Shaker Heights Middle School presents a
Winter Orchestra Concert
February 7, 2023
Shaker Heights Middle School Auditorium
Nicole Castleberry Clouser, Orchestra Director
Suzanna Adkins, 8th Grade Orchestra co-Teacher
Chuck Tisdale, Lights and Sound
Program
PreConcert Feature, 8th Grade Enrichment/Chamber Orchestra
Allegro from Sonata No. 1……G.B. Teleman, arr. Kirt Mosier
Seventh Grade Orchestra
Aspen Glow ............................................................. Susan H. Day
Chumbara ................ Trad. Canadian, arr. Deborah H. Monday
Cello Ole ................................................................ Richard Meyer
Wood Splitter Fanfare .........................................Brian Balmages
Eighth Grade Orchestra
Spartacus ..............................................................Brian Balmages
Ice Castles .............................................................Brian Balmages
Allegro Presto from Symphony No. 2............... Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de st. Geroges (1745-1799), arr. Deborah H. Monday
Combined Seventh & Eighth Grade Orchestra
Les Contes des Fees ...................... Ignatious Sancho (1729-1780)
The Duchess of Devonshire ............................ Ignatious Sancho
Lift Every Voice and Sing .......lyrics by James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), music by J. Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954)
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The Importance of Parental Support
Music study & appreciation is one of the great contributions that we can make in our children’s lives. It’s not just the studies that show that music lessons improve academic success and teach discipline & concentration. Developing a true love of music that extends into adulthood can be the gift of a lifetime. There are many ways for parents to support this worthwhile goal:
The Encouraging Parent: Music study takes time, practice & encouragement. Set aside a set time at home for practice and establish a routine that supports daily attention to practice. Listen, offer praise & helpful suggestions for improvement, and help your child to see practice as a benefit meant to improve their skills and hone their talent.
The Appreciative Audience: The best audience at any school concert is an auditorium full of parents. Your child may not admit it, but they want to be able to look out into the crowd and see your face. Music is a family affair. Don’t miss the opportunity to celebrate your child’s talent and achievements.
The Music Lover: Parents are and will always be a child’s first and best teacher. Make the effort to bring music into the home – all kinds of music. Local libraries have large collections of popular, jazz, and classical music. The Cleveland Institute of Music website, www.cim. edu lists an amazing variety of free concerts & student recitals. The Cleveland Orchestra www.clevelandorchestra.com offers reasonably priced family concerts & creative children’s programs. The Cleveland Pops https://www.clevelandpops.com/ offers programs as well.
* Section Leaders
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life –Red Auerbach
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Seventh Grade Orchestra
Violin 1
Carlos Colon
Saint Anthony
Crawford
James Faieta
Akira Falconer
Ian Fields
David Hill
Navea Jackson
Shawn Jackson
Stormy Johnson
*Charlotte Prokop
Ryan Robinson
Alyssa Wu
Violin 2
Roslyn
Barchanowicz
Ramone Carter
Zain Chowdhry
Kearston Clark
Saije Harris
Zora Kansal
Ava Mason
Nyaira McMichael
*Matthew Moore
Viola
Aliyah Davis-Reese
*Madison Greene
Reshawn Lee
Abby Lipman
McKenna Martin
Dieynaba Sow
Julian Jaquera-Little
Cello
A’King Alexander
*Vibha
Balasubramaniam
Mitchell Bergman
Henry Burkhart
Laura Holbrook
Rachel Klein
Jaryn Marcus
Aidan McCabe
Emmeline Millar
Lillian Paponetti
Jessie Tien
Bass
Reine Hinton
*Marios Kallergis
* Section Leaders
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Eighth Grade Orchestra
Violin 1
Cydney Burell
SIenna Cadiz
Zoie Durham
Lucy Hopkins
Anya Jones
Anna Maier
Jaylon Jamal
Nevaeh Parker
Aubrey Ross
David Wang
Emanuel Zarders
James Zeng
*Mason Zhang
Violin 2
Zoeya Chowdhry
Logan Coleman
Charles Collins
Lanell Curlee
Ruth Foreman
Avion Ghee
Miliani Herbin
Alexander Macks
Zoe Middleton
Gabriel Moulthrop
*Areeb Rizvi
Nataleigh Rupprecht
Shaun Walls
Viola
Elliot Botnick
Peyton Horsley
Devanair Mcginnis
Finnegan Moody
*Maja Tadic
Kenneth Wadkins
Cello
Rory Carson
Erefagha Doibo
Sophia Federici
Madeline Holmes
*Wesley Lewis
Hendrik Meyer
Daria Mirodon
Alexander Padilla
Isaiah Patton
Jacob Pope
Maya Shrestha
Bass
Dace Collins
*Declan Gray
* Section Leaders
Upcoming Concerts & Events:
Spring Middle School Orchestra Concert
May 11, 2023, 7 p.m.
Middle School Auditorium
Music in the Parks, adjudicated contest
8th Grade Orchestra, All-Day Event
(7th Grade students by invitation)
Saturday, May 20, 2023
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Eighth Grade Enrichment Orchestra
Violin 1
*Mason Zhang
Jaylon Jamal
James Zeng
David Wang
Violin 2
*Zoie Durham
Alexander Macks
Gabriel Moulthrop
Areeb Rizvi
Viola
Elliot Botnick
Zoeya Chowdhry
Ruthie Forman
*Maja Tadic
Cello
*Wesley Lewis
Sophia Federici
Alexander Padilla
Madeline Holmes
Daria Mirodon
Bass
*Declan Gray
* Section Leaders
Acknowledgments
Middle School administration, faculty & staff, including: Mrs. Michelle Hughes, Principal
Mr. Jalon Brown & Mr. Thomas Flood, Assistant Principals
Mr. Chuck Tisdale, Auditorium Manager
ChOrD Volunteers, for their enthusiastic and generous support
Shaker Schools Foundation for their generous support each year
Shaker Schools Foundation
During the 2022-2023 school year, the Shaker Schools Foundation’s focus is: “Excellence is inclusive - providing opportunities for all Shaker students.” The support of alumni, families and community members helps the Foundation provide programs and resources for all Shaker students, including mentoring and career pathways, handson learning, travel and opportunity assistance, and more.
By including the Shaker Schools Foundation in your philanthropic support, you make it possible for the Foundation to support Shaker students, teachers and programs in all school buildings and at all grade levels throughout the District. For more information about the Shaker Schools Foundation or to support our work, please visit shakerschoolsfoundation.org.
How to Donate
• Send a check made payable to the Shaker Schools Foundation, 15600 Parkland Drive, Shaker Heights, Ohio 44120.
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Start a Shaker Student Travel Savings Fund Today!
At the high school level, a great number of travel opportunities exist for students–whether touring in Europe with fellow students from the band, choir or orchestra, engaging in a language immersion program to Chile or Germany, or participating in a service project in Southeast Asia.
While all student travel experiences have fundraising opportunities to support the trips, we know these costs are great. The time to start saving is NOW! Our partnership with Huntington will allow you to start a Student Travel Savings Fund now.
Your savings today will give your student the experience of a lifetime in high school! To start your student’s travel fund, contact Brandon Tufts at Huntington’s Fairmount Circle branch at 216-515-0285.
Black History Month Composer Highlight
Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, was the first Western classical composer of African heritage and one of the most remarkable characters in music History. Joseph’s father, George de Bologne de Saint-Georges, was the owner of a large plantation in the French Directory (government) of Guadeloupe, a Caribbean island to the southeast of Puerto Rico. Joseph’s mother, known as Anne or Nanon, was a woman enslaved by George and a Guadeloupean of Sengelese descent.
In 1747, Joseph’s father accidentally killed a man during a duel. To escape being charged for murder, George Saint-George fled Guadeloupe, leaving authorities to seize his possessions. Two years later, George’s title of nobility allowed him to obtain a pardon and return to the Caribbean, where he gave his son his first instruction in music and fencing. In 1753, Joseph moved to Bordeaux, France where he started school, after the arrival of George and Nanon, they all moved to Paris, where George worked as an aide to Louis XV. 12 months later, Joseph entered a boarding school where he studied humanities, fencing, and horsemanship. Joseph was given the title of Ecuyer in the position of Controller Ordinary of Wars, which led to a distinguished and impressive military career.
Joseph became an elite fencer, but his athletic skills spanned from skating to dancing and swimming, an activity he was said to do with one arm. Although he had broad talents and interests, his greatest love was muci. Joseph studied composition with Francois-Joseph Gossec, and studied violin with Jean-Marie Leclair. In addition to composition, he performed as a violin soloist, was accomplished at harpsichord, and conducted two orchestras, notably the first-rate Concert des Amateurs ensemble. After Concert suffered several financial blows, Joseph’s status as a Black Mason led the Masons to revive the orchestra and rebrand it as Le Concert Olympique, the ensemble that commissioned Haydn’s Paris Symphonies in 1787. 10 years later, Joseph became the director of Le Cercle de L’Harmonie, and eventually, music director for the Marquise de Montesson. Joseph was still serving as a member of the image military while he led weekly concerts. One avid concert-goer and admirer of Saint-Georges, was none other than Marie Antoinette, a fine singer herself who studied piano with Gluck, and occasionally performed with Joseph soloing on violin.
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Although Joseph had talent, prestigious titles, and influence, he was still subject to racial discrimination. The French government regulated the immigration of Africans and aided slave owners by perpetuating discrimination against Africans. Louis XV issued a “Code Noir” that required BIPOC to register as such with the Admiralty, and Voltaire stated publicly that his belief was Africans were inferior to Europeans. Despite Joseph’s accomplishments, due to his half-African heritage, he was ineligible for nobility and its titles under this new French law. Joseph’s career arc may have taken him to lead the Paris Opera, but three of the Paris Opera’s leading female opera singers sent an appeal to the queen stating that their delicate conscience and honor could never allow them to submit to the orders of a person of color, leading Joseph to withdraw his name from consideration. Joseph died in 1799 at the home of his friend and colleague, Nicolas Duhamel.
Saint-Georges’s output includes six operas, though he turned more to instrumental music in 1776. Joseph composed in a wide variety of musical styles and genres, but what he is most famous for is his large ensemble work which you’ll hear tonight.His music is Classical in style, vocal in characterization, elegant, refined, and leans more to Haydn than Mozart. It includes attractive melodies, French coloring with touches of the Mannheim School, as well as complex and soloistic solo parts and first violin quartet parts. Much of that describes his two symphonies, written around 1775 (the second is essentially the overture to his opera, L'Amant Anonyme). The light, playful melodies are scored for two oboes, two horns and strings. The first movement is fast and lively, and the melody appears almost exclusively in the first violin (something to be expected, from a composer who was also a virtuoso violinist). The second movement is flowing and seamless, written for strings only, and easily could be confused for a second movement of an early classical string quartet. The melody, mostly appearing in the first violins once more, is punctuated with fanfare-like figures to close phrases and/or sections of the movement. The third movement finale is remarkably similar in style to a finale in a Haydn symphony.
Program notes
written by Dominique Hoskin, Director of the The Du Bois Orchestra
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