001Easy enough. Thought I was cheating. I'll show you. She's probably How are you doing? Hi. What's up? [Music] Happy birthday. [Music] I mean, it wasn't No problem. How many things? I can't believe All right. [Applause] I should 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] Good evening. My name is Sean. I'm the choir director here at Candid Bay Academy. Thank you all so much for joining us tonight on our last uh spring concert of the year as we
002put a a nice end on a great school year and say goodbye to some amazing seniors who are uh singing their last concert with us here tonight. This first group you see in front of us is our tener bass choir. This is a group of students in grades 9 through 12 who rehearse after school one day a week. It's a non- audition group that just kind of get together and have some fun every week. Uh we almost committed a horrible crime this year with this group and almost didn't sing a C shanty and We would have to dispand the tener basically. So we're going to open up for you with the well open. Thank [Applause] you. There was a ship that put to sea. The name of the ship was a Billy. The winds blew
003up and down. Blow me blow. Soon the weather come to bring us sugar and tea and rum. One day when we'll take our two weeks from shore went down on her. A right whale the captain called and swore he'd take that whale to the man to bring us sugar and tea and rum. One day when the tug is done, we'll take our leave and go. Before the boat had hit the water, the whale's tail came up and caught her hands to the side and fall to dive down below. Soon the weather come to bring us sugar and tea and rum. One day when the tongue is done, we'll take our line to the whale's [Music] shea t. The line went slack. They tight once more. All boats were lost. There were only four, but still
004that whale did go. Soon may the weather come to bring us sugar and tea and rum. One day when the target is done, we'll take our leave and go. As far as I've [Music] still crew and all the weathermen come to bring us sugar and tea and [Applause] rum sugar and tea and one day when the tong is done and [Music] Oh, thank you very much. We have one more for you tonight. Uh, and before we go, um, this is a really special group of folks right here. Okay, this is um the fullest in numbers and the fullest in spirit of race choir we've had here since we started about four or five years ago. Um and um you see an awful lot of red carnations up there and that's because we have a lot
005of awesome seniors leading us this year. Um and we're going to talk about them a little bit more during this course. So we're not going to blavorver the point. But thank you all so much for such a such fun year of spirited Thursdays. Um, spirits. Spirited is a really interesting word too because it positive or negative, but mostly positive. So, super excited about that. Um, and they've certainly made their mark on CA and CA choirs. Um, and their last song is about making their mark on the world. So, thank you very much. This is Make Them Hear You for Mag. [Music] Go out and [Music] tell them you make can hear [Music] you. Make them hear you. Make [Music] them blame us for the way we chose to fight. that sometimes there are battles which
006are more than black or white. And I could not put down my sword when justice was my right. Make them hear you. Make them hear you. Go out and tell our story to your daughters and your sons. Make them hear you. Make them hear you. and tell them in our struggle we were not the only ones. Make them hear you. Make them hear you. Your sword can be a sermon or the power of the plan. Teach every child to raise his voice and then my [Music] brother. Will justice be demanded by 10 million righteous men? Make them hear you. When they hear you, I'll be near you. [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Thank you. [Music] Hallelujah. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Get [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause]
007Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Good evening and welcome to our final concert of the spring concert. This is a symphonic band. My name is Matt Man and I have the real pleasure of just working with these folks. That first piece that you heard was entitled the first suite in Eflat. We just did one movement from that collection of three pieces. It was the Shicone and that and you probably heard the same melody that was echoed throughout and it varied 16 times throughout. Um and I told these folks when we started working on this, this is like the real deal for band music. This is what kind of got a lot of this modern um contemporary wind ensemble literature off road. It was originally written for military band and composed in 1909 and premiered
008in 1920 by Gustav Post. So um that was a it was really fun to work with with them on this and yeah this is one of my I told them it was one of my favorite pieces ever to play. So I was so fortunate to be able to work with this group on that piece. Um the next piece we're going to move along with is entitled Our Castro by Julie Jaru. And this piece is kind of uh first of all, it's it's pretty fresh. I believe it was written in 2021. And um I I typically don't read straight from the program notes. However, I'm going to do this and I did this for these folks started working on it as well. Um this piece So um this piece I'll just write read what the composer
009uh wrote here. 6 and a half million companion animals enter animal shelters every year and 2.4 million of these adoptable animals are put down. These numbers do not include the thousands who suffer in silence. Thanks to thousands of caring people, these numbers are steadily decreasing, but we still have a long way to go. This work is dedicated to all those who work hard in the fight to end puppy mills, to rescue suffering pets, and to provide care and medical attention to all those rescued. It is dedicated to those companions who get rescued and for those whose rescue never comes. We are all shepherds. Every living creature is in our care. Hopefully, mankind will someday uphold its responsibility and become caretaker of all living things on earth. Maybe someday all humans will be humane and mankind
010will be kind. So uh this is this piece is written um kind of in honor for those who as it says on top for those who rescue those who get rescued and especially for those whose rescue never comes. So we hope you enjoy Julie Dar's cast. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Um, that was a real That's really special. That's I think that's the best that they've ever played that. So, one one more round of applause. Just a reminder, there are two more groups after this. So, we really hope you can stay until the end. Both groups that are up next are really phenomenal. And just hearing Wind this morning, they are a fantastic group. So, I encourage all of my Symphonic band
011friends here to stay until the very end of the concert. Um, before we finish with the final piece of our portion of our program, um, I'd like to take a moment to recognize the one senior in our group, Landon Alice. Landon has been an important part of this group playing first trumpet and contributing both musically and personally throughout the year. He's shown consistency, strong work ethic, and has been a great leader amongst his section. It's been a pleasure working with Landon during my first year here in CA and I've enjoyed getting to know him and watching him take ownership of his role in the ensemble. Uh, next year Landon has prospects to join the Navy and we wish him nothing but the best as he moves forward. Please join me in recognizing Landon Al. Great.
012And uh now for uh to kind of turn the knob all the way up to 10, we're going to conclude our portion of the program with uh some soundtrack highlights from King Kong. Um this piece has been I think I think their favorite to work on. You'll find out why like five minutes here. But uh yeah, it's just kind of awesome all the way through. I'll let I'll let the music speak for itself. But once again, thank you for coming out tonight and hope you stay until the end. And this is Santa Claus Glory. Hallelujah. [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] So heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hallelujah. Hallelujah. [Applause] Hallelujah. [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Go Uh goat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music]
013[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Thank you very much. Uh this is the mixed chorus. This is students in grades 9 through 12 singing alto tener bass. We rehearse every day during the school day. Our first piece is called. It is uh about clapping our hands in rhythm and singing with joy and love. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Small [Music] [Applause] [Music] until I'll be a day [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] until the glorious come to Not all [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Count instrumental [Music] instrumental harmonia. to us and to us [Music] for us [Applause] [Music] Hallelujah. [Applause] [Music] Father [Music] [Applause] Oh, heat. Thank you. Thank you. So, um, being in a music ensemble is this incredible exercise in human anatomy and physics. Um, and our job is to get a song that are just pulses
014in a composer or songwriter's brain, synapses firing into vibrations in your eardrums. And we are the in between that makes that happen. And usually first we get to read between the lines of a piece of paper to weasel our way into the composer's brain and then figure out how to get that out of our mouths and into your ears. Uh, and very rarely we get the really nice benefit of actually getting to work with the composer of a piece of music. Um, and kind of skip some of that middle step so we can actually hear it directly from their mouths. Um, and don't need to guess as much and reading between the lines. Uh, and very rarely we have the gift of that composer also being a student and classmate. Uh, and we had uh,
015such a gift this year. Um, this was a tremendous experience for all of us in the ensemble getting to work with one of their friends. um for this student and for me getting to um explore music with students through a completely different way. I'm really excited to invite down uh Aaron Miller to conduct a piece that he wrote a couple months ago uh to be performed here tonight. Um so please welcome [Applause] Will come there will come [Music] soft and the smell of the [Music] ground in [Music] trees in [Music] treasures on a [Music] and not one will know of the not one will care That's [Applause] [Music] when neither bird norish. If mankind [Music] perish when she woke at dawn would scar know that we [Music] God, God, come. [Music] [Applause] Woo! Heat. Heat.
016Thank you. What an appropriate time to recognize some seniors. Um we have pretty really special senior classes here. Um and before we acknowledge invite all of them down, we're going to highlight uh a few uh seniors who will be the um recipients of some some special awards. some uh national awards, but also local awards for for music. Uh there was a senior awards ceremony coming up. There's going to be a local school ceremony, but for music awards, we like to do them at our home games, so we say um at our senior night. So, um first, the Marshall Simson Award is given in honor of Marshall's achievement and leadership as a member of the Academy Chamber Choir and Conference All State Chorus. Tonight, this award is given to two students who have also earned the
017prestigious honor participating in all state course and have led our program with their outstanding performance abilities. Congratulations to Karen Mscato and Maya function. This year we are proud to give a scholarship in memory of Brian Story, a longtime candidate for music teacher who sadly passed away this spring. He is most remembered for his sharp sense of humor and encouraging students to set high standards for themselves. The recipient of this award has spread spread countless smiles over their time here. Their width and animated performances and shows an eagerness to reach musical highs. We are pleased to give the Brian Story award to future music teacher Karen Camp. [Applause] The National School Coral Award is given to a student who embodies the performance ability, work ethic, and ambitions of an ideal chorus member. The student consistently sets
018a high bar for themselves and humbly leads others to do the same. We are so grateful for everything you have brought to our program these four years. The 2025 National School Coral Award goes to Aaron [Applause] Mill. Now, I'm going to make lots of room as we invite down all of our seniors. Um, we are going to a good CA1 clap for each one and then break into rockus rowdy applause once they have all reached the bottom. Um they're going to come join me over here at formal line in front of the group. Um, congratulations seniors Kate Magley, Parker Bowman, Coberg, Wilbur, Taran Campbell, Keegan Con, Jared Crystal, Kayn Augustine, Taylor Duchamp, Maya Fontus, Colton Lamb, Jude Loftton, Sarah Luna, Asharis, Aaron Miller, Jamie Lucy, Cara So, Olivier, Julius, Thomas, Sterling, Hollyfield, and Shannis very
019soon and nice things with them. Um, this class from day one as freshman came in with uh big spirits and big eyes and big smiles, ready to just jump right in and take a big part in our program and have done so all the way through. Um, coming right out of COVID and all the way to where we are now and off to do big things uh in music both as a career uh in some cases and just as like a really solid hobby. Um, and we are so excited to hear what comes from the next. So everybody, thank you so so [Applause] [Music] much. Now, if you heard the first piece and thought, "Wow, that sounds more like a closer." You're right, because that was the original intent. Uh and then once we started
020working on um this closer uh the seniors thought it would be much more appropriate to end with this one. Um and because this is the way that they wanted to leave CA not uh about being not sad and wanting what they're losing but um proud of where they've come from but really hopeful for the future and what they what they know they're going to achieve. Um so thank you for joining us today. We're going to close with uh go the distance. [Music] I have all of [Music] a great warm. Warm welcomed when they see my face keep [Music] me I'll be there someday. If I can be worth my while when I go the distance I'll be right where I belong. Where I [Music] belong to my faith [Music] journey would be worth the It
021might take I will find my way. I'll be there [Music] someday. I know every mile will be worth my while. When I go the distance, I'll be right where [Music] I strength is measured by his heart. His heart [Music] I'll beat the odds and I can go the distance for the world and I'll be fearless and strong. I can go the distance. I will find my hero right there where I belong. I did right where I belong. [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hallelujah. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Well, good evening everybody. Thank you so much for sticking around for the late set. All right. Um, that first piece of music was a small portion of George Gershwin's American in Paris. He wrote that music in 1928 and it
022was said in a number of different ways. The original version, which was actually just performed by the RBO, was about 26 minutes long if you like the sounds of it. Um, there was also a movie that was made as well, something that we had a chance to watch. It was set in Paris um right after World War II and we had a chance um as a class learn a little bit about the jubilance of life during that post-war time and just maybe some of the energy that was in the performing arts um in that era. Some of the sounds you just heard on stage were intended to represent perhaps the hustlebustle of a Parisian street. You might have heard our um sort of solo taxi horn in the back from our percussion section and that
023was designed to sound like um not my daughter's bicycle, but it was designed to sound. It's okay. That was sort of supposed to be a joke. um it was supposed to sound like um a taxi horn right off the streets of of Paris. So Gershwin was really known for infusing jazz music with classical music and he wrote so much stuff that every single person in this room knows. So okay, we're going to move on to our our second piece of music and this one does require a little bit of explanation for your possible enjoyment. Um David Beenbender and some of you might have heard a little bit about this next piece at home perhaps. Um but David Bebender he he is the composer of this piece. piece. It was written in 2009, so this might
024be the youngest piece of music besides Aaron Miller's incredible coral composition. Um, it might be the youngest piece of music on our performance tonight as a whole. But so Bender did this. He took a hymn from the 17th century and he did his best to sort of reimagine it and fragment it up into as many sort of I'll use the word shards as possible. You're going to hear little tiny little glimmers of of a hymn. And the original hymn uh was known uh let's see it was reset by by JS Bach which we all know but today the work is known as break forth O beauties heavenly light break forth O beautious heavenly light isn't and as we're celebrating seniors tonight I thought earlier today what a nice homage to them break forth beautious heavenly
025light so he took beaten bender took a bunch of these very pastoral sounding um hymn fragments and he really really messed with it in a contemporary setting it's important to me as a music teacher that all of these students are exposed to contemporary music which stretches their imagination a little bit and when they first heard it they all look like that was the first time they tried some vegetable that they had never eaten before because they were like this we don't like it but they have worked so hard on all of this music tonight and I think I don't know if they'll admit it but I think they like it or I think most of them like it at this point but um it's in three sections if you want to listen for something and
026like a lot of pieces that are in three sections we have fast slow and fast and what I want you to listen for is this. Um, in the slow section, he does an incredible job of featuring individuals, and you'll hear some of the most beautiful playing this evening, individual solo lines, but then it starts to grind away harmonically, and the clarinets add all this crazy tension, and then we explode back into sort of a u the origin story of this piece right back from the very beginning. This features our percussionists in a very, very big way. Um, and certainly hope you enjoy Luminescence by David Beman. Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I [Laughter] feel I [Music] Oh, hey. [Music] Heat. [Applause] Heat. Heat. Heat.
027[Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] Somebody's going to go home and whistle. I'm sure the last concert of our school year with the Academy Wind Ensemble is is always pretty bittersweet. Um, this has been an unbelievably hardworking group. this school year and we are going to take a couple minutes tonight to recognize those seniors. Um I also want to say a couple of thank yous in the program. There were a couple of uh just acknowledgements to some of the volunteers who've helped throughout the school year. From the bottom of my heart, I just want to thank you. We can't always do everything we want to do for students without some of your help. So, thank you so much to those volunteers out
028there who made really great things happen for us all. and perhaps working for a hot meal on stage this evening. Um, something in the percussion section doesn't look like everybody else. And over here, I think that was his way of knowing that I didn't have any money to pay. Um, this is Anthony Calibri who's back there subbing in the percussion section tonight. One of our incredible percussionist, Ben Roller, has a concert at Eastman tonight and it was like we knew this was a problem, but this is actually the Ben's teacher. So, Anthony, thank you so much for subbing in back there. [Music] If you recognize Anthony, it's because he's been here many times before, actually playing with the RPO, and they come here for their holiday concert in December. So, always nice to have an
029amazing musician like him around. So, we're going to take a moment and recognize some senior award winners. And each year I have the good pleasure of not knocking that off. Stay. Yes. Okay. I have the good pleasure and fortune of recognizing a couple individuals on stage um with national and local awards each of which are very very special awards. Um and I'm going to start with the national ones. Um so the Louisie Armstrong Award is being presented to a student who has been a multi-instrumentalist in our program for the last four years and plans on majoring in music next year at Sunni Fredonia. Of all the students I've taught over the years, I think this student loves listening to music more than anybody I can ever think of. And somehow this student got my cell
030phone number a couple years ago. And on any given Sunday, it lights up with 17 different Apple Music requests, which I typally typically ignore. But truth be told, yesterday I just out of the goodness of my heart, I sent one back. But hey, I want to recognize in this moment, Ella Pelino, and congratulations on being awarded the Louis Armstrong J. [Applause] And at high schools across our country, we recognize an outstanding uh individual soloist or band member with the John Philips Susa Award. John Phillips Susa is one of uh the most famous American band masters. But this award is being presented to a student who has excelled on their instrument and truly has served as a musical leader in this year's Academy Wind Ensemble. They have been a member of all county and area all
031state ensembles, studied privately for many years, and performed courageous solos many times over their time at CA. Please join me in recognizing our very own first flute and piccolo player, Ellie Martin. [Music] We have a couple awards that are very special just to Canida. And the next one is the Ray Russell Award and in your awards program if you happen to grab one of those on the weigh in gives a good detail about a good bit of detail about each of the um awards that we're uh that we're presenting. Um, legendary CA music teacher Ray Russell was known for inspiring students to love music for life. The recipient of this award is a student who has earned chairs in all county and area all state ensembles over their four years at CA. They are someone
032who serves as a con a consistent but quiet leader and has an incredibly kind and caring moral compass. Please join me in recognizing first chair clarinet Brianna Mor. And last but not least, um, for our last award we'll present on stage tonight, I lifted a couple of the adjectives out of the description to help describe the recipient of this year's Bill Boyce Award. and they are as follows. Driven, wants to help, sincere, professional, and passionate. This year's recipient has performed in band and jazz band, many of our school choirs, and right on the stage with our musical as well. Their playing has absolutely set the bar higher for many, many students across our entire department. Please join me in congratulating this year's recipient of the Bill Boys award to Julia Sicilia. Okay, we're going to
033make a lineup up here, folks. We'll just go from that side to this side or something. So, we're going to bring all these guys up and we'll give them a big round of applause once they're all present. Okay. Let's see here. We have 19 seniors in this year's academy win. I know, not the record, but really close. Here we go. Keegan Beer, come on down. Alex Chen, Gabe, you really want the one, don't you? Okay, here we go. We're gonna do a good job. All right. Gabe [Applause] Curry, Kylin Diagustinino, Josh Groovy, John Jack Keenan, Ellie Martin, Rihanna Moore, Moretta Mscato, Tylen Newman, Izzy Piano, Ella Belleino, Benny Run, Jacy Run, Gibson, Gibney Schwarz, Julia Siciliano, Henry Smith, Teal, and Kaden West. It never sinks in until I stand here and look at it all.
034Okay. Wow. Okay. 19 incredible human beings. So, I have to say this. This has been one of the hardest working groups in the classroom, I think, in my 20 or so years at CA. And I really do mean it. I'm not joking about that when I say that. I didn't say that every year, okay? But I do. when we uh finally show up and when we are there, we work really we work really really hard together and I think that tonight is a beautiful result of that. But um I want to just say to these guys, you know, I stand at the door every morning and I greet as many of them as possible um that are there before the bell rings. And um we I I I lock eyes with each one of them
035and greet them by name. And the thing that I can say is this. Their 7:30 pm eyes are a lot more inviting than their 7:30 a.m. eyes. It's hard to be awake when you're that age. Yeah. But I just have like one little thing I want to say. I think I have a pretty unique job in my life. When I go places and I meet people and I tell them what I do, I would say 50% of the time I get this response. I wish I never stopped playing my instrument. And I sit there and I go, you could play it again. You don't have to feel that way forever. Like, isn't that terrible that I evoke that guilt in people? Like, I don't like that. But I bring this up tonight. Number one, first
036of all, bravo. We have 19 students from our graduating class who are up here on stage who took it all the way to 12th grade and then playing here tonight. And I believe we're making a difference by playing their instruments. So, first of all, let's applaud that. I think that music connects all of us on this planet and it transcends so many different barriers and borders and it has the opportunity to make many of us more compassionate, a little bit more understanding of one another and I think aesthetically it will really carry us really far in life no matter what vocation or profession you do. As musicians, I think you have the power to impact a lot of other people with the instruments in your hands tonight, not just these loving people who are gonna
037clap no matter what. Right? Do you believe me? So, listen, I love the fact you didn't stop. I love the fact that I got to share every morning of your senior year with you all. Um, and I love the fact that every single day I told you at the end of class that it was nice to make music with you because I meant it every single day. Please know that. If not next year or the year later or 10 years down the road, I hope everybody at some point digs the instrument out. Okay? Don't look at it four years from now in the closet and go, I'm gonna sell it or I'm going to just don't do it. You can always play it. It's like riding a bike. You know, my stories about community band,
038but average age is like a lot older than me. Yes. Older than me. And they love it. They just love it. It's an amazing thing. So, I encourage so many of you. We have so many graduates out there in the world who are playing their instruments. Always brings such a warmth to my heart. So, thank you so much for making an amazing year, and it's been nice making music with every single one of you. All right, class. We have in this band a Kylin and a Kalin and a Kaden. And I still made a mistake. I'm sorry. Hey, we're going to close with a traditional um circus style march. And this is written in homage to Henry Filillmore, who was one of America's greatest band masters. I invited all the seniors to join me in
039the atrium afterwards. I want to take a little picture. We have beautiful certificates out there and an incredible cooking from Resilience Bakery. Thanks all so much for sticking around all the way to the very end. Here's the CA win ensemble for one more time this year. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Hallelujah. Heat up [Music] here. Heat. [Music] Heat. Woo! Woo! I know. I like it.