Music Festival Vocal and Strings Awards Concert 2014

Last night was the scholarship awards concert for the first week of Music Festival 2014 - Vocal and Strings.  We had lots of Rivier representation at the Festival and the awards concert.  What a great amount of talent we have at our school, and so many people willing to share them with others!

This year Rivier (and Prince Albert as a whole) will be represented at Provincial Music Festival by 2 Rivier performers - Emma Eaton in Intermediate (16 & Under) Musical Theatre, and myself in Senior Operatic, Senior Canadian, Senior Musical Theatre Ballad, and Senior Musical Theatre Up-Tempo.  Provincials are in Saskatoon again this year, June 6th, 7th, and 8th.

Here are a few photo highlights from the awards concert last night.  Well done, everybody!

Orchestra 30 - "Battle of the Ancient Dragons"

Orchestra 30 Bass, Cello, Viola - "Battle of the Ancient Dragons"

Orchestra 30 Violin (partial section pictured) - "Battle of the Ancient Dragons"

Brigid Lancaster - Speech Arts - "If I Should Have A Daughter" 

Janaya Fuller - Sacred Solo, 14 years & under - "Gloria in Excelsis"

Naomi Jalbert - 18 years & under - "'Tis The Last Rose Of Summer"

Michelle Kent - 16 years & under - "Le Pappillon et La Fleur"

Brenna Feher - German lieder - "Lachen und Weinen"

Emma Eaton - Intermediate Musical Theatre - "Forget About The Boy"

Miss Campbell - Senior Musical Theatre - "Sing, But Don't Tell"

Brenna Feher - Guitar - "Etude"

Computers 8C and 8M - Colour and Quote assignment

Hi Grade 8 ladies and gents!  The next assignment (once you are finished any outstanding assignments that you may owe me) is called "Colour and Quote" - therefore, when you are finished, it will be saved as Last name, Colour and Quote.  The criteria for the assignment is as follows:

1. Choose a high-quality, high-resolution photo from Google Image Search.  Be sure to expand it fully before saving it.  Aim for approximately 1,000 pixels.

2. Select an appropriate quotation that fits with the picture.  If you choose, you may select the quote first and then pick a picture that fits wit it.

3. Edit the photo using either selective colouring, selective boost, or colour boost.

4. Add the quotation to your photo using the "text" tab.  Select a word or two that you would like to emphasize (in this case, "dance" - or you could also emphasize "soul").  Put that word in its own text box, then change the font, colour, size, etc. and arrange it with the other words in your quotation.

5. Save it, hand it in, and continue editing your own choice photos if you have extra time. :)

Here are a couple examples I edited in class today (the top one in 8C and bottom one in 8M):

Computers 8M Photo Editing Highlights - March 13th, 2014

Dalia (Selective Boost) - Old Bookshelf

River (Selective Boost) - California

Lulu (Selective Boost) - Paper Boats in the Rain

Lulu (Selective Colouring) - Woman on Sidewalk

Breah (Selective Colouring) - Beyonce

Breah (Selective Boost) - Pink Bug

Keshay (Selective Boost) - Sea Turtle

Keshay (Selective Colouring) - Tumbler

Taryn (Colour Boost) - Easter Eggs

Taryn (Selective Boost) - Neon Model

Eleana (Selective Boost) - Orange Flower

Lauren (Selective Colouring) - Clown Fish

Lauren (Selective Boost) - Orange Lilly

Holly (Selective Boost) - Girl In Tree

Jessy (Colour Boost) - Sunflower

Jessy (Selective Colouring) - Wheelchair Parking

Layne (Selective Colouring) - Paint Hands

Layne (Selective Colouring) - Purple Lips

Ennio (Selective Boost) - Macaw

Jamen (Selective Boost) - Flowers

Kiera (Selective Colouring) - Paint

Computers 8C photo editing highlights - March 13th, 2014

Here are some highlights of your last few assignments.  Enjoy!  Great work, ladies!

Carlee (Selective Boost) - Chess

Peyton (Selective Boost) - Blue Flower

Janaya (Selective Boost) - Single Rose

Janaya (Selective Boost) - Converse

Trinity (Flower Edit) - Blue Trio

Kaley (Selective Boost) - Marbles

Kaley (Selective Colouring) - Blue VW Van

Jenine (Selective Colouring) - Green Landscape

Lilly (Selective Colouring) - Clown Fish

Reese (Colour Boost) - Reflections

Jordyn (Colour Boost) - Winter Campfire

Laura (Selective Colouring) - Gymnast

Morgan (Selective Boost) - Balloon House

Morgan (Selective Colouring) - Sea Turtle

Gabi W (Selective Boost) - Butterphant

Flower / Colour and Quote

2 new assignments today:

1. FLOWER - You choose how you edit your photo, using one of the techniques that you learned in previous classes (selective colouring, selective boost, or colour boost)

2. COLOUR AND QUOTE - You edit a photo of your own choice (with one of the above techniques) and add an appropriate quotation to it.  Make sure the quotation fits the content, mood, etc. of the picture and is legible on the photo (ie. your audience needs to be able to read it clearly).  This means choosing a font that can be read easily, and a font colour that can be read over the colour of the photo.

Class updates

Computers 8M/8C - Photo editing assignments that should be handed in up to this point = Snorkeling (8C only), Hippo (8M only), Selective Colouring #1, Selective Colouring #2, Selective Boost, and Colour Boost.

IP 10 - Shutterfly books are overdue, and the planning process has begun today for the movie trailer iMovie project.

Drama 20 - All adjudications from the poetry readings have been handed back and we are in workshops to work on improving our vocal expression and speed of speech.  More workshops to follow.

Level 1 Band - We are working on playing the chromatic scale (starting on Concert Bb), all notes in one octave ascending and descending.  If you can already do this, the challenge is to play in quarter notes, then 8th notes, then 16th notes.  Keep practicing! :)

Level 2 Band - New song = Cha Cha Del Sol

Level 3 Band - Next theory class will be spent in rehearsal since we are going to have to miss rehearsals during vocal and strings festival.  Festival pieces = Shepherd's Hey and Serengeti Dreams.

Level 4 Band - Festival pieces = Northpointe Fantasy and Bellingrath Gardens.  Stay tuned for a potential project from Mr. Bernier as well.

Senior Choir - 2 more rehearsals left until Festival!  Festival pieces = She's Like The Swallow and Kom!  Other pieces to focus on after Festival = I Dreamed of Rain, Weary in Well-Doing, and any other sight-reading I may find for you. :)

Jazz Choir - Our main focus now needs to be Gershwin for Girls.  Put A Little Love In Your Heart is sounding quite good, fun, upbeat, etc. and so the remaining 2 rehearsals before Festival need to be for Gershwin.  Ladies, I really need you to practice your parts at home so that we can put them together at rehearsal - we don't have enough time to do all the work in class time unfortunately.  Eat lunch in P3 or P4 for the next 2 Jazz Choir days so that we can use all of our time for rehearsal.  Thanks!  Festival pieces = Put A Little Love In Your Heart (including Gabby on guitar, Emma on bass, and Chandra on drum set), and Gershwin For Girls.

Chamber Choir - We have had a busy week of rehearsals every morning at 8am.  We have done some incredible work on Ezekiel Saw De Wheel, and with our remaining rehearsals we will be tightening up some rhythms, releases, etc. in And So It Goes, and solidifying our memory work for Ezekiel.  Remaining rehearsals until Festival = tomorrow (Fri. March 7th) @ 8am, Mon. 10th, Wed. 12th, Fri. 14th, Mon. 17th, Tues. 18th.

And, just for fun, here are a few picture of my nieces and nephews (the beans and the peanuts as I like to call them) - they are on a holiday in Arizona right now and are enjoying the sun much more than the snow we're getting here!:

Hudson is not so sure he wants a cuddle from Avery...

On second thought, my big sister isn't so bad after all. :)

Logan all tuckered out and enjoying his cozy nap

Emily and Avery (in their very stylish sunglasses) catching some sun with their dad