Making Music Fun

I discovered a great musical website for teachers and students alike! Click HERE to find free note reading flash cards, practice charts, and theory worksheets!

Mozart Requiem

Click HERE to read about the Requiem, my all time favorite piece of work. The first time I performed Mozart's Requiem was when I was 18 years old at a gorgeous church in Bellevue. What is sweet is that Alex rode down on his motorcycle to watch me in that very performance 12 years ago and he and my mom sat in the pews watching. I have performed this piece several times since then and every time it gives me the chills. I took these video clips today during our rehearsal. The concert is in an hour and a half, so I have to get ready! Last night I watched Amadeus on Netflix watch it now. It's a 3 hour movie, so I skipped to the end to watch the Requiem scenes.

Lei Day

The entire Waimea.Country.School staff
The little girl in purple in the front reminds me of my best friend Jenna when she was 7 years old.
I am receiving an appreciation award and a lei from the students
Here I am on the far left realizing a little too late that they are about to do a Hawaiian hula chant that I was not supposed to be a part of. I quickly hid behind the principal standing in front of me and tried to awkwardly follow along. The chant was led by the Level 4 teacher. I was planning on taking a video since it was my favorite chant in the entire performance. I completely spaced it and thought we were going up for a final school bow!

Stay Tuned

No time to blog. I had a week of recitals. With 76 students I can no longer have normal recitals where everyone performs in one big recital. Instead I have a recital every night of the week featuring the 15 or so students from that day's lessons. It ends up being a naturally nice variety of ages, levels, and instruments. Today was Waimea. Country. School's May Day performance. The theme was Waimea and I was in charge of creating a script and working with my students on the songs. They looked so beautiful and I took a few videos so stay tuned. Tomorrow I have another May Day performance in Hawi at the Waldorf school where I teach violin. And at the end of the month is my third school's production of Peter Pan. Then SUMMER!