Especially for Third-Graders

Third-graders have been studying the opening movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Because it's so famous, many parodies have been made of it. Here's one on YouTube in which a Japanese company sing and dance about breakfast, in Japanese:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXgJBzUv_qU

And here it is with English subtitles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAMD5nYUi6U

Energetic World Music Concert

Overlake School is hosting a student marimba ensemble from Maru-a-Pula High School in Botswana. Overlake is the group's first stop on a West Coast tour to raise funds for their African AIDS Orphan Program. The twelve juniors and seniors will play a benefit concert on Wednesday, April 21, at 7:00 p.m. in the Fulton Performing Arts Center at Overlake. I'll be there--wouldn't miss it for anything!--and I'd LOVE to see you and your kids there, too!

Recorder Concerts

On the Early Music Guild's Discovery Concerts series is a performance of great interest to our recorder players: Vicki Boeckman and David Ohannesian will play recorders from very small to very large at 1 p.m. in Town Hall (Seattle) on Sunday, April 14th. Because it's a Discovery Concert, seniors and kids (up to age 25!!) pay only $5 admission; adults between those ages pay $10.
http://www.earlymusicguild.org/emg/series/recital_3.html