Finale Programme Confirmed

Presentation School proudly presents…

The Presto Ensembles 2014

With Special Guests –

The Amazing Presentation School School Choir

A matinée recital at the Hall on Tuesday 29^th  April at 1.15pm  The classes of Mrs Bourke, Mrs Morgan, Ms, Ryan and Ms  Fitzgerald present some of the repertoire we have worked during the terms

Bourke Ensemble
Foxtrot
Blues  
Wintertime in Russia   Slow   
Ode to Joy
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star  

Ms Fitzgerald

Vivaldi in G
Carnival in Rio on A

Sharks Out

Rock You

Ms Moran

A Story : Three Billy Goat's Gruff  with special  string sound  effects.

Hot Cross Buns/   ``````````````

Ms Ryan 
Toreadors March
First Finger Riff  Sea Shanty

Kilfenora Ceili Dancer
Twinkle Twinkle

Final Level 1 Concert date announced.11

Newsflash: Concert Date announced   1.15pm The Halla  29th April 

Guests The Presentation Choir 

Super concentration from everyone today. Draft programme for the concert below looks like this.

Ms Burke 

Foxtrot  2
Blues   13
Wintertime in Russia   Slow  Fast   30 29
Ode to Joy 17
Scale on D
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star  26
Leaders Ciara  Ester

Ms Ryan 

Toreadors March  14
First Finger Riff With solo  and sung verse  unacc
Kilefenora Ceili Dancer  8
Scale on A
Twinkle Twinkle
Leader Chanice,  Chime Bars Vicky Cello  Ellen

Ms Fitzgerald

Vivaldi in G
Carnival in Rio on A
Scale on A
Next week   Sharks  and Old McDonald

Ms Moran

Storytelling  Three Billy Goat's Gruff
Estris Cello

Theme and Variation 10

Welcome to Ms Ryan to the programme today.

Glissando 

All classes worked on a variation of Twinkle Twinkle based on Winter time in Rus sia rhythm

Ms Morgan's class played a scale all the way from low D to high D

We made a start on the sound effect stories

Ms Bourke: Three Little Pigs

Ms Ryan: Jack and the Beanstalk

Ms Morgan: Three Billy Goats Gruff

 Variation on a theme : Playing a tune a different way .  Today we used a different rhythm

Link to Twinkle Variation

Here, There and Everywhere 9

Sunshine in the Presto Garden

Programme today

4th class 

Rhythm only section Old McDonald

Two halves 

Old McDonald had a Farm EIEIO etc 

Scale on D

Twinkle Twinkle

3rd Class 

Caylin Clair de La Lune 

Jane Hot Cross Buns 

D D   A  A     B  B    A_  
0  0     0 0       1  1     0 
G G   F# F#   E  E    D _ 
3   3    2  2     1    1     0

Line 2 

A A   G G   F# F#  E_
0  0    3  3    2   2    1
A A   G G   F# F#  E_
0  0    3 3      2  2    1_

DD    A A   B B   A _
G G  F# F# E  E   D_

  

Hot Cross Buns 

Seachtain na Gaeilge: Jigs and Reels and Remembering Riverdance 8

Bill Whelan @ShivnaBill

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It was 20 years ago today.... that we first recorded Riverdance in Windmill Lane. Fond memories of all those involved

3:29 PM - 3 Mar 2014

Is é Seachtain na Gaeilge. Bhi go leor mar gheall ar ceol damhsa ar an chláir inniu. Tá suim sa ceol Gaelach ar fud an domhain. Riverdance , a theatre show based on Irish traditional dance has been touring the world for 20 years and has been seen and loved by millions all over the world. The show grew from a a six minute interval act in an international song competition. Dublin was hosting the competition that year. You can see for yourself what made us so excited Here is interval act from the 1994 in the clip below. The best bit I think is when the two solo dancers are joined by the full company of dancers about 4 and 1/2 minutes in . The dancers feet in hard dancing shoes made a great percussion sound
Special thank you to the dancers Jody, Aisling, Jane for demonstrating the dance steps.

Here are the rhythms we played today

Port - Jig 6/8 The Irish Washerwoman Wriggleys chewing gum

Ríl -Reel 4 beats in a bar. McLeod's Reel Kilfenora Cei-li Dan-cer

Polka John Ryan's Polka     1  2   1 skip rhythm

Hornpipe- 4 beats like a reel but slower tempo

Heartbeat rhythm (dotted rhythm) Cornpíopa Off to California

I enjoyed my visit as a guest to 6th class today for more dancing and playing.
at the same time. Buíochas díobh go léir.

Which rhythm suits a jig best

http://www.thespeks.com/index.php  Check out The Speks of Glasses Island for more songs and Irish music

More Bow and Twinkle properly 7

Programme today

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Both 4th classes did a lot of work on this today

Rhythm only   Snowflake (Down) and floating balloon (up) bows on the long notes.

Longer bows need to be slower

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Nice Bow Hand

  Today was  a very exciting day as  three classes moved on to our new tune , Twinkle Twinkle. 3rd class experimented with a new river.
We had lots of fun with the tremelo game
Line 1
D D   A  A     B  B    A_  
0  0     0 0       1  1     0 
G G   F# F#   E  E    D _ 
3   3    2  2     1    1     0

Line 2 

A A   G G   F# F#  E_     Roisin / Teacher 
0  0    3  3    2   2    1
A A   G G   F# F#  E_
0  0    3 3      2  2    1_

DD    A A   B B   A _
G G  F# F# E  E   D _ 

Revision Toreadors  March

Special effects: Rock and Roll bows  Roll your bow over all four strings

Ms Moran's class

New rhythm  Bow River  Bow(Long)  and Hic-cup  bows
Jane Hot Cross Buns  pizzicato 

Scales and String Crossing 6

Yes- That is sunshine making a rare appearance in the classroom today .

Today we started with a string crossing exercise.

Scale on A and Scale on D (4th class)

Scale on D (3rd Class)

Rhythm 1  Winter time in Russia 2 tempos Andante and Presto

Glissandos

4th class Harmony Notes Chords