Thank you to Adam for working so well with you for the past two weeks. It is wonderful to see the process from reading a story together to creating an Orff presentation. Please use your journals to record any ideas about the process, the music, or the presentation itself.
Next week is March Break - no rehearsal - see you on March 23rd.
On March 23rd, we will spend most of the time rehearsing for the Orff presentation on March 30th.
Have a wonderful break!
Thank you to our resident composers Abie and Townsend for sharing their ideas about their wonderful compositions. Good work on following the music.
It was wonderful to watch you work with Adam tonight. Adam will return each week until your presentation on March 23rd.
From Adam: We spent time taking melodic ideas the singers had already created and adapting them into short songs. We made excellent progress on our 'Tree' song, and with the woodcarver song. Our time together was a good reminder that the creative process (especially when working as a group!) is truly a journey - it takes time and involves highs and lows, but when you stick with it, can result in the creation of something beautiful! Singers are reminded to keep thinking about possible lyrics to finish the tree song as well as possible lyrics for the woodcarvers song.
The journals I gave you are for your inspiration - jot down anything you think of about the tree song, the woodcutter, the villagers.... Also, use your journal to draw, write or doodle about what our theme of "Draw the Circle Wide" means to you. Please bring these each week.
We didn't have a chance to sing these tonight but here is a link to Firefly - https://youtu.be/Dxd_4ENK_CM?si=mSnFvo-aV3OpEFjt and to A Better World https://youtu.be/dBblUBZr81w?si=p5LNkRCHlWQ1uvfH Open your music and follow along as you listen and sing these pieces. Remember to follow either the soprano or alto line.
PLEASE DO YOUR THEORY!! This week many of you didn't do your one page of work. This is mandatory.
Hello Preps! I wanted to come on here and share some resources to help support your learning at home. I absolutely love learning music with you! We started with a new (temporary) hello song for this month.
"Jambo Sana" is a swahili greeting.
As we prepare for a few events this term, we are building up our repertoire and practice definitely makes progress! Below are some things to help our youngest choristers learn their music!
Be A Light (with Juniors)
use code: c793225
Singing Rainbow (Preps and SS)
We all sing with the same voice (altered)
We will also be working with our wonderful ORFF instructor Adam for the next few weeks to prepare for our ORFF SHOWCASE. More to come on that soon!
Kind Regards,
Mike Colla
