New Year Commences

There are some great students this year in my studio and classes. August is hot but the classroom has some cool kids that know how to make me smile. My beginning orchestra at TIS is SO Chatty. My goodness, they could talk their legs off. I had to get after them today. Ugly little suckers...But they are so eager to learn their instruments. It is fun to teach them. My intermediate orchestra is amazing. The sound is incredible. My DMS group is substantial and they sight read their new pieces really well. Kinda cool, I think.

NOVEMBER????

WHere has the time gone? We are in second quarter and Parent Teacher Conferences were last night. The Dickens Festival is almost upon us and the Christmas season is right after. Cool weather makes it all tolerable.

School Has Started...

Back to School 2009. Everyone came back and off we go with music and fun. Tonaquint Intermediate has 41 kids new to strings and 46 old ones. The DMS orch is awesome this year...working on the new songs for the new year. Choir is big with over 40 kids and my guitar classes have over 38 kids each. Nice group too. We are off getting good at the PIMA patterns and left hand stuff. Lessons are filling up. My summer is over.

Summer Strings Big Success

We had a great first summer of Summer Strings for the Dixie/Desert Hills Cone Site. It was fabulous. Had fun and learned some great stuff. School begins in only 34 days... let the summer wind down...getting movies, scrapbooks, and sewing done but not much reading. Summer lessons are slow but fulfilling. Enjoying the time off.

Heard the MTC sing last Sunday, July 4th weekend, it was fabulous...we were really moved...great visit with Conrad.

Concert season upon us

We just finished regionals with a II plus, and state solo/ensembles. Everyone did well. The May 2 concert of cellists was a bust as only four people could perform versus 10 so we canceled. Sorry to those who had prepared. It was nice to have a day off though...got some quilting done and errands ran...
This week is the play Bye Bye Birdie...Thursday and Friday nights at 6 and 8pm at the DMS Cafeteria.
Next week on Tues and Thurs is the orchestra concerts. Tis is 6pm on Tues and DHS/DMS is 6pm on Thurs at DHS Auditorium.
Choir concert is May 18 at DMS Cafeteria. Concert time, 6pm.
Come one come all...should be lots of fun...robin

Counting Down

We have only nine weeks of school left and only a handful of concerts. All is well.

DMS DHS Concerts A complete success!

DMS and DHS concerts were tonight and they did very well. Great mix of music. We celebrated Lincoln's 200th birthday. They played well. We were done before 7:30pm.
It has been a long week we had four concerts for the fifth graders at TIS and SUPAF was last week. The groups all got superior ratings. Excellent jobs by all. Now we begin the end of year countdown and a burrage of competitions and graduation. PHEW.
Spring break cannot come soon enough....