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Mom’s and Muffins Concerts May 7-9, 2012

Mom’s and Muffins Concerts May 7-9, 2012

Great news!

 

Our Mom’s and Muffins Concerts are back by popular demand!  Students in Grades K-5 will be performing special selections for our Mother’s in the cafeteria, and then back to the classrooms for a special surprise!

DRESS:  Look nice!!

 

The Concert Schedule is as follows:

Monday May 7, 2012

Gr. 5      9:15- 9:45

Gr. 4      10:15 – 10:45

Tuesday May 8, 2012

Gr. 1      9:15 – 9:45

Kinder 10:15 – 10:45

Wednesday May 9, 2012

Gr. 2      9:15 – 9:45

Gr. 3      10:15 – 10:45

 

Please remember that parking is limited so if you live in the neighborhood you may want to walk, or arrive a early.   See you then!

 

Take Me Out To The Ball Game

Take Me Out To The Ball Game

Take me out to the ballgame

How to play baseball (with Goofy)

Take me out to the ballgame (with composer and famous ball players)

Take me out to the Ballgame

Take me out with the crowd

Buy me some peanuts and CrackerJack

I don’t care if I never get back

Let me root, root, root for the home team

If they don’t win it’s a shame

’cause it’s one, two, three strikes you’re out

at the old ballgame

ADC Greater Detroit Chapter Cultural Night: March 30, 2012 at 7:00PM- Fordson High School/ FREE and Open to the Public

ADC Greater Detroit Chapter Cultural Night: March 30, 2012 at 7:00PM- Fordson High School/ FREE and Open to the Public

 

Friday March 30th 2012

Fordson High School

Concert: 7:30 pm

Layali Zaman and the Michigan Arab Orchestra – Free Concert!

Click on the link above.

 

For more info search:  https://www.michiganaraborchestra.org/

Famous Classical Music Composers

Famous Classical Music Composers

Johann Sebastian Bach – Toccata and Fugue in d minor

Georg Frideric Handel – Music for the Royal Fireworks

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony #40 in G minor

Ludwig von Beethoven – Fur Elise (Piano Solo)

Franz Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

Georges Bizet – Carmen Suite No. 1 “Les Toreadors”

Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky – 1812 Overture

Homemade Instruments-Grade 3

Homemade Instruments-Grade 3

3rd grade stringed instruments3rd grade shakers

Our 3rd grade students id a “Science of Sound” unit in their Science classes.  They learned that all sound is the result of some type of vibration.  Then the used their knowledge to make their own instruments.  Great job!

Instrument Families

Instrument Families

Here are the instrument families and along with some links for each instrument.

 

WOODWINDS

Flute (7 year old) – Chaminade Concertino for Flute and Piano

Clarinet (10 year old)

Soprano Saxophone – (teenager) Kenny G: Going Home

Alto Saxophone – 10 year old

Tenor Saxophone – President Bill Clinton 1992

Baritone Saxophone and Tuba – Fun with Sponge Bob

Bass and Sopranino Saxophones

Sub Contrabass Saxophone

Bassoon (Elementary student) – Frere Jacques

Oboe (Middle School student-Super Mario Brothers)

English Horn – Dvorak: Symphony #9

 

BRASS

Trumpet – Haydn:  Trumpet Concerto – Allegro

French Horn – Legend of Zelda

Trombone – Stars and Stripes Forever

Bass Trombone – Handel: The Creation

Baritone Horn – Saint Saens: The Swan

Tuba – Pirates of the Caribbean

 

STRINGS

Violin – 7 Year old

Viola – 17 Year old: Variations on Happy Birthday

Cello – Carol of the Bells

Double Bass – Classical Style             Double Bass – 10 year old: Jazz Style (start at 1:23)

Classical Guitar – 10 year old girl    Classical Guitar: 10 year old boy

 

PERCUSSION

Snare Drum (Practice pad) – 10 year old

Bass Drum – G. Prokofiev ass Drum Concerto

Triangle – Solo

Woodblock – Solo

Marching Band – Concert Crash Cymbal Line

 

4th grade at the Symphony! 2-28-2012

4th grade at the Symphony! 2-28-2012

Our Fourth Graders are going to the Dearborn Symphony Orchestra Concert on February 28, 2012!   The concert will be held at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center at 10 am.  Students will leave from Miller Elementary via school bus at 9 am and return by 11am.   This concert is open to all fourth grade students from each Elementary School in the Dearborn Public Schools and we are very excited!  The Music that will be played is as follows:

Hoedown (From Rodeo) – Aaron Copland

Symphony #5 (First Movement) – Ludwig von Beethoven

Stars and Stripes Forever – John Phillip Sousa

Gallop from the “Comedians” – Kabalevsky

Dance of the Comedians – Smetana

Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix

American Salute – Morton Gould

01 Gidi wa Hamar track 1

Here are the lyrics (pronunciations) for Gidi wa Hamar

Kullun Undun

Say ir ad wa (du)

Gidi unda Hamar

Bira Kibna

Ghel foo

Byair-khud na mish war

Wil bolic e sou fer lou

Bi I du I esh er lu

Say are ad dit Zamer lou

Ba Ba Ba!!

 

Please feel free to listen to these musical pieces on Youtube so you know them very well when we get to the concert.

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What a great time we had at the Dearborn Symphony Orchestra Concert!   We took nearly 100 4th grade students to the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center experienced a wonderful morning of Classical Music.  It was great fun!  A special Congratulations goes out to Yousef Chammout who represented Miller school onstage as a recorder soloist.  Great job!  It just goes to show that hard work really pays off!  Thank you to Mrs. Traicoff, Mrs. Alsabahi, Mrs. Grigorian and Mrs. Moukalled for going with us and for helping to prepare our students for the experience.

Grade 2 Plays Xylophones and Boomwhackers

Grade 2 Plays Xylophones and Boomwhackers

2011-2012

 

Students in Grade 2 are having a great time learning to play songs on the xylophones and boomwhackers!