I hope you all had a great weekend. My weekend was full of alphabet photography (stay tuned!), and a great experience of singing with a group of you lovely people at Sacred Heart for mass this morning. Thank you to those of you who were there to share the gift of music with everyone. Your service is very much appreciated!

Also, in mostly unrelated news (although still on the topic of music.... surprise, surprise!), check out this SUPER cool group that Brenna pointed out to me. Apparently when they got together they could only afford one guitar, and necessity is the mother of invention, after all!

Welcome back!

Hi everyone! Welcome back to Semester 2. I hope you had a great break during semester turnaround and that you're ready to get started with new and wonderful projects in Term 2.

On the music side of things, please remember to bring your instruments for band again as we will be back into rehearsals starting today. That being said, Level 1 and 2 bands will be singing instead of playing today (I'm teaching you the new settings of the music for the mass - Gloria, Memorial Acclamation, Amen, Lamb of God). Level 4 will be rehearsing in the dining hall.

Computers 9I, your first assignment is to complete either a timetable of your Semester 2 subjects or a Bathroom Reader (for any month, as this is a practice trial run of creating one in Microsoft Word or Pages). Our assigned months will be April and June.

Rivier is responsible for the music ministry at the 11:00am mass this Sunday, January 29th at Sacred Heart Cathedral. Please sign up to sing - it will take about an hour, and will be so appreciated by everyone (especially me). You can use this time as service hours too, which is an added bonus for your Christian Ethics classes! Rehearsals for this choir will be today, tomorrow, and Thursday (as needed) at 12:00pm in the music room. Instruments are welcome too - djembe, violin, etc.

Sound of Music rehearsals are getting very intensive now, so it's very important that every cast member is present at all rehearsals. If you must miss a rehearsal, it is your responsibility to inform one of the directors with as much advance notice as possible so that we are not wondering where you are when rehearsal time comes. Thank you for your understanding in this matter. We have 2 weeks until the show opens, and lots of work to be done between now and then! Time to pull up those knee-high forest green socks! :o)

Music updates

Jr. Choir members needing to refresh memory work on "Early One Morning" and "Fare Thee Well, Love" please meet me in the music room at 12:15 today for a brief rehearsal.

Jazz Choir, if you need extra help with choreography before the concert (tomorrow at 7pm) I will be available after school for as long as we need. Remember that we also scheduled an extra rehearsal on Thursday at 11:40 to make sure the choreography is in place, especially for the 30s who missed 1-2 rehearsals due to retreat and other reasons. Also, please remember to track down your costumes for our first number, as we don't want any last-minute scrambles to get things in order.

Band students, practice charts are due by Friday. Online theory is due by June 17th at the very latest, and I have already spoken to some of you about how much is needing to be done. Many of you have completed the program with 100% or in the high 90s. Way to go!

The concert tomorrow is at 7pm, and the order is as follows:

Jazz Choir (be here by 6:30pm)
Level 1 Band (be here by 6:30pm)
Orchestra 10 (be here by 6:45pm)
Orchestra 20 (be here by 6:45pm)
Level 2 Band (be here by 7:00pm)
Jazz Choir (already here)
Orchestra 30 (be here by 7:15pm)
Junior Choir/Senior Choir (be here by 7:15pm)
Level 3 Band (be here by 7:30pm)
Level 4 Band (be here by 7:30pm)

The room assignments for each group are posted on all of the homeroom doors along with a copy of the program. Please be sure that your instruments and music are out of the storage rooms by 6:45pm on Thursday. If this means that you need to remove them on Wednesday or Thursday after school, please do so. You may store them in your classrooms temporarily and then return them after the concert.

The dress for the concert is full uniform (vest, tie, etc.) with BLACK PANTS. Kilts don't go over well when playing on a raised stage. Even if your group is standing, please wear black pants to stay consistent throughout each ensemble.

Thank you for all of your hard work this year! I'm excited for our concert, as we really have some nice rep prepared for our audience (I'm sure the twins will love it! Look for them in the front row!). Our performance year will round out with an afternoon entertaining at the Good Sam's International RV Club "Samboree" at the Exhibition Center on Friday. If you're a grade 10 student who is helping at track, you will be excused for the performance(s). If you're a junior student who is competing at track, you will remain at the track for the day to complete your events.

There are still a few of you who owe me singing/playing tests from earlier this semester. I will be tracking you down to make sure that they happen before final exams (or during that week if necessary). Choral 20 students, we may have to run singing tests over a lunch hour so that we can potentially use our final rehearsal times to sing at Pineview or Mont St. Joe's (although nothing of that sort has been arranged yet).

Calling all musicians

Hi girls! If any of you would like to join the Senior Choir in a mass choir for the 11:00am mass on Sunday, May 29th at Sacred Heart, please sign up on my door this week. All singers and instrumentalists are welcome.

If you are interested in applying for a scholarship for International Music Camp, please pick up an application form from me and have it back to me by this Friday. For more information on the camp, its programs, location, dates, etc. check out www.internationalmusiccamp.com.

Finally, if you would like to perform at the Good Sam's International RV event on Friday, June 10th at the Exhibition Centre, please sign up on my door. All acts are welcome - dancers, singers, instrumentalists, etc. Think of this as a Variety Night type event when deciding what you could perform.

For example, if you and a friend can do something this super cool (or even a fraction of its coolness), then you're in!:

Updates all around!

Science 7 - Notes on the theory of plate tectonics, types of boundaries (converging, diverging, transform), brainstorm and discussion on earthquakes and volcanoes

Comp 8I - Nature Quote, start April calendars when you finish the nature edit

Comp 8M - April calendars

IP 10 - Brainstorming for news broadcast video project

IP 20/30 - Start thinking about when you will begin filming for your movie trailer video project - the brainstorming and planning process should be coming together now with some concrete ideas for how you will shoot each clip, camera angles, costumes, effects, etc.

Jazz Choir - We're Doin' a Show/What a Wonderful World - memory work on Wonderful World should be almost done now

Senior Choir - Body Talk, new piece(s) TBA, Early One Morning/Fare Thee Well, Love for final concert as well

All bands - Online theory marks have been printed and will be 30% of your report card mark again this semester. Practice charts for March are due by this Friday, and need to be signed by a parent or guardian to verify that your minutes have been completed. CONGRATULATIONS to the Level 3 and Level 4 bands who played at Music Festival yesterday and scored marks of 87 and 88 (Level 3), and 86 and 87 (Level 4). We are so proud of you! Way to go!

Junior choir opportunity - If you want to sing with the choir for the Way of the Cross celebration on April 18th, please let me know. We will be singing "Sing Hosanna," "Eat This Bread," "Look at the Cross," "All You Who Pass This Way," and "Jesus, Remember Me."

Rivier students at the PA Kiwanis Music Festival

Music Festival dates and times for Rivier students

VOCAL

(Rivier Academy auditorium)

Sunday, March 13^th @ 1pm

· Maddi Sutor and Michelle Kent – Shenandoah

· Miss Campbell, Kayleigh Smith, Janice Manning, Megan Fournier – And So It Goes

· Maddi Sutor – Wiegenlied

· Olivia Boden – Fruhlingsleid Op. 8, No. 6

Sunday, March 13^th @ 7pm

· Brenna Feher and Tracy Feher – Shenandoah

· Miss Campbell – Habanera from Carmen

· Michelle Kent – O Little Lambs, Where Do You Sleep?

· Brenna Feher – Lazy Summer

· Brenna Feher and Jordan Feher – A Couple of Swells from Easter Parade

· Miss Campbell and Kayleigh Smith – What is This Feeling? from Wicked

Monday, March 14^th @ 9am

· Michelle Kent – Van gli effluvi de le rose

· Maddi Sutor – Star Vicino

· Olivia Boden – Spring Op. 56, No. 3

· Brenna Feher – O Cessate Di Piagarmi

Monday, March 14^th @ 1pm

· Grade 8 – Le Corbeau et le Renard / Ah! Ah! Ah! Rhinoceros

· Amanda Loeffen – Lullaby

· Amanda Loeffen – Coconut Man

· Maddi Sutor – Cloud Shadows

Monday, March 14^th @ 7pm

· Danika Nickel – Beauty and the Beast from Beauty and the Beast

· Michelle Kent – Home from Beauty and the Beast

· Olivia Boden – Part of Your World from The Little Mermaid

Tuesday, March 15^th @ 1pm

· Rivier Academy Choir – Early One Morning / Fare Thee Well, Love

· Brenna Feher – She’s Like the Swallow

· Danika Nickel – Skye Boat Song

· Maddi Sutor – Papillon, tu es volage

· Michelle Kent – No quiero casarme

Tuesday, March 15^th @ 7pm

· Maddi Sutor – I Enjoy Being a Girl from Flower Drum Song

· Brenna Feher – Wouldn’t It Be Loverly from My Fair Lady

· Miss Campbell – Adelaide’s Lament from Guys and Dolls

STRINGS

(Rivier Academy auditorium)

Wednesday, March 23^rd @ 7pm

· Harshina Brijlall – Concertino I

· Harshina Brijlall – Two Rigadouns

Thursday, March 24^th @ 9am

· Violet Haddad – Zum Gali Gali

· Jordan McEwen – Sword Dance

· Marielle Dyer – Baa Baa Black Sheep

Thursday, March 24^th @ 1pm

· Rivier Orchestra 10 – Snake in a Basket / Theme from First Symphony

· Rivier Orchestra 20 – Holiday Special / Doin’ the Double Stop Blues

· Rivier Orchestra 30 – March of the Mathemagicians / Along the River

· Claire Michalishen – The Merry Widow Waltz

· Janessa Fouillard – Finale from the First Symphony

· Danika Nickel – Popular Song

· Janessa Fouillard and Claire Michalishen – Pachelbel Canon

· Jordan McEwen and Violet Haddad – Liza Jane

· Quinn Cappelletto – God’s Tender Mercy, Chandos Anthems No. 9 Mvt. 6

· Emma Eaton – German Folk Song

· Emma Eaton – French Folk Song

· Janessa Fouillard – Vive L’Amour

· Danika Nickel – Chance Meeting

· Amanda Loeffen – Listen to the Mockingbird

JUNIOR PIANO

(Upper Hall, Calvary United Church - 114-25^th St. E)

Monday, March 28^th @ 7pm

· Erin Thompson – When Rivers Flowed on Mars

Tuesday, March 29^th @ 9am

· Marielle Dyer – Jig

Wednesday, March 30^th @ 7pm

· Erin Thompson – My Funny Valentine

· Chandra Hollands – Cool

INTERMEDIATE/SENIOR PIANO

(Sanctuary, Calvary United Church - 114-25^th St. E.)

Tuesday, March 29^th @ 7pm

· Janessa Fouillard – Prelude in b, Op. 28, No. 6

Wednesday, March 30^th @ 9am

· Marielle Dyer – Slippin’ Around

Wednesday, March 30^th @ 1pm

· Erin Thompson – Verso in e

· Janessa Fouillard – Etude Allegro

Thursday, March 31^st @ 7pm

· Erin and Lauren Thompson – The Water is Wide

BAND

(Rivier Academy auditorium)

Tuesday, April 5^th @ 1:30pm

· Rivier Level 3 Band – Atlantis Overture/African Festival

· Rivier Level 4 Band – Invicta/Canticle

INSTRUMENTAL

(Messiah Lutheran Church - 1796 – 15^th Ave. E)

Monday, April 11^th @ 7pm

· Katie Brooks – Pan

· Katie Brooks – Sonata in G, Op. 2, No. 1 L’Henriett

· Katie Brooks and Miss Campbell – Duetto No. 2 from Op. 74

· Miss Campbell, Val Olsen, Gord Surkan, and Uffe Vors – Four English Folk Songs (I. The Dark Eyed Sailor, II. Just As the Tide was Flowing, III. The Lover’s Ghost, IV. Wassail Song)

Watoto Children's Choir concert announcement - March 17th

I just came across this concert announcement on panow (you can find the whole article by clicking here). This is sure to be an incredible concert and shouldn't be missed! Check it out!

Junior/Senior Music Festival choir rehearsal dates

Jr. choir noon hour rehearsals: Tues. March 1st / Thurs. March 3rd

Senior choir rehearsals INCLUDING junior choir (you will be pulled from class at these times) plus Arthur for accompaniment: Wed. March 2nd - P.3 / Fri. March 4th - P.4 / Thurs. March 10th - P.3

We are into the home stretch before our performance at Music Festival, ladies! I am encouraged by the progress we've made on our 2 pieces, but there is still work to be done before we take the stage. Please be sure to attend all rehearsals on time and prepared.

Jr. Choir Music Festival rehearsals

Tuesday Feb. 15th and Wed. Feb. 16th @ 11:45am in the music room. Bring your lunch along with your copies of the pieces for Festival if you came to pick them up from me in advance (most of you did).

Our 2 pieces for Festival are:

1. Early One Morning

2. Fare Thee Well, Love