001oh [Music] uh [Music] so [Music] good evening everyone i'm mike woods i'm the principal here at dinosaur i just want to welcome everyone um it's so great to finally see this crew and then full ensemble um but we really want you to enjoy tonight's show uh just really quick i just got to get the announcement for fire exits we have two fire exits at the rear of the gymnasium and then one fire exit over to your right as well i hope you enjoyed this evening's show if they've been working very hard at this time i'll turn it over to our directors [Applause] our first piece will feature ashley pig emily de souza christina works charlotte kelly sophia ping and ethan reiner will vet roll back for christmas is two treasured lullabies partnered with two beloved
002christmas carols to create one stunning piece it opens with the music box treatment of bran's lullaby a gentle arrangement of hushed by baby leads away to a way in a danger o holy night brings the music to historic climax before fading pieces [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] hmm [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Applause] [Music] you can almost turn them apart in the background as you listen to the sentimentally we hope you enjoy so [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so before i turn over the stage to our next announcer there are a ton of people who i know were things right before the fan concert but need to be thanked again and probably thanks again tomorrow and the next day and for the rest of this
003year um this group of students in front of you right now got to have the privilege to perform last year um out in the parking lot that was what we were allowed to do and we are here this is amazing and the reason that that happened was because of an amazing scene of administration and community support here in cheshire so we have um big thank you for dr solomon and mrs slano kevin hanlon um our board of education here in cheshire and in our own building mr woods and mr paracino they have just bought tooth and nail to make this happen and we are so very grateful to have ensembles back in our schools and of course the help of johnny cooner the department of music so thank you to them and they would not
004function at all without our amazing nurse who has been on top of contact racing and phone calls and our support here in the office um this is linda remillard lori braun kim kagnan i hope i'm saying her name wright and nancy lieber all of this set up today and all of the moving of classrooms over and over and over again um since last year mr rivas and mr cruz thank you to them [Applause] an amazing music staff in this town who refused to accept that we weren't going to play again um and some of them are right here in our own building mrs leclaire our band teacher dr yan and our choral director mr christoulo i think is here tonight he um is the director of jazz studies at the high school and he also
005teaches a lot of grass classes here um as well and along with our amazing staff at the elementary level uh mr sulchesky who i know is watching tonight mrs clego who i think might be here as well and this is mirasola thank you to them [Applause] and i'm going to invite i believe katie to come up and announce them you're going to notice i'm not conducting i am playing because when we uh do a chamber type of an ensemble there isn't always a conductor and they get used to playing a chamber so that's what i'm going to be doing everybody's like feel you might recognize this gentle tune donut nobody's possum which larry clark merged with the beloved cairo's first noel into this exquisite arrangement poche noel the title suggests that we all have peace
006for the holidays tonight our corneira strength orchestra comprised of 7th and 8th graders that meet on fridays before school will perform this peaceful holiday arrangement for you [Music] so [Music] this [Music] now [Music] [Applause] [Music] yoga [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] uh [Music] [Applause] the four seasons is a group of four violin concerts by italian composer antonio vivaldi each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year they were written around 1716 and 1717 and published in 1725 in amsterdam the fourth season is the best known of bibaldi's work they were a revolution and musical conception in them the baldy represented flowing creeks birds a shepherd and a sparking dog buzzing flies storms dancers hunting parties from both the hunters and the praise point of view frozen landscapes and more winter
007fires the concert therefore stands as one of the earliest examples of what would come to be called program music for example music with the narrative element we will perform an arrangement of winter by tim mccare featuring the syllabus christine wartz and ashley petty [Music] foreign [Music] hmm [Applause] so allen lee silva wrote a beautiful shimmering melody for our final piece evening luminescence has an energetic opening estinado that reinforces our new learning from quarter one when we learn sixteenth notes we learned how to differentiate between short and separated or staccato playing versus smooth and collected or legato we all think that this piece encompasses the spirit of american film music and we hope you enjoy [Music] so [Music] um [Music] [Applause] [Music] now [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hey