this concert is grade three grade four and grade five and as we do in all the concerts the older grade always helps the younger grade and then they move along and they move move forward they play their part held by the fifth grade and then the fifth grade will play by themselves at the end we will be playing all together just the little hip hop Pony that we always do at the end
004of each concert uh the please leave these seats open so that we can go back so third grade can go back and sit down after they're finished and watch fourth and fifth blade play and then fourth grade will sit down back down there so they can watch fifth grade by themselves play please leave that alone at the end of the concert what we will do as we do every concert students will leave the auditorium first at the end of the concert no adults please don't stand up and don't don't go out until until all the students all the violin is are out and they're going to go out this door and that door and down the steps and into the auditorium and I would like you audience to please follow them that way don't go
005to the front of the cafeteria sorry they're going to the cafeteria not Auditorium so please follow them after they all leave then you can get up and follow them this way to the back of the cafeteria you can take those steps down and then pick up your kids and move out the front of the cafeteria that way the flow is this way we don't have anybody stuck in the front of the cafeteria please don't go to the front of the cafeteria and go back the flow is only out of the cafeteria so so recap at the end all violin students are going to go this way and then after they left leave all adults can follow them this way as well thank thank you very much I hope you enjoyed this concert we have been
006working we are so glad we can do it a little earlier so that MCAS doesn't stand in our way and we are going to have a tremendous time this is going to be fun you guys are doing great I'm very proud of you Mrs pska is very proud of you miss delin is proud of you thank you Miss Amo and um we have 2 minutes let me stall two more minutes or maybe not uh I can I get a video thumbs up can I start now okay so we will start now [Applause] quiet concert eate please okay I will start with the tracks [Music] 10 times more please [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] 3 3 [Music] a [Applause] m very instrument very proud of you guys easy [Music] okay hey [Music] hey [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]
007[Applause] now we going to start our journey as you you have your pram you can theam we start our journey acoss a lot of cultures next Cur be C that's not proper coner gr please [Music] right [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I would like to ask students to please continue to have proper concert etiquette which means the way we behave on a concert it's quiet after every time we play it's not time to talk it's time to listen for the next one and the next one brings us to Jamaica Jamaica for Jamaican afternoon [Music] hey [Music] hey [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hey [Music] [Applause] our next piece is going to bring us to Haiti with Haitian laa ready 1 2 3y
008[Music] okay [Music] hey hey be3 [Music] [Applause] [Music] the last piece our third grade section is going to play is going to take us around the whole world it's going travel around the world and after they sit down they're not going to go home yet because the last very last piece in the concert we're going to play all together and they'll play from their seats uh so uh please enjoy traveling around the world fast version [Music] keep [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] la [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Applause] thank you very much for your patience we do have to do a lot of movement we have to so many students and it's a good problem to have we believe and we thank you so so much for supporting
009all this I know it takes a lot of work remembering to bring the violins having a violin making sure nothing happens to the violin making sure the younger one doesn't get a hold of the violin I know how it is so thank you so much for your support parents hey students let's give a hooray to your parents thanking them for all they do for you hooray yes thank you parents thank you for all you do we really are thankful all right and and now before before we start our fourth grade section I would like for everybody you know sometimes when it's your birthday it's hard to do events like this because you want to celebrate your birthday but sometimes you are so dedicated and you just come and do it even though it's your birthday
010and that is Melanie raise your hand Melanie we would like to sing We would like to sing Happy Birthday for Melanie ready let's sing happy birthday for Melanie just a second do it with [Music] me go [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right and now we are going to go and wake up in in the morning imagine we're in the morning and this is morning sunshine take it whenever you're ready Miss Devin [Music] now please [Music] [Applause] la w [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the next piece is going to bring us to a bay in Vietnam called howong Bay [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we just love Jamaica so we are going back to Jamaica with reged dream [Applause] [Music] la [Music] la [Music] a [Music] [Applause]
011now we are going back we are coming back to right here it's a piece written by your truly many years ago and arranged by Mrs BSA um so the Sounds in the background that you hear are all made by Mrs bka and the melody was composed by me and I was thinking of a little duckling walking around with its family and it's being really funny so it's called funny duckling so let's play funny duckling guys [Music] [Applause] la [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] a [Applause] [Music] [Applause] now we are going to have our big girls and boys play these are the oldest ones after today they're moving on to the middle school concert next year they will be playing with the high school orchestra next year I hope and that is going to be
012one tremendously big high school orchestra that is going to be helped by you you're going to be playing in the same concert not all the same pieces but a lot of the same pieces and guess what all the pieces that we are playing next year for the for the high school concert for for the 6 through 12 concert is all Disney Tunes so that will be fun right and they are all full Orchestra Tunes there is going to be no more tracks no more music in the background it's going to be all you and now we are going to take a trip to Country Town where we are going to have play country Fiddler and some of our students are playing violin one and some of our students are playing violin 2 so you will
013see two Violin Parts being played at the same time time [Music] oh [Music] come [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] w now is time for us to play some jazz for you we are going to be playing some jazz this one is fun and it's also two Violin Parts violin one and violin 2 they're a little different so you'll see different students playing different parts sometimes [Music] oh oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] la [Music] he [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we again come back to here uh ladybug uh I wrote this thinking about some really really really sweet melody that the fifth graders can play that will melt your heart and we called it ladybug because that's super sweet unless it gets caught behind your shirt and
014it bites you it has happened to me um then it's not but ladybug is really sweet and Mrs bka also wrote this accompaniment she arranged it and it made it 10 times sweeter so hello so be careful you might melt [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] happy [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and now we're going to take a short airplane trip to Puerto Rico to listen to some regon [Applause] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] a [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] w [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] w before we play our obligatory hipop uh I would like to thank Miss delin and Mrs Bosa for being uh for working so hard with your students with our students you've been doing so
015great thank you Miss Amigo for your help and I also would like to thank Mrs karik for the first time couldn't be here today in first time in 25 years but she started the dream program with me along with and so thank her so much for uh doing all that Mrs kartic does so uh and now we are going to play our hip hopy so in your seats right where you are third grade and fourth grade stand up and don't move from your seat just stand there and play The Hip Hop Pony along with us all right are you ready guys okay play position everybody [Music] [Applause] [Music] go [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I'll I'll St where [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause]
016we are all [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] w you