Metronome links

For that internal pulse in all of us... and external reminder:

www.metronomeonline.com

This one's super cool:

www.seventhstring.com/metronome

And, this one has funky beats with it:

www.8notes.com/metronome

For more visual people:

http://38i.biz/metronome/

And, for those of you in the app world:

Metronome application

And, if you need to buy one:

www.sharmusic.com - metronomes

WOU Thursday April 1

{emailed 3/30/10}

Hi all,

Parents - you are welcome to come to the competition performances on Thursday April 1 at Rice Hall at Western Oregon University at Monmouth (we would love to have an audience to perform for...):

Chamber Orchestra - 3:30pm
Symphony - 4:40pm

Here is a link to the map of the campus: http://www.wou.edu/wou/maps/

Students:

TODAY - TUESDAY March 30 - is final dress rehearsal for symphony. Attendance is mandatory. Rehearsal *might* run late as we put all of this performance material together.

Itinerary for Thursday has been handed out at school. Here's the schedule:

BRING YOUR PERFORMANCE OUTFIT TO SCHOOL THURSDAY!!!!
Period 7 - report directly to the orchestra room. Change, pack your instrument up, and load the bus
1:00 - bus leaves for Monmouth - Burgerville stop first
2:00 - arrive at Monmouth and watch other performing groups
3:00 - Chamber Orchestra warms up
3:30 - Chamber performs
4:00 - Symphony warms up
4:30 - Symphony performs
5:15 - Bus loads up (parents may take students home - just remember to check in with Mr. Zimbelman or Ms. Silberman)
6:00 - approximate time of bus return to West


Don't forget to listen to these pieces and practice any last minute whoopsy sections. Thanks!
~Ms S

Vote for your favorite... thru early May

This is something interesting from KING FM in Seattle. You can follow this link to see videos of 10 young performers - whoever wins this video contest receives a $1000 award. Enjoy!

http://www.king.org/pages/6542422.php

Spring Concert, March 16 - details

{emailed 3.11.10}

Hi all,

Our Titan Orchestra program Spring Concert featuring Walker's Advanced Orchestra is this next Tuesday at 7pm in the auditorium. Doors will open at 6:45pm. There will be a raffle - tickets will be $1 for 1, $5 for 6 and $10 for 13.

For students:

Dress code - school outfits - please hem your dresses/pants. Hair back, little or no jewelry. Closed toe shoes - no higher than 1" heel for both men and women! Black socks or hose (no bare ankles please).

Schedule:
No sectionals for String Orchestra or Chamber Orchestra violas
5-6pm Symphony rehearsal on stage
6:15 call time for all students on stage to run Don't Stop Believin'
6:30 parent meeting for incoming 9th graders in the choir room
6:30 clear the stage for Walker to rehearse
6:45 doors open
7pm Concert - shouldn't be longer than 90 minutes, and might even be shorter!

*RAFFLE* items will be accepted up until 6:45pm - do you have a service you would be willing to donate to the raffle? Or an item that's new and of interest to orchestra parents or students? Please consider donating - the raffle proceeds go directly toward orchestra music booster's account to help pay for coaches, special guest artists, buses and competition fees. For more info or to arrange drop off, please contact Orchestra Booster president Kelly Culver at kculver@comcast.net

See you Tuesday!
~Daryl Silberman
C: 818-317-8218

**SAVE THE DATE**
April 1 or 2 (stay tuned), Chamber Orchestra at WOU (Monmouth)
April 16 and 17 Salem-Keizer District Festival - Friday is Band day (Orchestra parents and students run the day), Saturday is Chamber Orchestra and Symphony performance day).
April 23 Judgement Day band at the Ike Box - Fundraiser for Orchestra Music Boosters

Rumor control...

Rumor Control... (sent via email 3/9/10)

Hi all,

I wanted to address a few rumors that I've heard from both parents and students:

1) Multiple discipline or program policies
2) Trip next year

1) There has been *no* policy change - students in music are welcome to be in multiple disciplines - band and orchestra, orchestra and choir, choir and band, or all three (if they can make that work). We directors work very hard to try to make sure conflicts between the groups are worked out. I personally have never stated anything other than support for students who wish to be in multiple musical or other programs.

By the way, there also is *no* policy change regarding students and sports. I just try very hard to make sure that the adults in a student's life - directors, parents, coaches - cooperate to make sure that students know where they need to be when to be the best musician, student and athlete possible. If there is ever any question regarding expectations or policies, please feel free to email or call me.

2) We *are* planning to go on a trip next year - probably a Heritage Festival Gold orchestra tour... most likely to an East Coast city during Spring Break 2011 (leave the Thursday before Spring Break, come home Sunday or Monday of Spring Break). Decision will be announced the 2nd week of April. Any student in Sinfonietta or Chamber Orchestra for the 2010-2011 year will be welcome to join the tour. Depending on how many students go, we'll either compete one, two or three groups at the competition. There will always be fundraising opportunities that will be offered to all students. There will be scholarship opportunities for those on free or reduced lunch or others in financial hardship. The trip is meant to be inclusive - I welcome as many students who want to go to make it happen - it's a motivational, musical, and educational experience. I welcome all parent input - especially at the next Orchestra Parent Booster meeting the second Tuesday of April.

If there are any questions I can answer about policies or upcoming events, please feel free to email or call me. Additionally, at the next Orchestra Parent Booster meeting in April I will be taking a look at the 2010-2011 concert season... I welcome parent and student input regarding how many concerts we play and where. Stay tuned for announcements regarding that April meeting.

Students should be forecasting for the 2010-2011 year now. Auditions for next year's orchestra will occur right after Spring Break. If there are any questions regarding orchestra commitment requirements or placement auditions, feel free to touch base with me.

I look forward to seeing you at the Spring concert next week - Tuesday March 16, 2010, 7pm at the West Auditorium.
~Daryl Silberman
C: 818-317-8218

**SAVE THE DATE**
March 10, Chamber Orchestra at Walker
March 16, Spring Concert 7pm at West Auditorium
April 1 or 2 (stay tuned), Chamber Orchestra at WOU (Monmouth)
April 16 and 17 Salem-Keizer District Festival - Friday is Band day (Orchestra parents and students run the day), Saturday is Chamber Orchestra and Symphony performance day).

"West High musicians get Oregon Symphony tutor"

West High musicians get
Oregon Symphony tutor

Carlos Kalmar, the symphony's music
director, coaches Titans

By Barbara Curtin • Statesman Journal • March 8,
2010

To many people in the audience, it looks like the
conductor is simply beating time for the orchestra.
The 65 members of West Salem High School's Titan
Orchestra know better.

Their rehearsal on Friday afternoon was led by
Carlos Kalmar, music director of the Oregon
Symphony and a sought-after guest conductor
around the world.

Measure by measure, instrument by instrument, he
challenged the young players to improve three
pieces they were preparing for competition:
"Bacchanale" from "Samson and Dalilah" by Saint-
Saens; "Nimrod" from "Enigma Variations" by Elgar;
and "Finlandia" by Sibelius.

Daryl Silberman, the Titans' regular director, had
asked the Oregon Symphony Association in Salem to
sponsor a visit by an Oregon Symphony musician.
Associate concertmaster Erin Furbes had already
come in January to coach violins and chamber
players.

But Silberman, a former freelance musician in Los
Angeles and San Francisco, believes in going for
broke.

"I blatantly asked if Carlos could come," she said,
and he did.

Kalmar strode onto the West High stage, dressed in
a blue Metropolitan Youth Symphony T-shirt, his
graying hair flying, and asked to hear the
"Bacchanale" from the beginning.

A low chord from the horns; a sinuous solo by the
oboe player; and Kalmar stopped the music.

"Wonderful," he said. Then to oboe player Daniela
Seare, a freshman, as if he were just making tiny
suggestion: "This is your cadenza. You can play it

considerably faster." He sang a version of the solo
that sped up, then slowed down, instead of sticking
faithfully to the beat.

He started the orchestra again, then stopped it,
looking to the horns. "All together," he said. The
piece started again, with the low chord attacked as
one.

Soon, another halt. "When you get this part — da de
o doo do," he sang for Daniela, the oboist, "go
faster, because our colleagues in the horns are
already dying."

And so on, for 50 minutes, deeper and deeper into a
piece of modest length. Kalmar encouraged; he
sang; he counted with his hands and elbows and
body until he seemed to be dancing. But every few
measures, he stopped to work with one section of
the orchestra, until the music he heard from those
players came closer to what he was hearing in his
head.


Finally, he let the wild dance continue to its climax
and a single, sudden chord. "That was very good!,"
he said with a smile.

Kalmar went on to shorter, but just as intense,
rehearsals of the Elgar and Sibelius works. When the
rehearsal ended at 4:30 p.m., his assistant, Susan
Franklin, tried to get him moving toward the car and
an appointment in Portland. Kalmar lingered to chat
with students.

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"There is so much talent here!" he told Silberman
and Karl Raschkes, the district's supervisor of music
education.

For Aida Behmard, a junior in the violin section,
"Just the way he was invigorating about the musical
experience made us inspired to play the best we
could."

And Daniela, the oboe player, said she didn't mind
being singled out. "It was really helpful with the
dynamics, different speeds, sounds, and how to
hear other people," she said.

Silberman had been watching carefully the whole
time, filming Kalmar's lesson, nodding her head and
smiling as he worked.

She could see the students taking in what Kalmar
said; could hear them getting better.

Now it would be up to her to keep that process
going as the orchestra moves on to district and
state competition.

The audience will see her in front of the musicians,
beating time; but that's the smallest part of a
conductor's job.

bcurtin@StatesmanJournal.com

Upcoming Symphony rehearsals

Here are upcoming rehearsals and concerts:

Tu 3/10 - rehearsal 4-6pm
No rehearsal March 12
Tu 3/16 - rehearsal for strings only 5-6pm (because of concert that evening)
F 3/19 - rehearsal 2:40 - 4:30pm
Spring Break
Tu 3/30 - rehearsal 4-6pm
**TH - 4/1 we might need to add an extra rehearsal before competition Friday!!
F 4/2 - WOU competition (time TBD)
T 4/6 - rehearsal 4-6pm
F 4/9 - rehearsal 2:40 - 4:30pm
T 4/13 - rehearsal 4-6pm
**IF THERE IS NO SCHOOL ON APRIL 15 we'll have a symphony rehearsal during day
**If there is school April 15 we'll have rehearsal from 4-6 or 7pm before competition
F 4/16 - no rehearsal because of band festival at West
S 4/17 - Symphony performance at festival at West

Chamber Orchestra members - Solo & Ens 3/6/10

(sent via email 3/3)

Solo and Ensemble for Chamber Orchestra members

Hi all,

District IV Solo and Ensemble is this Saturday March 6, 2010 at Willamette University in the Rogers Music Center (Hudson Hall). Here's a link to a map of Willamette University: http://www.willamette.edu/map/campus_map.pdf

Warm-up Rooms are located in the upper floor of the western side of Smith Auditorium (right across from the Music Center). They will be available to us on Saturday. Please come check in and be ready to warm up 15 minutes before your time.

Dress is… look nice. Concert dress if fine, but so is simply looking dressed up (in other words, you don’t need to wear black). No jeans, no sneakers, no t-shirts, no holes in clothes. Hair back. Closed toe shoes.

Room S1

9:50 Bronte
10:10 Lauren C
10:40 Max
11:20 Katelyn
1:10 Molly
1:30 Kate

Room S2

10:40 Onslow (Behmard, Tran, Culver, Loewen-T, Yang)
11:20 Passacaglia (Heine, Harmon, Larson, Anderson)
11:30 Telemann (Zeigler, Yang, Young, Tatman)
1:00 Basses (Maltzan, Zukowski, McCauley, Vickery-Holland)
1:10 Lux Aeterna (White, Krasovskiy, Lowen, Carey)
1:20 Lady Titans (Horvath, Hicks, Smith, Kim)
1:30 Makayla
1:40 Holly
2:00 Yellow (Page, Chong, Bruton, Svadlenak)

Corelli video for Sinfonietta

Here's a nice video recording of the Corelli you're playing:



And the last movements: