How's YOUR summer?

Mine's pretty good. Just have been spending it in New Zealand, sky diving and bungy jumping. No big deal!

Just kidding. SO AMAZING! Here are a couple pics of my wacky adventures:

TERRIFYING and AMAZING!!!! Cheers from NZ, everyone!

IMC updates

Hey everyone! Here's an update from International Music Camp - I hope you are all enjoying your holidays so far! Quinn, Katie, Brenna and I are in North Dakota and loving it. The two older girls are playing in a band with students from Canada, the US, Ireland, Norway, Austria, Singapore, Barbados, and Grenada. The quality of instruction here is unparalleled, and it's absolutely amazing to hear all of the talent here. I will try to get a recording.

Today is Canada Day (happy b-day, Canada!) and we are all decked out in our red, white, and maple leaves. I bought the girls matching shirts for $6 each at Superstore in Yorkton while we were filling up with gas en route, so we're all matching now and representing Rivier (and Canada) in style. :oD

Happy summer!

Quiz 5 resource sheet

By request for those who couldn't access the resource sheet (click to enlarge):

Online theory passwords - Level 1

Even though all online theory is due today, the marks will be printed on Monday (lucky you!). So, if you have some VERY LAST-MINUTE (ahem!) fixes to do, assignments or quizzes to complete, etc. you may do them this weekend. The quiz passwords for Level 1 are as follows (there are no quizzes for Level 2):

Quiz 1 - new3fish

Quiz 2 - fry4day

Quiz 3 - laugh8

Quiz 4 - jogging1

Quiz 5 - swish9

Please don't worry about the comprehensive final exam, as it just popped up this past week and I had told you previously that I would not be including it in the grades because of a lack of adequate class time to complete it.

If you have any other issues (i.e. Can't remember your username, which, by the way, is lastname.firstname with no spaces, or if you forgot your password, etc.) you might just be out of luck as you have known that this due date was approaching for a month now and I am quite sure that it is not humanly possible for me to cater to all 111 band students and their theory needs in the next 24 hours. I will do what I can but I can't promise anything! Congratulations to those of you who have completed your theory and rocked it with 100%! Several of you are in the 90s as well which is just awesome.

Happy last day of classes, everyone!!!!

Summer edits

Hi girls! If you have finished all of your computers assignments, here is one last photo editing topic, in keeping with the theme of school ending for summer, enjoying the heat, etc.

"SUMMER"

I would like you to come up with your own summer-related quotation, or even perhaps edit a photo that has no text but conveys a summer theme. Here are a couple quotations to get you started, in any case:

In summer, the song sings itself. - William Carlos Williams

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ~Henry James

Then followed that beautiful season... Summer....
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Flip Flops
Belly Tops
Palm Trees
Cute Capris
Sunglasses
Backstage Passes
Top Down
Cruising 'round Town
As the sun Dims
Comes late night Swims
Tan Lines
isn't summer just divine?"

Save your edit as "summer" and hand in to the drop box. Happy editing!

Yay, June!

Check out the new template. What do you think? :o)

Well folks, we're almost at the end! Just a couple quick announcements from the music side of things:

- all school instruments need to be returned to the storage room asap for cleaning, inventory, and any potential repair/maintenance

- all music and method books must be handed in so that they can be put back into the inventory

- Senior Band is playing "Ipharadisi" on Friday at the final assembly

- Senior Choir will be singing "Hands" and "Don't Stop Believin'" at the final assembly as well

... and a couple non-music announcements:

- Grade 7s, we will be ON THE BUS by 8:30am on Thursday for our field trip to Waskesiu. Please be at the school by 8:15 so that you do not get left behind!

- 7C, please bring items for our final class potluck on Friday at noon

- please bring your "Mama Mia" forms back asap, as we need to know whether to reserve tickets for next October

Good luck with studying and final exams, everyone!

Concert program

(Cross-posted from Rivier Updates blog):

The concert will include all of our Bands, Ensembles, Choir and Strings. We would like to invite everyone to come on out enjoy an evening of musical talent. The concert will be held in our auditorium, Thursday, June 10 at 7:00pm. We have posted the program just incase you are only able to stay for a few numbers. The concert will be approximately two hours in length. Enjoy!

Level 1 Band: Glorioso (Robert W. Smith), Anasazi (John Edmondson)
Flute Duets: Frere Jacques/Aura Lee
Level 2 Band: Shepherd's Hey (Grainger arr. Rozell), Furioso (Robert W. Smith)
Orchestra 10: Pachelbel Canon (Pachelbel), Double String Blues (Dillon/Kjelland/O'Reilly)
Flute Duet: Tambourin
Orchestra 20: Tchaikovsky Festival (Tchaikovsky), Brandenburg Concerto (J.S. Bach)
Springtime (Dillion/Kjelland/O'Reilly)
Level 3 Band: On Silver Wings (Mike Hannickel), Kenya Contrasts (William Himes), Shepherd's Hey (Grainger arr. Rozell)
Saxaphone Duet: Moon River (Johnny Mercer)
Jazz Choir: Cheek to Cheek (Irving Berlin), Autumn Leaves (Johnny Mercer), Don't Get Around Much Anymore (Ellington/Russell), They Can't Take That Away From Me (Gershwin), Every Day I Have The Blues (Basie/Williams)
Senior Choir: Hands (Arr. Leonard/Chinn), Runaway Bride Medley (Arr. Emerson), Beside You (Marianas Trench), Don't Stop Believin' (Arr. Billingsley)
Orchestra 30: Concerto Albinoni, Stone's Rag
Level 4 Senior Band: Hogan's Heroes March (Jerry Fielding), English Folk Song Suite (Ralf Fielding), Ipharidisi (Arr. David Marlatt).