001or something never got my mind foreign [Applause] i oh [Music] so good evening all right thank you good evening everyone and it is my pleasure to welcome you all to dodge middle school my name is john paracino and i'm the assistant principal here and it has not lost on me that this is probably the first time a lot of you have come back into the schools in a while and it just feels so great to welcome parents back into our school that has been um an enormous missing piece and uh i i will have to ask you to forgive me for a moment because i would also welcome our people that are joining us and watching online especially my kids asked for a shout out john john jamie lynn and jacob you gotta be listening
002to your grandmother um so forgive me they think now that i'm because i'm on youtube that i'm a celebrity so this is pretty awesome for me but uh all joking aside it's one of my favorite times of year to be able to all come together and really celebrate the hard work of our incredible directors of our music program too and especially the incredible hard work and especially over these last couple years the resiliency of our students i think tonight you can rest assured when the night is over that our music program is alive in our music program as well and that we have some unbelievably talented students and staff here at dodd middle school so before we get started i just um i said well i have to mention our fire exits so if you're
003looking at our pants to there to the left of the van um we can exit out and then both at the back side of the gymnasium if there was an emergency if you see me walking you're good if you see me running you know it's a little bit more emergency but all joking aside really the back of the gym is probably our best bet and calmly safely walk out we should be good i hope you enjoy tonight and without further ado the director of roseanne miss winston [Applause] [Music] [Applause] i think you're in for quite a treat today i know you'll be impressed with your children i do need to start out i think the physical education and athletic departments because we are in their not been able to space regular classes for a couple
004days and they've been very business about it i also want to thank the boys basketball team the coach mr baker our seventh grade percussionist custodians and a bunch of other little classes here have done some work out in this area to set things up um in the last couple days so this doesn't happen with just one or two people yours your kids have done a lot too so our first piece is called lightning by todd skelter it's fast-paced and exciting and our protection section is [Applause] my [Music] so [Music] uh [Music] don't [Music] oh [Applause] hard to believe that they had any interruption to their new mitigation last year uh they have just worked on uh eighth grade same thing last week they put in the last couple months um they never play together they've
005only done that once for one hour on monday there are two halves of the band every other day um and they come together dress rehearsal and they do this they glance at it sound like they've been playing with each other for a very long time so uh keep that in mind as you're listening to this next piece and all the rest of these pieces and realize that they are adolescents and adjusting on the fly and doing things like that is quite a challenge when they make it look easy so here we go with our next song it's called winter holidays it's a memory of joy to the world daredevil jingle bells okay so [Music] foreign [Music] oh [Applause] i'm having a lot of fun i think they are i think you guys have too so
006i'm glad you're here today this has been uh okay our next piece is called top secrets uh it has a subtitle of this piece will self-destruct gives you an idea uh it has some danger [Applause] uh [Music] so [Music] now [Music] quack [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] uh [Applause] well i can't believe this is almost over yeah we have a lot more money for you this spring we share this um [Music] before we play our last piece it's important that i thank people that make this happen um and that would be of course our word [Music] every week he likes his expertise [Applause] he [Applause] um [Music] they tell me what i'm supposed to be asking them for they seem to just know what i need what the band needs [Music] so talk really loudly
007thank you for encouraging the state music it's really important that we have groups like this as big as possible so they have a very special experience so keep them involved we have uh eighth grade course selection coming up in a month or two keep them in the program so that they can continue to grow as a really special unit our cheshire music staff you know they just came up from the elementary school only a couple months ago and we have a pretty fabulous elementary music pro from our general music to our elementary band director mr zolcheski is here tonight supporting the kids as he always says this is marisol we're grateful today we're very lucky in this town i have two wonderful colleagues here dr yana and mrs odell and this is some of the
008dance classes with me and speaking of them their concerts are to come so the orchestra's in here at 7 30 and your children need to clear not everything but a lot of stuff off the stage all of the professional equipment and stands back there and a few more stamps do need to come out tonight before the office comes in here so you could be a little patient for your percussionists um and some of your great citizens here who will probably want to stick around but we've got to get it ready for the orchestra and then the forest is in the cafeteria and at eight o'clock uh as you can tell i'm very proud of these kiddos i have many reasons to be you're hearing that tonight i push and they just keep rising and rising
009again um i'm trying to stay present tonight as i imagine there's spring concert i hope you're thinking of that too it should be a wonderful rest of our year together um our last piece uh was probably their most challenging and yet also their most favorite for many of them this is called celtic air and dance we hope you enjoy [Applause] uh [Music] like [Music] so [Music] this [Music] right [Music] [Applause] so [Applause] thank you for your support um [Applause]