Category Archives: Recital Repertoire

Learning videos: Yankee Doodle

Here are the different parts of Yankee Doodle, broken down by section, for you to practice with and learn by ear. This will be played from memory!

Cello 2 (Grace, Daniel, Maxine): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntSfLrwdejk

Cello 3 (Meera, Tristan, Joe): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ad-dDmRI9M

Cello 4 (Erica): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UbOIcS8kUA

Cello 4 Alternate (Aila, Annette, Monica): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7-9Ybl7OC8

Suzuki Performances Winter/Spring 2014

Important performance dates for this semester:

*NEW* Music School Open House: Monday, Feb. 24, 5:30pm. We will be playing music from the Suzuki Day review list.

Suzuki Day: Saturday, March 29 all day! The review list is on my blog. No regular private lessons earlier that week. We may have make-ups.

*NEW* Brandywine Hundred Library Story Time performance: Tuesday, April 22, 10am. This is during the school’s spring break, but we have been invited to perform on this date. I think it would be fun, and great exposure for Suzuki cello. We can help make our own program, so let me know ASAP if you are interested and available.

Achievement Week/Graduation auditions: May 5-10 Schedule TBA. No regular lessons. Graduation forms are due March 1.

Graduation Recital/Group performance: Sunday, June 8 12 noon. Along with the graduation pieces, we will be playing Yankee Doodle and La Valencianita as a group, even if you are not graduating!

Suzuki Day 2014 Review List

Book 1
Twinkles
French Folk Song
O Come Little Children
Allegro
Perpetual Motion in D and G
Minuet 2

Book 2
Long Long Ago with Variation
Minuet 1
Musette
Two Grenadiers
Handel Bourree

Book 3
Minuet in G
La Cinquantaine

Book 4
Breval Sonata in C Major, first movement
Minuets from Suite No. 1 in G Major

Book 5
Danse Rustique

Book 6
The Swan

Suzuki Day is Saturday, March 29. There are no regular lessons the week before Suzuki Day, but we often have make-up lessons.

In addition, we will be working on the following non-Suzuki repertoire for the Graduation Concert on  Sunday, June 8:

Twinklebell Canon
Yankee Doodle
La Valencianita

First Friday Philadelphia gig

This post is for: Isaac, Claire, Grace, Beatrice, Yujie, Meera, Erica and Hannah.

Here is the music for the gig:

Repertoire lists and part assignments – updated 11_14

Joy To The World

Jolly Old St Nicholas

Chanukah (sorry, the third page is the same as the first. Print only 2 pages)

The First Nowell

Good King Wenceslas

Silent Night-Holly and Ivy (print two of these)

Dreydl

Angels We Have Heard on High

Away in a Manger

Jingle Bells

We Three Kings of Orient Are

O Come All Ye Faithful

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Please print the music and put it (in order) in a notebook ASAP.

Rehearsal will be Sat. Nov. 23 from 1:30pm-3:00pm (For Suzuki students, that is immediately following Harvest Concert dress rehearsal and will be in the same room – 124.)

The performance is Friday, Dec. 6 from 6-7pm at the Clay Studio. The address is on the repertoire sheet.

They will have pizza and sodas for the students.

For Delaware families, I strongly suggest we carpool. My contact at The Clay Studio suggested we arrive before 5 because of the parking situation, so we would try to leave Wilmington by 4:15. I can drive some students, if it helps. We can make plans at the rehearsal.