SPRINGING FORWARD with MATT

March 22, 2018

PARENT NOTES

NEW ADVANCED STUDENTS: for APRIL 10 performance at the Towers.

         BOYS Be sure to ask for your purple dress shirt this week

ADVANCED CELLOS in class

      GIRLS need to find a long sleeve purple dress blouse. 

APRIL 10 TIMING : arrive 5:15 : warm up /tune 5:30                                                            Perform 6 pm.  
 Then you and you parents are invited to stay and enjoy! 

ADVANCED VIOLINS in class 

1. CHORAL  STUDENTS : SPECIAL EVENT-

                                         Choral Concert Saturday April 21 evening.

 Cantores Celestes Women's Choir will present MATT with a $1000 sponsorship Guest                                      performance by the Emperor String Quartet.

2. NO PRIVATE LESSONS NEXT WEEK. (Holiday Friday) March 26 to 30 (see calendar) 

3. SESSION III is underway Please pay your fees at - now overdue

4. LAST ROSE/ ROSEBUD Concert is Saturday April 28. Order and pay by April 17!!  Please ensure your child has attended at least one of these concerts- required, along with excellent attendance at classes lessons (and Theory for INT and ADV), to receive year-end certificate.

5. TUESDAY CLASSES : APRIL 10 REMINDER . Due to our Special event in the party room APRIL 10, there will be no classes!

6. ENSEMBLES: 1. To continue in ensembles students must complete Theory Book 1-pass your completed theory book to Ms.Currie
                             2. To be considered to play in May concert your ensemble MUST perform for class within the next 2 weeks. Only one ensemble has performed so far: that is Jasjeet's group

HOMEWORK THIS WEEK

BEGINNERS

1. Long, Long Ago: Review Lines 1 and 2. Learn Correct notes and fingers 

                                   NEW : Line 3 and 4 follow hand out sheet 

2. D Scale - review with LONG bows- half notes

3.  G scale. Same fingers starting on G string : g a b c d e f# g, down f# e d c b a g

4. READING MUSIC: Strictly Strings. Page 15. review all -2 lines every day. Keep Eyes on the notes! NEXT week we add more notes KEEP YOUR EYES on the NOTES!

5. REVIEW TWINKLES: Pick a different rhythm every day

INTERMEDIATE

1. HANDEL WATER MUSIC: Warm up:  SCALE OF D

                                      NEW PLAN: For the May concert we will omit middle section.
                                    Review to bar 13. Mark in names and learn notes from bar 31 to end.

2. CREPUSCULE: Warm up Scale of G 

                        NEW section: Mark in notes for new section :bar 36 to 43 
review and learn bars 1 to 35

3. HAPPY BLUES: Scale of D Keep learning perfect timings and correct notes.

ADVANCED

1. BRING LAST YEAR'S MUSIC TO CLASS. Please sort into correct piles at end of class.   

2. HARRY POTTER. PRIORITY for April 10 performance

VIOLAS: BIG SOLO- Learn it well with your teacher. You will have ateacher playng with you- BUT YOU must play it well!

                                      Bowings/notes/rhythms to bar 77. Practice the new ending.                                                                         Thank you
3. NEW BEAUTY and the BEAST : Bars 1 to 69 only
VIOLIN I: Please work at home and with teacher on bars 1 to 10. We will have teachers playing this with us.
CELLOS: BIG SOLO: bar 34. Work with teacher to get good fingerings Practice every day!!! Susan will play this with you- but you must learn it.
ALL: start learning carefully bars  

4. SUITE FOR STRINGS.  Sarabande. 

                                           TUNING , especially all accidentals (added sharps/flats)

5. AVE VERUM: This is our selected concert piece. Work carefully on c# and g#'s and gentle smooth playing.

6..FIDDLERS THREE: ALL- correct eighth note bowings, precise timing, light bow.

                                         HAVE a SUCCESSFUL PRACTICE WEEK!!