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Saturday, May 21, 2011

QUOTE OF THE DAY: WEEK #16 Semester #2

DATE: MONDAY WEEK 16 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Martha Graham
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"No artist is pleased...there is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“An artist is never satisfied with his/her art. The pleasure the artists gets is in the act of striving for the perfection that will never be realized.”
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DATE: TUESDAY WEEK 16 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Henry Van Dyke
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“A person does not have to be a professional musician in order to experience the joys of making music.”
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DATE: WEDNESDAY WEEK 16 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: T. S. Eliot
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"You are the music while the music lasts."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“While listening to music you can escape the realities of life and create your own universe.”
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DATE: THURSDAY WEEK 16 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Victor Hugo
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Feelings can be communicated through music in a way that words can never express."
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DATE: FRIDAY WEEK 16 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Robert Rauschenberg
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“An artists creates art as a response to what he/she experiences during the course of a lifetime.”
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Thursday, May 19, 2011

SPRING CONCERT 2011

Please Save This Date:
Event:SPRING CONCERT
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Date:
Thursday, June 2, 2011
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Times:

Night Concert:
6:00 PM
[CALL TIME (when performers are to arrive):
5:15 to the cafeteria]
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Day Concert:
TIMES TO BE ARRANGED
There will be an amended school schedule for that day.
Times are to be arranged and I will notify students when I get the specifics.
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Place:
GRANADA MIDDLE SCHOOL
OUTSIDE STAGE IN FRONT OF THE CIRCLE AREA
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What to Wear at the Evening Concert:
(Purple ties to be supplied)
GIRLS:
Plain dark skirt or pants/white blouse (preferably with collar)

BOYS:
Plain dark pants/white shirts (preferably with collar)
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DRESS REHEARSAL:
TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2011
6th Period 12:32-1:15
Teachers of all student participants for this rehearsal will be notified of the students that may be excused from Period 6 for this day only. Students must make-up all work missed. Any teacher may determine if a student is not eligible to be excused for this rehearsal due to classroom obligations.
DRESS REHEARSAL DIRECTIONS:
PERIOD 4 STUDENTS:
Set-up chairs and music stands, pass out music booklets, etc. according to directions to be handed out.
Get instruments from behind the stage where we left them on Friday.
Leave cases in the cafeteria.
Find assigned seats (see seating chart).
Sit quietly and wait for tuning.
Practice songs in performance order.
At the end of period 4, students not in Room 43 homeroom, will put away their instruments and place their cases backstage in the cafeteria.
Students who are in Room 43 homeroom will remain on the outside stage for practice
Before being dismissed for lunch put away instruments and place cases backstage in the cafeteria.
PERIOD 5 STUDENTS:
Pick-up instruments from behind the stage where we left them on Friday.
Leave cases and backpacks in the cafeteria) and go to seats for practice.
Stage area should already be set-up from Period 4
Find assigned seats (see seating chart)
Sit quietly and wait for tuning.
Practice songs in performance order.
PERIOD 6:
Period 5 students remain seated.
Students from the Period 4 and Homeroom classes (and soloists) will join the period 5 class on the outside stage for practice.
Students from Period 4 and Homeroom are to pick-up instruments from behind the stage.
Leave cases and backpacks in the cafeteria.
Find assigned seats (see seating chart).
Sit quietly and wait for tuning.
Practice songs in performance order.
After the bell rings:
All students are to each take their own instrument, chair, and stand back into the cafeteria behind the stage.
Period 5 students to help put away remaining equipment according to the direction hand-out.
AGAIN: All instruments are to be put away in cases and stored behind the stage for Wednesday’s rehearsal.
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PLEASE BE PREPARED TO BE A FEW MINUTES LATE
BEING DISMISSED TO GO HOME
CONCERT SONG ORDER:
DAY (SCHOOL) CONCERT:
(Due to limited concert time we will play only 5 songs but will play all of them for the evening concert.)

01. “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” ……….Greenday
02. “A Year With Out Rain”……….Toby Gad, Lindy Robbins Gad
03. “Imagine”……….John Lennon
04. “Numb”……….Linkin Park
05. “Paparazzi”……….Lady GaGa

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EVENING (PARENT) CONCERT:
01. “21 Guns” ……….Greenday
02. “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” ……….Greenday
03. “Cielito Lindo”……….Traditional Mariachi
04. “Las Mananitas”……….Traditional Mariachi
05. “A Year With Out Rain”………. Toby Gad, Lindy Robbins Gad
06. “Pachelbel Canon”……….Johann Pachelbel (Piano Solo: Cara Gleich)
07. “Imagine”……….John Lennon
08. “Numb”……….Linkin Park
09. “Dear You”……….Haru (Piano Solo: Joselynn Gosse'tte)
10.“Hoedown”……….Traditional/arr. Endriss
11. “Legends of the Fall”……….James Horner
12. “Paparazzi”……….Lady GaGa
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*****PLEASE REMEMBER*****
PARTICIPATION AT THE CONCERT IS MANDATORY FOR THE 4TH and 5TH PERIOD STRINGS CLASS AND IS A MAJOR PART OF THE MUSIC GRADE. NON-PARTICIPATION WITHOUT A PARENT OR GUARDIAN SIGNED/WRITTEN LEGITIMATE EXCUSE WILL MEAN THAT THE FINAL GRADE WILL BE LOWERED OR A MAKE-UP ASSIGNMENT WILL BE REQUIRED TO AVOID THE LOWERING OF THAT GRADE.
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Saturday, May 14, 2011

QUOTE OF THE DAY: WEEK #15 Semester #2

DATE: MONDAY WEEK 15 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Rita Mae Brown
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Music is to the soul as food is to the body."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“You need food to nourish your body and music to feed your soul."
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DATE: TUESDAY WEEK 15 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Music is the universal language of mankind."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Music is a form of communication that everyone can understand.”
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DATE: WEDNESDAY WEEK 15 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Author Unknown
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Play the music, not the instrument."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“An instrument is just the mechanism for the music inside you.”
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DATE: THURSDAY WEEK 15 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Oliver Wendell Holmes
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Alas, for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!"
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“It is sad when a person has no musical outlet for their emotions.”
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DATE: FRIDAY WEEK 15 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Robert Schumann
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"The painter turns a poem into a painting; the musician sets a picture to music."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“All the arts interweave each other: words can be made into art and music; art can be imitated by music.”
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Monday, May 9, 2011

QUOTE OF THE DAY: WEEK #14 Semester #2

DATE: MONDAY, WEEK 14 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: George Jellinek
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"The history of a people is found in its songs."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"Man leaves behind his history through art.”
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DATE: TUESDAY, WEEK 14 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Ernest Boyer
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“Music incorporates all the elements of life into one medium.”
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, WEEK 14 SEMESTER #1
AUTHOR: Red Auerbach
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“When you listen to music your troubles often tend to disappear.”
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DATE: THURSDAY, WEEK 14 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: Katie Greenwood
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"Music isn't just learning notes and playing them, you learn notes to play to the music of your soul."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"There is no music in notes alone. It is the human, emotional element that makes notes into music.”
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DATE: FRIDAY, WEEK 14 SEMESTER #2
AUTHOR: W.H.Auden
QUOTE FROM THE BOARD:
"A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become."
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
"You do not need to think all the time to enjoy music; you can just enjoy the feelings.”
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