One last reminder for Tuesday night's Pittsburgh Symphony concert at Wilkinsburg High School, starting at 7pm. Tickets are $7 for adults, $3 for students, and groups of 10 or more get tickets for $5 each ( Read more... )

For all y'all in the Pgh area:

The Pittsburgh Symphony continues its outreach to the Wilkinsburg School District and community with its 6th concert at the High School auditorium on Tuesday, March 17, 2009, at 7:00pm. Yes, it's St. Patrick's Day, but that's when it got scheduled. Ticket prices are: $7 for adults, $3 for kids. Compare that with ( Read more... )

So, things are going noticably better at WHS, and the HS choir is not excluded. I am now excited, because I just got off the phone with Thomas Douglas, notable tenor and vocal instructor at CMU. He's agreed to come to see my HS choir and give something of a master class, as well as some advice for me. Oh, he's also a Wilkinsburg graduate, so it' ( Read more... )

The Spring Concert is over, and everyone survived. The kids pulled it off pretty well, despite my best male middle schooler inexplicably not showing up, and my problem high school soloist showing up. I'm glad it's over. The rest of the concert was nice. There were two elementary groups performing, one recorder and the other African drum. The ( Read more... )

Though Pennsic was indeed fabulous and wonderful, deserving of journaling on its own merit, that isn't why I'm breaking my recent drought of posting ( Read more... )

I took my first field-trip as a teacher today that I organized and everything. I took select 2nd graders to Heinz Hall to see the Pittsburgh Symphony's Schooltime Concert. We had 19 kids go, along with myself, a 2nd grade teacher, a special-ed teacher, and a parent. It actually worked out really well. The kids were well behaved, the bus was on ( Read more... )

There's a new first grader in my class. Yup. School is over two weeks from today, boys and girls, and there's a new student.

Don't ask. I can't explain it, nor do I want to.

Well ladies and gents, the concert happened, and as I suspected back in my little brain, it went just fine. The kids truly played their best performance, and even though it wasn't perfect, it sounded quite good. I was proud of them. All the kids were there, most of them looked quite nice, and the music went off with only a few minor hitches here ( Read more... )

Tonight is the concert for all of the Wilkinsburg bands, starting with the very first Wilkinsburg Elementary Band concert in about 10 years or so. Two of the three songs we're playing are my arrangement. One is "Hot Claire de la Buns," a fusion of 'Hot Cross Buns' and 'Au Claire de la Lune' which are in every single beginning band method book on ( Read more... )

I was a very gloomy camper earlier this morning. I'd discovered that LJ, all my sports sites and some comics sites had been blocked. Great. No more checking LJ at work and updating and I'd feel cut off and on and on and on... (fiannaharpar can attest to this)

However, one quick message to the IT director about the wave of site blockages, and poof! they're ( Read more... )