001[clears throat] Well, we're also at church. So notification. You guys really Maybe a little bit. Thank you. Thank you. There's so many [laughter] Good job. >> [clears throat] >> All right. >> [music] [music] >> Good evening, orchestra families. Um, I'm not going to talk very much. I'm going to turn over the microphone to the amazing Miss Gia um who took some time out of her last couple of weeks to write introductions. She wrote all the introductions that the seventh grade is going to be um reading tonight for her classmates to tell you about our pieces. >> Okay. Hello everyone. Thank you for coming today to the Beaver Dam Middle and High School orchestra concert. We are so excited to perform our last seventh grade songs for you all tonight. These songs are amazing, showing creativity
002and passion for the music we play. Playing along with joy and playing with our friends. Our first song, Breakbeat, is composed by Dopatada and has a driving tempo with energizing rhythms, foot stomps, hand claps, and piticotti, making this a thrilling yet highly playable piece. Even with the crazy stomping and clapping part is definitely going to be the highlight of our performance. What I like about this piece is how we all sound together. [applause] >> [applause] [applause] [snorts] >> Oh, thanks. Um, Fanta Seenor Scantores by Nestra Sandov and Nicholas Rapo is a traditional Argentina folk song often featuring a lively rhythm from the Adena region. It is a popular upbeat um piece. I like this piece. What I like about this piece is the switch up. Feels like each string has his own solo and when
003that's happening, it makes me excited. Overall, it's really well put together as well as really flowing. [applause] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] >> Hallelujah. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Hallelujah. [music] Next. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] [applause] >> Star Lake, composed by Matt Turner, was made to capture the beauty of Star Lake in its surrounding area in the Northwoods of Wisconsin. This Americanstyle piece should be performed with a rich, connected, and full sound. A solo section offers performers the opportunity to improvise. You'll be hearing solos created by Ricky, Lacy, Charlie, Nina, Ben, and Olivia. What I like about this piece is it's very high notes. >> [applause] >> Come on. Hello. Heat. [music] Heat. >> [music] [music] >> Hallelujah. Hallelujah. [music] Hallelujah. Oh my god.
004Hallelujah. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [applause] >> Medieval Wars was composed by Brian Bal Mages published in 2007. And this is a popular grade 2 instrument string orchestra piece depicting medieval jousting tournaments. It features a dark opening prelude, a driving tournament section with pulsing lower strings, and a regal ceremony finale. What I like about this piece is the dark and moody tone throughout it and the fast tempo changes which creates a way for everybody to be on their toes. [applause] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Wow. Hello. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] [music] [applause] [cheering] [applause] Heat. >> [applause] >> I wonder if this lake is doing too. I am Okay, the eighth grade orchestra. We're going to begin
005with um Brandenburgg Concerto number five. This is an arrangement that is um been well used. In fact, if you ever see my music, it's like literally crumbling. There's there's corners of it crumbling apart. Um I played this one when I was in middle school. Is always one of my favorites. So, I pulled it out this year uh for these guys. So, one one thing that we worked on a lot in this one is playing and in in cut time, which is not something that we've done a lot of um at their level. Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Thank you. [applause] Little symphony for strings. This piece was originally composed for piano and is a complete symphony in four minutes.
006Something we worked on was the shifting and harmonies throughout the piece. One thing we liked about the symphony is different moods we go through which are demonstrated with different articulations. [applause] >> [music] >> Hallelujah. [music] >> [music] >> Where are you? [music] [music] >> [music] >> You are glory. Do you remember? [music] >> [music] [applause] >> In this piece, Pirates of the Caribbean, we combined multiple songs from the movie into one. We worked on the crescendos, day crescendos, tempo changes, and marcado articulations to make it sound dramatic. We have enjoyed learning how to play these familiar melodies. The eighth grade orchestra will be joining the high school, the high school orchestra at the end of this concert to prepare to be part of the group next year. [applause] Yeah. [music] Heat. [music] Hallelujah. [music] Hallelujah.
007[music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Glory. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Hallelujah. [music] >> [music] [music] [applause] >> Heat. Heat. I love you. I got Get back. >> [music] [music] [snorts] [music] >> Hallelujah. [music] Hallelujah. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] >> too much. >> [applause] [applause] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Christmas. Hallelujah. [music] Generations. >> [applause] [applause] >> Thank you. Our [clears throat] first selection was Serenade for string orchestra in E minor opus 20 by Edward Egore. It was written in March of 1892 as a present to his wife Alice on the occasion of their third wedding anniversary that year. The piece was first performed privately in that year by the Westall ladies orchestra class with the composer conducting its public premiere
008was in 1896 in Antworp, Belgium. The Serenade was the first of Elgar's compositions with which he professed himself happy. He wrote to a friend about the three movements. I like them. We featured Sarah E. Garcia Lugo on violin. Y. [applause] All right. Good evening, everybody. Um, I've been wanting to conduct that piece for a really, really long time. Uh, I've been in orchestra for 10 years, and I would say I've been wanting to conduct that piece for 10 years. So, that was a special treat for me to start tonight's program. Um, hello to all our middle school uh, families. Um, another big round of applause, please, for our wonderful middle school orchestras. [applause] With this being our last concert of the year, it's also the last concert in the high school careers uh of 14
009wonderful seniors here in the high school orchestra. Um, so I've got a number of ways I'm going to recognize them throughout our program. Uh, some acknowledgements and some awards. So, I'm going to kind of break these up in between pieces so I'm not talking for super long stretches. Um, so the the first thing I'd like to do is recognize um two different uh honor uh groups. Um the the first of which um are is a member of our orchestra that participates in the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestra. Um so if you've never heard of Weisso uh before, they are a large group based out of Madison. They have a beautiful new performing facility uh on East Washington. It's just a beautiful building. uh and they just had their spring concert this past Saturday for the Phil
010Harmonia Orchestra. There's a number of different orchestras um but we have uh a member here in the high school orchestra who has participated in that this year and I'd like to recognize him for his participation. A big round of applause for Mr. Drew Norenberg. If you could stand up [cheering and applause] [applause] congratulations, Drew. I also want to shout him out. I don't know if he's here tonight. Um, but also in that same orchestra from our band program, uh, Jacob Mlullen. I don't know if he's here, but big round of applause for Jacob as well. He's in the same group. [applause] Uh, my second uh, honor group of sorts that I want to recognize uh, is for the WSMA State Honors Project. Uh if you've never heard of them before, they are one of uh
011the the they're a nationally recognized um honor group uh in the state of Wisconsin that um is is based mostly in the summer. Um but they have a culminating concert in the fall down at the Overture Center. Uh and this past year we had uh a qualifier for the WSMA State Honors Orchestra for the 2025 orchestra. So uh at this time I would like to recognize Darren Teal for her participation in state honors. >> [applause] [applause] >> Not all with that. I've got one more with the state honors. Um, so Darren was uh fortunate enough to participate in the 2025 orchestra. Uh, qualifying for the 2026 state honors orchestra. Once again, Mr. Drew Nornberg. [applause] >> [applause] >> I'll have a plaque for you next year. Um, let's continue with the music. If we could
012have our next uh introduction, that would be wonderful. Our second selection is a special one. An important piece of the history of the Beaverdam High School Orchestra. Tapestry in time was written in 1994 to celebrate the friendship of Travis Weisenell, a chist in the BDHS orchestra and Kathy Wickland, an oist in the band program. >> Composed by Beaverdam's very own Lisa Weisenell for this very orchestra over three decades ago. Tapestry and time takes us through the journey of life where we begin as infants and young children and through the many peaks and valleys of middle school, high school, and beyond. We're honored to feature Adriana Skolma on cello and delighted to welcome Matthew Seth on obo. This is Tapestry in Time. [applause] >> [music] >> It works. >> Yeah. >> [snorts] >> Hallelujah. [music] Beautiful.
013[music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] [music] Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. [music] Heat. >> [applause] [applause] >> I believe we have a composer in the house. Lisa Weisenell, are you here? Your composition. >> I don't know if she's here. Lisa Weisenell, everybody. [cheering] [applause] We had the fortune of having Lisa uh in for a rehearsal one day to tell us about her piece and work on it with us a little bit. And anytime you get to work with a composer on their their own music, there's there's no better educational experience musically than that. Um and we all love Lisa around here. So that was a
014real treat for us to be able to play that. Um, okay. I'm going to hand out two awards, uh, and then we'll we'll keep playing here. Um, the first of the awards presented by the high school orchestra tonight is the outstanding underassman award. This award recognizes an outstanding member of our freshman or sophomore classes. This year's recipient has been a powerful addition to our orchestra program and is very involved not only in our program, but our musical community as a whole. um a state solo and ensemble qualifier as a freshman, uh a member of the Beaverdam area orchestra, as well as a member of the Brigadeon Pit Orchestra. This student has had a tremendous year in the high school orchestra. I'm honored to present this year's outstanding underclassman award to Elise Teal. [cheering] [applause] The
015second of tonight's awards is the outstanding senior award. We have an absolutely phenomenal class of seniors this year. Um, and this was a really hard decision. Um, there were many number of deserving candidates for this award, but I had I had to pick just one. This year's recipient has been a consistent presence in our program for four years. a multi-year member of the Beaver Dam area orchestra, participant in multiple pit orchestras for lay miser rob and brigadeun state solo and ensemble and all around just a really really strong musician in person. I could not be more proud to see the student continuing his musical pursuits as he pursues a major in music in college next year. I'm deeply honored to present this year's outstanding senior award to Owen Farie. >> [applause] [cheering] >> Let's continue
016with the music. Um, Metal Rhythmico. Our third selection is Metal Rhythmico compare composed by Kurt Moer. The best way to describe this piece is that you should imagine if a heavy metal band was actually a string orchestra and the ripping guitar solo is played on a violin. We're excited to feature our concert master Darren Teal on Metal Rhythmico. We hope you enjoy. [applause] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] [music] [cheering and applause] [applause] >> Darren Teal everybody. Darren Teal. [screaming] [applause] How about that one? Huh? Man, [applause] I showed that to some
017kids in the fall and they're like, "Yeah, okay. [laughter] Okay." And then we end up doing it. Man, what a cool piece. Okay, I have one more uh award to hand out and then we are going to recognize our senior class here in the high school orchestra. Um the last award is our department level uh excellence award. Uh, the National School Orchestra Award is the highest honor you can bestow upon a member of the high school orchestra to recognize excellence in playing and contributions to the ensemble. Um, as I just said, this is the department excellence award and we have an award ceremony on uh Wednesday for scholarships and department excellence. So, if you're attending that award uh ceremony or that awards night, you got to act surprised when you hear the winner of this
018award. Okay. I got a letter that says, "I'm not allowed to tell anybody, but all the orchestra families are here. I think this is when we should give the award. Um, so I'm going to do it. This year's NSOA recipient has achieved just about everything you can as a high school orchestra student. A four-year member of the Beaver Dam area orchestra, consistent participant in state solo and ensemble, a member of three pit orchestras for Beauty and the Beast, Lay Misar Rob, and Brigadeun, as well as a participant in the WSMA state honors orchestra and Badger Conference Honors Orchestra. The amount of participation and achievement for this student is truly incredible. In addition to all of her achievements, she's been our concert master for the past two years and quite simply raised the level of our
019ensemble. She is that dynamic of a performer and above that she is a model leader. Uh and last but certainly not least, she's just a wonderful person to work with. I'm honored to present this year's National School Orchestra Award to Darren Teal. [cheering] All >> [applause] [applause] [cheering] >> right, my last big bit of talking for the night is to recognize our senior class. Um, I I've truly enjoyed working with these these 14 seniors and um, some of them have not even been with me for all four years and I I appreciate that some of them who participated in middle school orchestra decided to come back uh, because they've really challenged me in some really really amazing ways. And this group uh, not just their seniors, but this group as a whole this year has
020taken everything I've thrown at them. Uh, and I've thrown harder material at this group than any other orchestra I've ever had. Uh, and that's led by this senior class. So, we're really really going to miss them. Uh, but I know they're going to do great things. So, so we've got some flowers to recognize you. We're going to go in alphabetical order here and we'll we'll hold the pose for a minute if you want to take some photos or something. Um, so come grab a when you hear your name, come grab a flower from Luly and Drew. Uh, whatever color you like. Uh, up first, Owen Farie. [snorts] [applause] If you guys want to line up on the far side of the stage. [applause] Sarah, Garcia, Lugo, [applause] Twilight Heinen, [cheering] [applause] Owen Hemling, [applause] Caitlyn
021Jameson, >> [clears throat] [screaming] [applause] >> Katie Lee, [screaming] [cheering and applause] Cararissa Redmond, [applause] Aurora Renone, [cheering] >> [applause] >> August Runger, [applause] Adriana Scholma, [applause] Jaylen Schrader, >> [applause] >> Lucas Schrader, [applause] Naa Smallen, [applause] >> and Darren Teal. >> [screaming] [applause] >> your class of 2026 orchestra seniors. [cheering] [applause] >> Thank you guys. All right, you guys can have a seat. We'll be taking another photo after the concert. [snorts] All right, we can have our next intro people up next as well. The BDHS orchestra class of 20 26's senior selection is the Barber of Civil Overture composed by Giochini Rossini arranged for strain orchestra by Carrie Lang Gusell. This piece was performed by the senior class for the concert in May of 2024. The Barber of Seville is a comic opera where
022Count Alma Viva woos the young Rosino with the help of her clever barber fagaro [gasps] to escape her controlling guardian Dr. Bartolo who plans to marry her for her money. Rosena and the count use disguises and bribes to marry resulting in a chaotic comedy of errors. We hope you enjoy the barber of civil overture. [applause] Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. >> [applause] [applause] >> All right, at this time I would like to invite the eighth grade orchestra back up to the stage for our final selection. Come on up, guys. Give us just a moment or two as we add some chairs and stands to our setup to wrap up the concert. Where am I going? If
023you're a violate the old section over here, Yeah, high school. Help them out. Uh, while they're getting that set up, um, I just want to say a couple things to wrap up the concert. Uh, the first things, uh, thank you for sticking with us. Um, I know this high school portion is kind of long, but, um, we're wrapping up some high school careers here, so I want to make sure to recognize everybody that needs to be recognized. Um, some thank yous are listed in our program. I know it's kind of a dark color um but on the way out if you want to check out those thank yous. Uh in particular I always like to mention uh Mr. Greg Richard is running lights sound uh the live stream we had some fancy mic stuff going
024on. So big round of applause for Mr. Richard up there. [applause] One of you is gonna have to go over there. Uh and then secondly, I've had a lot of help this year from three students that I want to point out. Uh two of them are on the stage here with me. Another one, I'm not sure if she's in the audience or not, but I have three student service workers here at the high school who one of which designed the very program you're looking at tonight. Uh and the other two handle a lot of the daily maintenance of the orchestra. So, I want to shout out uh Adriana Skullma, Jaylen Schrader, and Abby Gut Connect for their student service this year. Big round of applause for those three. [applause] As we finish getting set up
025here on your way out, as with all of our concerts here at the high school, um if you have a dollar or two to throw in our wicker baskets, um we do take a free will donation that goes directly to support these students you see on the stage tonight. So, you have a buck or two and can throw that in there, we really really appreciate that. Um we'll have an introduction here in a second. Thank you so much for coming and thank you so much for supporting your kids in music. Um, music helps children in so many ways with their development, uh, with academics, uh, and just the joy of it, and that's why we do what we do. So, thank you for your support of your children. This is looking like a pretty awesome
026orchestra. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Can we tune? One more intro. Here we go. Thanks for coming. Molly on the Shore is a composition by Percy Aldridge Granger. It is an arrangement of two contrasting reels, Temple Hill and Molly on the Shore. It was written in 1907 by Gringanger as a birthday gift for his mother, Rose Annie Aldridge. We're delighted to be joined by the eighth grade Beaver Middle School orchestra members for the final selection of the night. We hope you enjoy Molly on the Shore. [applause] >> [music] >> Oh yeah. Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Yeah. [music] Heat.
027[music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. >> [music] [music] [applause]