Well done to the Senior and Junior String ensembles, the Senior Band and to Stella Voce and the Cosmio Singers for your wonderful performances at the school fete last month. Your ensemble conductors would like to thank all students and parents who helped these performances to be a success.

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

The Combined Winter Showcase

The Combined Winter Showcase will occur on Friday, June 21 at the Yeronga State High School Hall. The Showcase will commence at 6pm and all of our ensembles (except the P-1 Piccolo Choir) will be performing. Therefore, if your child is a member of Stella Voce, the Cosmio Singers, Senior Band, Junior Band, Brandenburg Strings or Stradivari Strings, please save this date in your calendars.

P-1 Piccolo Choir Assembly Performance

Regular attendees to Piccolo Choir rehearsals will be singing ‘Down by the Bay’ at the Junior Assembly on Thursday, June 27. Parents/Guardians of performers are invited to watch this performance at 1:45pm in the hall. Students will also be coming home with a reminder note about this performance on Friday.

SINGFEST 2019

All Stella Voce students who verified their attendance at Singfest earlier this year should now have received a permission form for this event. If your child has not yet received their note and you believe that they should have, please email me at leeas0@eq.edu.au. Please note that these forms are due back by Thursday, June 13. Late entries will not be accepted and unfilled places will be offered to students who are currently on a waiting list.

CLASSROOM MUSIC

Year 1

Lately, the Year 1 students have been working on learning a new rhythm ‘za’ (or, a crotchet rest which is one beat of silence in music). Students have been busy learning how to read and play this new rhythm whilst also improving their abilities to read and perform already established rhythms, ‘ta’ and ‘ti-ti’. Over the last week, students in Year 1 practised playing these rhythms, whilst also experimenting with pitch (using two notes called ‘so’ and ‘me’ or, on an instrument, G and E). Here are photos of one of our hard-working year 1 students improvising melodies to match the ‘ta’, ‘ti-ti’ and ‘za’ food rhythms on his card to make a food song (we were all very hungry after this lesson!)

Yours in Music,
Lauren Easey