Music

Greetings,

The drumming club has been hard at work this term with African drums and auxiliary percussion. Please check out below the composition we created in March.

Miss Ali

“Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world” – Toru Takemitsu

All of the students have been hard at work preparing and practicing for the National Children’s Festival of the Arts (NCFA). If your child would like to practice at home, please use the links below which will take you to youtube.com. If you would like to come out and show your support to MBTS, the performance dates are as follows:

Speech – April 12-19

Performing Arts – May 17-20

When I get more information as to the days each group will be performing, I will post them.

Lower Elementary

‘O Sifuni Mungu’ – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFgyF25iyF4

‘Jambo Rafiki’ – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_x0El14svk&feature=related

Upper Elementary

The Rainbow Connection – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3qU2xC8gqc&feature=related

Grade 5 & 6

The Pink Panther – (Not on youtube) http://www.alfred-music.com/player/AlfredChoralDesigns2008/28473/player.html?osCsid=184c727b67dfe09ab715f31307ce6a20

If you would like a copy of the lyrics to practice with your child, please email ms.ali@mbts.ky.

Thanks, I look forward to festival!

Miss Ali

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music” – Sergei Rachmaninoff

Well, I would say our Holiday concert was a huge success! I cannot thank you enough for your continued support in the Music program at Montessori by The Sea.  It is wonderful having such supportive parents!

This week we’ve been studying ballet, and ”The Nutcracker’ (applying the concept of loco motor and non-loco motor movement) through whole notes and quarter notes heard in the ‘Russian Dance’. 

Have a safe and happy Holiday!

Ms Ali

“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love” – Hamilton Wright Mabie

Well, with just a few days left before our Winter Concert, rehearsals are in full swing! Please see photos below for a sneak peak of the show!

Please note that all Elementary and Middle Years students have a dress rehearsal at Mary Miller Hall on Friday, December 10th at 3:00. Please pick your child up from Mary Miller Hall at 4:00 pm (4:15 for Middle Years students). And finally all students are to be at Mary Miller Hall on Saturday, December 11th by 9:30am.

I wish you all the happiest of holidays and a wonderful Winter Break!

Miss Ali

“You need three things in the theater – the play, the actors and the audience, – and each must give something” – Kenneth Haigh

It’s been an exciting year in Toddler Music so far!

We’ve played with scarves, practiced brushing with the scrapers (instruments) and we’ve even began using the Smart Board! Please see photos below.

We’re practicing now for the Holiday concert, as well as singing songs with shapes and colors, which co-ordinates with the Toddler curriculum.

Miss Ali

“Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music” – William Stafford

We have been tapping into our creative side in Elementary music, by drawing what we hear. We listened to ‘August’s Rhapsody’ and the students were meant to abstractly draw the music that they heard.

Below is the Grade 1 class’ samplings… Enjoy!

Miss Ali

“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life” – Ludwig van Beethoven

In Middle Years Music, we have been analyzing music videos and discussing different interpretations of what the video means. We have seen very direct meanings, song parodies, and we even have seen very deep videos.  Next we’re going to study and write our own song parodies.

For our next unit, we move backward in time to study 20th century music, such as poly-metric, multi-metric, and non-metric music. We will study composers like Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Igor Stravinsky, Leonard Bernstein, and Philip Glass.

Miss Ali

“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life” – Red Auerbach

Hello and Welcome to The Wonderful World of Music!

This year we are excited to have an interactive white board in the Specialty Room, as well as steel drums! We are also planning on putting on a musical entitled ‘Santa Goes Green’. Auditions will be held on the following dates:

• Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus will be Tuesday September 14th
• Reindeer, Elves, and Toy Soldiers will be Thursday September 16th
• Snowmen will be Tuesday September 21st
• Evergreen Trees and Grandma will be Thursday September 23rd
• Auditions for singing solos will be September 28th

These parts are available to ALL elementary and Middle School students. We will also need a backstage crew for decorating, sound, lighting, set changes, etc. Rehearsals for this will be Tuesday’s and Thursday’s from 12:30-1:00pm in the Specialty Room. Rehearsals for this will begin October 5th. Please e-mail Miss Ali if your child would like a script to practice at home – ms.ali@mbts.ky

We will also have an Upper Elementary/Middle Years choir which will be rehearsing on Monday’s, Wednesday’s, and Friday’s from 12:30-1:00 in the Specialty Room. Rehearsals begin September 20th. This is open to students in Upper Elementary and Middle Years and there is no cost.

The World Drumming Club is also new this year. The cost for this club is $10 per student per class, and we will practice Friday’s from 4:00-4:30pm. We will be playing congas, doumbeks, hand percussion and even steel drums! We will be learning and playing a variety of styles of world music such as calypso, African and Latin American. I’m really looking forward to this new club!

I look forward to an exciting year with your children in music!

Miss Ali

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. ~Edward Elgar