surfersmusic46

Greetings Everyone! Thank you for being here for tonight's performance! The members of the 2011–2012 SurfersMusic46 choir and I greatly appreciate all of your continued support! This year's SurfersMusic46 choir consists or 48 voices from 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades. Malibu has 312 students—60 of those students (roughly 20% of the student body grades K–5) are involved in extracurricular music. That's one the largest percentages of any Virginia Beach elementary school. My goal as musical director of the SurfersMusic46 choir is to bring music equally into your child's heart and mind. The songs you hear tonight represent a slice of the work we do during rehearsals. Our choir rehearsals consist of a blend of traditional vocal, and theatrical/performance education. Tonight's performance consists of the following selections: Believe, by Yellowcard (chosen for melody, phrasing, and dynamic contrast) Rain, by Breaking Benjamin (chosen for vocal range a...

Just beautiful... Electric bass and voice improvisation (making it up on the spot)

Hi Ya'll (channelling my inner Paula Deen just then), Here's a type of metal percussion instrument that you may not have ever seen before. The Hang  was developed in Switzerland in 2000. It is a pitched percussion instrument and can play melodies. Check out the sounds in the video below.

This is one of my all-time favorites. I remember my dad really loving Riverdance, and I saw this for the first time when I was just a kid starting my musical (instrumental) education. It made me want to be a woodwind musician even more. The musician's name is Davy Spillane, and he is playing the Uilleann Pipes  (Irish Bagpipes). He is one of the world's greatest performers on this challenging instrument. I've always had a love for traditional and folk instruments of Europe, and this song in particular ever since. The music is "Caoineadh cu Chulainn" (pronounced "Queen-a Coo Hulling" from what I've been told). The song is about a famous warrior named Chulainn who has never met his son. In a battle, he meets his son  named Conlai as an enemy warrior, though he doesn't know it, and kills him. He looks down at Conlai's hand and sees that the young man is wearing the ring that Chulainn had given Conlai's mother long ago when he was born. ...