[music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [applause] >> Hello, welcome to the fourth hour sixth grade band spring concert. My name is Brian Jensen. I am these amazing students uh class teacher and then Mr. Miller and Mr. Seeger teach most of their lessons. Uh we're so excited that you're here and you get to hear how much they've grown since the winter concert. So, without further ado, I'm going to hand it over to our first two speakers. Good evening, and My name is Gabriel, and I play the trombone. And my name is Trevin, and I play the French horn. We are so excited to share with you all that we've been working on this spring. We've grown a lot since our winter concert. Our first piece is called Mechanical Monsters by Randall Standridge. To create that picture, we learned some new techniques. First, we learned a new note concept, E flat, to give the music a more scary sound. We also learned how to use This is an inventive technique that we learned in music. We hope you enjoy Mechanical Monsters by Randall Standridge. >> [applause] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [applause] [applause] >> Hello, my name is Harrison and I'm a freshman. I'm Aaron Harrison and I'm a freshman. Our next piece of music is called Dig It Back in Time. It's written by Jessica E. Molin and is about ancient symbols and images. She also plays the clarinet. She uses different articulations and dynamics to depict the tone of the hammer and the chisel in the piece of music. In this piece we learn about something called a canon, and not like the kind that goes boom. In music a canon is when the same music theme is overlapped and repeated at slightly different times. This is also known as a round. See if you can hear where where the canon happens. We enjoy you in or we hope you enjoyed Petroglyphs by Jessica E. Molin. >> [applause] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [applause] [applause] >> Hello, my name is Charles and I play the clarinet. And my name is Andy and I play the trombone. Our third selection of music is a much different vibe than any of our other pieces of music. Gentle Winds by Timothy Loest is all about a light, streaming, beautiful wind song talking to the trees. This song was a challenge for us because we weren't used to playing so slow, but we practiced really hard on how to count in three-four time, listen to each other more closely, and put more emotion into the song. We hope you enjoy Gentle Winds by Timothy Loest. >> [applause] [applause] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [applause] [applause] >> Hello, my name is Lillian and I play the trombone. And my name is Aubrey and I play the clarinet. We are ramping up our energy back up for our last two pieces. This next song is called Dragon Slayer by Rob Grice. This music is about well, Dragon Slayer the dragon. It's adventurous, scary, and triumphant. To successfully play this music, we had to learn a new key signature. A key signature shows each instrument if they have any sharps or flats in their part. It's like a secret code for each player. Through working on all of our spring concert songs, we can now change you know three new key signatures. This sets us up really well for seventh grade band. That was >> [applause] >> Dragon Slayer by Rob Grice. >> [music] [music] [bell] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [bell] [bell] [music] [music] [bell] [music] [music] [music] [music] [applause] >> Before we hear about our last song, you guys can just hang out over here. You're good. You're good. I just have a couple thank you's to give out. Firstly, thank you for being here and for supporting your students. They couldn't do this without you. So, students, give your grown-ups and your families a hand. >> [applause] >> Give them a ROUND OF APPLAUSE. THANK YOU ALSO TO THE VALLEY Middle School of STEM administration, especially Mr. Chatter, for being here tonight. Thank you so much for your support. >> [applause] >> Another huge thank you goes out to our teaching colleagues here at Valley Middle School of STEM for their support these students in all of their band activities getting called out of class for lessons sometimes, Eagle Time ensembles, all that good stuff. So, thank you to them. Thank you to these amazing human sixth grade band teachers. Without those sixth grade band teachers, they would not be here. So, we're really appreciative of them as well. Another huge thank you to our custodial staff for setting up our chairs. It's a huge help for us. And finally, thank you to you students for putting in so much hard work this winter and spring, the whole year, for getting ready for this concert. Let's give them a round of applause. >> [applause] [applause] >> You're welcome. And we have a little bit more. We do have some exciting things coming up this summer for our Valley Middle School band family. We have some summer band information that you can find on the second page or the second page of your program. The biggest thing to know is that everything we do for summer band is at Apple Valley High School because we have some construction going on here. So, if your student shows up for band here, we will not be here. So, we will be at the high school. So, you can sign your student up for a Pops band, which is a full group band that they can participate in. We also have some summer our that will be running in July. So, please take a look at the some of those opportunities. It's a great way for the students to keep their skills up through the summer. Now, you can come up and talk about our last song. Thank you again for being here. >> [applause] >> Hello, my name is Teddy and I play the trombone. My name is Celeste and I play the French horn. And my name is Dylan and I play the alto saxophone. Our last Our last song tonight will be a classic rock song, Eye of the Tiger by Survivor and arranged by Gerald Sebestyen. What's The original song was made popular by being featured in the movie Rocky III. This version of the song uses uses band instruments to act as the rock instruments in the original. Our version of the song will feature two trombones. So, it's the low brass section acts like acts as the electric bass. The middle voices like French horns and saxophones provide sounds like they keep a beat. And the upper voices like flutes, oboes, clarinets, and trumpets play the melody back and forth like a singer. We hope you enjoy Eye of the Tiger arranged by Gerald Sebestyen. Drive home safely, have a great summer break, and remember to take us out for a treat after the concert. Thank you for celebrating with Thank YOU FOR >> [applause] >> WOO! >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> WOO! >> [applause] [applause]