1) This weekend there are 2 really great concert-going opportunities - the Portland Youth Philharmonic has their concert Saturday Nov. 10 and the Salem Pops has their Friday Nov. 9. For ticket prices and more information www.salempopsorchestra.org and www.portlandyouthphil.org. Remember to show your West Salem student ID at Salem area concerts to receive student pricing.
2) The 9th annual Cremona exhibit, an exhibit of beautifully handcrafted violins, violas and cellos from Cremona, Italy, will be coming to Portland this next weekend. David Kerr Violin Shop(www.kerrviolins.com/event.html) is hosting this incredible exhibit. There is an opening afternoon reception - for more information, please navigate to the Web site. This is a traveling exhibit - the instruments are available for viewing (playing) and acquisition (they're mostly advanced-professional quality instruments) - that I used to go to annually in Los Angeles. Even if you're not in the market for a many-thousand-dollar instrument, it's wonderful to visit the shop and see/play these instruments.
3) Salem's All-City orchestra applications are due Tuesday Nov. 13 - the application needs student and parent signature and must be accompanied by a $7 check made out to Salem-Keizer Public Schools. If you don't know whether or not your child has the application materials, please feel free to contact me (silberman_daryl@salkeiz.k12.or.us). This year's All-City conductor is internationally respected music educator professor Louis Bergonzi - and dynamic conductor and fantastically interesting educator.
4) Thank you to all the parents who have come to parent conferences and who attended the Parent Meeting this past Tuesday.
5) Congratulations to the students accepted to the 2008 Oregon All-State Orchestra:
Gwen Gates, Violin
Robin Kim, Violin
Taylor Baldwin, Bass
Tyler King, Bass
Honorable mention goes to Kayla Fedenrecht for a great effort getting her audition materials together. Auditioning for All-State or All-Northwest is a tough process that takes lots of practice time and determination. Students accepted to play All-State will play at the Oregon Music Educators Association conference in Eugune next January. It is very exciting to have West Salem High so well represented.
6) Just a quickie reminder that though students have 5 days off, they are still expected to practice some - periods 5, 6, and 7 will need to turn in completed practice logs on the first day back next week, and period 1
is learning a wonderful piece of music with solo parts - auditions will be held in 2 weeks to see who will perform the solos at the Dec. 12 concert.
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Daryl Silberman, director
West Salem High School Orchestras
(503)-399-5533 x256
cell: (818) 317-8218
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