Johns Creek Symphony's Meet the Orchestra!

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Recorders

Forms for recorders will be passed out soon. If you need to purchase one from a vendor other than us, please do not purchase a recorder from Target, Walmart, or any sort of dollar store! These instruments will probably be less money, but the quality is not good! It will make it harder for your student to be successful. Please purchase an instrument (Soprano Baroque recorder) from a music store such as (but not limited to):

Music and Arts

7331 North Point Pkwy

Alpharetta, GA

Music Matters
614 W Crossville Rd
Roswell, GA 30075

Music Matters

3630 Peachtree Parkway
Suwanee, GA

Music Matters

631 N Main St # 107
Alpharetta, GA

Ken Stanton Music

6010 North Point Pkwy

Alpharetta, GA 30022

Sam Ash Music

2999 Cobb Pkwy
Atlanta, GA 30339

Guitar Center

1455 Pleasant Hill Road Suite 401

Lawrenceville, GA 30044

Guitar Center

1901 Terrell Mill Rd. SE
Marietta, GA 30067

Guitar Center

1485 Northeast Expressway
Atlanta, GA 30329

Carere Music
4947 Winters Chapel Rd STE 7
Atlanta, GA 30360

Town Center Music 
4072A Suwanee Dam Rd
Suwanee, GA 30024



Or online at:

www.Westmusic.com

http://musiciselementary.com

http://maciepublishing.com/

http://www.peripole.com/

Roswell North Performance Dates

Roswell North Parents, 
Please put these dates onto your calendar:

Third Grade Performance: Thursday, November 21, 2013 @ 7pm (It's the day before Grandparents Tea so please invite them to come!)

Second Grade Performance: Tuesday, February 4th, 2014 @ 7pm

First Grade Performance: Due to the size of the grade this year, we are splitting 1st grade into two dates. Your student will only perform on one date and we will let you know which performance your child will perform in very soon. Tuesday, March 4th OR Wednesday March 5th. Both performances will be at 7pm.

Music opportunities around metro Atlanta

We live in a city that is overfilling with chances for our students to experience music and so throughout the year, I will be posting music opportunities around metro Atlanta. 

Here are a couple that are happening soon:

• Stomp will be coming to the Fox Theatre from September 26-29th. They are a group that uses everyday objects as musical instruments! They have been featured on Sesame Street, Reading Rainbow, and were in the closing ceremonies of the London Olympics.
• The Georgia Philharmonic will be playing a concert of all movies tunes on October 12, 2013 at the Roswell Cultural Arts Center
• The Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra has 4 concerts on their schedule. These include a holiday pops concert and a movie music concert!

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra has 3 family concerts this year. They are:

• Phantom of the Opera: Every Halloween the “phantoms of the orchestra” return to haunt the concert hall. The maestro and his terrified assistant must use the power of the baton to control this ghoulish orchestra of the undead and lead them in concert. Sunday, October 27, 2013 1:30 pm & 3:30 pm

• Tchaikovsky Discovers America:  Based on actual historic events, this story tells of the great composer’s arrival in New York for the grand opening of Carnegie Hall in 1891, and his adventure-filled trip to Niagara Falls. Audiences will enjoy more than twenty-five excerpts of the composer’s music — woven into the drama, as two performers recreate historical incidents from the composer’s life, and act out stories from his famous ballets. Sunday, February 9, 2014 1:30 pm & 3:30 pm

• Sounds of the Symphony!: Join the Atlanta Symphony for a lively and musical ride where you and your family will discover the wonders of an orchestra! Meet the Brass, Woodwinds, Percussion and Strings, who will each share their unique sound and music. Hear selections from some of the best-loved orchestral compositions. Meet the Orchestra and become a life-long friend with music. Sunday, March 30, 2014 1:30 pm & 3:30 pm

Here are a couple of groups that you may want to check out, but have not updated their calendars yet:

• Greater Atlanta Girls Choir: The Greater Atlanta Girls Choir (GAGC) is based in Roswell, Georgia and serves girls grades 3 – 12. GAGC strives to build girls’ confidence, self-esteem, and lifelong love of music through exposure to challenging, multi-cultural choral music; positive role models; and production of high quality performances for local, national, and international communities.
• The Atlanta Young Singers: Since 1975, Atlanta Young Singershas been at the forefront of the choral art form in metro Atlanta and the U.S., thrilling audiences all over the world with innovative programming, professional performance, and exciting commissions. We nurture the incredible artistic abilities of children, offering esteem, confidence, teamwork and leadership.
• SODA (String Orchestra of Decatur and Atlanta,) is a youth orchestra for 3rd-9th graders.
• Cobb Wind Symphony Formed in September 1999, the Cobb Wind Symphony is comprised of adult musicians from all over the Atlanta area. CWS was created to provide a musical outlet for musicians of Cobb County and the Atlanta area and to further the development of band music.

I will also post Johns Creek High School, Roswell High School, Autrey Mill Middle School, and Crabapple Middle School, Fulton Youth Orchestra, and Fulton Honors Chorus concerts when I receive them.   

Welcome Back!

Welcome back to school boys and girls!

I'm so excited to see all of you again. This year I will be at Barnwell Elementary on Mondays and at Roswell North from Tuesday-Friday! My classes are:

Barnwell
Pre-K: Silverboard
Kindergarten: Collins
1st grade: Wittes
2nd grade: Bruner
3rd grade: Green
5th grade: Smith

RNE
Pre-K: Waller
Kindergarten: Nichols, Pompilio, Borg, Fields
1st grade: Maples, Lee, Wesseling, Walter 
2nd grade: Goodloe/Mihich, Wells, Sarmir
3rd grade: Lane, Berger, Trice, Ray
4th grade: Linn, Metz, Glover
5th grade: O'Prey, Murphy

I will be sending out information via this blog, but also please feel free to check out the links! I have lots of musical activities listed that are loads of fun.

I hope you all have a great year and I will be seeing you soon! :)

-Ms. Yen

Talent Shows

For the last 2 weeks of school, we will have a talent show during Music class. This talent show is for their classmates only. Students may do any talent of their choosing as long as it's appropriate for school. If their talent cannot be done in my classroom (such as football, archery, karate, gymnastics, street art, etc.) students may be bring in a thumb drive or DVD with a recording of them doing their talents. You may also upload it onto YouTube and send it to me at yenmusicclass@gmail.com or yen@fultonschools.org. 

Students may bring their own instruments in to class, however must have a way to bring it to and from school. The only items in my classroom students are allowed to use are the piano, the CD player, and the TV. 

If students are dancing to or singing a song with lyrics, they must fill out this form so that I can approve the lyrics.

I'm excited to see what you all can do!

3rd Grade study guide!

All 3rd graders in Fulton County have to take an assessment in Music. We went over this study guide during class, but in case you have lost it, click here for the study guide.

RNE 4th grade recorder songs

Click here for the Power Point slides with the songs we played during our parent performance.