Ms. Brenna Dickson’s the winner of the Allen Strange Memorial Composition Prize and a profound Clarinet and Theory instructor with us. Here, we get the pleasure of having her share some of her teaching philosophies and how she keeps her students passionate and strong during hard-times. Enjoy!
Diana is a fantastic educator and friend! She is great with kids and has a ton of experience with music. We chatted with Diana about her life and teaching philosophy, check it out!
For our next submission, we have Lena playing "Variation." Displayed here, we see excellent, quick, arpeggios and a lot of talent and skill. Lena is in 9th grade and is a student of Ms. Haruna! Thank you so much for submitting Lena.
Here we have a submission from one our talented, younger performers. Gordon plays "Do Re Mi" from the musical, Sound of Music, by R. Rodgers. Brilliant playing! We can't wait to see a lot more of Gordon's performances in the future. Gordon is a student of Ms. Haruna.
Eunice plays a stunning rendition of the "Sonata in D Kp. 214" by D. Scarlatti. This piece is played with an exciting, joyful, clear tone, exactly as the late -Baroque composer, Scarlatti, intended. Also, she does a great job with the challenging articulation, which is not strictly legato, nor staccato. We're very impressed, thanks for the submission Eunice. She's a student of Ms. Haruna.
Here we have an awesome piano submission from Mitchel. Mitchel is in third grade and is a student of Ms. Diana. Here he has a talented display of the compositions "The Purple Cow" and "Grandpa's Clock." Mitchel has great tempo and dynamic control displayed. Also, thank you for the kind introduction.
We have a spectacular performance from Samvrit, playing "Barcarolle" (G minor) by Tchaikovsky. This piece is one of twelve short character pieces from Tchaikovsky's "The Seasons." Samvrit's melodies cross between both emotions, sorrow and hope, just as the piece is written to convey. Samvrit is a student of Ms. Yelena. The following epigraph was made for this piece (translated from Russian): No. 6. Barcarolle (June): “Let us go to the shore; There the waves will kiss our legs. With mysterious sadness The stars will shine down on us.” — Aleksey Pleshcheyev Samvrit's very successful and determined in many areas in his life, and he even earned a State Honor in a certification exam recently. Samvrit's an awesome young man and we're thrilled to preset to you this submission.
Here's Hannah's beautiful rendition of Reinhold Gliere's "Prelude, Op. 43, No. 1." This performance has flowing color- washing the listeners with arpeggios, to which melodic lines can be traced. Hannah is in 9th grade and is a student of Ms. Yelena. This is the fourth submission of our Legato Music School Shelter in Place Performance Series, and it is phenomenal.
