CorpusRecord 27785

Dodd Winter Concerts

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Source
YouTube / CPS Video
Date
2021-12-08
Location
Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT
Material
Transcript
Extent
539 words · about 3 min
Collected
2026-06-05

Transcript

Verbatim source text

001we put ice cream with the cake all right well enjoy this beautiful concert [Music] okay is um yes all right um uh foreign yes test [Music] yes all right right um [Music] just okay [Music] what foreign nice hey [Music] oh so yep we're your sister yes okay um ready okay did you have a discussion about that okay first yes hmm yes this is oh yes oh uh good parents yes oh tomorrow thank you already okay [Music] right here um oh [Music] um okay uh there it is oh there it is fish oh good evening everyone i'm mike woods i'm the principal here at don middle school and i just wanted to welcome everyone to our conference this season uh just by federal law i gotta start out with the fire exits we have two fire

002exits in the back one this group will play anywhere from parking lots to gymnasiums so without any further ado i am going to turn this over to this player with our 8th [Applause] okay all right well um i can't really believe this is happening um we're actually together making music and about to share it with a live audience it feels like that was a thousand years ago the last time we did that um so tonight we'll be very excited i have to start off though the evening by thanking our pe department and our athletic department they have let us have their teaching space for a couple days and that's not easy on them um i want to thank the boys basketball team therefore mr baker they set us up with the custodians on friday and

003then also create the funkiness so you've set everything up today there's a lot of work this happens all right our first piece is called likes of destiny by michael swinney i feature some low brass and low wizards as well as our first trumpet center we learned a lot of new notes working on this piece [Applause] [Music] wow [Music] boys [Music] to [Music] um [Music] foreign [Music] so [Music] [Applause] children um so they put this together and obviously seamlessly playing so well together um with just one shot at so should make this even more amazing um so keep that in mind thank you listen um and this last piece next piece about it is gonna be so here [Music] my [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] so [Applause] i hope you're having a quick okay our next

004piece is a little jazzy and fun um these features are low wrestling with this point um and it gives you the solo unattended drums by gage [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] my [Music] so [Music] hello [Music] [Applause] [Music] um of course our board of education dr sola and mrs solano their big supporters [Applause] [Music] both co-teach some classes with me grateful their parents received her tonight [Applause] faculty people supported your child's choice um in that class every once in a while very rarely here not helping us we're very lucky that they are so supportive some of them are probably here tonight on the live stream the amazing office i think with custodial staff they uh really always go that extra mile i love these things that i don't remember i'm supposed to do they're really

005terrific i see all of you because you've kept your children for the future you're aware that it has a positive lasting impact on it and please continue to do that because high school first election is right around the corner next month um our cheshire music staff uh these these people create really special musicians like these are seeing friendly here from our general music factor elementary band directors and i know that mr s this is here tonight and so we have that in the cafeteria our last piece before we uh say goodnight to you is uh to get you to the spirit of the season the skills they began working on last year with articulation were really tested when they started working so here it is okay [Applause] [Music] my [Music] so [Music] [Applause] so [Applause]

006so [Applause] thank you again

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