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Gulf Coast Music School 2010 Feb Newsletter

Great performance at Artfest Ft Myers!!!!! Wonderful music, beautiful art, good company, and a perfect day! Congratulations everyone.

St Catherine Drexel Church Feast ~ Cape Coral
Sunday, March 7 ~ 3:00 pm (TBA)
Please arrive by 2:45 in your GCM red shirt and khakis.
Concert pieces will be chosen from the following –
Twinkles
See Saw
A-E-A
Song of the Wind, Book 1
Perpetual Motion, Book 1
Hunters’ Chorus, Book 2
Gavotte, Lully, Book 2
Gavotte in G Minor, Book 3
Lullaby, Schubert, Book 4 (Chris’s shifting class and Renata’s Class)
From Mark O’Connor’s Book 1 and 2
Boil ‘em Cabbage Down
Beautiful Skies
Buffalo Gals
Peek-a-Boo Waltz
Cielito Lindo
Dill Pickle Rag
Renata’s Class Pieces
Cello and Piano Pieces

Mark O’Connor’s Violin Books 1 and 2 are now available from Shar Music at 1-800-248-SHAR or www.sharmusic.com If you are in Suzuki Book 1, purchase Book 1. If you are in Suzuki Book 2 and up, purchase Book 2. The CD’s are included. If you can, please purchase both. There are pictures, history and stories about the pieces. We will be using them in addition to our Suzuki books for many concerts. You will save on shipping if you put your orders together.

Link to Florida Gulf Coast University music events -
http://www.fgcu.edu/CAS/BSM/Concerts.html

There’s not much notice, but join us if you can for the cello improv class. Information on the next page below -

Hi Cello Groupers,

Chuck Grinnell, the music director at the UU church on Shire Lane , will be coming into cello class on Tuesday Feb. 9 at 5:30 to give a talk on improvisation. I hope you can come.

In preparation, he asked us to watch the following link http://www.ted.com/talks/evelyn_glennie_shows_how_to_listen.html about listening that was given by Evelyn Glennie, an international percussion soloist who is deaf. He also said that we should think about the following question, and be ready to answer it in some way:

What is the difference between the violin and cello .... then between a viola and cello.... then a guitar and cello. Be ready to explain the difference to me as if I were from some other place that didn't have any instruments. and I have never heard an instrument play. Also, you will probably want to be familiar with C and D two octave scales and arpeggios and a one octave a minor scale. Hope to see you there! Susie Kelly