001And then you can lift it. How do you feel? Real. Am I right? Fore! Foreign! Foreign! Christmas. Just tell Did you see? Who are you? We didn't That is what we Come on now. Did you do that by yourself? Are you Good evening. Welcome to the Kandago Academy. If the fire alarm should sound, please proceed to the nearest exit located at the left and right front and rear of the theater. Please take a moment to power down electronic devices as they are distracting performers and other members of tonight's audience. Thank you for familiarizing yourself with the concert etiquette information located on the back cover of your program. Enjoy the performance. >> [applause] [applause] >> Heat. Heat. [music] [music] Wonderful. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. Wow. [music] Heat. Hallelujah. [music]
002>> [applause] [applause] >> How about another round for this hand? [applause] Well, uh, good evening everyone. uh parents, families, guardians, and welcome to our fall band concert. Uh tonight, you'll be hearing from both of our uh bands, Symphonic Band, which you just heard, the first piece, and uh following by Win Ensemble. My name is Matthew Man. I'm the director of this ensemble, and uh this group that behind behind me uh is a ensemble comprised of students from 9th to 12th grade. We meet every single day and these students have been working extremely hard uh since September which feels like a billion years away already. Um so that first piece you heard was uh actually probably most modern piece on our program. It was I believe written in 2016 and won a prize, a Canadian prize
003in 2017. And that was written by Kate Mishimura. Um, and you heard from I forgot to mention Jordan Mirror on trumpet. Give him a round of applause. [applause] Um, just a note from the composer on that piece which I don't think I've read to all of you. Chasing sunlight was inspired by experience of driving west into the setting sun as of trying to keep up with the Earth's rotation to catch the last few rays of light before dusk. Just as the sun will always set, humans must accept the impermanence of all things in life and make the most of every opportunity for has passed. Chasing sunlight also represents the ongoing pursuit of these opportunities. Um, so we're going to move on to a piece in a different kind of vein. Uh, we're going to continue
004with a piece entitled Sand Castles by James Kernel, who is pretty well known for and a prolific composer for this age group and symphonic band setting. Um, and this is a suite for band that has three movements. And we'll be performing two of those movements for you. Uh, the first of which is Castle of England, which is supposed to reflect a medieval castle that has that may that might have been built during the 12th and 13th centuries. And the second movement is entitled Castle of France, which strives to depict one of the many French castles um, which were extremely extremely beautiful, ornate, and built during the 16th century. Since this movement, excuse me, since this is a multi-movement work, we ask that you hold your applause until the end of the second movement. So we
005hope you enjoy team kernel sand castles. Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Lord. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. Are you [music] [music] happy? [bell] [music] >> [music] >> Wonder. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Congratulations. [music] [music] [applause] All right. And we've already reached the end of our program. So, um, just a few thank yous for a few people. Um, number one, thank you to our Triumph ushers who have volunteered their time tonight to greet you at the door, hand out programs. That is something that we have started new. I'm the adviser of Triumph. So, you will see ushers at all the district concerts this year, which is something that I think is really cool that we're doing here at Canonde. Um, another thank you to Josh Sena and
006Andy Herbot and the production crew. Without them, none of this would be possible. So, let's give them a big round of applause. [applause] In addition, thank you to Academy teachers, administrators, and the other music staff. Once again, also without them, none would be possible. We we pull a lot of these folks out for lessons throughout the day, and we appreciate teachers understanding and valuing the arts and as well as administrators. So thanks to all of them and parents and guardians for your continued support of the arts. Obviously without you we would not have these wonderful children on stage stage. So how about students give your parents and guardians a round of applause. And you can give yourself a round of applause as well. That's okay. [applause] And finally, last but not least, um thank you
007to all of these wonderful students because they have just worked tremendously hard throughout the year. And I I just really can't I'm I'm so excited because it's my favorite thing to teach this group because we just see a huge huge growth from the start of the year to the end. So um this will be a completely different group by the next concert. Um so I'm super excited to continue working with them. So let's give them one more round of applause. >> [applause] >> So our our uh final piece on our program is a fun short one entitled Conundrum u by Robert Sheldon, another well-known band composer uh writes a lot for this age group as well. Um after we conclude our segment of the program, we'll have a quick stage change for wind ensemble to
008take the stage and we we'll ask that all families and students stay because those folks have worked just as hard and they have a wonderful program prepared for you tonight. So um we we just ask that that all of you stay if you can. Um so once again uh thank you once again for coming and we're going to end our portion of the program with conundrum. Hope you enjoy. Heat. Heat. >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] Come on. Come on. [music] [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] [music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [applause] [applause] >> Thank you. >> [applause] >> Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat.
009>> [music] >> Heat. Heat. [applause] >> [applause] [applause] >> Well, good evening everyone. Thank you so much for being here tonight for our fall concert. This is the first time that our wind ensemble here has had a chance to have a formal performance all school year. So, 10 weeks in, we are chopping at the bit. Um, that first piece of music that we just performed called American Overture is a real warhorse for band, I would say. And as whoever was so exclaimed so delicately at the end, wow, there's a lot of music in that last piece. I'm so proud of the progress that these students have made um learning that piece and also just expanding everything that they can do technically on their instruments. Um I knew we wanted to play that last year um
010when I knew that we had um four incredible French horn players in this band and for uh all the horn players out there, this is one that everybody knows. So um bravo to them and to everybody on stage. The next piece of music we're going to play is called the ring master. Um dramatically different than the first piece we performed last Friday. We really had the good fortune of being part of a Veterans Day ceremony at Canenea Elementary School. And at that ceremony, we recognized about 45 community members who served in some capacity and we performed about six or seven pieces of music that we're not originally planning to perform tonight at all. I gave them the choice if you wanted to vote on one of those pieces to perform and just throw it onto
011this concert tonight. Um, what would you like to do? And this was the one that they chose. So this is sort of an oldfashioned sounding circus march called the ring master. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] >> [applause] >> Well, one of my goals here with this group up on stage is not just to challenge them with technically demanding pieces of music, but also to challenge them with some music that perhaps might be intellectually demanding. And this next piece of music is is really just that. Um this is a sad song and this is a piece of music that was written in response to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. And in that very challenging time for artists um who so often do um Richard
012Lee he he went for whatever he could to help sort of cope and maybe paint his feelings and and a portrait of the time um in that in that time space and moment. And what you'll hear in piece of music is you're going to hear really violent mood shifts and you'll hear some music that is incredibly beautiful and introspective, you know, chased by very very emotive sections which have almost a drive to them at times, but even when it's slow and intensity that really sort of burns burns on the inside. So, um this is in honor of JFK and this is Elegy for a young American. >> [music] [music] >> Heat up >> [music] [music] >> here. >> [music] >> Mother >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music]
013Heat. [music] Heat. [music] [music] Heat. [music] [music] Heat. >> [music] [music] [applause] >> before we perform our last piece of music. Um, just wanted to put a little bit of a plug in for the next performance that these guys are going to have for themselves. And believe it or not, that starts for them bright and early tomorrow morning at 7:30. Um the um guest conductor for the Rochester Philarmonic Orchestra will be working with these guys back in the band room tomorrow morning at 7:30 bright and early um as we prepare to play side by side with the RPO winds and percussion on the um December 4th, the Thursday, December 4th performance that Rotary sponsors each and every year. If you're someone who has seen the RPO before up at Rochester, you know what an amazing
014experiences it is up there. And if you're someone who has never seen the RPO before or perhaps uh would like to go see them again, know that you could see them here on this stage in those chairs for only $20, which is dramatically more affordable than um making your way up to Rochester. It's always an amazing performance and this house pretty much sells out every single year. Um want to really thank Canada Rotary for everything that they do for our community and certainly for our music department. That night is a special one for sure. Um these guys are playing one piece of music with with the RPO winds and um I won't give it away but it's it's really it's another waror and it's very very very exciting one. We are going to close this
015part of our performance tonight. Well the last the last piece on this performance tonight with a march by John Philips Soua. John Philips Susa was the most he was the quintessential march master of the wind band medium. Um he is the reason why they named it the month March I think. So that's why anybody March Madness. Um I joke the kids tonight feels like March Madness. We have two marches in the concert which is a little bit weird. At any rate so um this is John Philips Susa the Blackhorse troop almost 100 years old this one. So please enjoy a little slice of uh nostalgia. Appreciate you guys being such an attentive audience tonight and all the support that you give these folks out on stage here. They certainly work hard every single morning and
016I'm really proud of the progress that they made. So we'll see you all soon. Here's the Black Horse Troop. Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [applause] >> [applause] [applause]