001so ladies and gentlemen welcome to the john h storm auditorium home of the cheshire public schools music department designated by the national association of music merchants foundation as one of the best communities for music education in america since 2004. before we begin the program please note the following fire safety instructions in accordance with state of connecticut general statutes this building is equipped with a functioning fire alarm system as well as a fire sprinkler system there are six separate exits from this auditorium the first exits are to the rear of the room through either of the two doors located on each side of the control booth there are two exit doors to the middle of the room on each side and there is an exit on each side of the stage please take a moment to
002identify the emergency exit closest to you out of safety concerns for our performers and out of respect to other audience members please refrain from taking flash photography during performance in addition please turn off all electronic devices such as cell phones and pagers at this time also if you need to exit the auditorium please do so between musical selections during the applause for those of you with small children please be seated in your exit door in case you need to make a quick departure into the lobby in order to take care of a crime child and out of consideration to all of the student performers who have worked hard preparing for this performance we ask that you stay for the entire concert thank you and enjoy the program [Applause] [Music] three [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause]
003[Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] good evening and welcome everyone thank you so much for joining us this evening we would normally have all of our groups performing we decided to split it so we could have a little more space but we're really pleased to be back performing with all of our members again and with all of you here uh joining us to celebrate uh all of their achievements this stream orchestra so we're so happy to be back and playing um and that was hungary dance hope you enjoyed our opener the next piece rosa madre was composed based on three preludes on a welch hymn for organ originally bottom lanes and this is a string orchestration of it foster an english composer who is a student of bond williams
004orchestrated this piece and it really follows exactly very challenging beautiful inner voices presented by our viola section and then later by the first violence uh just a magnificently written beautiful um variation on this beautiful welsh tent a tune of resonance [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] we have some students actually quite a few students participate in the cmea southern region auditions as well as the new england music festival solo and adjudication festival this fall which is a big project for students to learn an additional piece of music a solo for reaching their scales and then the next step on that will be also if they make it in the region build lines the allstate audition and then we have also some excerpts included in that as well we actually were fortunate to have
00530 students accepted from treasurer high school into the southern region so it's a great big number and quite a few of these students participated i want to take some time to have you recognize them and celebrate that accomplishment let's have everyone stand to audition for and participate in the solo ensemble audition process [Music] and we'll have those remain standing who are accepted into the southern region congratulations we don't know about the new england results i know elena took a seat but she did participate in new england vegetables so we're still waiting on those results um but all of you can be seated so i just want to take that moment to do a plug for our festivals um it's really an important process for our students musical growth to be able to participate in these
006festivals and uh if a student didn't do it this year uh they should maybe consider it next year and we certainly can provide them some support um getting them prepared um so that in fact all those lists are published are announced that solo up now and start practicing and be ready for next call if they'd like to be a part of that process uh we're just going to take a moment and take a little breather and we'll get set up for our next piece um just give us about a minute [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so our next piece is orchestra and it captures a lot of the peace and we know that we'll enjoy that so when the risky quarterback listens to all of the spanish book songs and other pieces that he used to
007compile this um he uh put in a lot of other effects for percussion and wins that we're not going to hear with this but the strings you'll get a good picture of the piece and maybe you'll enjoy that piece some other time in its entirety i know our students have enjoyed listening to parts of it today we do have two soloists and we do have two co-concert masters and two solos will be played by ella cregar and veronica rubinski our two principal labralists hope you enjoyed appreciate [Music] me [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] foreign [Music] here [Music] [Applause] [Music] um [Music] okay [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] soon [Music] [Applause] this next piece needs some introduction maybe a little background information slay ride was written in
008july during heat wave anderson was a resident woodbury was for many years he was ready for the boston pops at his prime this is one of those pieces that he was inspired by that he played and penned it in one day one weekend and become a classic for this time of year so we hope you enjoy our last piece this evening before i before we get to that i want to thank some very important people that um helped us put this all together and provided us with so much support and guidance along the way and i'm going to grab my notes just to make sure i don't forget anyway first uh in the back uh we have mr salamini who's taking care of our live stream and some video and also mister tusillo our assistant
009director so thank you very much for being here and being in the back providing a support and also louis valente who's one of our subs i shouldn't call this up because he's really like an assistant has done really incredible things with our students and we appreciate him being with us on stage today as well also to our administration dr gav mr peltz this is dr reed and mr tararelli of course to mrs sandy lakes our department secretary who put this program together as many as well as many other things to all of our music department faculty k-12 um this would not all be possible without a good foundation for our students and seeing them all the way through to the high school years to our faculty and staff and maintenance personnel to our central office
010administration dr stollen and mrs alana and mr maskiana and also to our board of education for their continued support uh as you may know we received um some large grant funding for the music department this past year and uh many of it was allocated much of it was allocated for new instruments uh district-wide so we're very appreciative of that support so we continue to have opportunities for our students and i think we'll be well on our way to recovering from covet hopefully soon musically and in every other way we're so glad that you're here today to celebrate with us and we hope that you all have a wonderful holiday with your families and that's this will be a fond memory for you and a starting point a launching point for us to come back and
011come back strong and have a great spring semester putting together another terrific program so thank you for joining us we hope you enjoy sleigh ride so [Music] so [Music] oh [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you