Listen to excerpts from our Spring II Concert here at View Ridge. Recorded June 15, 2006 in the lunchroom featuring Intermediate Band, Jazz Band and Choir.

More info about getting the complete performance later...a possible CD is in the works...

Information for NEW parents and FAQ section about choosing an instrument is available at the following link: http://www.seattleschools.org/area/main/TeacherParent?classfind=2634

Spring Concert II- Thursday June 15th for Intermediate Band, Jazz Band, Choir.
2:15 p.m. (Abbreviated performance for VR students, teachers, and family members who can't attend evening performance)
7:30 p.m. students should arrive at 7:10 p.m. with the following attire:
Boys- shirt with a collar; nice pants or non-faded jeans; non-grubby tennis shoes ok.
Girls- dress or skirt and blouse preferred; nice pants o.k.

HERE IS WHAT WE ARE PLAYING:

Intermediate Band-
"Rockin' Rondeau"
"Bluein' the Blues"
"Prehistoric Suite"

Jazz Band-
"Low Rider"
"Frankenstein"
"C Jam Blues"

Choir-
"Give us Hope"
"Blackbird"
"In Anchor Bay"
"Little Birch Tree"
"Shenandoah"

Spring Concert I- Thursday June 8th for Beginning Band, Beginning Strings, Intermediate Strings, Beginning Guitar, Intermediate Guitar Students.
2:15 p.m. (Abbreviated performance for VR students, teachers, and family members who can't attend evening performance)
7:30 p.m. students should arrive at 7:10 p.m. with the following attire:
Boys- shirt with a collar; nice pants or non-faded jeans; non-grubby tennis shoes ok.
Girls- dress or skirt and blouse preferred; nice pants o.k.

HERE IS WHAT WE ARE PLAYING:
Beg. Band-
#78 "Minuteman March"
#81 "Frere Jacques"
#82 Morning Mood"
Montego Bay
Regal March
#98 "Go for Excellence- This Old Man"
and a surprise piece for flute, clarinet, alto sax, trumpet, trombone and percussion (you know what I mean...)
Beg. Strings
#92 "Can Can"
#118 "Firoliralera"
#142 "Variations on a Familiar Song"
#168 "Arkansas Traveler"
#182 "Surprise Symphony"
#188 "Cripple Creek"
Beginning Guitar
#31 "Sweet Home Chicago"
#40 "Rockin' Robin"
#42 "Eleanor Rigby"
#45 "Au Clair De La Lune"
#46 "Aura Lee"
#52 "Duke of Earl"
#63 "Teach Your Children" w/ Intermediate Guitar
Intermediate Guitar
"Arkansas Traveler"
"Hey, Good Looking"
"Star of the County Down"
"Old Time Rock n' Roll"
"Teach Your Children" w/ Beginning Guitar
Intermediate Strings
"March in D"
"Celtic Dance"
"Contretanz"
"Vivaldi's Autmn"
"Star of the County Down"
"Lion's Lullaby"

No morning lessons for instrumental music during WASL testing week.

The following concerts/performances are coming soon:

Wednesday May 10th- Kindergarten musical "The Caterpillar's Voice"
Thursday May 18th- 1st grade musical "The 3 Piggy Opera"

Thursday June 8th- Spring Concert I with Beg. Band, Strings and Guitar
Thursday June 15th- Spring Concert II with Adv. Band, Choir and Jazz
Go to http://calendar.yahoo.com/mystro2b for more details

Reminder about Arts Night and what you should be practicing this week.

Don't forget- you can find cool mp3 links at http://vrmusic.blogspot.com

If you want to read this information instead of listening, go here: http://vrmusic.blogspot.com/

Arts Night is Thursday March 23rd 2006. Deadline to audition for a musical performance is March 6th 2006. LISTEN IN FOR ALL THE DETAILS then email me at kependergrass@seattleschools.org

If you want to read this information instead of listening, go here: http://vrmusic.blogspot.com/

**You can find mp3's for band, jazz and guitar music at the blog above.

**PLEASE SEND ME AN EMAIL at nospam2pender@yahoo.com if you listen to this podcast and whether you subcribe using itunes, my yahoo or podamigo, etc. Please be sure to tell me your name, child's name and any brief comments.
thanks!!

If you want to read this information instead of listening, go here: http://vrmusic.blogspot.com/

IN THIS PODCAST:
Info for all instrumental students and easy ways to subscribe to this site (see the links to the right...)

Final video lesson for Frankenstein

Video Lesson 3 for Frankenstein

video lesson 2 for "Frankenstein"

Video lesson for jazz guitar players of "Frankenstein" Opening Power Chords

Video Lesson 3 of "C Jam Blues" solo ideas

Lesson 2 for Jazz Guitar players "C Jam Blues", Chords w/ Bass Line

This is a video podcast lesson for jazz guitar players of "C Jam Blues"- Lesson 1, Chords and Strumming.

If you want to read this information instead of listening, go here: http://vrmusic.blogspot.com/**you will also find links to video guitar lessons for jazz here**

IN THIS PODCAST:
Info for all 4th and 5th grade instrumental students, including practice sheets, **video guitar lesson links, tech info on how to slow down cd tracks to play-along.

If you want to read this information instead of listening, go here: http://vrmusic.blogspot.com/

IN THIS PODCAST:
Info for all 4th and 5th grade instrumental students, choir notes, Eckstein Senior Jazz coming to VR, security note and a cool music website: www.pandora.com.

Welcome to my first extended podcast. I recorded this podcast at a concert featuring the Northwest Girlchoir. You will hear sights and sounds backstage before the concert including interviews with some great professional musicians sharing their insight on music and performing, and interviews with singers from the choir. Some fun and rare insight into the joys of performing music during this holiday season in Seattle. Interviews from Dave Pascal, bassist; Chris Monroe, percussionist; Eric Chappelle, violinist; and pianists Dwight Beckmeyer, Christina Siemens and Heather Shih and singers from the Northwest Girlchoir. BE PATIENT! It's a 12+ mb file...

Here it is: excerpts from Ms. Smith's Friday Arts Extravaganza. Listen to all the talented 5th graders who performed in class this morning. Many of them performed in last night's awesome Winter II Concert. Happy Winter Break- see you in the new year!

Some of you may know I work with the Northwest Girlchoir. We are having our final Winter Concert for the season this weekend: Saturday December 17th at 2:00 p.m., Meany Theatre, University of Washington. Listen to this podcast for excerpts from our concert 2 weeks ago at Town Hall. For tickets and information, go to www.northwestgirlchoir.org or call 206-985-3973 to order tickets: reserved seats $20 for adults; $12 students and seniors. It will be a great concert for the entire family!

WINTER CONCERT DETAILS FOR: Intermediate Band, Jazz Band and Choir.
Here is what you need to know if you are playing/sining at our
WINTER CONCERT II Thursday December 15th:
WHO: Intermediate Band students, Jazz Band students, and Choir.
WHAT: Winter Concert II- Thursday December 15th: 2:15 p.m. & 7:00 p.m. (2:15 show is for staff, students and family members who cannot attend the evening performance). Students to be at both performances; 6:40 arrival for evening performance.
WHAT TO WEAR: Concert attire (what you wear at the 7:00 p.m. performance): BOYS: shirt with a collar; nice pants (no faded or torn jeans) and nice shoes (clean tennies are o.k.)
GIRLS: a dress or skirt/blouse are preferred; nice pants and shoes are o.k.; no faded or torn jeans.
"What are we playing Mr. Pendergrass!?"
Intermediate Band
111 Ronde
121 The Conquering Hero Duet
127 Variations on a Theme by Mozart
139 Manhattan Beach March
143 Just Fine
147 Richochet Rock
148 Loch Lomond (ww only)
African Folk Trilogy
JAZZ
Blues By Five
12 Bar Lead and Backing
CHOIR
Americans All
Peace Song
Lift the Flag of Freedom
Snow Day
Walking in the Air
Simple Gifts
Rudolph
You know who is comin' to town

Instead of reading information via my weblog at msn, I have redirected the usual www.mystro2b.com link to come to this website. **CLICK THE GREEN PLAY ARROW BELOW TO HEAR ME!! Now you can listen to music announcements here or (hopefully) via itunes or any other media player. This site has an RSS feed and you can point your RSS reader to this link: http://mystro2b.podOmatic.com/rss2.xml and get automatic updates anytime. Confused? Don't know anything about RSS and podcasting? No worries- I will get you the information you need soon to enjoy this technology. You can still access the music calendar at http://calendar.yahoo.com/mystro2b. PLEASE LISTEN TO VIEW RIDGE MUSIC PODCAST 01 BELOW. Thanks!!

Welcome to my first podcast for View Ridge music parents and students. You'll hear some cool intro music, information about lesson for the week after our concert, some student interviews and more...check it out!

Welcome to my first podcast for View Ridge music parents and students. You'll hear some cool intro music, information about lesson for the week after our concert, some student interviews and more...check it out!