Last night I finished up my music year at Vista with our annual Vista Orchestra and Recorders Concert. Our principal asked if this was our second such concert, and I said no, that we had been doing this for many years.
That made me wonder, "How many years?"
I know that we've had a Vista Orchestra since 2003, and I'm not quite sure when I started teaching recorders, but I'm thinking it was 2005. That was before I started blogging. Here is a link to what I think is my first blog post about an Orchestra/Recorders concert in 2009.
What was interesting and different about this particular concert:
1) I dropped one piece and added a different one at the last minute (never done that before!)
2) The recorder students played a song they made up to go with a story
3) Recorders and Orchestra played the Vista Ostinato, a piece composed by the string students
The CUSD EIMP (Elementary Instrumental Music Program) still has another week or so of classes, so I still have a reason to stay out of trouble.....
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