Week of 10/30

Congratulations to the Solo Festival Participants!

VC Piano Beg. - Everyone should playing melodic and harmonic 4ths and 5ths

RC3 - Good job on your P4 and P5 Quiz. Let's move on to major and minor 6ths.


The Piano Lab is open for your convenience before and after school. I'll be very glad to see you.

Week of 10/24

VC - Class Piano Recital Participants:  Congratulations! Good Job!
I'm looking forward to hearing all of you this week.
Beg. are studying 4ths and 5ths.

RC 3 and 4 - I'm always available for test re-takes.  Stay in touch.

Week of 10/17

The Showcase Audition Schedule

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fzMZ2PLI0nXyEhlaEjLdts2tYvJM37aaCZaimhumQDM/edit?usp=sharing .

Week of 10/17

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Here is the link set up in order to gather information for students interested in private piano lessons with Ms. Lewis.

https://goo.gl/forms/XpmhU4HgiadRJ9xo2

This is Ms. Lewis' bio, if you misplaced your hard copy.

Biographical Sketch of Ella Lewis

Ella Lewis was born in New York, New York, but resided in Brunswick, Georgia most of her formative years. Ms. Lewis is a graduate of Morris Brown College and has done extensive graduate work at Georgia State University. She has currently completed 37 years as a teacher in the Atlanta Public School System, where she was a piano instructor and accompanist for the North Atlanta High School Performing Arts Dept. Throughout her tenure, she served as choral director for several schools, stage/jazz band director, show choir director, Handbell director, and assistant registrar. The subjects that she’s taught were Piano, Music Theory (all levels), Guitar, Handbells, IB Music, Ethnic Music Studies, Music Appreciation, and various Choral Ensembles. Along with duties in educating the children in Atlanta, she has been involved with church music. Although her early musical training was dual (piano/ specialization in woodwind instruments), her focus is now on classical organ. For 13 years, Ms. Lewis was organist and accompanist for several choirs at the Cascade United Methodist Church and organist at the Ben Hill United Methodist Church for 5 years. She was church organist for the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church for 18 years. At present, Ella is the organist and pianist for the Sandy Springs Christian Church and is in her tenure of 6 years.

Ella Lewis is an able accompanist, having accompanied in many master classes and recitals throughout the United States. She has served as accompanist for the Atlanta University Community Chorus, Opus, Onyx Opera Atlanta, Senior High All-State Choruses (State of Georgia), and several conventions of the National Association of Negro Musicians. Ms. Lewis has accompanied several groups, locally, nationally and abroad. She is the accompanist for the nationally known Uzee Brown Society of Choraliers, based here in Atlanta GA. She performed as accompanist and organist on several international tours, which included England, and Italy.

In June 2002, she traveled throughout Germany, Switzerland, and France and performed concerts, playing the organ in several major European churches, including the cathedral at St. Sebald in Neurnburg, the cathedral at Freiburg and St. Johnnes Kirche in Basel, Switzerland. Ella still travels extensively and concertizes on occasions.

She holds memberships in several organizations. Among them are the American Guild of Organists (AGO), Music Educators’ National Conference, (MENC), Georgia Music Educators’ Association (GMEA), Metropolitan Atlanta Musicians’ Association (MAMA), Delta Omicron.

International Music Fraternity (∆O), Georgia Association of Educators (GAE), the National Educators Association (NEA), and the National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM) of which she is a former member of the Board of Directors. 

Week of 10/10

For those who recently played "A Tisket, a Tasket" ...check this out. Compare these 2 versions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_lrYzMvMYI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkSiPKC-8so


Listen to more Ella singing with jazz great Mel Torme..just for fun
These two videos are about 20 yrs. apart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju5NztMnQxE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CbVy1NnB4g



RC 3:  Here is the music theory website we discussed in class.  You can identify intervals visually and aurally. Find the exercises.


https://www.teoria.com/en/exercises/

Week 10/3

Welcome Back!!!

Piano
VC Beg - I'm excited to get back to work.  We should be reading on the grand staff and playing with both hands.  "Rock-a-Long" is the 1st piece.

Make sure you ask for piano sheets and packets of your assignments to take home and practice.

Chamber - Let's get ready to sight-read on piano using Sight-Reading Factory.