001Sorry. What's that? Hallelujah. Welcome. Are you getting Thank you. All right. sweating. Okay. Good evening and welcome to the Kennedy Road auction. If the fire alarm should sound, please proceed to the nearest exit located at the left and right front and rear of the auditorium. Please turn off all audio tones on cell phones and all other electronic devices. Thank you and enjoy the performance. >> [clears throat] [applause] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. >> [applause] >> Good evening. Thank you for being here. This is the sixth grade orchestra. That piece was classical soul. It's got some hints of Vivaldi in it and some other composers. And we're going to go to another piece by Vivaldi. Uh a piece originally composed for two trumpets. Allegro for conerto for for two trumpets. Hallelujah. [music] Heat. >>
002[music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] [music] Heat. Heat. la. Hallelujah. >> [applause] >> Uh, as is often the case at these concerts, we're going to play a fun little fiddle tune next called Hey Fiddle, Fiddle. But and I wanted to mention one other thing before we finish our concert. You may notice, and you won't notice it with the other two groups, that our students up here are wearing these fabulous uh red, white, and blue uh medals on their on their bodies. They won the music lessons awareness month competition for attendance at lessons which has been hugely helpful for them and especially for me getting familiar with the music and getting to know them. So we should give them a round of applause for having the test [applause] fiddle. >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. Father. Jesusal. Heat.
003Heat. >> [music] [applause] >> So, our last piece for today with this group is a really cool tune called Mixelinian Rock. Um, Of course, I knew exactly what that meant, but I realized, I don't know, a couple rehearsals in that these students didn't know what mixelyian is. And probably a lot of you don't know what mixelyian is. So, I'm going to explain it real quickly. In music, when we play scales or we play in different keys, we have things called modes. So, mixelyian is one of those modes. If you imagine a piano, mixelyian is starting on a G on a piano and playing every white key up to the next G. That's a mixelyian mode. When we play a major scale like many of our songs are in that's starting on C and playing up
004to C do okay. Uh and then when we play some minor songs which we will be playing as well uh that's starting on va or it's starting on a and playing all the white keys from the from a up to a and that's called the aolon mode. And of course uh I didn't mention our major mode is called the Ionian mode. So this is a little music theory lesson and so we practiced a lot with the mixelyian mode and basically what it is it's our normal D major scale but we took out the C sharp and made it a C natural. Makes it sound a little bit cool. So mixelyian rock >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. >> [music] [applause] >> Thank you. Heat. Heat. >> [applause] >> This
005is another another one of those pieces uh that I talked about that's a binary key. This is called Cyclone. and captain. Heat. Heat. >> [applause] >> Our [applause] next piece is called The Charming Snake. I'm sure you'll recognize the tune. It has a lot of lyrics to it, but today we are trying to charm a snake. And you will hear actually a little fight between that sort of minor tonality that we've been talking about. Um, versus the sort of brighter, happier, major tonality fighting each other to to charm this snake and and to come to some sort of agreement. What Heat. Heat. Hallelujah. Come here. >> [applause] >> Our next tune is a tune that we kept playing and it never happened. We never had a snow day, but we had a lot of snow,
006which is great. And um The cool thing about this piece is you kind of will hear the different kinds of snow. We talked about uh like a more wild storm and then sort of in the middle you'll hear something a little bit different. Uh so I hope you enjoy. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. Heat. The last one right there. Hallelujah. >> [applause] >> And our last piece is by well the original piece is by Beethoven from his fifth symphony final movement and this is called finale. Heat. Heat. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, Heat. >> [applause] [applause] >> I'm going to speak a little bit before this one. Um, this was a a really really amazing experience for me. I'm going to let a secret out. I'm a voice teacher uh and a chorus professional.
007So, when I was asked to cover the orchestra in Mrs. Colin's absence. Um, I was I was really really honored. Honestly, this program here in Canondua, I've only lived here four and a half years and it's amazing. Uh, the music program, what these kids do up here, what the teachers are able to do with them. Um, I came from a strong music program background in my high school. And I was saying to uh my mom when I was speaking to her about this the other day that I would put this eighth grade orchestra up against the high school orchestra in my town from when I was a kid and we a very similar sized town graduating almost 300 kids every year uh with a very solid music program. So uh I just want to give
008a round of applause to all these kids before I don't have a chance to. So thank you. [applause] And it really is a testament to the time that um they all put into practicing and that you all put into helping them with their instruments and getting them to rehearsals. Um it was amazing to me the other day and after this I'll be quiet and and we'll play. But uh the other day I was talking to I actually had a couple of conversations with a couple of different students and I said, "Oh, where who you know do you take private lessons?" Because my kids are young. They're coming up and and one of them wants to be a strings player. He's six. He's very dedicated to violin already. Um but uh I was asking around and
009to some of our best players and they said we don't study privately and that's amazing. That is truly amazing. U number one uh their dedication to their instrument and their time practicing. Number two, having Mrs. Collins here uh uh directing them and leading them. And um it's just it's unreal. So I have just been such a pleasure working with these students and I'm so excited to uh finish our concert here and I know we're all excited to have Mrs. Compass back tomorrow. So um thank you very much and our uh our first piece will be Ana Kleina music by Mosar. >> [music] [applause] >> Uh our next our next two pieces are Spanish influenced concistor and danza espanola and um you'll hear the influence very clearly. a lot of syncopated rhythms and we we are
010in some minor keys and it's really exciting music and we put them right next to each other. So, we're going to play them right next to each other. Thank you. >> [music] >> Hallelujah. Heat. Heat. La. >> [bell] [music] [applause] [music] >> Hallelujah. Hallelujah. >> [applause] [applause] >> Heat. Heat. >> [music] [applause] >> Uh, our last piece for tonight is a piece called Power Shift, which as with a lot of these tunes they are learning tunes. So this one helps our uh musicians here work on shifting to different hand positions on their instrument. So uh this is called power shifting You guys are happy. >> [applause] [applause] >> Thank you.