March 2009 Newsletter

Relay for Life Concert
April 17, 2009 Performance at 7:00 pm
Be there at 6:40 pm to tune and set up.
Lee County Sports Complex on Six Mile Cypress.
Wear your red Gulf Coast Music shirt and khaki bottoms.

Concert pieces will be chosen from the following:
Csardas, Michael McLean (for 3 violins)
Tambourin, A. E. Gretry - Book 8
Gavotte, Martini - Book 3
Minuet in G, Beethoven - Book 2
Hunters’ Chorus, C. M. von Weber - Book 2
Minuet 3, J. S. Bach - Book 1 (with Book 3 minor section)
Perpetual Motion in A with doubles, S. Suzuki - Book 1
Song of the Wind, Folk Song
Lightly Row, Folk Song - Book 1
See Saw
Twinkles
On the Road to Boston/Liberty Two-Step
Harvest Home

Piano and Cello Concert
Monday, April 20, 2009 at 6:00 pm ~ Reception to follow the performance.
Hobart Hall at Unitarian Universalist Church
Concert Wear - Wear your red Gulf Coast Music shirts and khaki bottoms or
nice/Sunday clothes. No flip-flops, sneakers, shorts, or spaghetti straps, please.
Gulf Coast Music will supply the paper goods. Please bring snacks and/or drinks
(drink boxes are great) to share. All Gulf Coast Music families are invited to attend.
Violin group students plan to stay for this fun event.

Tentatively on the same evening of Monday, April 20, 2009 at 5:30 pm.
at the Unitarian Universalist Church.
We have been asked to play for the Montessori School Parent Meeting.
I am asking for volunteers of any instrument to perform. For violin - I would love to have
a few Twinklers, a Book One student, a Book 2 or 3 student,
and our advanced group play one of their pieces.
Please contact me if you would like to perform.

Chirunning Workshop
At the Unitarian Universalist Church
May 9, 2009 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Gulf Coast Music School is sponsoring this event. We are hoping for
summer camp scholarship donations from this event.
Contact Chris at 590-0059 for info.

Gulf Coast Music
Summer Violin and Chamber Music Camp
The camp brochure and application are on our website.


Spring Break*All students*No Private and Group Classes*April 6-14, 2009

If you have private lessons on Monday, April 13 or Tuesday, April 14 they
will have to be rescheduled. Please speak to your private teacher to reschedule.

Violin Group Class Schedule Changes -
All are on Mondays. Right now while we do not have enrichment class from 4:15 - 4:30.

3:45 - 4:30	Twinkle - Minuet 1 (I will let the Twinklers leave at 4:15)
4:15 - 5:15	Minuet 2 - Book 4 (I will let the early Book 1 students leave near 4:30)
5:00 - 6:00	Book 5 and up (Starting earlier to mentor the less advanced students)

As you noticed, the plan is to overlap the groups so our more advanced
students are able to review their earlier pieces with the other students. I
would like to have the advanced students lead some of the pieces for the
next concert. Students may leave when we pass their most advanced piece.

• The second group (4:15) and third group (5:00) need to go out on the porch
  to tune before joining the class, so we are not interrupted when
  each student joins the group.
• The door near the piano will be locked from now on to insure there
  will be no interruptions. I will unlock the other door to the porch.
• The Group Classroom has been quite loud lately. Parents, please give
  the students participating in class the respect they deserve and go
  outside if you need to talk.
• Students need to arrive on time, especially for the 3:45 class. It is not
  fair and respectful to the students who are on time to interrupt their
  class each time a late student arrives and needs their violin tuned.
  Some parents may need to pick their children up earlier from school.
  We have never had a school principal complain because a student
  (usually an "A" student) needs to leave early one day a week for
  violin class!