The Carnival of the Animals

The Swan 

The swan can swim while sitting down, For pure conceit he takes the crown, He looks in the mirror over and ovea, And claims to have never heard of Pavlova.  A short ballet, The Dying Swan, was choreographed in 1905 by Mikhail Fokine to this movement and performed by Anna Pavlova. Pavlova gave some 4,000 performances of the dance and "swept the world"

Click on the link to read and hear more about The Carnival of the Animals



http://www.welbourneprimary.com/Links/Music/Saintsaens/Carnivalofanimals.htm#Lions

First finger riff
Down Bow Retakes

Learning to be a conductor   3 beats in a bar

3 Fingers down on D String

Rhythm Ballybricken Ballygunner

Away We Go: Rest and Play 2016

  Elements Lesson 1  Here is what we did on our first day.


Rest and Play Position

RHYTHM Rhythm Has Your Two Hips Moving Wintertime in Russia  Using our Bows

Playing Pizzicato

How Many Letters in Musical Alphabet We used our Boom Whackers to work it out

Names of Strings   Greedy Dinosaurs Ate Everything

Pizz on G   Track 1 Vivaldi in G  Pitch Low / High

Pizz on D and A   Foxtrot  Ms Burke   D D D_   A A A_  Repeat  DDD_ DDD_ AAA_ AAD sh

Meet the Family The Double Bass



No time to listen to our featured composer. Can you find out some facts about Vivaldi  Try this link http://www.classicsforkids.com/composers/bio.asp?id=79

Vivaldi Winter from Rachelle Steinberg on Vimeo.

End of Term Performance at Presentation Primary School

Ice Cream Concert

Well done to my after school group. We finished our lessons with an performance at our music room for parents and friends. Each student performed solo and in a group for the invited audience.

Programme
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Blues
Beguine
French Folk Song
Ode to Joy
Can Can
Lightly Row

Wishing you all a happy Summer amd look forward to seeing you again in the Autumn.

Cathy Desmond 

Presto Ensemble at Killure Nursing Home

                           The Presto String Ensemble at Killure Nursing Home  Tues 1st March

No class today as we had an outing to Killure Nursing Home to play for the patients. We joined pianist Des Manahan.

Post performance hot chocolate at the Coffee Doc at Waterford Health Park/

 Suite : Foxtrot,  Blues and Beguine

Ode to Joy  Tune

Twinkle Twinkle  
Merrily We Roll Along, Hot Cross Buns  

French Folk Song in D
Frere Jacque   

Drunken Sailor

Lightly Row  Easy

Old MacDonald .

 

 

Presto String Ensemble Debut at Waterford Health Park

 

I am so proud of my students at the after-school class at my alma mater Presentation School,
Waterford.  Today, they gave their first public performance at the stunning surroundings of Waterford Health Park .  Our special guests were Dr Mark and Edel Rowe, Mrs Anne Marie O Mara, Principal, Presentation Primary School and Ms Angela Tobin, Music Coordinator , Presentation Primary School.

To date all the students in 4th , 5th and 6th class at Presentation Primary School have had two terms of violin tuition. The after school group is drawn from 4th and 5th class students who have completed the in school curricular module.

The programme was as follows


Vivaldi in G
Scale on D and A
Wintertime in Russia
Foxtrot
Blues
Beguine
Ode to Joy
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star 
             Pizz / Arco
Merrily We RollAlong
Lightly Row
                                                                                              
Mary Had a Baby
Deck the Halls
Jingle Bells.

Post recital Hot Chocolates

Photo N Meleshko

End of term concert

What a great finish to our violin programme. Ms Herlihy and Ms O Sullivan's class ensembles performed for 3rd classes and their teachers. Thanks to our audience for joining in the singing and helping out on percussion.  Principal Mrs O Mara was our very special guest.

Here are the words of Ode to Joy everybody joined in singing


Joyful Joyful, Lift your voices
All creation everywhere
Hearts and hands cross sea and land
Come join us in our fervent prayer
Every land and every nation
Strong and mighty, meek and mild
Help to build a world of peace for every woman, man and child

Ms Herlihy's Ensemble 

  Warm Up Wintertime in Russia

                    Scale on D

                   Three Little Pigs   includes Blues

                                                               Ode to Joy
                                                         
                                                               Sharks out motif
                                                             
                                                               Beguine
Ms O Sullivan's Ensemble 

Kilfenora Ceili Dancer 

Warm Up Scale on A

We will Shock You

Storytime Hairy Scarey Castle  group 1 pizz Group 2 short bows Group 3 Tremelo

Mary Had a Baby

Jingle Bell stomp

Guest spot Jane Reinl plays Happy Birthday

Thanks to our accompanist Ms Tobin

  Resources Hairy Scarey Castle Three Singing Pigs Umansky
                   Three Little Pigs for strings  Link here for stringschool version  C Desmond

 WEll done to all the students who reached level 2 of the Stringschool programme

Optional after school programme begins Tuesday 1 December .