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

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!
:)

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.

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

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

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!