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Year End Music Concerts: Audio Clips

For those who missed it (or want to enjoy it again!), here are audio clips from the Year End Music Concerts on May 31st and June 1st…. two evenings of great music! Click on the links for the mp3 file.

Tuesday, May 31 – Concert Band Showcase

Grade 7 Concert Band:
The Red Balloon
The Headless Horseman
Wind Mountain Overture

Bambina (Choir):
Georgia On My Mind (solos: Anisha, Hannah & Christina, Gr. 7)
Singin’ in the Rain

Saxophone Duet (Amber, Gr. 9 & Mr. Bach):
Duo Concertant

Grade 8 Concert Band:
Great Movie Themes

Grade 8 & 9 Band:
Flying Tigers March
Pirates of the Carribean: Symphonic Suite

Grade 9 Concert Band:
Song of the Matador

Grade 7 Concert Choir:
Girls’ Sing Off (solos: Gabriella M. & Gabriella W., Gr. 7)
Here Comes the Sun

Senior Jazz Band:
Gertrude’s Bounce
Blues Mode
Hit The Bricks

Senior Concert Band:
Washington Post March
Nimrod
Heaven’s Light
El Choclo

Wednesday, June 1st – Senior Ensemble Night
(at some points 17 mics were used to record, so these clips should be better quality)

Bambina:
Singin’ in the Rain
Georgia On My Mind (solos: Cassandra, Fraser & Yun An, Gr. 7)

Flute Choir:
Ode to Joy
Take 5

Soloist Alice C., Gr. 12:
For the Nights I Can’t Remember

Soloist Olivia K., Gr. 12:
L’amour est un oiseau rebelle – from “Carmen”

Soloist Katie S., Gr. 12:
21 Guns

Senior Concert Choir:
Scarborough Fair (violin: Caitlin W., Gr. 12)
Reuben, Reuben
For Good (solos: Laura & Hasti, Grade Eight)

Ragazza:
I’ve Never Been in Love Before
Higher Ground
True Colors
Ain’t No Sunshine
Maybe Someday (In honour of the graduating Class of 2011 – Congrats Grads! You have come a long way, and you made it!)

String Ensemble:
Cerf-Volant (from “Les Choristes”)
Presto (from “String Quartet in E-Flat, K. 160)

String Duets:
Little Duet #7 Op. 38 (Ms. Black & Caitlin W., Gr. 12)
String Duet

Senior Concert Band:
Prelude and Fugue
Walk in the Morning Sun
Heaven’s Light
Folk Dances

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Heart Heroes

One rainy afternoon in May, the girls in the junior school jumped their hearts out for Jump Rope for Heart. The event raises money for the Heart & Stroke Foundation and encourages kids to grow up healthy.

The girls collected pledges leading up to the event. The top fundraising class, 6H, was awarded a pizza lunch, for raising approximately $2600. There were rewards (“sparklers”) as each fundraising target was met, such as: civvies days (including one day where teachers dress as students!), school wide NO HOMEWORK DAY! and a movie afternoon.

During the event, there was lots of screaming and cheering as the girls encouraged their peers to hang on for a few more seconds. Those who showed a lot of spirit were able to pull a number out of a bin to win a special reward, such as participating in a one-sided water ballon fight with teachers, a silly string fight on the grass field, getting the chance to paint teachers faces, or give teacher Mr. Oates a makeover.

Donations are still trickling in, but well over $18,500 was raised for the Heart & Stroke Foundation (“hard to believe that we can raise this much in a day of skipping!” says Teacher Ms. Grills). Way to go girls! It was a fun and active afternoon, as the girls were inspired to be “Heart Heroes.”

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