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