Titan Orchestra Newsletter #23
Contained within...1) Chamber performs at WOU tomorrow
2) Big Trip wrap up - pics link
3) We have an OSAA Solo competitor!4) Music Festivals at West next weekend5) MLK anniversary today6) Check out this video... (Bells at the Cathedral) 1) Chamber performs at WOU tomorrow (Friday)Chamber is off to Monmouth tomorrow (Friday the 5th) to perform at the band/orchestra festival. It's our first of 2 opportunities to qualify for the State orchestra competition. Good luck Chamber!2) Big Trip wrap up - pics linkBig Trip is over! What a great time we had!! If you have pictures you'd like to share with the group, let Ms S know and/or follow the link to this public site where you can either just look at what's been posted or you can request membership to post your pictures: http://titanorchestrabigtrip2013.shutterfly.com/ - I would like to make a photo book and collect pictures so we can do a slide show. If you didn't get a chance to follow what we did, check out our blog - we posted what we did each day.By the way, there will be a 2015 Big Trip meeting in May for those interested in helping to plan the Big Trip in 2 years (Freshman and Sophomore parents... take note!)3) We have an OSAA Solo competitor!We just found out that cellist Hendrik M. will be competing at 8:30am on May 4 at Lewis and Clark College at the OSAA State Solo competition. Good Luck Hendrik!!! 4) Music Festivals at West next weekendApril 12 and 13 are big days for our program. On Friday April 12 we, the orchestra family, run the Central Valley League Band Festival here at West. All students in Symphony are required to help work a shift that day. Students in String Orchestra are asked to help too, if they have time! Pizza will be provided for all students who work. Parents - we need a few good folks to help out. The festival cannot be run just by students and me. Please see your email for more info!!
Saturday April 13 is the Orchestra Festival (run by the band family). Sinfonietta performs at 8:35am. Chamber performs at 11:30am. Symphony time is TBD - might be as late as 4:25pm. more info will be sent to these groups regarding itinerary.5) MLK anniversary todayBig Trip performed outside the amazing Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington DC on Friday March 22. Today, April 4, is the 45th anniversary of his assassination. The Memorial is quite impressive - there is controversy (as there is with most memorials) regarding some aspects of the design, but I can say that it is still very impressive, very powerful, very impact-ful. The quote on the side of his sculpture states this "I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness". This quote is a paraphrase. Many Black leaders have spoken out about the fact that this phrase makes MLK sound too stern, too abrupt. Apparently the phrase will be taken off the Memorial and reworked. Here is info about the original quote:The full quotation was taken from a 1968 sermon about two months before King was assassinated. It reads: "Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter." (from U.S. News http://tinyurl.com/bmf8fyf)6) Check out this video... (Bells at the Cathedral)
On our Big Trip we had the pleasure of being in the bell tower at the National Cathedral in Washington DC and getting a demonstration of the amazing carillon bells. Here's video I shot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q81alwarfjE&feature=share&list=UUU_N2xGvmu9gVeCOEGYO4xg
Thanks for reading the newsletter all the way to the end - now you're informed and up-to-date!!! Please don't forget to check the website for more information.
~Ms S (Daryl Silberman)
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