Tuesday Feb. 2 "An Evening of Chamber Music"
Hi students and parents,
The results of this chamber music unit have been great - I think you have done an amazing job getting these pieces ready for performance. So, we're going for the long concert - all students will perform! All together, the music is about 80 minutes long - so, if we have quick transitions on and off, we should be able to get our portion of the concert over in just over an hour and half. Then we have the Oregon String Quartet performing for us at the end of the concert - what a great way to end a concert!
Students - please come Monday at 11am. We will run through the program in order (see below) complete with how you enter and how you bow at the end. If one member of your group cannot attend, come anyway - you need to run through your program to get you 'nervous' for Tuesday evening.
Tuesday night - you (students) need to be to the Downtown Salem Public Library (in between Commercial and Liberty just south of downtown) by 5:30pm. You need to wear your school performance black (except Journey group - you may wear jeans and your cool t's). Concert will start on the dot at 7pm.
Parents - I'm sorry about the Monday daytime rehearsal - when I first planned this concert the calendar didn't have Monday as a day off - we would have done this during the school day had their been school. But, I'm uncomfortable with students not running through their material on a stage before playing this on Tuesday... I hope this doesn't completely ruin everyone's day off (if you have it off).
Concert Tuesday evening... Loucks Auditorium is a lovely place to have a concert - perfect for Chamber Music. The concert will begin promptly at 7pm and should be over 9pm or soon there after - what a great night of music it will be! The concert is free - donations to Music Boosters will gladly be accepted. You will have the honor of hearing one of Oregon's premiere chamber groups play after the students are done.
Here's the line up:
Jesu (Might not perform)
St. Antoni Chorale
Summer Waltz (Might not perform)
Handel Air
Bach Gavotte
Lucio Silla
Farandole
Brandenburg Concerto #3
Don't Stop Believing
Emperor Variations
Haydn Op 64 #5 Finale
Onslow Quintet
Haydn Trio
Bass Quartet (Trio)
Handel Passacaglia
Lux Aeterna
Haydn Op. 77 #1
Telemann 4 violin concerto
Students - see you Monday. Parents - see you Tuesday!
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
Videos from String Orchestra groups
St. Antoni Chorale
Handel Air
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, abridged
Summer Waltz for 5 violins
Bach Gavotte I and II from Orchestral Suite III
Handel Air
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, abridged
Summer Waltz for 5 violins
Bach Gavotte I and II from Orchestral Suite III
Videos from Sinfonietta
Brandenburg III 1st Mvt.
Overture to Lucio Silla
Don't Stop Believin'
Haydn Op. 64 No. 5 Finale
Bizet's Farandole (Isaacs arr.)
Emperor Variations
Overture to Lucio Silla
Don't Stop Believin'
Haydn Op. 64 No. 5 Finale
Bizet's Farandole (Isaacs arr.)
Emperor Variations
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Videos from Chamber Orchestra members
Our YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TitanOrchestras
Lady Titans - Katelyn, Hayley, Zevon, Holly - Haydn Op. 77 #1
Telemann 4 violin concerto #2 in D - Lauren Z, Jamie, Skyler, CJ
Lux Aeterna - Lacey, Eugenia, Kate, Meg
Haydn Trio No. 2 - 2 vln and vla - Molly, Megan, Kiara
Hymn for 4 basses - Garrett, Makayla, Alex V., Paul
Trio for bass by Thompson - Garrett, Makayla, Alex V., Paul
Onslow Quintet in e min - Aida, Jacqueline, Bronte, Lauren C., Linda
Handel-Jacklich Theme and Variations - Alex H., Max, Sarah, Chris
http://www.youtube.com/user/TitanOrchestras
Lady Titans - Katelyn, Hayley, Zevon, Holly - Haydn Op. 77 #1
Telemann 4 violin concerto #2 in D - Lauren Z, Jamie, Skyler, CJ
Lux Aeterna - Lacey, Eugenia, Kate, Meg
Haydn Trio No. 2 - 2 vln and vla - Molly, Megan, Kiara
Hymn for 4 basses - Garrett, Makayla, Alex V., Paul
Trio for bass by Thompson - Garrett, Makayla, Alex V., Paul
Onslow Quintet in e min - Aida, Jacqueline, Bronte, Lauren C., Linda
Handel-Jacklich Theme and Variations - Alex H., Max, Sarah, Chris
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
If you are a Facebook-er...
If you are on Facebook and want to see pictures from the Norman Leyden coaching session (Sinfonietta) and/or Erin Furbee coaching session (Chamber Orchestra), search for this fan page:
Oregon Symphony Association in Salem
Then go to their Photos page and there are nice albums with all sorts of pictures of you!
:)
Oregon Symphony Association in Salem
Then go to their Photos page and there are nice albums with all sorts of pictures of you!
:)
Monday, January 25, 2010
Article about Erin Furbee coaching session
http://face2face.salemchamber.org/profiles/blog/show?id=2231027%3ABlogPost%3A26330
Karin Holton
Oregon Symphony’s Erin Furbee Visits West Salem Classroom
* Posted by Karin Holton on January 25, 2010 at 3:37pm
The West Salem High School Advanced Orchestra had a real treat when Oregon Symphony Assistant Concertmaster Erin Furbee came to work with them on their chamber music section. As part of the Oregon Symphony Association in Salem’s Master Coaching program, Furbee spent one class period with these young musicians in a master class format.
Students from one of West High’s Chamber Ensembles, The Lady Titan String Quartet, played while Ms. Furbee worked with them on bowing technique as well as musicality as the rest of the class observed. Zevon Smith, a senior who plays violin in the group compared the experience to painting, “I find that when it comes down to the music itself, Erin Furbee brings out the grace and beauty of it. The way she worked with my quartet group felt as if we ourselves were painting a watercolor picture with her guidance as the brush.”
For many young musicians working with professional performing artists can be rather daunting, but Ms. Silberman, Director of Orchestras at West Salem High School, believes whole-heartedly in making her students comfortable with these opportunities by integrating as many of these types of experiences into her curriculum. “I’m a huge proponent of bring the ‘real world’ of music right to the school!” said Silberman. Freshman Hayley Hicks agrees that these “real world” experiences are important saying “It was so exciting to work with her! I was a little nervous at first but she turned out to be extremely nice and she had a lot of good input. I think that time we got to spend with her was time well spent.”
Furbee, who in addition to her work with the Oregon Symphony, plays with a number of small chamber ensembles and encouraged the students to do the same.
The Oregon Symphony Association in Salem provides these opportunities for each of the Salem area high schools as part of their ongoing education programs. For more information about the programs of the Oregon Symphony Association in Salem visit www.orsymphonysalem.org.
Karin Holton
Oregon Symphony’s Erin Furbee Visits West Salem Classroom
* Posted by Karin Holton on January 25, 2010 at 3:37pm
The West Salem High School Advanced Orchestra had a real treat when Oregon Symphony Assistant Concertmaster Erin Furbee came to work with them on their chamber music section. As part of the Oregon Symphony Association in Salem’s Master Coaching program, Furbee spent one class period with these young musicians in a master class format.
Students from one of West High’s Chamber Ensembles, The Lady Titan String Quartet, played while Ms. Furbee worked with them on bowing technique as well as musicality as the rest of the class observed. Zevon Smith, a senior who plays violin in the group compared the experience to painting, “I find that when it comes down to the music itself, Erin Furbee brings out the grace and beauty of it. The way she worked with my quartet group felt as if we ourselves were painting a watercolor picture with her guidance as the brush.”
For many young musicians working with professional performing artists can be rather daunting, but Ms. Silberman, Director of Orchestras at West Salem High School, believes whole-heartedly in making her students comfortable with these opportunities by integrating as many of these types of experiences into her curriculum. “I’m a huge proponent of bring the ‘real world’ of music right to the school!” said Silberman. Freshman Hayley Hicks agrees that these “real world” experiences are important saying “It was so exciting to work with her! I was a little nervous at first but she turned out to be extremely nice and she had a lot of good input. I think that time we got to spend with her was time well spent.”
Furbee, who in addition to her work with the Oregon Symphony, plays with a number of small chamber ensembles and encouraged the students to do the same.
The Oregon Symphony Association in Salem provides these opportunities for each of the Salem area high schools as part of their ongoing education programs. For more information about the programs of the Oregon Symphony Association in Salem visit www.orsymphonysalem.org.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Newsletter #10
Newsletter 1/13/10
Contained within:
1) Deadline for Reviews has been extended to Jan. 20
2) Options for Live Reviews (webcast options...)
3) Parents, want to know when the next performances are?
4) All City Auditions, Jan. 20 at South
5) Save the Date...
1) The deadline for turning in your Live Review has been extended to Jan. 20. Just a reminder that *ALL* the info for format and guidelines for the review are on our website, student page. If anyone cannot find that info, I have it posted in class too. Chamber Orchestra students need to submit one live concert review and one other review - video, CD, or live concert.
2) On the blog, one message back from this newsletter, is a big list of webcasts that you can use for your live review if you were unable to attend a concert in the past 4 months. If you use a webcast for your 'live' review you *must* do a live review next semester. One cool webcast is a broadcast of Turandot - an opera that's staged with the actors/singers on stage *WITH* a live symphony orchestra... really neat.
3) All students in the program are currently working on a Chamber Music unit - they're all working in small chamber groups, working on their own, with my help, and with coaches (professional musicians from the area). All of these groups will perform on the day of their class final, during class time. I will video tape all the groups and hopefully within a few days post all the videos on our website. I will use first names of the students only, separated by class and will probably entitle the video with the name of the piece the students are performing. So, please check our website as soon as you get an email from me saying the videos are posted.
All Chamber Orchesta groups, and hopefully a select few other groups from the other orchestras, will be performing at our next concert: "An Evening of Chamber Music" downtown at the public library, Loucks Auditorium, Feb. 2, 7pm. More on that concert in the next email.
Our next big concert at West with all orchestras performing is the Spring Concert - March 16, 7pm.
4) All City auditions are on Wednesday Jan. 20 in the afternoon. All students who have signed up have their times listed in the room - if there are any questions, please contact me. There are still 4 students who have not paid the $7 fee... you know who you are. Good luck! We're hoping for a great presence this at All City!
5) Save The Date (please check the calendar section of our website for more info... also, coming second semester, an updated calendar sent home to be signed by all parents...)
Jan. 18 - 1pm - All State Choir, Orchestra, Band in Eugene
Jan. 20 - All City auditions at South
Jan. 30 - OR Symphony in Portland - Prelude concert (select Chamber Orchestra students)
Feb. 2 - An Evening of Chamber Music, 7pm Loucks Auditorium (Chamber Orchestra and selected other groups)
Feb. 9 - 6pm Next parent booster meeting *SPECIAL TRIP COMMITTEE MEETING*
March 5 - 2:40 - 4:30 - Maestro Carlos Kalmar will clinic our symphony at school in the auditorium
Feb. 27 - All City Concert!
March 10 - Chamber Orchestra performing at the Walker Concert
March 16 - All Groups - Spring Concert, at West, 7pm
Happy New Year!!
~Daryl Silberman
silberman_daryl@salkeiz.k12.or.us
Contained within:
1) Deadline for Reviews has been extended to Jan. 20
2) Options for Live Reviews (webcast options...)
3) Parents, want to know when the next performances are?
4) All City Auditions, Jan. 20 at South
5) Save the Date...
1) The deadline for turning in your Live Review has been extended to Jan. 20. Just a reminder that *ALL* the info for format and guidelines for the review are on our website, student page. If anyone cannot find that info, I have it posted in class too. Chamber Orchestra students need to submit one live concert review and one other review - video, CD, or live concert.
2) On the blog, one message back from this newsletter, is a big list of webcasts that you can use for your live review if you were unable to attend a concert in the past 4 months. If you use a webcast for your 'live' review you *must* do a live review next semester. One cool webcast is a broadcast of Turandot - an opera that's staged with the actors/singers on stage *WITH* a live symphony orchestra... really neat.
3) All students in the program are currently working on a Chamber Music unit - they're all working in small chamber groups, working on their own, with my help, and with coaches (professional musicians from the area). All of these groups will perform on the day of their class final, during class time. I will video tape all the groups and hopefully within a few days post all the videos on our website. I will use first names of the students only, separated by class and will probably entitle the video with the name of the piece the students are performing. So, please check our website as soon as you get an email from me saying the videos are posted.
All Chamber Orchesta groups, and hopefully a select few other groups from the other orchestras, will be performing at our next concert: "An Evening of Chamber Music" downtown at the public library, Loucks Auditorium, Feb. 2, 7pm. More on that concert in the next email.
Our next big concert at West with all orchestras performing is the Spring Concert - March 16, 7pm.
4) All City auditions are on Wednesday Jan. 20 in the afternoon. All students who have signed up have their times listed in the room - if there are any questions, please contact me. There are still 4 students who have not paid the $7 fee... you know who you are. Good luck! We're hoping for a great presence this at All City!
5) Save The Date (please check the calendar section of our website for more info... also, coming second semester, an updated calendar sent home to be signed by all parents...)
Jan. 18 - 1pm - All State Choir, Orchestra, Band in Eugene
Jan. 20 - All City auditions at South
Jan. 30 - OR Symphony in Portland - Prelude concert (select Chamber Orchestra students)
Feb. 2 - An Evening of Chamber Music, 7pm Loucks Auditorium (Chamber Orchestra and selected other groups)
Feb. 9 - 6pm Next parent booster meeting *SPECIAL TRIP COMMITTEE MEETING*
March 5 - 2:40 - 4:30 - Maestro Carlos Kalmar will clinic our symphony at school in the auditorium
Feb. 27 - All City Concert!
March 10 - Chamber Orchestra performing at the Walker Concert
March 16 - All Groups - Spring Concert, at West, 7pm
Happy New Year!!
~Daryl Silberman
silberman_daryl@salkeiz.k12.or.us
Monday, January 11, 2010
Options for Live Review...
If you didn't complete your live review this semester, you may complete the review by listening to one of the symphony broadcasts from the links below. You'll need to listen to the whole concert and write up a complete review - either essay or survey format. But, you will not be allowed to do this next semester - you must go see a live concert in the next 4 months!
Here are the links:
http://symphonycast.publicradio.org/
http://www.dakotacast.org/sds/turandot.htm - this one is aweseme! You get to see the performance of the opera Turandot live with the symphony *ON STAGE* and with English translations... this one is cool!
Webcasts:
http://www.lawrence.edu/conservatory/webcasts/#streaming - this one you put the movements all together from the webcast and it equals a concert! Very neat...
Sydney (Australia) Symphony - choose any concert... wow! http://www.sydneysymphony.bigpondmusic.com/
From PBS
http://video.pbs.org/video/1304120932/
Or any of these (needs to be at least 45 minutes though...)
http://video.pbs.org/searchForm/?q=symphony
http://stream.owu.edu/communityPerformancesArchive.html
And, you are welcome to google search any of the following terms: Webcast, video streaming, symphony concert - to find a concert online - it needs to be at least 45 minutes long and I need a review of the full concert, as well as a copy of the link so that I can see it too.
Good luck - hope that helps!
~Ms S
Here are the links:
http://symphonycast.publicradio.org/
http://www.dakotacast.org/sds/turandot.htm - this one is aweseme! You get to see the performance of the opera Turandot live with the symphony *ON STAGE* and with English translations... this one is cool!
Webcasts:
http://www.lawrence.edu/conservatory/webcasts/#streaming - this one you put the movements all together from the webcast and it equals a concert! Very neat...
Sydney (Australia) Symphony - choose any concert... wow! http://www.sydneysymphony.bigpondmusic.com/
From PBS
http://video.pbs.org/video/1304120932/
Or any of these (needs to be at least 45 minutes though...)
http://video.pbs.org/searchForm/?q=symphony
http://stream.owu.edu/communityPerformancesArchive.html
And, you are welcome to google search any of the following terms: Webcast, video streaming, symphony concert - to find a concert online - it needs to be at least 45 minutes long and I need a review of the full concert, as well as a copy of the link so that I can see it too.
Good luck - hope that helps!
~Ms S
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Music to investigate for Symphony - WITH LINKS!
Here's the list of music we're reading and considering for Symphony:
Finlandia by Sibelius
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afUFvbVwq-I
Here's a site where you can listen for free: http://www.we7.com/#/track/Finlandia!trackId=3357316
Die Fledermaus by Strauss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YBhKx1bkEM
And, here's a website that will let you listen to it: http://www.capradio.org/programs/programdetail.aspx?programid=30&showid=6134
Academic Festival Overture by Brahms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nZ0GKX97BM
And, here's a site where you can download the piece: http://beemp3.com/download.php?file=5846502&song=Academic+Festival+Overture%2C+OP.+80
Bacchanal from Samson and Delilah by Saints Saens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdHoBz_FGZc
And, here's a download site: http://www.archive.org/details/Saint-saens--danseBacchanale
Radetzky March by Strauss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHFf7NIwOHQ
And here's an mp3 - http://home.claranet.de/liedertafel/radetzky.mp3
Please google search these and lets us know if you find good links to the music and/or history of the pieces or composers!
Finlandia by Sibelius
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afUFvbVwq-I
Here's a site where you can listen for free: http://www.we7.com/#/track/Finlandia!trackId=3357316
Die Fledermaus by Strauss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YBhKx1bkEM
And, here's a website that will let you listen to it: http://www.capradio.org/programs/programdetail.aspx?programid=30&showid=6134
Academic Festival Overture by Brahms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nZ0GKX97BM
And, here's a site where you can download the piece: http://beemp3.com/download.php?file=5846502&song=Academic+Festival+Overture%2C+OP.+80
Bacchanal from Samson and Delilah by Saints Saens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdHoBz_FGZc
And, here's a download site: http://www.archive.org/details/Saint-saens--danseBacchanale
Radetzky March by Strauss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHFf7NIwOHQ
And here's an mp3 - http://home.claranet.de/liedertafel/radetzky.mp3
Please google search these and lets us know if you find good links to the music and/or history of the pieces or composers!
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Deadlines and starting the New Year off...
Hi all,
I hope you all had a wonderful winter break and New Year celebration. May this new year bring you much accomplishment musically!!!
Here's some due dates and deadlines:
December Performance Assignment - Due Monday Jan. 4. All students were to have performed during the month of December for friends, family members or the community - on Monday Jan. 4 all students will complete a PDR - Plan-Do-Review - to let me know what they planned to do and how it went. If any students did not complete this assignment during the month of December, they may complete it on Monday or Tuesday evening, finish the PDR and return it by Wednesday Jan. 6 for half credit on their PDR.
Live Review - all students must have seen 1 live concert featuring stringed instruments. This review is due January 15. The review specifications (guidelines and sample reviews) are on the website: www.titanorchestras.com - Student page. The review must be typed and handed in or email to me (silberman_daryl@salkeiz.k12.or.us) and returned to me by Jan. 15 in order to receive full credit. Reviews will be accepted after this date but not for full credit. If students have not seen a live concert, please contact Ms Silberman for alternate options (there are some online concerts that will qualify at this late date - but only with the proviso that students see a live concert in person next semester).
CD Review - students in Chamber Orchestra must complete a second review - a CD review of their choosing. This review is due Jan. 15 too.
Chamber Music Unit - All students will be participating in a chamber music unit these next 4 weeks. The 'final' will be a video taped performance during your final period for your daytime class. All students in Chamber Orchestra and possibly some select groups from String Orchestra and Sinfonietta will perform on a Chamber Music concert February 2nd at the Loucks Auditorium (downtown library, 7pm).
No Sectionals in January - but chamber groups meet after school! No sectionals for students in the month of January, but all the chamber music groups must meet once a week after school. Students will arrange this meeting time - if it can be at school when I can be there to coach, that would be great, but some groups will need to meet at students' houses, before school, or during lunch in order to comply with this requirement. Student-led rehearsal time is a skill that we're working on successfully accomplishing this unit.
Symphony - Symphony starts back up again... with our new co-director Mr. Zimbleman. Here's the schedule:
Tuesdays 4 - 6pm
Fridays 2:40 - 4:30pm
There may be some extended rehearsals (no more than 1 hour extension, promise) later this month as we work sectionals into our regular rehearsal time, to make up for time we had off in December... stay tuned for announcements.
Happy New Year to one and all... I'm looking forward to the strongest musical year ever at West!
~Ms S
I hope you all had a wonderful winter break and New Year celebration. May this new year bring you much accomplishment musically!!!
Here's some due dates and deadlines:
December Performance Assignment - Due Monday Jan. 4. All students were to have performed during the month of December for friends, family members or the community - on Monday Jan. 4 all students will complete a PDR - Plan-Do-Review - to let me know what they planned to do and how it went. If any students did not complete this assignment during the month of December, they may complete it on Monday or Tuesday evening, finish the PDR and return it by Wednesday Jan. 6 for half credit on their PDR.
Live Review - all students must have seen 1 live concert featuring stringed instruments. This review is due January 15. The review specifications (guidelines and sample reviews) are on the website: www.titanorchestras.com - Student page. The review must be typed and handed in or email to me (silberman_daryl@salkeiz.k12.or.us) and returned to me by Jan. 15 in order to receive full credit. Reviews will be accepted after this date but not for full credit. If students have not seen a live concert, please contact Ms Silberman for alternate options (there are some online concerts that will qualify at this late date - but only with the proviso that students see a live concert in person next semester).
CD Review - students in Chamber Orchestra must complete a second review - a CD review of their choosing. This review is due Jan. 15 too.
Chamber Music Unit - All students will be participating in a chamber music unit these next 4 weeks. The 'final' will be a video taped performance during your final period for your daytime class. All students in Chamber Orchestra and possibly some select groups from String Orchestra and Sinfonietta will perform on a Chamber Music concert February 2nd at the Loucks Auditorium (downtown library, 7pm).
No Sectionals in January - but chamber groups meet after school! No sectionals for students in the month of January, but all the chamber music groups must meet once a week after school. Students will arrange this meeting time - if it can be at school when I can be there to coach, that would be great, but some groups will need to meet at students' houses, before school, or during lunch in order to comply with this requirement. Student-led rehearsal time is a skill that we're working on successfully accomplishing this unit.
Symphony - Symphony starts back up again... with our new co-director Mr. Zimbleman. Here's the schedule:
Tuesdays 4 - 6pm
Fridays 2:40 - 4:30pm
There may be some extended rehearsals (no more than 1 hour extension, promise) later this month as we work sectionals into our regular rehearsal time, to make up for time we had off in December... stay tuned for announcements.
Happy New Year to one and all... I'm looking forward to the strongest musical year ever at West!
~Ms S
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