001good evening everyone welcome to the last of our winter concerts tonight uh for those that were not able to join us for the first two my name is john paraceno i'm the assistant principal here it is my pleasure to welcome you all here to don middle school as i said in the previous two concerts it is not lost on us that it has been a while since we've been able to welcome parents who are exploring an uh missing piece um not to be able to see your time in the classroom or to if it's your first child coming through for you to kind of see and check it out i can't imagine that as a parent so we're just very excited to have you here um and in general tonight is a is a great
002night that i get excited for our winter time it gives us an opportunity to really come together as a community that supports our young musicians and supports our music program and really we get to celebrate the hard work of our young musicians and of our hard-working teachers and that has never been so evident as in the past two years um i i can't begin to tell you the challenges that dr yannon has faced uh and we have faced especially with our choral program and we shuddered to call it a poor program last year dr young and i would say yes but um our students were resilient um and they fought through it and i think you're gonna see that our course program is alive where this program is doing well a few kind of the
003regulations i have to and that's where the fire exits are so to my right we will be able to get out the front of the school and then in the back of the cafeteria here if you have to either exit and you went right or left it wouldn't lead you directly without further ado it is my pleasure to introduce being accompanied tonight with mr seth gerachot in under the direction of dr kenyan our seventh and eighth grade course [Applause] uh if you would be so kind to stand and join us foreign [Music] uh [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] up [Music] this year [Music] baby [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] freddie [Music] uh [Applause] so oh [Music] yes [Music] step out step out of the sun if you take and learn step by step [Music]
004is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] step out step out of the sun because [Music] try is [Music] when you're [Music] do falling ever really crash [Music] oh i ever make a sound [Music] [Applause] [Music] nobody can [Music] can anybody is [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] what so [Music] it was time to go [Music] is [Music] something cautioned [Music] is [Music] sure is [Music] me [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] hey it was time to go [Music] [Applause] all right mr ferris cena was not lying it was so awesome to have music back in this school again like absolutely the best um so our soloists for waving through our window were noah rajberg vanessa anderson jade wood nagombe deanna dixon maggie tabor and michelle pourier and then our last solos that song was matthew buchter um and we're
005going to have a little bit of fun now with a couple of frosties you might have noticed some children are dressed slightly odd but we'll have a little bit of fun maybe you could join us in a if you're so moved by the spirit um and then uh we'll do our last piece which is children but before we do these last two pieces first of all i want to go over our musicians care community service projects thank you for all those people that donated science if you forgot we've got time to send them in um socks are the most needed and least donated to the homeless shelter so it's pretty awesome to be able to bring a box load of clean dress socks yeah we donate everything to san francisco shelter in waterbury our sandwiches
006and cookies event is going to be thursday december 23rd i know that's a half day you really want to get out of here but really if i have like eight kids working that day we'll get an assembly line going we'll have 100 sandwiches made in no time the magic number is one pound of ham one pound of cheese and one loaf of bread will make ten um and cookie tray is baked or store-bought and we'll arrange them into beautiful trees to bring them to the home shelter so kids can donate kids can work donate and work um whatever whatever you prefer uh so before we get started let me just thank my accompanist seth jenner he uh last year we didn't get to see each other but he recorded our piano accompaniments for us so
007we could put together a virtual concert which was okay it wasn't the most fun it's way more fun to sing in person um but uh he's pretty much always there when i need him and he i never have to worry i just said here's the music there he knows that we work well together and i thank you for your friendship and your uh your musicianship um i want to thank our custodians it did so much work for us over the last few days with all those risers and chairs and back and forth over the setup and all that other stuff um and i also want to thank uh i see mike salamini back there i didn't even know he was here and uh mr woods and mr ferris cena mr woods did a live stream
008last night so that's pretty awesome i want to thank my students seventh graders you've not sung and acquired a long time and you took a chance on course and i thank you for that and eighth graders they didn't have a good year last year i mean we made the best of it but you stuck with me and i you start with this program and i appreciate that and i think that uh i think we're going to be in good shape by the end of the year so i want to thank you guys as well parents for encouraging their participation in music and orchestra and chorus and always being there for them to encourage their music education so without further ado let's have a little bit of fun for their last two pieces [Applause] [Music] oh
009[Music] surprised [Music] foreign [Music] hungry [Music] and [Applause] all right thank you [Music] foreign [Music] how shall i send thee how shall i send me [Music] shall i send me [Music] foreign [Music] baby boy [Music] up [Music] baby boy [Music] oh [Music] how shall i send me [Music] okay so [Applause] there you go