Pictures of Homemade Instruments!

Check out these cool instruments made by the Fourth Graders!

Final Details for Music Makers Concert

The Music Makers spring concert is only a few days away!  Join us on Monday, May 6th for a fun-filled show featuring music from some of our favorite kid's movies.  Here are the details:

-Performances are at 1:45 and 7:00 PM.

-Students should arrive for the evening performance by 6:45 PM and should report to the music room.

-Students should wear their Music Makers t-shirt and black pants/skirts with dark shoes.


The show is approximately 25 minutes long, so those students who are being honored at the Board of Education Meeting for being on the Bluffsview Archery Team will still have time to make it across town to be honored.

See you on Monday!

Youth Choir Auditions

Capriccio Youth Choir is holding auditions for the 2013-2014 season!  Auditions dates are May 8th and May 15th.  There is more information posted outside the music room but here are a few details:

Auditions for Capriccio! Youth Choir


We would like to invite your child to sing with us! Capriccio! Youth Choir is directed by music educators Alyson Bates, Melanie Smith, and Susan Gooch and is open to students currently entering grades 4-12. Your child can have weekly professional instruction for a fraction of the cost for voice lessons and have a performance platform with a reputable performing arts choir. Capriccio! Youth Choir will perform in December and April with Capriccio! Vocal Ensemble in addition to a few community performances as they arise.

Auditions: please contact Alyson Bates (alyson_s_bates@yahoo.com) to schedule your evening placement audition on May 8 or 15

Season: August 2013– April 2014

Rehearsals: Wednesdays, 7-8p

Worthington Kilbourne High School

Congratulations Third Grade!

Wow - what an amazing performance, Third Grade!  I am still getting compliments on how well you sang, danced, played, and spoke throughout your program.  Our audiences loved the songs, loved the speaking parts, and loved the message of "Possibilities!"  What an accomplishment!  You should feel very proud of yourselves!

Third Grade Music Program

The 3rd grade music program is fast approaching!  Please join us next week, on Wednesday, for the show, "Possibilities!" 

Here are the details for performers and their families:

Date: Wednesday, March 20th, 2013

Time: 1:30 PM and 7:00 PM

Location: Bluffsview Gymnasium

Details: Students should arrive at school no later than 6:45 PM and should report to the music room. Students should wear nice dress clothes (preferably no jeans or athletic shoes).

Questions: Contact Mrs. Daubney at cdaubney@worthington.k12.oh.us or leave a message at 450-7288

This information should have come home in a letter either late last week or early this week.

Talented Young Musicians

Check out this video of The Sleepy Man Banjo Boys...

                            

The band is made up of 10-year-old banjo sensation Jonny Mizzone and his brothers Robbie, 13, on fiddle, and Tommy, 14, on guitar. Can you say talented?

They first gained popularity two years ago when videos of them playing together went viral on YouTube.  To see more of their videos, visit their website: www.sleepymanbanjoboys.com .

Happy Valentine's Day - All You Need Is Love

Happiest of Valentine's Day to everyone.  What a sweet day to be in an elementary school.  So many darling students brought me flowers, Valentines, candy, cookies, doughnuts... it was endless!  Valentine's Day is one of my favorite holidays as an elementary school music teacher.  There are so many fun and cute songs, games, and activities that we get to do in the music room during the month of February.

By far one of my favorite is a 5th grade lesson where we use the song, "All You Need Is Love" by The Beatles to talk breifly about the band, how they were received in the United States when they first came to visit (February 7th, 1964), how this song was really written to protest the Vietnam War, etc.  Musically, by studying "All You Need Is Love," students get their first chance to discover and experience music that is in a mixed meter. 

What is mixed meter?  Well, normally in songs the beats are grouped in sets of 2, 3, or 4.  So you might feel a piece of music as "1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4" or "1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3" and so on.  In mixed meter, the groupings of beats changes.  Changing the meter makes the music much more complicated.  In "All You Need Is Love," the verse of the song goes "1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3."  Just try to say that out loud, making the "one" have more emphasis than another beat.  It's tricky, right? 

Fifth graders learned a partner activity that they performed with rhythm sticks that goes along with the entire song.  It's challenging, but a ton of fun.  Plus the song is just so perfect for Valentine's Day.  Love is all you need!