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String Ensemble


Announcements/Non-performance Assignments

  • Remember to also check the Home Page for news and calendar info.
  • Downloads: Handbook | Q2 Practice Log
  • Holiday Concert date is rescheduled for Tuesday, December 16 at 8:15 pm
  • Fruit Distribution: Thursday & Friday, 3:00-6:00 pm.
    All orders must be picked up by Friday at 6 pm!

Rehearsal today

  • Guest artist visiting today - Ms. Faina Agranov

  • Warmup: Open strings, Bach Chorale TBA

  • E scale quiz (SO3 & SO2). Listen to four soloists first, then they go to work with Ms. Agranov

  • Vivaldi I & II

Assignments

  • Practice: Week 1 due Friday, November 14.
  • Next quizzes during 1st Quarter: Posted on Monthly Calendar
  • Repertoire for Holiday Concert, Tuesday, December 16 at 8:15 pm
    • Vivaldi - Concerto for Four Violins
    • Phillipe - Bring a Torch, Isabella
    • One other work TBA
  • Technique Development - TBA
    • Essential Technique for Strings (ETS)
    • Bach and Before for Strings (BBS)

The String Ensemble (Chamber Strings and String Orchestra 1-2-3) is the performance ensemble for string players (violin, viola, 'cello, contrabass) at NVOT. Made up of string players in grades 9-12, this ensemble performs at four campus concerts per year. In addition, members are invited to participate in the annual spring festival weekend trip. The String Ensemble is traveling to Washington, DC for the 2008 Washington DC Music Festival, April 3-6, 2008.

Students in this ensemble are also eligible to participate in Jazz Band (by audition), honor ensembles (by audition: County, Region, & All-State), chamber ensembles, and Musical Theater Pit Orchestra.

 

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