Our recitals will be Saturday, May 23rd in Rounds at Collegiate School.
Collegiate Students: 9:00 AM and 10:00 AM
Gartens Students: 1:00 PM
Call me if you have any questions! 250-1725
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WMMTA’s World Music Festival was held at the Museum of World Treasures March 7th & 8th:
World Music Festival
All students are invited to perform at the World Music Festival on March 7-8 at the Museum of World Treasures in Old Town. I am on the planning board for this event, and I can promise you that it will be a fun experience for piano students. Each student will perform one piece (solo, duet, or ensemble) representing the style of another country or culture. ( I will help you find appropriate music.) The performance may include any combination of instruments, vocalists, narration, poetry, dancing or other creative components. The performers will also receive a “passport” and visit booths with activities representing different countries, and get their passports stamped. For example, I will be at the Ireland booth, teaching students how to dance a jig! Now that should be interesting. Attendees will also be free to explore the Museum.
If you are interested in participating, let me know as soon as possible—February 3 at the latest. I will also need to know which recital time you prefer from below:
Saturday, March 7 at 10AM, 1PM, or 4 PM or
Sunday, the 8th at 1PM or 4PM
The recital times chosen are not guaranteed, but we will try to schedule you at your preferred time. The student registration fee is $10—-please make check payable to me, because I need to send one check for all my students. Family members and guests may enter the Festival for $2, which you will pay at the door. Don’t hesitate to call me if you have any questions.
Christmas Recital 2008
Students at the Garten’s location are invited to perform in our annual Christmas recital. It will be Saturday, December 20th at 2:00 in DeMattias Performance Hall on the campus of Newman University.
Collegiate Recitals
The Fine Arts Academy piano recitals will be Saturday, December 6th in Rounds. Please select a time to perform and let me know! (9:00, 10:00, or 11:00)
costume recital
Costume
Recital
Saturday, October 25th
at Senseney Music
Piano students are invited to play one of their favorite pieces in a fun, informal recital at 3:00 October 25th. They may wear their Halloween costumes (if they can play the piano in them!), or just wear casual clothes. Senseney Music is located at Lincoln & George Washington Blvd. If you would like to participate, please contact
me (250-1725).
field trip to Chamber Music at the Barn
Students in grades 6 and above are invited to take a field trip with me to an outdoor classical music concert at Chamber Music at the Barn on Thursday, June 26th. The concert begins at 8:00; tickets for school-age students are $6. Here are some notes about the program from the CMATB website:
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| The String Quartet in C Major,”Dissonant” on account of its unusual slow introduction, is perhaps the most famous of his quartets. It is the last in the set of six quartets composed between 1782-1785 that Mozart dedicated to Joseph Haydn. According to the catalog of works Mozart began early the preceding year, the quartet was completed on January 14, 1785. This Mozart String Quartet is arguably Mozart’s finest quartet writing, and certainly one of the most beloved pieces in the entire chamber music repertoire.Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time For clarinet, violin, cello and pianoFrench composer Olivier Messiaen had been captured by the German army during World War II and was being held as a prisoner of war. This Quartet was premiered in Stalag VIII-A in Görlitz, Germany (currently Zgorzelec, Poland) on January 15, 1941, allegedly to an audience of 5,000 fellow prisoners of war and prison guards, though there is reason to suspect that the audience may in fact have been much smaller. Messiaen later recalled the occasion: “Never was I listened to with such rapt attention and comprehension.” Messiaen wrote in the preface to the score that the work was inspired by text from the tenth chapter of the Book of Revelation. |
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I will be the “chauffer” for our field trip, so please let me know as soon as possible if you plan to attend so I can make the appropriate arrangements.
Nicole (250-1725)
a special piano day
Students in grades 2 through 6 are invited to attend a Piano Retreat on Saturday, July 12 from 1:00 to 5:00. For more information, and to see a complete schedule, click the “piano retreat” button to the left on this page.
……spring cleaning
i’m reorganizing this site so it’s easier to find what you’re looking for. the most popular items are now categorized into one of the buttons on the left. if you still can’t find it, there is a search option to the lower left. if all else fails, email me!
