Tri-M Chapter 2605 Report of Activities 2020/2021

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Ellen Xu (2016)

Sarah Tang (2019)

Xiomara Trinidad Perez

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GN NH Tri-M Chapter 2605 Report of Activities 2020/2021

Tri-m Chapter 2605 2020-2021 Year Essay

It’s that time again. No, it’s not Friday live from room 218, but rather the time to acknowledge some of our dedicated musicians, performers, and students of Tri-M chapter 2605. Due to the world wide pandemic, many music programs were greatly affected. However, one man wouldn’t let the year go by without teaching music in one form or another. Mr.Rutkowski, along with the efforts of all the students of the band and orchestra have come together to experience music virtually through zoom. Chapter 2605 has come together to reflect on all that we have accomplished and enjoyed. I can say for certain that I wouldn’t be hearing Mr.Rutkowski yell at students to turn on their camera another year. We performed every Friday for an online Lobby Music, performed in the pit orchestra of Pirates of Penzance, recorded for Lincoln center, etc. It was a pleasure to lead chapter 2605 this year, so let’s take a moment to reflect on all that we’ve accomplished.

As we are joined together on zoom now, we have been furthering North High’s Music Program through daily zoom band/orchestra classes. The transition from a daily in person class to a hybrid online class has been rough. But during rough times, it is important to understand the value of music. Music is what connects students of all ages and evokes the joy and emotions in students. To preserve this extraordinary connection, we at room 218 have to keep the music alive. Whether Mr.R is blasting music on the speakers or we are sitting there following along with the music, we have kept the tradition of music alive during these times. A perfect example of keeping music live in room 218 is our weekly Friday Lobby Music performances

Although lobby music has drastically changed due to COVID, it has still continued and thrived through morning zooms. Chamber music students either log into zoom at 7:20 or enter room 218 by 218 to hear Mr.Rutkowski setting up. Each day, the string players play a variety of genres such as Jazz, Classical, romantic, etc. Since wind players are not allowed to play in school, wind players follow along the music and/or film the classroom to the online students. At the start of each week, Mr.Rutkowski prepares a selection of songs to play. Throughout the week, chamber music students practice the songs in class to prepare for Friday Live lobby music. This year, we have been hosting live music every Friday morning at 7:30 am. With the cinematographers filming the chamber music student, we have once again connected the rest of North High School with our music. On some Friday mornings, we are joined by our esteemed principal, Dr.Holtzman, as he plays the drums. In between each song, we have our student hosts, Nina Philips, Daniel Choi, Stephany Barbu, Kevin Khadavi, Scott levy, and Liz Margiloff, announce the next song along with a brief history or fun fact about that song. And every Friday morning, eager north high faculty tune in to hear the students of North high play music and end it off with “Live, from room 218, it’s Friday morning!!!”.

Within the application, there usually are photos of tickets and playbills from concerts members of our esteemed chapter have attended. Although this is not possible physically nowadays, many chapter members have attended virtual performances and watched live streamed concerts. It is always such a joy to view these performances, discuss the numerous highlights and (as opposed to live performances) access them through the internet at any time, allowing chapter members as well as other musicians to learn from the fantastic performances of the professionals on stage.

In the first half of the school year, in place of our standard live in-person winter concert, we held a virtual concert in which pre-recorded parts were pieced together into numerous ensemble performances. The presentation began with some solo performances, both instrumental and vocal, the latter of which served partially as a preview to the upcoming performances of The Pirates of Penzance and Le nozze di Figaro. The program then continued with a selection of pieces from the Chamber Choir and Concert Choir, including Puccini’s “Humming Chorus” and John Rutter’s “Gaelic Blessing”. The Symphonic Band and Orchestra performed a number of short musical excerpts of pieces which fell under the theme of “Music of Prague”, and included pieces by composers such as Janacek, Husa, Dvorak and Smetana. The program ended with a performance of “Dona Nobis Pacem”, which was a composite of every vocalist and musician singing and playing. Through this, we were able to achieve a harmonious unified performance, although maybe through unusual means.

For the latter half of the year, by using multitudinous safety measures, our annual Artfest concert was made possible within our school’s gymnasium. The Symphonic Band, paying tribute to american composers during this Artfest, will be performing three full filmed pieces, all of which are medleys of famous pieces composed by George M. Cohan, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong. The Symphonic Orchestra plans to play an adagio by Samuel Barber. These filmed performances will be livestreamed to the school once edited together into one cohesive program, and the Chamber and Concert Choirs will also contribute a number of pieces, including Brahms’ “Der Abend”, Dave Malloy’s “The Forest”, and a number of solo performances. Although this has been a difficult year to feel a true sense of musical companionship, this Artfest will truly be a culmination of our work separately, as we can finally reunite to play music as a group for the sake of music itself.

This year, two teams from Great Neck North High School’s music program competed in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s first-ever Young Musicians Innovation Challenge open to high school students in the tri-state area or the cities of Miami, FL or Philadelphia, PA. This new competition challenged teams of 2-5 high school-age students to launch innovative projects which would benefit the chamber music world. Projects could focus on areas like performance, pedagogy, access, social impact. Proposals were adjudicated on creativity, viability, sustainability, and ways in which projects address diversity, equity, and inclusion. Teams selected from the Preliminary Round received two coaching sessions from Members of the Board and Global Council of CMS in preparation for the Final Round. 5 teams were selected at the Final Round to receive a scholarship of $1000 paid to their school or program to implement their proposed project by the end of the 2020-21 school year. Both GNNHS team projects, “Establishing a Chamber Music Educational Association'' and “Lobby Music Project'' were winners in the competition. The former project, with team members Sahar Tartak, Sara Rafael, Ashley Schlusselberg, and Maverick Williams, focuses on establishing a chapter-based association of high schools for the purpose of teaching fundamentals of chamber music, chamber music history, and other vital chamber music knowledge for beginners as well as experienced musicians. The project is set to move forward with a concert in May. The latter project, with team members Nina Phillips, Scott Levy, Kevin Khadavi, Stephany Barbu, and Jason Mei, will promote playing classical chamber music and other genres of music to play in the mornings for students in the elementary, middle and high schools. A chamber music performance and rehearsal will be recorded for the students, and a live school will be held with the younger musicians to discuss chamber music and the benefits of music.

This year’s Tri-M induction ceremony took place on April 14th over Zoom. Students, teachers, former staff, and Mr. Brendan McAloon of the official Tri-M headquarters attended the ceremony. Potential leaders pledged their ongoing involvement and responsibility in Tri-M. Various students performed, including a vocal performance of “All I Ask of You” from Kajal Ramphul, a piano performance of “Passacaglia” from William Okin, a vocal performance of “Non Piu Andrai” from Maverick Williams, and a performance from Mr. Rutkowsi, Mr. Trinkwald, and Mr. Kennedy, Great Neck music teachers. Tri-M leaders explained the meaning of each “M” in the title of Tri-M as well.

Although the after school orchestra experience has not been the same this year due to COVID restrictions, it has been conducted on Zoom on most days at 5 pm. Students can join and listen to pieces done in class and play along with their microphones muted. The guided listening of each piece and the specifics of important measures of the piece creates a casual environment in which one can spend extra time to truly learn each song despite having to play at home isolated. Even though we have had to adapt in order to accommodate social distancing and school regulations this year, the after school orchestra continues to thrive online through dedicated students spending time to learn and perfect pieces.

Similarly to the after school orchestra, the recording for the Pirates of Penzance Musical this year has been conducted online. During the earlier months of the year, Mr. Rutkowski provided the sheet music and the specifics of recording for participating students. Students were recommended to use a metronome with headphones while playing and record with another device in order to produce the highest quality sound. The combined student recordings were then edited in order to simulate a pit orchestra. Although this method was far from a real live pit orchestra, it produced successful background music for the Pirates of Penzance actors.

In addition to the school’s production of The Pirates of Penzance, Levels Teen Center in Great Neck put on a virtual production of the show Something Rotten, in which some of our chapter members performed in, including officers and vice presidents Kate Smolens and Jack Brenner as choreographer and actor, respectively. In these times especially, it is important that artists are able to expand their horizons past simply Band and Orchestra in order to form them into well rounded musicians by affording them a wealth of opportunities and experiences.

Due to the change of concerts having to be conducted online and through edited recordings, this season’s live Chamber Music Recital is the highlight of the year as it is the first live in-person event other than Friday’s Lobby Music. This year in Chamber Music there has been a focus on going over the pieces in the Chamber Packet, which includes the songs being played on the recital on April 28th. Chamber Music students have the chance to optionally perform or take solos, and have had to attend two after-school rehearsals in the gym. In order to accommodate social distancing, woodwind and other band instruments have been separated towards the back of the gym while string instruments have been seated near the front. This event has been highly anticipated by students and staff and is being recorded and streamed live through several cameras set up throughout the gym.

All in all despite these difficult times we continue to thrive as a troupe and strengthen the bonds within the music program. We have pushed through the hard times and have accomplished some amazing things over the course of this year, and we cannot wait until we can return to normal times together as a chapter.

Highest Regards, Tri-M Chapter 2605 2020/2021 Co-Presidents*

Arabella Notar-Francesco, Katherine Smolens, Lauren Murphy, Nina Phillips, Daniel Choi & Hani Kang

*Vice Presidents/contributing writers are Maverick Williams, Stanley Chan, Tricia Wu & Sahar Tartak

Chapter 2605

Tri m Chapter Report Major Projects

#1 Project Title: Carnegie Hall

2a: Planning. What steps did you take to ensure the success of your project?

In order to ensure the success of this project, Chapter 2605 held nine rehearsals, in which we spent hours, running through the entire program that we had prepared, multiple times over. Not only did we have many hours of total rehearsal time together, but all musicians involved in this project went on a strict practice routine at home, especially during the Winter Recess. During this vacation, all Carnegie Hall student musicians were assigned to practice a total of twenty hours, or two hours every day, on not only the music in our Carnegie Hall program, but also on long tones, and other rudimentary exercises, in rhythm and tone. In all of the instrumental music classes at Great Neck North High School, leading up to the performance, students would be instructed to play songs from the program, whether they were going to Carnegie Hall or not, with the intention of further using music to enrich the lives of students at this school.

2b: Execution. Describe the outcome and success of your project.

Our performance at Carnegie Hall was a great success! Our music booster parent volunteers donated water and snacks to our performers to ensure we were all well fueled before the performance. We performed a total of three pieces: Georg Frideric Handel’s Concerto Grosso in G, Op. 6 conducted by Patrick Kennedy, Dmitri Shostakovich’s suite from The First Echelon Op.99a Waltz No.2 conducted by Matthew Trinkwald and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47, finale conducted by Joseph Rutkowski. The audience at Carnegie Hall was delighted by our performance and the whole school was made aware of our successes through Mr. Rutkowski’s never ending email chain.

2c: Perform, Lead, Serve. Describe how this project made an impact in your school, community, and personal growth.

Each student who performed at Carnegie Hall was changed as a musician. Playing on that stage makes a young musician want to do it more and more. The opportunity to perform at Carnegie Hall is once in a lifetime and each of the students who performed were very aware of this. This performance made our music program at Great Neck North High School more valued by the other students and teachers. The overall population of our school was more interested in what our program does when they heard about our achievement. Performing Carnegie Hall is something very few people can say they have done. Thanks to Mr. Rutkowski, members of our chapter can now say they have done just that.

#2 Project Title: Tri M Dinner

2a: Planning. What steps did you take to ensure the success of your project?

The Tri M dinner is a big tradition in chapter 2605, and we have multiple meetings to plan for the event. We had a well organized online ticket system, and members were encouraged to reach out to their friends from other schools involved in music. Additionally, we reached out to Dr. Anthea Jackson to be our keynote speaker, organized prizes for our raffle, and coordinated decorations for our cafeteria.

2b: Execution. Describe the outcome and success of your project.

The Tri M dinner had a great turnout, and was a great success! Our cafeteria was full of visitors from McArthur, Herricks, and Manhasset High Schools, as well as plenty of North High students and parent volunteers. It was a fun night of food, performances, and games like music jeopardy created by the officers. The event lasted for hours and was truly enjoyed by all.

2c: Perform, Lead, Serve. Describe how this project made an impact in your school, community, and personal growth.

The Tri M dinner was a really special night for all student musicians. It was great for these students from all different schools to bond over a shared love of music. Many students made new friendships, seeing people they met at the Tri m dinner at of there events like all county or the performance at Westbury Music Fair.

#3 Project Title: Lobby Music

2a: Planning. What steps did you take to ensure the success of your project?

Lobby music is a regularly scheduled event, scheduled far in advance by Mr. Rutkowski on his weekly lesson plans. Every Friday morning, students from the chamber ensemble that meets before school, as well as any orchestra student or musical teacher that wants to join, play music for students and teachers entering the school in the main lobby area. The playlist varies depending on the week: musicians play everything from jazz standards to the current school musical to rock operas like The Who’s Tommy to the Beatles to holiday classics.

2b: Execution. Describe the outcome and success of your project.

Lobby music is always well received. Students entering the building are excited to see their friends playing music, and often wave at their friends or stop to listen and watch. Additionally, teachers often tell the musicians how much they enjoy the short performances. Lobby music is also used to promote things like the orchestra concerts or school musicals, so lobby music often contributes to a wider audience for those kinds of events.

2c: Perform, Lead, Serve. Describe how this project made an impact in your school, community, and personal growth.

Lobby music has been a tradition at North for many years now. Students and teachers alike look forward to performances on Friday mornings or special holidays. Many teachers come down to the lobby to sing or dance with the musicians, and it just creates a nice positive environment to start the day. The weeks where musicians play through all the Beatles discography is always a fan favorite. Lobby music is a great way for the students in the music program to bond as well. It’s much less formal than a concert, or playing chamber pieces. While there is a general structure to the event, part of the fun of lobby music is its spontaneity: Mr. Rutkowski often skips around in the packets, calls on students to improvise or take solos, or even changes the key on the second run through of a song. The setup of lobby music often involves moving as quickly as possible while carrying a music stand, music, and an instrument down a flight of stairs and through the auditorium. This weekly tradition brings joy and good music to the halls of North High, and really brings the music community together as well.

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Our chapter peaked and came to an abrupt ending with our performance at Carnegie Hall on March 1st, 2020.

While performing and acting is one aspect of Tri-M, the other aspect is the connection and trust between chapter members. Many of our events not only involved music but also allowed for us to bond as a Chapter.

. There's something about walking into school with music playing that makes every Friday extra special. For the performers, it is a gift when students walk away with smiles on their faces as the music wakes them up and teachers walk away with tears in their eyes as the music brings back memories they may have forgotten.

If you hang around room 218 long enough you might even see one of our musicians reciting parts of "Jupiter" from memory.

As the members of our Chapter heard about the work musicians do in Kabul and listened to them play they were inspired. If these students continue to pursue their love for music in such a difficult situation then we should be more than capable of practicing their instrument once a day.

When the elderly community at the Bristals and Atrias hear these classic songs from their younger days, it brings back many happy memories from their childhood, and younger adult lives; flashbacks of a late spouse, or listening to old records with their best childhood friends reach them in a rush of nostalgia every time we start a new song. It is incredible how music can allow people to relive experiences from decades ago. It's almost as if every sound wave that emanates from our instruments carries a bundle of emotions through the air of the Bristals and Atrias.

Our final rehearsal for this performance was one of the most special rehearsals in room 218. It was during the evening, before the final performance of Anything Goes . Since the rehearsal was during the evening, the musicians got to witness a beautiful sunset from room 218, which was rare because musicians are rarely in the room at that time. While we were rehearsing, Mr. Rutkowski cut us off at one point, then walked over to the side of the room, where the light switch was. He turned off the lights and told us all to put down our instruments, look away from our music, and look at the sunset. This was a particularly remarkable sunset. Mr. Rutkowski then told all of the musicians that through music, we can create instances just as beautiful as that sunset. Everyone took a second to pause, then Mr. Rutkowski walked back over to the lights and turned the lights back on. It’s moments like that that make room 218 so special.

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Tri-M Chapter 2605 Report of Activities 2020/2021

01 Jack Brenner essay highlighted on Worldstrides

Carnegie Hall: Through the Eyes of a Student Performer

Ninth-grader and euphonium player Jack tells us about his performance at Carnegie as part of his WorldStrides Performing Arts program.

I waited for our time to take the stage in apprehension. When it was time to go, I got in line, and headed into the giant elevator to the stage. As I walked onto the stage, I tried to forget about the crowd, and I pretended that it was just another rehearsal. When Mr. Trinkwald’s arms went up to indicate that he was about to signal the downbeat for the Shostakovich Jazz Waltz Suite No. 2, I felt almost as if I was at the pool, and I was about to jump into the cold water. As his arms went down, I let go of my nerves, buzzed my lips, produced that first note, and then I kept on going.

Everything after that was a blur, but I remember being able to hear myself play, more than I ever could before. When it was all over, I felt a great sense of pride. As my music teacher, Mr. Rutkowski had said, playing at Carnegie Hall is like playing baseball at Yankees Stadium. I had just played a major league gig, with my friends by my side, and it felt great.

Want that same great feeling for yourself, or your students? Check out our Festival at Carnegie Hall (for bands, choirs, and ensembles) or our Honors Performance Series (for individual performers).

Article written by Jack Brennar

Jack is a 9th grader who plays the euphonium. In March 2020, he traveled to Carnegie Hall under the direction of Joe Rutkowski, who’s been taking Great Neck North High School students to Carnegie for 23 years!

From: RUTKOWSKI, JOSEPH [mailto:JRUTKOWSKI@GREATNECK.K12.NY.US]

Sent: Monday, April 06, 2020 1:26 PM

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Subject: Dear Marion I wish to extend our thanks to you and Worldstrides Onstage for another opportunity and an experience our students, parents, teachers and administrators will all remember and cherish forever:March 1st at Carnegie Hall.

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Dear Marion:

I wish to extend our thanks to you and Worldstrides Onstage for another opportunity and an experience our students, parents, teachers and administrators will all remember and cherish forever:March 1st at Carnegie Hall.

The chance to perform at Carnegie Hall with the services provided by the stage crew, the kind and professional treatment by people like Bob Koch, Tyler, Jeff, Gabby, David, Ariel, the stage managers: Patrick and Michael, the chaperones: Keeley and Donna and Jesse at the back door was incredible.

The constant email exchanges of information with Cheryl Max and James Ohn helped keep me focused on the tasks at hand. Cheryl was particularly incredible responsive at a moment's notice!

In the 23 years since your Dad first extended this invitation to us, our students have been challenged and were able to rise to levels I never thought possible. This experience continues to inspire us to continue to seek achievements of even higher levels.

This will be a particularly heart-breaking season for Woldstrides given the realities of our time. For that reason, our performance at Carnegie Hall has such monumental meaning to all of our students and parents!

I would like to reiterate what a pleasure it is to have Cheryl in charge of all that she does for the students who benefit from their involvement with Worldstrides Onstage. It is incredible how calm she maneuvers the flow when there is so much chaos and stress about. Still, as always, Cheryl gave us the royal treatment and my students felt like professional artists. I feel very lucky to be associated with Cheryl Max.

In closing, my family, friends at school, the 864 students who have performed under your auspices (some of them more than once or twice!), and I will always honor this special gift from Lloyd Meeker, Steven Keim and YOU, Marion.

Sincerely,

Joseph Rutkowski

Instrumental Music Director, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School Administrative Teacher-MUSIC, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School Tri-M Chapter 2605 Advisor

35 Polo Road

Great Neck, NY 11023

(516) 441-4751

JRutkowski@greatneck.k12.ny.us

Alternate email: josephrrutkowski@gmail.com

Check our web site:

https://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/Page/13704

PS...Here is an essay composed by 9th grader Jack Brenner My Carnegie Hall Experience

When I first arrived at Carnegie Hall, I was amazed by how large, and immaculate the theater was. There were layers upon layers of seating levels, all facing towards one small, white stage. It was at that moment, that I realized how big this opportunity was. I was going to be playing at one of the World's greatest music halls, for almost 3,000 people, which looked like 3 million people from that little, white stage. I became nervous. What would happen if I cracked, while playing the opening line of the Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 Finale? I waited for our time to take the stage in apprehension. When it was time to go, I got in line, and headed into the giant elevator to the stage. As I walked onto the stage, I tried to forget about the crowd, and I pretended that it was just another rehearsal. When Mr. Trinkwald's arms went up to indicate that he was about to signal the downbeat for the Shostakovich Jazz Waltz Suite No. 2, I felt almost as if I was at the pool, and I was about to jump into the cold water. As his arms went down, I let go of my nerves, buzzed my lips, produced that first note, and then I kept on going. Everything after that was a blur, but I remember being able to hear myself play, more than I ever could before. When it was all over, I felt a great sense of pride. As my music teacher, Mr. Rutkowski had said, playing at Carnegie Hall is like playing baseball at Yankees Stadium. I had just played a major league gig, with my friends by my side, and it felt great.

By Jack Brenner, 9th grade euphonium player

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From: Marion Gomez [MarionG@WorldStrides.com]

Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2020 12:45 PM

To: RUTKOWSKI, JOSEPH

Subject: RE: Dear Marion I wish to extend our thanks to you and Worldstrides Onstage for another opportunity and an experience our students, parents, teachers and administrators will all remember and cherish forever:March 1st at Carnegie Hall.

Hi Joe,

First, I cannot thank you enough for this email and also for your text! They both brought a smile to my face during this very challenging time. I'm so glad you and your students were a part of the ONLY festival we were able to run this season! I particularly loved the essay you shared from Jack Brenner. As I'm share you recall, my dad always loved standing backstage to see the students go on and off stage and I have followed in those footsteps as well. I love watching those kids go out on that stage and seeing the expressions on their faces when they come back off. It literally reminds me of why I love my job so much! It's because of directors like YOU that I have been able to continue my dad's work and share his vision with so many others each year!

I also want to thank you for sharing this incredible email with WorldStrides. The marketing department was incredibly moved by your kind words and also Jack's essay. So much so, that they wanted me to see if we could get permission to share Jack's essay on our blog in addition to a photo of him if possible. Please let me know if you think this would be possible. It is so important to share notes of positivity at this time and this is certainly a perfect example of that! I would also like to include a little bio of you and Great Neck North and your history with us to share if you wouldn't mind as well. I realize you might be bust teaching online right now, so please let me know if this is something you are able to do given the current circumstances. I would really appreciate it!

Lastly and most importantly, I hope that you and your family are well and safe! We are hunkered down and trying to get used to this new normal for now. My mom is well and we are staying in touch with her on facetime and leaving treats and groceries on her door knob. Thank you again for your kind words and continued support! It means the world to me and WorldStrides!

Stay well and I look forward to hearing from you!

Thank you,

Marion Gomez

General Manager

Performing Arts

Festivals at Carnegie Hall

WorldStrides

1359 Broadway

Suite 1504

New York, NY 10018

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I look forward to writing the bio and our history for you, but here is a short article that one of our students wrote to get an idea how exhilarating we all were to play Carnegie again.

https://gnnguidepost.org/3735/news/carnegie-hall/

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From: RUTKOWSKI, JOSEPH

Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2020 9:24 PM

To: Marion Gomez

Subject: Finally, Marion

05/17/20

Dear Marion. I am so sorry this took me so long to write " a little bio of you and Great Neck North and your history with us." I hope you and your family and your friends are safe and healthy. I realize this might be longer than you wanted. So please do not hesitate cut anything out or to let me know if you want me to cut it down and change anything. Originally, of course, it was Field Studies Center, but I changed all references to WorldStrides.

Permission from parents of student Jack Brenner Dear Ms. Gomez,

We are happy to give you permission to publish Jack's letter and use his picture on the blog. Please let us know when we can see it ourselves. We have attached a photo of Jack at the bottom of this email.

Stay safe and well.

Sincerely,

Jen and Doug Brenner

May 17, 2020

I want to thank WorldStrides for giving 864 of my students, their parents and me 15 incredible memories of music and the human experience in the greatest concert hall in the world.

Ever since I was a kid, I dreamed of playing Carnegie Hall. I was so inspired by movies like The Jolson Story, The Benny Goodman Story, Red Nichols and His Five Pennies (with Louis Armstrong) and The Lady Sings The Blues (Billie Holiday). In each of the movies, the aspiring musician dreamed of playing Carnegie Hall.

As a young professional musician, the closest I got to Carnegie Hall was renting the Recital Hall next door for $350 for a solo clarinet recital back in 1978.

Nineteen years later, after becoming a high school music teacher, my dream finally came true when WorldStrides presented the opportunity to bring my STUDENTS to play the big hall.

On a Friday afternoon in February 1997 when I was about to leave school for the weekend, the phone in the orchestra room rang. This was in the days when there was no voicemail at our school. It was after 5 pm and I debated whether I should answer it or not. Maybe it was Mrs. Rutkowski calling to ask me to bring something home. And this was in the days before cell phones. When I picked up the phone, a man said, "This is Steve Keim calling for Lloyd Meeker from WorldStrides. How would you like to bring your band to play at Carnegie Hall?"

"Would I have to bring percussion equipment? Music stands? Chairs?"

"Nope. Just your students and their instruments and music. We have everything else."

"Just bring the students and their instruments and music? What's the catch?"

"The concert is 4 weeks from Sunday. Are you ready?"

"YES! We'll be there!"

Our first performance at Carnegie Hall in March 1997 was so successful that called us back 14 more times

1997

1999

2000

2001

2002 Avery Fisher

2004

2006

2007

2008

2009

2014

2015

2015 Jazz Choir

2016

2020

Each time we played, the most exciting part was having the two father figures--Lloyd Meeker and Steve Keim-standing back stage with us with words of encouragement as my students took that grand stage.

Most recently, WorldStrides sent us the letter of invitation from Cheryl Max and I asked Madeline Yang in the period 2 Symphonic Band class to open up the sealed envelope to read aloud to the class.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4F9g5C_cS0&feature=youtu.be

The students in the Great Neck North High School Band and Orchestra know that they must master the scales on their instruments before they approach the music of the masters (Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, The Beatles). They are a remarkable group of young people because of how serious and passionate they are about scales and great music.

If there is anything I could wish to give my students, it is the chance to play great music on their instruments on the most famous concert hall stage in the world. I so hope that years from now, these students will continue to attend concerts at Carnegie Hall boasting that they played there, too

I'd like to share 6 vivid memories of the times WorldStrides gave us this opportunity:

1. In 1999, when our students were arriving at the 56th Street entrance of Carnegie Hall, I ran into the great clarinetist: David Weber. Mr. Weber was my clarinet teacher's (Lawrence Sobol) teacher .Mr. Weber was there to see Ricardo Morales play the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with Metropolitan Opera Orchestra that afternoon. What a thrill it was for me to tell him that my students would be performing there that night!

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/04/arts/music-review-eagerly-lifted-out-of-the-pit-into-the-light.html

That evening, after our student Sean-Avram Carpenter performed the Sibelius Violin Concerto with our orchestra, another great clarinetist David Glazer to see me back stage. Mr. Glazer was my woodwind coach at Mannes in the 1970s. He told me that night that when he was in the Cleveland Orchestra, he played the American premiere of the Sibelius Violin Concerto on the same Carnegie Hall stage with the soloist none other than Jascha Heifetz! Sean Carpenter is now a renowned violinist and CEO of Carpenter Fine Violins https://carpentercollectibles.com/about/

2. In 2002, we were asked to perform at Avery Fisher Hall Student conductor and Brahms Violin Concerto soloist Lauren Sarah Carpenter(young sister of Sean) is now the head of Salomé Chamber Orchestra http://salomechamber.org

and saxophone soloist Sam Dillon is now a professional jazz artist.

https://www.samdillonmusic.com/

3. In 2004, we programmed the Sibelius Violin Concerto again with a student, this time the younger brother of Sean and Lauren, David-Aaron Carpenter, who is now making a name for himself as the "The Hottest Violist of the 21st Century" NORMAN LEBRECHT, ARTS JOURNAL http://davidaaroncarpenter.com

4. In 2008, NH student Steven Cohen conducted movements from Handel's Messiah and now he is a professional French hornist

https://www.hendrix.edu/news/news.aspx?id=90315

5. In 2016, I was ecstatic beyond belief that the Vienna Philharmonic was performing in the afternoon of our evening concert at Carnegie Hall, especially since our program included Strauss' Die Fledermaus Overture. What a remarkable coincidence that the Vienna musicians played an encore of the "Thunder and Lightning" Polka by Johann Strauss a mere 4 hours before we played our version of a work by Johann!

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/02/arts/music/vienna-philharmonic-led-by-valery-gergiev-offers-old-and-new-at-carnegie-hall.html

I told my students that the DNA of the Vienna Philharmonic was still on the stage when we took it!

6. A very sad but sweet memory is that one of our students, principal violist Genelle Taney, had a rare form of cancer in her thyroid. Her doctor advised her to have her 5th round of chemotherapy right before our 2004 appearance at Carnegie Hall, meaning she would not be able to perform. She decided to delay the treatment until after the concert so that she wouldn't let down her fellow musicians. Although Genelle lost her 2-year battle with cancer, her final performance was that 2004 concert at Carnegie, thanks to WorldStrides. I am proud to say that I am still in close touch with Genelle's parents and sisters and they cherish the memory of that concert when Genelle got to play with her sisters on the grand stage.

Genelle Taney (right) with her two younger sisters, Julianna and Marisa backstage at Carnegie Hall 2004

And most recently on March 1, 2020, the New York Youth Symphony canceled their afternoon concert at Carnegie, but we got to play ours at 8:30!

On that night, it was Marion Gomez and Cheryl Max who were the big sister figures that were standing back stage with us with words of encouragement as my students took that grand stage.

Thank you, WorldStrides!

~joseph rutkowski

Here is an essay composed by 9th grader Jack Brenner My Carnegie Hall Experience

By Jack Brenner, 9th grade euphonium player =

FEEL VERY FREE TO CUT THESE TWO BIOs DOWN, MARION!

Or let me know if you want me to do that.

Joseph Rutkowski has been the director of Instrumental Music at Great Neck North High since 1991. As a concert clarinetist he has been hailed by The New York Times as "...an agile and powerful player" and by the International Clarinet Magazine as a clarinetist with "awesome technical prowess." He has performed with James Galway, Mstislav Rostropovich, Eleanor Steber, William Warfield and Maurice Andre and under the batons of Alan Hovhaness, Karel Husa, Laszlo Halasz, Richard Westenburg, Michael Flamhaft and JoAnn Falletta. His recording of Schubert's "Shepherd on the Rock" for Ali Mar Records received critical acclaim in Richard Gilbert's The Clarinetist's Discography. Mr. Rutkowski has been nominated as a GRAMMY Music Educator of Year three times and he is a two-time Presidential Scholars Teacher Recognition Award recipient, a Harvard Club Educator of the Year, the Long Island Music Hall of Fame Educator of 2015 and the WQXR Classical Hero of May 2018. He has served on the faculties of Queens College, Mannes College, Westchester Conservatory and Stuyvesant High School. He has also written articles and research papers, and lectured at conferences around the country. Mr. Rutkowski currently performs with Trimonious and the JEY Trio.

The John L. Miller-Great Neck North High School Music Program

Under the auspices of Field Studies Center, this is Great Neck North High School's fifteenth appearance. The school's groups have been featured in concert at Carnegie Hall on fourteen occasions and once at Avery Fisher Hall. They have also been featured several times on Robert Sherman's Young Artists Showcase on WQXR radio.

Great Neck is a suburb of New York City, located on the North Shore of Long Island just east of the Queens border. The Great Neck Public School System has possessed a tradition of excellence since its inception in 1814! The current high school building has housed its students, faculty and staff since 1928. Great Neck High School is now known as the John L. Miller-Great Neck North High School, named after the distinguished superintendent from 1943 until 1971. A Long Island Music Hall of Fame High School of Excellence for 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, the Music Program dates back to 1928. A history of the Music Program was created by Class of 2003 Principal Violist Genelle Taney, complete with rosters, photographs and concert programs on the web

https://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/Page/13704

displays the continuity of excellence in musical training of Great Neck's student musicians who have studied, rehearsed and performed the masterpieces of the orchestral, band and choral repertoire on the very same concert stage that is utilized today. The Symphonic Band, Symphony Orchestra and Concert Choir have merited the attention of several internationally renowned international musical figures including Maestra JoAnn Falletta, Tara Helen O'Connor, the late Maestro Jens Nygard, Michael Gilbert, Dr. James Jordan, Frances Roberts, Maestro Alan Schwartz, Joseph Turrin , Patricia Spencer, Maestro Michael Flamhaft, Michael Lipsey and David Jolly, Maestro Michael Tong, Maestro Olivier Fluchaire, Maestro David Winkler, Prof. Sean Reed, Prof. Kae Reed, Maestro Brian Worsdale, Maestro Frank Rugers, Maestra Susan Deaver, Maestro David Bernard, Robert Sherman, Maestro Gal Altervich, Geoffrey Simon, Maestro Joanne May (Elmhurst College, Chicago), Maestro Ross Capern (St Laurence College, Australia)

At Great Neck North High School our public performances in school and off campus (from nursing homes and elementary schools to Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center) are on a very high level; yet, we focus on teaching our students how to practice their instruments (and vocal techniques), listen to music critically and use technology to compose and orchestrate.

02 Michael Chan competition winner

Michael Chan, oboist

From: New York International Concours <nyimconcours@gmail.com>

Date: July 9, 2020 at 8:24:42 PM EDT

To: michaelchan100@gmail.com

Subject: NYIMC Result

Dear Michael Chan,

We are pleased to inform you of the results of the 6th New York International Music Concours. After much deliberation, we have decided the following result.

Name: Michael Chan

Category: Oboe

Place: 2nd

Congratulations on your outstanding result.

You will receive the Edward Braustein New York State Assembly Award & Place Certificate

*Important Note* MUST READ!!

In order to mail you the New York State Assembly Award and Place Certificate we need you to confirm your FULL LEGAL NAME for the certificate and FULL MAILING ADDRESS with ZIP CODE. (for international, POSTAL CODE with your PHONE NUMBER). Please send those information to us via this email by this Saturday, July 11, 2020.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us. We look forward to hearing from you.

Thank you,

NYIMC

NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL MUSIC CONCOURS

www.nyimc.co

nyimconcours@gmail.com

03 Joshua Ohebshalom Wedding Gig

Tri-M Chapter 2605 member, Joshua Ohebshalom’s cousin asked him to play at his proposal as he asked the love of his life to marry him. Josh played the melody from Pachelbel’s Cannon in D as she realized what was going on. Tears of joy came running down her cheeks as she came to hug Josh. I continued playing, making one of their most cherished memories even more special.

04 Lobby Music LIVE from room 218 09/11/20

Lobby Music Sept 11 2020 Zoom.mp4

Sept 11, 2020 Lobby Music #1 LIVE from room 218 via ZOOM Friday mornings at 7:40 am

RUTKOWSKI, JOSEPH

Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2020 12:31 PM

To: BeeBees137@yahoo.com; North-High-All-Staff-Group; BOWLER, COLLEEN; PRENDERGAST, TERESA; LANDO, STEPHEN; NEWMAN, KELLY; POWELL, JOHN; HICKEY, JOSEPH; EPSTEIN, MARC; ZAHN, ROBERT

Cc: SCHWARTZ, ALAN

joseph rutkowski is inviting you to a scheduled

Zoom meeting.

Topic: Lobby Music LIVE from room 218 via ZOOM

Friday mornings at 7:40 am

Join Zoom Meeting

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Joseph Rutkowski

Instrumental Music Director, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Administrative Teacher-MUSIC, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Tri-M Chapter 2605 Advisor

35 Polo Road

Great Neck, NY 11023

(516) 441-4751

JRutkowski@greatneck.k12.ny.us

Alternate email: josephrrutkowski@gmail.com

Check our web site:

https://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/Page/13704

THANK YOU FOR TUNING IN TO LOBBY MUSIC today

RUTKOWSKI, JOSEPH

Sent: Friday, September 11, 2020 8:07 AM

To: MUELLER CARPENTER, KATHLEEN; PESKIN, LORETTA; DEERY, MICHAEL; FORD, AMY;

HAASE, LINDA; ZEHNDER, JO ANNE; LAZAUNIK, JOAN; GLOW, HEIDI; LERNER, MAYA

THANK YOU FOR TUNING IN TO LOBBY MUSIC today

You have NO idea how great that made me feel and how you gave so much love and support to our musicians!!!

Have a great day and a great weekend.

And if you have any requests, please let me know!!

~joe

05 Lobby Music LIVE #2 from room 218 09/18/20

lobby music 09-18-20.mp4

Sept 18, 2020 Lobby Music LIVE from room 218 via ZOOM Friday mornings at 7:30 am

RUTKOWSKI, JOSEPH

Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 12:26 PM

To: BeeBees137@yahoo.com; North-High-All-Staff-Group; BOWLER, COLLEEN;

PRENDERGAST, TERESA; LANDO, STEPHEN

joseph rutkowski is inviting you to a scheduled

Zoom meeting.

Topic: Lobby Music LIVE from room 218 via ZOOM

Friday mornings at 7:30 am

Join Zoom Meeting

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Joseph Rutkowski

Instrumental Music Director, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Administrative Teacher-MUSIC, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Tri-M Chapter 2605 Advisor

35 Polo Road

Great Neck, NY 11023

(516) 441-4751

JRutkowski@greatneck.k12.ny.us

Alternate email: josephrrutkowski@gmail.com

Check our web site:

https://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/Page/13704

Thank you for watching and listening this morning

RUTKOWSKI, JOSEPH

Sent: Friday, September 18, 2020 8:03 AM

To: DERYCH, MARIANNE; HAASE, LINDA; FIORE, MARIA; ZEHNDER, JO ANNE; MUELLER CARPENTER, KATHLEEN; LIGUORI, THOMAS; FORD, AMY; BERTORELLI, ANNA; KRAMER, DONNA; LAZAUNIK, JOAN; HOLTZMAN, DANIEL

Dear Marianne, Linda, Maria, JoAnne, Katie, Tom,

Amy, Anna, Donna, Joan, Dan

Thank you for watching and listening this

morning!

Thank you Dr. Holtzman for broadcasting our student musicians!

~joe

06 Open School Video 09/24/20

Dear Parents:

To view the Open School Video of your child's class in room 218, please click on the link below:

Period 0 Chamber Music

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U0xwdVdTUvs2cHHCKeBtdMZQrt9wEyWE/view

Period 2 Symphonic Band

https://drive.google.com/file/d/14wppF-L4d5kkRoFOMgGQOVjHpy7nvDl3/view

Period 4 Concert Band (9th Grade Band)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1khgqYtYubauMVcjp9CFs-a-B3opQXeBi/view

Period 5 Symphony Orchestra

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o2WVrRadVTOv-26-plYV3aZQJynhxomx/view

Period 8 Concert Orchestra (9th Grade Orchestra)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1owcPTKx1_Xu82pO_F3yg3EPuGHSLYbMa/view

Please email me at jrutkowski@greatneck.k12.ny.us if you have any questions.

~joseph rutkowski

Parents’ responses to Rutkowski’s open school videos

Thank you very much for sending this.

Dear Mr R,

It is so special！

Thank you so much for sharing.

You have been such an inspiration…We are very blessed to have met you.

Thank you so much for sharing!

Thank you very much Mr. Rutkowsky for showing us around room 218. Wishing you and all the students a wonderful and safe year. Hopefully we will all get back to "normal" real soon!!!

Hi Mr. Rutkowski,

Thank you for your Open House video, it's my favorite thus far. Your enthusiasm for music is infectious!

Thank you Mr. Rutkowski!!!

What a nice introduction to your class and the importance of music in daily life.

Dear Mr. Rutkowski,

Thank you so much for producing such entertaining and informative videos! We loved viewing them. It was so great to see you again in Room 218 and hearing at least some of the kids playing their instruments and making such beautiful music. I’m so grateful for all you do with your students during these challenging circumstances. Please stay well and be safe.

Dear Mr. Rutkowski,

Thanks for sharing the class videos with us. It’s a great pleasure to listen to our young musicians’ performance!

07 Lobby Music LIVE #3 from room 218 09/25/20

Lobby Music 09-25-20

0Lobby Music 09-25-20.mp4

Sept 25, 2020 Lobby Music LIVE #3 from room 218 via ZOOM Friday mornings at 7:30 am..The musicians will be grooving on Mozart Serenade #12, Dvorak Serenade, the Beatles, some Led Zeppelin, Bacharach, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin and Luiz Bonfá

RUTKOWSKI, JOSEPH

Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2020 12:24 PM

To: BeeBees137@yahoo.com; North-High-All-Staff-Group; BOWLER, COLLEEN;

PRENDERGAST, TERESA; LANDO, STEPHEN

joseph rutkowski is inviting you to a scheduled

Zoom meeting.

Topic: Lobby Music LIVE from room 218 via ZOOM

Friday mornings at 7:30 am

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88500209211? pwd=YVhMRUlUNFRKRnZmYmRSNTZZOC9qZz09

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The musicians will be grooving on Mozart

Serenade #12, Dvorak Serenade, the Beatles, some

Led Zeppelin, Bacharach, Jerome Kern, Irving

Berlin and Luiz Bonfá

Joseph Rutkowski

Instrumental Music Director, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Administrative Teacher-MUSIC, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Tri-M Chapter 2605 Advisor

35 Polo Road

Great Neck, NY 11023

(516) 441-4751

JRutkowski@greatneck.k12.ny.us

Alternate email: josephrrutkowski@gmail.com

Check our web site:

https://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/Page/13704

Thank you, devoted fans of lobby music, MY FAVORITES at NH

RUTKOWSKI, JOSEPH

Sent: Friday, September 25, 2020 8:06 AM

To: HIDASI, PETER; NEARY, MICHAEL; DERYCH, MARIANNE; MUELLER CARPENTER, KATHLEEN; FIORE, MARIA; SCHIKLER, ILANA MEREDITH; BERTORELLI, ANNA; FERNANDEZ, LOUISE; CHENG, DAVID; HENRIQUEZ, ISRRAEL

Thank you, devoted fans of lobby music, MY FAVORITES at NH

for watching our musicians this morning. Have a great weekend!!

~joe r

08 Lobby Music LIVE #4 from room 218 10/02/20

Lobby Music 10-02-20

0Lobby Music no 4 10-02-20.mp4

Oct 2, 2020 Lobby Music LIVE #4 from room 218 via ZOOM Friday mornings at 7:30 am..The musicians will be grooving on Gounod,Hovhaness, Gershwin and jazz standards:Blue Bossa, Body and Soul, Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man, A Child is Born, Don’t Get Around Much

RUTKOWSKI, JOSEPH

Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2020 1:58 PM

To: BeeBees137@yahoo.com; North-High-All-Staff-Group; BOWLER, COLLEEN;

PRENDERGAST, TERESA; LANDO, STEPHEN

joseph rutkowski is inviting you to a scheduled

Zoom meeting.

Topic: Lobby Music LIVE from room 218 via ZOOM

Friday mornings at 7:30 am

Join Zoom Meeting

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Meeting ID: 885 0020 9211

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The musicians will be grooving on Gounod,

Hovhaness, Gershwin and jazz standards: Blue

Bossa, Body and Soul, Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man,

A Child is Born, Don’t Get Around Much

Joseph Rutkowski

Instrumental Music Director, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Administrative Teacher-MUSIC, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Tri-M Chapter 2605 Advisor

35 Polo Road

Great Neck, NY 11023

(516) 441-4751

JRutkowski@greatneck.k12.ny.us

Alternate email: josephrrutkowski@gmail.com

Check our web site:

https://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/Page/13704

RE: Thank you devoted NH Friends of Lobby Music

RUTKOWSKI, JOSEPH

Sent: Friday, October 2, 2020 8:15 AM

To: NEARY, MICHAEL; DERYCH, MARIANNE; HIDASI, PETER; ZEHNDER, JO ANNE; CORRIGAN, KRISTEN; WU, RUDY; MORIARTY, DANIEL; FERNANDEZ, LOUISE; MICELOTTA, DIANE; LAZAUNIK, JOAN; MUELLER CARPENTER, KATHLEEN; ANASTASIS, VICKY; FORD, AMY

Thank you for tuning in today!!!!

Our student chat monitor noted a Carol....but I'm not sure which one..

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!

~joe

From: MORIARTY, DANIEL

Sent: Friday, October 2, 2020 8:19 AM

To: RUTKOWSKI, JOSEPH

Subject: Re: Thank you devoted NH Friends of Lobby Music

Had my students watching, they loved it! Thanks

again

Dan

09 Impromptu Performances of Beethoven Waldstein by 9th grader Mizuki Natsu

From: RUTKOWSKI, JOSEPH

Sent: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 10:11 AM

To: HOLTZMAN, DANIEL; SNYDER, KATHLYNE; LEVY-MAJNEMER, PAMELA; REILLY, AMANDA

Subject: FW: What a blessing Mizuki is to our music program and me, Ms. Xia

Dear Dan, Kathy, Pam

We are blessed with a phenomenal student, 9th grader Mizuki Natsu. He is one of the BEST cellists I ever heard in room 218. So fortunately for ME that he is here every day because his first language is Japanese. He is the first one in the room after me for chamber music every day at 7:15 am. He is so patient with the 9th graders in his concert orchestra who are so much less advanced than he is. He has attended EVERY one of the THIRTEEN 5:00 pm zoom meetings I hold from my apartment for "after school" orchestra and band.

THEN....when I was telling this to Matt Trinkwald (his teacher last year), last Thursday, Matt said, "Yeah but Joe, you should hear him play the piano!"

The next day I asked Mizuki if he would play something for us on the piano. On this video, you will see him walk over the piano, look at it and play the 1st movement of Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata from memory without even touching the keys to get an idea of the action or balance.

Mizuki Natsu Beethoven on 10-02-20.mp4

By the way, his parents gave me permission to share this video with you, even though Mizuki said he was nervous because he had not performed in public since early March.

Thanks for listening. And if you had time to watch any of it, you will see the students on remote listening very attentively to their classmate.

~joe

10 Lobby Music LIVE #5 from room 218 10/09/20

LOBBY MUSIC no. 5 10-09-20.mp4

Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2020 12:37 PM

To: BeeBees137@yahoo.com; North-High-All-Staff-Group; BOWLER, COLLEEN;

PRENDERGAST, TERESA; LANDO, STEPHEN; NEWMAN, KELLY

joseph rutkowski is inviting you to a scheduled

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Topic: Lobby Music LIVE from room 218 via ZOOM

Friday mornings at 7:30 am

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The musicians will be grooving on Mozart, Joplin,

Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Rodgers & Hart and

Mama Cass Elliot

Joseph Rutkowski

Instrumental Music Director, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Administrative Teacher-MUSIC, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Tri-M Chapter 2605 Advisor

35 Polo Road

Great Neck, NY 11023

(516) 441-4751

JRutkowski@greatneck.k12.ny.us

Alternate email: josephrrutkowski@gmail.com

Check our web site:

https://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/Page/13704

This week’s Lobby Music offered a Trivia Quiz

Answers to today's trivia quiz

RUTKOWSKI, JOSEPH

Sent: Friday, October 9, 2020 9:59 AM

To: KENNEDY, PATRICK; PESKIN, LORETTA; LIGUORI, THOMAS; DERYCH, MARIANNE; MUELLER CARPENTER, KATHLEEN; HIDASI, PETER; ZEHNDER, JO ANNE; FORD, AMY; FIORE, MARIA; BERTORELLI, ANNA; SCHOLL, OANA; LAZAUNIK, JOAN; BONVICINO, JOSEPH

Cc: BARBACH, JORDAN

Dear Joanie, Patrick Kennedy, Loretta Peskin;Tom

Liguori, Marianne Derych, Katie Carpenter, Peter

Hidasi, Joanne Zehnder, Amy Ford, Maria Fiore,

Anna Bertorelli, Oana School!

10/09/20

Trivia

1. What 1973 movie featured the music by this composer which starred Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Robert Shaw?

The Sting

2. Which pop singer from the 1960s brought this 1931 song back on the charts?

Mama Cass Elliot

3. Whose 80th birthday is today? John Lennon

Bonus

What is the name of the movie with tom cruise who

asked where did Miles Davis receive his training?

Collateral (film)

Collateral is a 2004 American neo-noir action thriller film directed and produced by Michael Mann from a script by Stuart Beattie and starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx.

No one won the Grand prize: On your next birthday, I will drive by your house on my way to school and blast on the horn Happy Birthday to you.

And thank you, Jordan

11 Noa playing "She talks to angels" in Genelle's Gazebo copy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QrTaE9Dtp8

On Thursday, Oct 22, I took the ninth grade band outside to play because wind players are not allowed to play inside...

One of the ninth graders in the class is a guitarist name Noa. I know that she plays rock concerts, so I asked her if she wanted to play something for us while we were all around Genelle’s gazebo.

Genelle Taney was our principal violist when she graduated in 2003. When she was a junior, she developed a rare form of cancer that kept her at home during most of her senior year. Genelle was such incredibly giving person that she asked me if there was anything she could do for the music dept while she was at home being treated for cancer. I told her that I always wanted to scan the music photographs from the 80 years of yearbooks to put on our web site. She said that she would love to do that. It gave me an excuse to visit her every week, bringing over a few yearbooks for her to scan. Today her work is on our web site and you can see the music students of this dept going back to 1928. Thanks to Genelle.

https://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/Page/11363

Genelle Taney is the only student I ever had (or will ever have) that was with me for 8 years. She was in the last 6th grade class I taught at North Middle and because of her illness during the year after her graduation, she came to play in our orchestra at school during the orchestra class. Genelle was too ill to attend either of the colleges, which selected her: Harvard and Amherst. She performed with her sisters and her fellow violists at Carnegie Hall that year in April, 2004. Although her doctor advised her to have chemotherapy right before that concert, Genelle decided to delay the treatment until after the concert so that she would not let down her fellow musicians.

Genelle passed away in December of 2004, leaving behind memories of an incredible student who excelled in her academics, her music and her sports. She was a star in all three areas. But more than her talent and hard work, Genelle was the nicest and most kind young person that I ever met. The day before she passed away, her dad asked her if she was afraid. Genelle said, "I am not afraid. I am just worried about my sisters."

Noa picked the song played by the Black Crowes called “She talks to Angels”

I asked her if I could send this video to you because she remembered my “Genelle story” and she was touched and said yes!

How fitting this was in Genelle’s Gazebo to watch my “hybrid A” ninth grade band students with the rest of the students on zoom watching on zoom this girl play such a beautiful song outside...

I sent the this story and the video to Genelle’s mother who wrote back:

“How amazing!! Thank you so much for sharing this with us. And a huge thank you to Noa for making our day. So beautiful!! Please extend our gratitude to Noa.”

12 Lobby Music LIVE #6 from room 218 10/23/20

Oct 23, 2020 Lobby Music LIVE #6 from room 218 via ZOOM at 7:30 am

https://youtu.be/-juMu-0aRLo

What the teachers saw on their computers LIVE

https://youtu.be/VzY6EOZeYzk

Not many live concerts going on these days…..but we have one every Friday morning! Our 21 year running weekly Friday morning “Lobby Music from Great Neck North High” went virtual on March 20, 2020 but started up live again on Friday, September 11, 2020 via zoom from room 218.

Yes indeed, these devoted students are the first musicians on the East Coast that have a weekend gig every Friday morning. (You see 12 of the Hybrid B students while 18 more are participating at home on zoom) Today, we did an eclectic program of Antonin Dvorak, Charles Gounod, Scott Joplin, some Bossa Nova and standards from the American Songbook : Here's That Rainy Day, How High The Moon, i Can't Get Started and I Can't Give You Anything But Love and a #1 hit from 1977: from Fleetwood Mac’s classic LP “Rumours”….“Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow”….very appropriate for this day, eh?

The last time Fleetwood Mac’s classic LP “Rumours” was in the Top 10 of the Billboard album chart, in February 1978, Jimmy Carter was president, disco was king and the prime-time soap opera “Dallas” was still more than a month away from its premiere.

But thanks to a viral TikTok video, “Rumours” has climbed back to the chart’s upper rungs for the first time in 42 years, landing at No. 7 with the equivalent of 33,000 sales in the United States, including more than 30 million streams, according to Nielsen Music. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/arts/music/fleetwood-mac-billboard-chart.html

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B8TWuauNpXNepw5Mopm0I_Gu-kV6wUSI/view

joseph rutkowski is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Lobby Music LIVE from room 218 via ZOOM Friday mornings at 7:30 am

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88500209211?pwd=YVhMRUlUNFRKRnZmYmRSNTZZOC9qZz09

Meeting ID: 885 0020 9211

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The musicians will be grooving on Dvorak, Gounod, Joplin, some Bossa Nova and standards from the American Songbook : Here's That Rainy Day, How High The Moon, i Can't Get Started and I Can't Give You Anything But Love and a special rock song from 1977

And by popular demand, Another Trivia Quiz with a special prize for the first person to email the correct answers.

Joseph Rutkowski

Instrumental Music Director, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Administrative Teacher-MUSIC, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Tri-M Chapter 2605 Advisor

35 Polo Road

Great Neck, NY 11023

(516) 441-4751

JRutkowski@greatneck.k12.ny.us

Alternate email: josephrrutkowski@gmail.com

Check our web site:

https://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/Page/13704

And Anna!

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From: RUTKOWSKI, JOSEPH

Sent: Friday, October 23, 2020 8:01 AM

To: HIDASI, PETER; BOWLER, COLLEEN; ZEHNDER, JO ANNE; FERNANDEZ, LOUISE; DERYCH, MARIANNE; FIORE, MARIA; CORRIGAN, KRISTEN; FORD, AMY; NEARY, MICHAEL

Subject: Dear Peter, Colleen, JoAnne, Louise,Marianne, Maria, Kristen, Amy, Mike Thank you for tuning in and supporting and encouraging our musicians today.

Dear Peter, Colleen, JoAnne, Louise,Marianne, Maria, Kristen, Amy, Mike

Thank you for tuning in and supporting and encouraging our musicians today.

Have a great weekend!

`joe

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Quiz

1. Where did Dvorak live when he composed his New World Symphony?

2. What is the biggest selling jazz album of all time?

3. Who is the composer of the Bossa Nova How Insensitive? Hint...he also composed The Girl From Ipamena

4. What helped get Fleetwood Mac’s classic LP “Rumours” in the Top 10 for the first time in 42 years, landing at No. 7?

1. New York City....East 17th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues

2. Kind of Blue

Today, 50 years after it was released, "Kind of Blue" remains the bestselling jazz album of all time. More than 4 million copies have been sold, and the album still sells an average of 5,000 copies a week. If you have a jazz album on your shelf, odds are it's "Kind of Blue."Jan 30, 2009

3. Antonio Carlos Jobim

Mozart, Dvorak, Joplin, Miles Davis, some Bossa Nova and standards from the American Songbook : Here's That Rainy Day, How High The Moon, i Can't Get Started and I Can't Give You Anything But Love

4. TikTok video

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/arts/music/fleetwood-mac-billboard-chart.html

Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’ Returns to the Top 10, Thanks to TikTok

The album’s last run in the upper echelons of the Billboard chart was in February 1978.

Fleetwood Mac’s return to the top of the charts was prompted by a viral video of a man languidly singing along to “Dreams” while skateboarding.

Fleetwood Mac’s return to the top of the charts was prompted by a viral video of a man languidly singing along to “Dreams” while skateboarding.Credit...Evan Agostini/Invision, via Associated Press

Ben Sisario

By Ben Sisario

Oct. 19, 2020

Its return was set in motion late last month, when Nathan Apodaca, a potato worker in Idaho, filmed himself languidly singing along to “Dreams” while skateboarding down a road and sipping from a bottle of Cran-Raspberry juice. The clip caught on in the way that random, joyful TikTok videos do — it has been viewed more than 60 million times — and began spurring streams and downloads for “Dreams.” Before long, Mick Fleetwood and Stevie Nicks responded with their own videos.

After a tight race for the top of this week’s album chart, “Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon,” a posthumous release by the New York rapper Pop Smoke, who was shot to death in February at age 20, returned for its second slot at No. 1 with the equivalent of 67,000 sales. “Shoot for the Stars,” a steady hit since its release in July, squeezed ahead of 21 Savage and Metro Boomin’s “Savage Mode II,” last week’s top seller, which fell to No. 2 in its second week out with 66,000.

Also this week, Juice WRLD’s “Legends Never Die” is No. 3, Lil Baby’s “My Turn” is No. 4 and Machine Gun Kelly’s “Tickets to My Downfall” is No. 5.

13 A Cappella rehearsals 10-25-20

"A Cappella students rehearsing music virtually. In the past month alone, they've learned to conduct over Zoom, screen-share their sheet music, and record their vocal parts individually. Next, the recordings are put together for a virtual concert!"

~Sahar Tartak

14 Rostropovich Webinar by CMS of Lincoln Center 10/28/20

https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/cms-front-row-2020/online-events/online-events/musical-heritage-rostropovich-october-28-2020/

I am SO proud of our North High Students

Maximillian Lee

Joshua Rafaeil

Mizuki Natsu

Stephany Barbu

For attending this webinar..

I had the honor of being on tour with Slava on the Mermoz Music Cruise. I recall Rostropovich conducting Shostakovich Symphony no. 14 with his wife Galina and the bass Stafford Dean singing the solo parts on the island of Santa Domingo. The touring orchestra was the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, a string orchestra (only 1 string bass) with a few pairs of winds. Since Symphony #14 had only strings and percussion, the contractor had to hire native musicians from Santa Domingo to cover the 2nd bass player and all the percussionists. The problem was that all those native musicians were Merengue players and could not read music. Well, Slava was noticeably upset at the first rehearsal. He was able to get the performance together within 2 days of heavy rehearsal.

Here is the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra with principal flutist James Galway and a young Joe Rutkowski on 2nd clarinet

And here is Rostropovich celebrating with a young Joe Rutkowski and his wife Lisa the announcement of the death of Andropov.

15 Lobby Music LIVE #7 Halloween from room 218 10/30/20

Oct 30, 2020 Lobby Music LIVE #7 from room 218 via ZOOM at 7:30 am

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

....Not many live concerts going on these days…..but we have one every Friday morning! Our 21 year running weekly Friday morning “Lobby Music from Great Neck North High” went virtual on March 20, 2020 but started up live again on Friday, September 11, 2020 via zoom from room 218.

This is Halloween https://youtu.be/hoqzH-Z7g5o

Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite https://youtu.be/wQ76YhnnkT0

Sally’s Song https://youtu.be/e9uS8uPjaXU

Gounod’s Funeral March of the Marionettes https://youtu.be/I1vGoo0tyNs

Yes indeed, these devoted students are the first musicians on the East Coast that have a weekend gig every Friday morning. (You see 12 of the Hybrid A students while 18 more are participating at home on zoom)

Live Zoom recording

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hfa_OQVFUo97TvFmQyHsddWnhtvio_h-/view?usp=sharing

From: MORIARTY, DANIEL.

Sent: Friday, October 30, 2020 8:16 AM

To: RUTKOWSKI, JOSEPH

Thanks again! The class loved it! hope all is well -Dan

16 Lobby Music LIVE #8 Live From from room 218 It’s Friday morning 11/06/20

Live from room 218, It’s Friday Morning!

https://youtu.be/Qv1ohcaw7a0

Thelonious Monk

https://youtu.be/-RfqJO67dT0

Stairway To Heaven

https://youtu.be/FEiMDyj67ho

Yes indeed, these devoted students are the first musicians on the East Coast that have a weekend gig every Friday morning. (You see 7 of the Hybrid B students while 23 more are participating at home on zoom)

Live Zoom recording

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YCgrWLb0w_QHoGseGFXnr06r99nGUIt5/view?usp=sharing

Today's quiz

1. In what country was Alan Hovhaness born?

USA! He was born as Alan Vaness Chakmakjian (Armenian: Ալան Հարությունի Չաքմաքչյան)[4] in Somerville, Massachusetts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Hovhaness

2. Where did Thelonious Monk go to high school?

Stuyvesant High School, NYC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk

3. Where was Duke Ellington's funeral?

Saint John the Divine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV9QrMZUblk

I recall listening to the funeral over the radio which was broadcasted live over WRVR-FM, the jazz station that no longer exists. I also paid my respect by going to the Walter B. Cooke Funeral Home on East 85th Street where the Duke's wake was held.

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/05/26/archives/duke-ellingtons-friends-great-and-small-pay-their-respects.html

4. Which actor played Glenn Miller in the biographical movie about him?

Jimmy Stewart!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glenn_Miller_Story

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From: RUTKOWSKI, JOSEPH

Sent: Friday, November 6, 2020 8:06 AM

To: NEARY, MICHAEL; DERYCH, MARIANNE; SCHIKLER, ILANA MEREDITH; MORIARTY, DANIEL; HAASE, LINDA; LIGUORI, THOMAS; FERNANDEZ, LOUISE; ZEHNDER, JO ANNE; MUELLER CARPENTER, KATHLEEN; BERTORELLI, ANNA; FIORE, MARIA; LAZAUNIK, JOAN; FORD, AMY; CHENG, DAVID

Subject: Thank you for tuning in to LIVE FROM ROOM 218 IT'S FRIDAY MORNING today...... with the answers to the quiz

Thank you for tuning in to LIVE FROM ROOM 218 IT'S FRIDAY MORNING today!

Mike, Marianne, Ilana, Dan M (and his devoted class!), Linda, Tom L, Louise, JoAnne, Katie, Anna, Maria, David and Amy!

________________________________________

From: NEARY, MICHAEL

Sent: Friday, November 6, 2020 8:35 AM

To: RUTKOWSKI, JOSEPH

Subject: RE: Thank you for tuning in to LIVE FROM ROOM 218 IT'S FRIDAY MORNING today...... with the answers to the quiz

Thank you Joe! Always a nice start to Friday mornings.

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17 Lobby Music LIVE #9 Live From from room 218 It’s Friday morning 11/13/20 Tribute to Alex Trebek

Live from room 218 #9, It’s Friday Morning!

Today's Quiz paid a special tribute to Alex Trebek.

It Don’t Mean A Thing

https://youtu.be/8s3BwOrVIoA

02 Jeopardy Quiz

https://youtu.be/VRCHvnHGZnU

03 Haydn

https://youtu.be/7ymFtrYEMkk

04 Young At Heart

https://youtu.be/7GgtSfVGrGY

Zoom

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K1_2dpBqUeDAtS5O2RbBIKWJL_5y2tmp/view

With a paucity of live music events going on in this strange world, the musicians from the John L. Miller-Great Neck North High School (Tri-M Chapter 2605) broadcast a live 15-minute show every Friday morning via ZOOM to the whole school.

Yes indeed, these devoted students are the first musicians on the East Coast that have a weekend gig every Friday morning. (You see 7 of the Hybrid B students while 24 more are participating at home on zoom)

Today's Quiz paid a special tribute to Alex Trebek.

1. He composed “It Don't Mean A Thing" and In a Mellow Tone."

Who is Duke Ellington?

2. He composed "Rhapsody in Blue" and "Porgy and Bess."

Who is George Gershwin?

3. He composed the "Surprise Symphony" and his nickname was "Papa."

Who is Franz Joseph Haydn?

3. He was famous for singing "Strangers in the Night," "That's Life," "New York, NY" and "Young At Heart."

Who is Frank Sinatra?

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

~joseph r

18 Lobby Music LIVE #10 Live From from room 218 It’s Friday morning 11/20/20 Tribute to Alex Trebek

Live from room 218 #10, It’s Friday Morning!

Today's Quiz paid another special tribute to Alex Trebek.

https://youtu.be/_QEYfRbXJoM

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r9H8jOnD6QqUkJkbMTM2tGlA71dOdr6v/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r9H8jOnD6QqUkJkbMTM2tGlA71dOdr6v/view

Today’s Jeopardy Quiz

1. He composed the operas Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute and The Marriage of Figaro as well as 41 symphonies."

Mozart

2. He played the tenor saxophone, composed "Lonnie's Lament" and lived in Dix Hills on Long Island"

John Coltrane

3. A happy song that starts in minor and turns to major featured in The Sound of Music and was made a jazz standard by John Coltrane

My Favorite Things

4. The singing family from The Sound of Music grew up in Salzburg Austria and relocated to Stowe Vermont.

Von Trapp Family Singers

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

~joseph r

19 Lobby Music LIVE #11 Live From from room 218 It’s Tuesday morning 11/24/20 the morning before the 5 day Thanksgiving weekend

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19G7R-00gz0dws1L6Uv6bwp6KdDYSMgTX/view

Thank you Rudy Wu, Diane Micellotta, Marianne Derych, Louise Fernandez, Ilana Meredith, Mike Neary, Peter Hidasi, Maria Fiore, Carlo Mastrangelo, Loretta Peskin, Joseph Giacalone, Eric Ragot, Sarah Slotnick and Patty Hugo!

for tuning in today for LIVE LOBBY MUSIC

It means so much to our musicians and me that you care!

We'll be back for LIVE LOBBY MUSIC next week on Friday, December with music by John Coltrane.

Rudy...I'm sorry I did not explain how to answer the questions. In an earlier LIVE FROM, I told the faculty to email the answers, but I forgot today. Probably it would be better to put the answers in the chat box.

Today's Quiz

“The first answer is

1. He composed 9 Symphonies and his name is NOT Dvorak, Schubert, Mahler, Bruckner or Vaughan Williams….hint his last name starts with the same letter in mr rutkowski’s apartment number

WHO IS BEETHOVEN?

" Answer #2:

2. The song was composed by Errol Garner and featured in the soundtrack and title of a film that starred Clint Eastwood”

WHAT IS MISTY?

“Answer #3:

He was famous for singing That’s Life, Strangers in the Night, New York, NY and the song we are about to play, My Way.

WHO IS FRANK SINATRA

“Answer #4:

The movie starred Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman and featured the next song we are about to play, As Time Goes By”

WHAT IS CASABLANCA? Thank you for getting the right question, Louise!

“Answer #5

The title of this song is the first name (with some variations) of several NH staff members, namely:

An English teacher whose last name starts with T for Tunick

A Science teacher whose last name starts with a K for Kachmar

A Social Studies teacher whose last name starts with an M for Maksym

A Social Studies department head whose last name starts with a T for Talamo

A Health teacher whose last name starts with an B for Baron

An Attendance Secretary whose last name starts with a P for Peskin

A Librarian whose last name starts with a C for Cooper

A predecessor of Ms Meredith as Drama Director whose last name starts with an S for Stern

WHAT IS LAURA?

Answer #6

Our final number was the same one composed by George Shearing that we ended last week’s Live From Room 218 Lobby Music

WHAT IS LULLABY OF BIRDLAND?

THANK YOU FOR HOSTING, DANIEL CHOI, NINA PHILLIPS AND KEVIN KHADAVI!

Have a safe Thanksgiving!

`joe

20 Music Night 12/2/20

Music Night LEVY-MAJNEMER, PAMELA

Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 12:20 PM

To: All-Staff-GNPS-Group

Good afternoon,

We hope you had a restful Thanksgiving break.

Please find selections from our virtual Music Night. Special thanks to Joe Rutkowski, Mike Meehan, and North High student Maurice Zalta for their help producing the videos.

https://youtu.be/8ueFNRLjICw

https://youtu.be/bWcGaab_1GY

Kind regards,

Pam

Dr. Pamela Levy

Fine and Performing Arts Chair

GNPS NYSSMA Coordinator

John L. Miller Great Neck North High School

35 Polo Road

Great Neck, NY 11023

516 441-4751

PLevy@greatneck.k12.ny.us

21 Live from room 218 #12, It’s Friday Morning!

https://youtu.be/KQVoQD_H9Ss

Today's Quiz paid another special tribute to Alex Trebek.

Haydn London Trio #1

Feliz Navidad

The Christmas Song

Oh Chanukah

Christmas Time is Here

Rudolph

Today’s Jeopardy Quiz

1. He composed 104 symphonies and he was Beethoven’s composition teacher

Who is Franz Joseph Hadyn?

2. The song Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas was sung by Judy Garland in a movie with a US City in the title.

What is Meet Me in St Louis?

3. This is a Christmas song written in 1970 by the Puerto Rican singer and songwriter José Feliciano.

What is Feliz Navida?

4. He composed The Christmas Song which was made famous by Nat King Cole

Who is Mel Torme?

5. These two songs celebrate a special holiday this month.

What are My Dreydl and Oh Chanukah?

6. He composed Christmas Time is Here and other songs for the Peanuts TV specials

Who is Vince Guaraldi?

7. He had a song named after him for having a red nose that lit up.

Who the heck is Rudolph?

Thank you for tuning in LIVE this morning:

Joseph GIACALONE, Loretta; PESKIN, Marianne DERYCH, Tom LIGUORI, Donna KRAMER,Louise FERNANDEZ, Sarah SLOTNICK, Emily RICE, EMILY, Peter HIDASI, Colleen BOWLER, Mike CALDERARO, Amy FORD, Mike NEARY, MICHAEL , Daniel MORIARTY, Linda HAASE, and Jacky SCOTT

AND ALL OF YOU ARE WATCHING NOW!!!!

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

~joseph r

22 Live from room 218 #13, It’s Friday Morning! December 11, 2020

https://youtu.be/P8AxjGTX3Dw

Today's Quiz paid another special tribute to Alex Trebek.

The answers to the quiz:

1. He was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, lived for a time on East 17th Street in Manhattan and composed the New World Symphony

Who is Antonin Dvorak?

2.This American composer composed this song as well as The Syncopated Clock:

Who is Leroy Anderson?

(the bonus I asked

This TV show featured Syncopated Clock as its theme song.

What is The Late Show?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruEnX9CWph8

3: The song Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas was sung by Judy Garland in a movie with a US City in the title.

What is Meet Me in Saint Louis?

4 He made this song famous as well ending every appearance saying, ““Good Night, Mrs. Calabash.” He also had a large nose.

Who is Jimmy Durante?

5: He composed Christmas Time is Here and other songs for the Peanuts TV specials.

Who is Vince Guaraldi?

THANK YOU JESSICA YORK

6This is a Christmas song written in 1970 by the Puerto Rican singer and songwriter José Feliciano.

What is Feliz Navida?

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Dvorak Serenade

Ner Li (I Have a Candle)

Sevivon, Sov, Sov, Sov

Rock of Ages

Let it Snow

Sleigh Ride

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

Frosty

Christmas Time is Here for Jessica York

Feliz Navidad

Today’s Jeopardy Quiz

Thank you for tuning in LIVE this morning:

Heidi Glow

Lisa Binder

Lori Cooper

Marianne Derych

Peter Hidasi

Michael Neary

Ilana Meredith

Kristen Corrigan

Louise Fernandez

Diane Micelotta

Maria Fiore

Donna Kramer

Sarah Slotnick

Jacky Scott

Anna Bertorelli

Jessica York (who was standing in the hall outside of room 281 for a TRULY LIVE show!)

AND THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO MIGHT BE WATCHED OUR VIDEO NOW!!!!

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

~joseph r

23 North High Virtual Winter Concert 12/17/20

The 92nd Winter Concert at the John L. Miller-Great Neck North High School is now released as a

Virtual Winter Concert

Thursday, December 17th 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vckY4ZD4_3I

Many thanks to Dr. Pamela Levy, Joseph Giacalone, Patrick Kennedy, Matthew Trinkwald, Arabella Notar-Francesco and Katherine Smolens and the rest of the Tri-M Chapter 2605 officers and the students who prepared and uploaded their vocal and instrumental audio files!

And most especially to my son, Ben Rutkowski for putting this into this video format.

Our performances of the music composed by Dr. Karel Husa are dedicated to the memory of

Dr. Karel Husa and Mr. Lawrence P. Sobol

The Printed Program can be found at:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQ7pwFywJJbrrpG6BBQ-SyfsFPVDidF2oZCk7dh5xf7fa6MnvEcx7gegP2arom33vPjUEwLZuL3jhj8/pub

Thanks to my high school band teacher, Lawrence Sobol, it is with much pride that I had known Dr. Husa since 1975 and have performed his music for chamber ensembles and larger ensembles. Rehearsing with this great composer and conductor was always a thrill for me. But an even bigger thrill is that I know my students at North High have gotten to know Husa’s music while he was still with us and we knew that he heard their performances of his music. Also worth noting is that our own Denise Schuler Eisner (North Middle Choral Director since 1981 until her retirement in 2014) was a composition student of Karel Husa when she was a student at Ithaca College. Mrs. Eisner was actually in the audience at the first performance in Ithaca of Music for Prague by the Ithaca College Symphonic Band.

Dr. Karel Husa

Karel Husa and Joseph Rutkowski in rehearsal discussion at Carols Music Studio in 1988

Flutist Pamela Sklar was a principal player in this 1988 concert

Special Dedication

14 years ago, our guest at Winter Concert 2006 was Lawrence Sobol, my high school band director as well as my most important clarinet teacher. He will always be my role model for balancing the separate lives of a high school educator and that of a performing musician. As a teacher, I have always strived to emulate his ability to motivate students to practice hard and create beauty in the performance. As a musician, I have followed his example by collaborating with other musicians to present concerts that stir the intellect and the emotions. Mr. Sobol passed away November 28, 2016. On the day before he died, I was able to thank him, say good-bye and promise that my next performance would be dedicated to him. I dedicated the Winter Concert of 2016 and I do the same for the Winter Concert of 2020. Rest in peace, Mr. Sobol.

Lawrence Sobol

Lawrence Sobol speaks to the audience at the Great Neck North High School Winter Concert 2010

Joseph Rutkowski and Lawrence Sobol meet

at the 40th reunion of

Smithtown Central HS Class of 1972

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24 Live from room 218 #14, It’s Friday Morning! December 18, 2020

Live from room 218 #14, It’s Friday Morning! December 18, 2020

https://youtu.be/AlSHvHgs-ro

Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanza, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Yes indeed, these devoted students are the first musicians on the East Coast that have a weekend gig every Friday morning. (You see 8 of the Hybrid A students while 22 more are participating at home on zoom)

Today's Quiz paid another special tribute to Alex Trebek.

The answers to the quiz:

1. This 19th century romantic composer composed Hark the Herald Angels Sing.

Who is Felix Mendelssohn?

2. This American itinerant singer sang Holly Jolly Christmas in 1964 the Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer TV special

Who is Burl Ives?

3. This American actor and singer recorded “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” in 1943.

Who is Bing Crosby?

4. James Lord Pierrpont composed this next song, originally entitled “The One-Horse Open Sleigh” in the autumn of 1857 and had NO original connection to Christmas.

What is Jingle Bells?

5. There are two songs entitled “Joy To The World.” One if by Three Dog Night. But this Baroque composer is responsible for the holiday song of the same title.

Who is Georg Frederick Handel?

These are the songs we played

1. Holiday Music Packet C: Ner Li (I Have a Candle)

2. Sevivon, Sov, Sov, Sov

3. Rock of Ages

4. Holiday Packet A p. 2 “O Hanukah”

5. p. 230 “God Rest Ye Merry”

6. p. 254 “Hark! The Herald”

7. no page # “A Holly Jolly Christmas”

8. p. 328 “I’ll Be Home”

9. p. 328 “It Came Upon”

10. p. 9 “Jingle Bells” do the best you can in F Major

11. no page # “Joy to the World” Skip the first 4 bars and it’s really the C Major scale descending

12. p.15 “We Wish You” in A flat major

13. Holiday Music Packet B page 1 It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Thank you for tuning in LIVE this morning:

1. Marianne Derych

2. Colleen Bowler Dlugolecki

3. Michael Neary

4. Peter Hidasi

5.Louise Fernandez

6. Ilana Meredith

7. Sarah Slotnick

8. Maria Fiore

9. Kirsten Corrigan

10. Tommy Hahn

11. Donna Kramer

12. Joseph Giacalone

Jessica York (who was standing in the hall outside of room 281 for a TRULY LIVE show!)

AND THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO MIGHT HAVE WATCHED OUR VIDEO JUST NOW!!!!

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

~joseph r

25 NAfME blog What Music Has Meant to My Students Live from Room 218 12/22/20

https://nafme.org/what-music-has-meant-to-my-students/

What Music Has Meant to My Students

· December 22, 2020

What Music Has Meant to My Students

Live from Room 218

By NAfME Member Joseph Rutkowski

This school year in Room 218 at John L. Miller – Great Neck North High School in Great Neck, New York, has looked very different than years past. Nevertheless, the students have played on under the direction of NAfME member Joseph Rutkowski, who persevered in offering music-making opportunities for all his students during school closures and virtual/hybrid situations. Rutkowski has led his chamber music ensemble, band, and orchestra in rehearsals and exercises distanced in person and virtually, keeping them connected with one another and with their school community. For some 25 minutes after school from home via Zoom, about 25-30 students join Rutkowski to play through wind ensemble pieces and Beethoven’s nine symphonies without stopping.

And Fridays are still “Lobby Music” days—virtually offering the school community mornings filled with music.

“With a paucity of live music events going on in this strange world, the musicians from the John L. Miller – Great Neck North High School (Tri-M Chapter 2605) broadcast a live 15-minute show every Friday morning via Zoom to the whole school,” Rutkowski shared. “You see seven of the hybrid B students, while 24 more are participating at home on Zoom.”

“By the way, I tell my students that they are the first musicians on the east coast with a weekend gig EVERY FRIDAY,” says Rutkowski. “I feel really lucky.”

Listen in to some of their performances, and read what students are saying about the difference music is making for them this school year particularly:

“Don’t Stop”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-juMu-0aRLo&feature=youtu.be

“For me, playing music has been a consistency before and during quarantine. Playing and sharing music with the people around me feels more connected and is a sense of normalcy in school for me. Even while we are in uncertainty, music has been the constant thing keeping us together. By being part of the class and playing, I feel the satisfaction of contributing to this.”—Tricia Wu

“During these unprecedented times, we constantly live in a whirlwind of change. But the students at GNNHS have and will continue to perform. I mean, the show must go on! Music has this unique ability to drown out the chaos and confusion for me. So when playing music for others, my hope is that it alleviates any amount of stress they have suffered during the pandemic.”—Linda Li

“Playing music for others always makes me and the audience happy, but especially during this pandemic, it has much greater meaning. Music is something that we can all share together—whether we are playing or not. Just hearing people play music adds joy to those who hear it. Not many other schools have the same musical spirit that North High has. The fact that North High continues to keep its music program strong and spreads its culture to others is what makes our school unique. Although we must social-distance and follow safety guidelines, I believe that playing music during a pandemic has more significance than it would have had otherwise.”—Jonathan Moalemi

“It Don’t Mean a Thing”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s3BwOrVIoA&feature=youtu.be

“Throughout the course of this year, a lot of things have changed, but music has not. Playing music has been something that I have done for almost a decade, and it means something to me. Nowadays, during the pandemic, the way groups of people play music is a far cry from what it used to be, especially the joy felt when making music with other dedicated musicians. Unfortunately, now it’s only possible to mimic that to a degree in school, but we make the best of it. Playing individually at home has not changed, something I’m grateful for. I’m sure we will all enjoy music for our entire lives, pandemic or not.”—Victoria Guan

“Playing music for others during a pandemic means a lot to me because it symbolizes the optimism that is necessary to get us through such difficult times. Right now, people are hurting and struggling, and in order to carry on, we must embrace the beauty of creativity and humanity that is embraced in the world of music. When I play my instrument, in an orchestra, and I hear music, I feel pride because I have been a part of producing that sound. Music is more than a noise; it is an energy, that fills a room, lifts us up, and helps us to keep going, even in the most trying times. As long as I have my euphonium, I feel like I, along with anyone whom I play it for, is going to be okay.”—Jack Brenner

Jeopardy Quiz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRCHvnHGZnU&feature=youtu.be

Today’s quiz paid a special tribute to Alex Trebek.

He composed “It Don’t Mean a Thing” and “In a Mellow Tone.”

Who is Duke Ellington?

He composed “Rhapsody in Blue” and “Porgy and Bess.”

Who is George Gershwin?

He composed the “Surprise Symphony,” and his nickname was “Papa.”

Who is Franz Joseph Haydn?

He was famous for singing “Strangers in the Night,” “That’s Life,” “New York, NY,” and “Young at Heart.”

Who is Frank Sinatra?

“From the vibrato of my tuba to the perk of someone’s ear, I play for others to connect with them on a deeper level through music. Whether you speak a different language or play on the other side of a zoom screen, we can understand and love music together. Plus, for me, music is one of the only things keeping me sane during the pandemic. I love conducting jazz club not just because of the amazing jazz artists whose music we play, but because of my fellow club members with whom I get to see and share a memorable experience. During this pandemic, I played for my parents, and I played for my friends who want to hear me. Playing for others means so much to me, especially because it is something that hasn’t changed fully because of the pandemic.”—Preston Chan

“During this pandemic I have learned not to take things for granted, and one of the things I never thought I could lose was my orchestra. Sometimes when we’re in class, Mr.Rutkowski will play us past recordings of concerts. Sitting there and watching these videos knowing that, as a senior, I most likely will not have the chance to experience that under his conducting again makes me tear up each time. However, losing that has made me appreciate the little things. Playing piano for my family or friends on FaceTime or recording my part for a virtual orchestra are things I cherish nowadays. So yes, I may not get the experiences I’ve had in the past, but the power of music is still a huge part of my life, and I know that I will never lose it.”—Arabella Notar Francesco

Haydn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ymFtrYEMkk&feature=youtu.be

“Playing music for others is a way to spread joy and happiness to others. As a musician, it is very satisfying when I can play music and see how my hard work has made others happy. Playing music for others is a way to put smiles on the faces of everyone listening and a way to connect everyone. During this pandemic, we are more disconnected than ever, and playing music for others is a way for me to enjoy myself and help others enjoy our music.”—Stanley Chan

“Playing music for others during the pandemic instills a sense of normalization for both the listeners and the performers. Before the pandemic, the players at GNNHS would play live music for an audience at least once a week, and playing for people during a pandemic only brings the feeling back of playing our instruments pre-pandemic.”—Alex Geula

“Playing music for others always spreads joy for both the performers and the audience, but in these stressful times, sharing music takes on even more meaning. The need for social distancing and safety for the musicians and people raises difficulties in organization and finding an appropriate venue, but the need is also heightened, so music must continue to be shared.”—David Zeng

“Young at Heart”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GgtSfVGrGY&feature=youtu.be

“During this unsettling time, people are worried, anxious, and stressed. Music, however, can reduce that. ‘How?’ you ask? It is not hard. People can simply turn on their favorite music station, whether it is jazz, pop, or my personal favorite, classical (WQXR). Spending five to ten minutes to listen to music can impact your mood for the day. . . . In addition, music brings people together. Music reminds the community to appreciate the things we have. It gives a sense of hope and something to look forward to when the pandemic ceases. Music puts smiles on people’s faces, and maybe one day we will all see each other’s smiles while jamming to our favorite music.”—Daniel Choi

“During the pandemic, musicianship has become an outlet of physical expression in a world that separates us physically more than ever before. We wear masks, rarely leave our homes, and have few gatherings for the sake of our physical well-being. But when I sing, these constraints disappear. I can return to the sense of freedom that I long for every day with music.”—Sahar Tartak

“Playing music for others, in my opinion, is one of the best things that we can do to assure the student body that, despite the difficulties facing our time, we will keep our spirits high and strive for success. I doubt very many other music programs in the country are continuing as ours is, and I think the fact that we have been able to do so much speaks volumes for our dedication to the program. In years past, many students walking into the building, myself included, were delighted to start our day with Lobby Music. I think it was a part of the culture of North High. With the pandemic, I am glad to see that we can keep that spirit alive.”—Kevin Khadavi

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K1_2dpBqUeDAtS5O2RbBIKWJL_5y2tmp/view?fbclid=IwAR0zcJL7tDZTkzRSdLWvSQhiUV6s6HvbhTzC_l2VdTGp2e2wbb0e6bQL6G4

About the author:

NAfME member Joseph Rutkowski has taught band and orchestra classes at the John L. Miller-Great Neck North High School on Long Island since 1991 and was the orchestra director at Stuyvesant High School in NYC for the eight years prior. He continues to perform as a concert clarinetist in orchestras and chamber ensembles, as well as a jazz pianist with his sons and former students. Joseph is a two-time Presidential Scholar Teacher, a Distinguished Teacher of the Harvard Club of Long Island, the 2015 Long Island Music Hall of Fame Educator of Note, and a three-time GRAMMY Music Educator AwardTM quarterfinalist. Check out the John L. Miller – Great Neck North High School music program website.

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Tags: band, Chamber Music, choir, choral, COVID-19, distance education, ensemble, orchestra, pandemic, rehearsal, virtual learning

26 Tri-M Meeting Monday, Oct 27 2020

Attendance

Nina Phillips

Arabella Notar-Francesco

Chantal Sadighpour

Albert Jan

Alex Zhuang

Daniel Choi

David Zeng

Jonathan Moalemi

Jonathan Shen

Joshua Rafaeil

Kate Smolens

Kevin Khadavi

Lauren Murphy

Leila Hawa

Linda Li

Liz Margiloff

Maverick Williams

Michael Chan

Sabrina Schlusselberg

Stephany Barbu

Tiantian Wei

Trinity Wu

Tyler Menker

Christopher Yang

Hani Kang

Lucy Liu

Julie Sun

Hwi-On Lee

Preston Chan

Sahar Tartak

Simon Adjakple

Stanley Chan

CheongJun Oh

Sara Rafaeil

Tyler Menker

Ashley Schlusselberg

David Choi

27 WQXR Classical Countdown 12/31/20

Arabella Notar-Francesco, Kate Needham, Lauren Murphy and Katherine Smolens stayed up late to witness No. 1-Beethoven’s 9th!

So did Jonah, Judah and Joshua Nouriyelian!

Works our musicians have played in room 218 during the past 3½ years and planned for the spring 2021 semester are highlighted in GREEN

100. Jean Sibelius: Finlandia

99. Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story

98. Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor

97. Clara Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 7

96. Carl Orff: Carmina Burana

95. Claude Debussy: Suite Bergamasque: Clair de lune

94. Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16

93. Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

92. Johann Pachelbel: Canon in D

91. Florence Price: Symphony No. 1 in E Minor

90. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30

89. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni

88. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker

87. Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier

86. Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73

85. Edward Grieg: Peer Gynt

84. Frederic Chopin: Nocturnes

83. Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 944, "The Great"

82. Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043

81. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550

80. Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

79. Johann Sebastian Bach: St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244

78. Edward Elgar: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85

77. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C, K. 551, "Jupiter"

76. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43

75. Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 82

74. Franz Joseph Haydn: The Creation

73. Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14

72. Richard Wagner: Tristan and Isolde

71. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, Op. 49

70. Georges Bizet: Carmen

69. Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird

68. Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier

67. Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47

66. Erik Satie: Gymnopedies

65. Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem

64. Jean Sibelius: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 47

63. Leonard Bernstein: Candide

62. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23

61. Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98

60. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Magic Flute

59. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C Sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2 "Moonlight"

58. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64

57. Franz Schubert: Piano Quintet in A, Op. 114, D. 667, "The Trout"

56. Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68

55. Frederic Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11

54. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27

53. Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77

52. Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations, Op. 36

51. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13 "Pathetique"

50. Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

49. Giacomo Puccini: La Boheme

48: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake

47. Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man: A Mass For Peace

46. Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet

45: Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat, Op. 83

44: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, "Pathetique"

43. Gabriel Faure: Requiem, Op. 48

42. Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43

41. Felix Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat, Op. 20

40. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A, K. 622

39. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35

38. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Serenade No. 13 in G Major, K. 525 "Eine kleine Nachtmusik"

37. Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp Minor

36. Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings, Op. 11

35. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36

34. Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64

33. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro

32. Richard Wagner: The Ring Cycle

31. Johann Sebastian Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007

30. Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26

29. Camille Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 78, "Organ"

28. Bedrich Smetana: Ma Vlast: The Moldau

27. George Frideric Handel: Messiah

26. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35

25. Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

24. Johannes Brahms: German Requiem, Op. 45

23. Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

22. Arthur Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance

21. Arthur Sullivan: The Mikado

20. Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61

19. Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

18. Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D, "The Titan"

17. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55 "Eroica"

16. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem Mass in D Minor, K. 626

15. Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73, "Emperor"

14. Gustav Holst: The Planets, Op. 32

13. George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue

12. Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring

11. Johann Sebastian Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

10. Arthur Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore

9. Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232

8. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastoral"

7. Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, "Resurrection"

6. Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos

5. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18

4. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67

3. Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, "From the New World"

2. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92

1. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral"

28 Lobby Music LIVE #15 Live from Room 218 It’s Friday Morning 01/08/21

Live from room 218 #15, It’s Friday Morning! January 8, 2021

https://youtu.be/_v-OGYjfoSw

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Before we start our program, I want to highlight next week’s Live From Room 218 when we will be joined by Ms York’s Social Justice Awareness Club with our immersive day for DR. Martin Luther King Jr. and feature pieces that evoke the mood of the civil right era!

Yes indeed, these devoted students are the first musicians on the East Coast that have a weekend gig every Friday morning. (You see 12 of the Hybrid A students while 19 more are participating at home on zoom)

Thank you for tuning in to Live from room 218 #15, It’s Friday Morning!

Emily Rice

Loren Tunik

Mike Neary

Kristen Corrigan

Donna Kramer

Peter Hidasi

Erin Lee

MATH Dept

Carlo Mastrangelo

Linda Haase

Maria Fiore

Joseph Giacalone

AND THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO MIGHT HAVE WATCHED OUR VIDEO JUST NOW!!!!

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

~joseph r

29 Lobby Music LIVE #16 Live from Room 218 It’s Friday Morning 01/15/21 MLK Day

Live from room 218 #16, It’s Friday Morning! January15, 2021

https://youtu.be/vzjrI98ChFk

At today’s Live From Room 218, we were joined by Principal Dr. Dan Holtzman and Ms York’s Social Justice Awareness Club with our immersive day for DR. Martin Luther King Jr. and featured pieces that evoke the mood of the civil right era!

Thank you, Devoted Fans of Live From Room 218 today

Colleen Bowler

Donna Kramer

Emily Rice

Kim Sender

Kristen Corrigan

Ifern1001

Lisa Binder

Marianne Derych

Michael Neary

Peter Hidasi

Rebecca Sassouni

Rudy Wu (+ Math Department)

Thomas Liguori

S. Slotnick

Ilana

Dan Moriarty

Jessica York

Diane Micelotta

Thomas Hahn

JoAnne Zehnder

Dan Moriarty and his class!

and Dr. Dan Holtzman for playing with us and keeping the rhythm section on track!!!

I want to thank our guest host, Aliza Fine and Ms. York from Social Justice Awareness Club for making our Live From Room 218 so very special today to honor the memory and legacy of DR. Martin Luther King Jr. that featured pieces that evoke the mood of the civil right era! We hope you enjoyed bringing you all back to the 1960s (most of you for the very first time....)

Today's Jeopardy Quiz

He composed “If I Had A Hammer” and “Where Have All The Flowers Gone”

Who is Pete Seeger?

He is a folksong writer and recently won the Nobel Prize for literature.

Who is Bob Dylan?

His real name is Robert Allen Zimmerman, born on May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota

Who is Bob Dylan?

They went to the Forest Hills High School in Queens and became one of the most well-known household duo names.

Who are Simon and Garfunkel?

Yes indeed, these devoted students are the first musicians on the East Coast that have a weekend gig every Friday morning. (You saw 12 of the Hybrid B students while 18 more are participating at home on zoom)

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

A Beautiful Symphony of Brotherhood: A Musical Journey Into the Life

https://www.wqxr.org/story/11702-beautiful-symphony-brotherhood-musical-journey-life-martin-luther-king-jr/

Publishe

Joseph Rutkowski

Instrumental Music Director, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Administrative Teacher-MUSIC, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Tri-M Chapter 2605 Advisor

35 Polo Road

Great Neck, NY 11023

(516) 441-4751

JRutkowski@greatneck.k12.ny.us

Alternate email: josephrrutkowski@gmail.com

Check our web site:

https://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/Page/13704

AND THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO MIGHT HAVE WATCHED OUR VIDEO JUST NOW!!!!

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

~joseph r

30 Lobby Music LIVE #17 Live from Room 218 It’s Friday Morning 01/22/21 Valentine’s Month

FACEBOOK POST

Live from room 218 #17, It’s Friday Morning! January22, 2021

At today’s Live From Room 218, we started our celebration of Valentine’s MONTH!

https://youtu.be/a8nnPyqQHdg

Thank you, Devoted Fans of Live From Room 218 today

Donna Kramer

Emily Rice

Kim Sender

Kristen Corrigan

Marianne Derych

Michael Neary

Peter Hidasi

Rudy Wu (+ Math Department)

Thomas Liguori

S. Slotnick

Dan Moriarty

Diane Micelotta

Thomas Hahn

JoAnne Zehnder

Eric Ragot

Jordana Cohen

Joseph Giacalone

Loren Tunick

Linda Haase

Maria Fiore

Jacky Scott

Joan Lazaunik

Dan Moriarty and his class!

I want to thank our hosts Nina Phillips, Scott Levy, Kevin Khadavi, Daniel Choi and Stephany Barbu, as well as the musicians of the NH Lobby Music Ensemble-------especially cellist/pianist Mizuki Natsu who performed a Chopin Nocturne RIGHT ON THE SPOT when I realized that we had extra time on our broadcast! Listen to this kid!!!

The Cinematography is by Linda Li, Katherine Sun, Cheongjun Oh, Scott Levy and Stanley Chan.

AND THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO MIGHT HAVE WATCHED OUR VIDEO JUST NOW!!!!

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

Joseph Rutkowski

Instrumental Music Director, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Administrative Teacher-MUSIC, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Tri-M Chapter 2605 Advisor

35 Polo Road

Great Neck, NY 11023

(516) 441-4751

JRutkowski@greatneck.k12.ny.us

Alternate email: josephrrutkowski@gmail.com

Check our web site:

https://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/Page/13704

31 Cello Club by Tricia Wu 01/27/21

This is Tricia Wu.

During our meetings, the club officers Victoria and Trinity usually introduce our next piece for our recordings while the club discusses the parts and any questions. All club members are free to practice with their cameras on but muted, and we usually end the club after 20-30 minutes of remote practice or discussion.

32 Visit to Whitney Museum to find John Coltrane portrait by L:inda Li 01/28/21

Linda Li and her friends Christine Zhou and Sophie Frenkel went to the Whitney Museum in Manhattan and saw a portrait of John Coltrane the day before North High would pay tribute to the LEGENDARY JOHN COLTRANE

33 Live from room 218 #18 It’s Friday morning January 29, 2021 paying tribute to John Coltrane

We honored the Long Island legend JOHN COLTRANE

https://youtu.be/Yxxs4_E5d54

LIVE from THE FROZEN TUNDRA Room 218

It was like 28 degrees fahrenheit in room 218 when we did this live at 7:30 am!

https://www.johncoltrane.com/

DID YOU KNOW that John Coltrane was our neighbor?? He lived in Dix Hills.

https://www.thecoltranehome.org/

Our hosts were Nina Phillips, Stephany Barbu, Daniel Choi, Scott Levy, Linda Li and Kevin Khadavi

You can these favorites played live by our Hybrid B musicians while they are accompanying a video made by our Hybrid A musicians!

Bessie’s Blues

Big Nick

Blue Trane

Central Park West

Chopin by Muziki

Giant Steps

The most feared song in jazz, explained

3,595,338 views

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62tIvfP9A2w

and the classic song Coltrane played

My Favorite Things

And thank you, Devoted Fans of Live From Room 218 today

Colleen Bowler

Diane Micellotta

Dr. Dan Holtzman

Donna Kramer

Emily Rice

Ilana Meredith

Jodi Khan

John Reynolds

Joseph Giacalone

Loren Tunick

Marianne Derych

Michael Neary

Rudy Wu

S. Slotnick

Anna Bertorelli

Joan Lazaunik

Jacky Scott

Linda Haase

AND THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO MIGHT HAVE WATCHED OUR VIDEO JUST NOW!!!!

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

Joseph Rutkowski

Instrumental Music Director, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Administrative Teacher-MUSIC, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Tri-M Chapter 2605 Advisor

35 Polo Road

Great Neck, NY 11023

(516) 441-4751

JRutkowski@greatneck.k12.ny.us

Alternate email: josephrrutkowski@gmail.com

Check our web site:

https://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/Page/13704

34 Live from room 218 no. 19, It’s Friday Morning, February 5, 2021...We honored the Long Island legend Miles Davis

https://youtu.be/-f9VBFBvuj0

When our newest principal Dr. Holtzman first visited North High in the spring of 2017, it was a Friday and it was a delight to see him front and center in our audience for Lobby Music. I asked our new principal if he had any favorite jazz artists. Dr. Holtzman promptly replied “Miles” NOT “Miles Davis”…..just simply “Miles.” We knew right away, this would be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Our hosts were Nina Phillips, Stephany Barbu, Daniel Choi, Scott Levy, Linda Li and Kevin Khadavi

You can hear these favorites played live by our Hybrid B musicians while they are accompanying a video made by our Hybrid A musicians!

All Blues

Blue in Green

Four

Solar

Tune Up

So What

Thank you, Devoted Fans of Live From Room 218 today

Joan Lazaunik

Amy Ford

Cathlene Behar

Donna Kramer

Diane Micellotta

Emily Rice

Eric Ragot

Jacky Scott

James Chow

John Reynolds

Joseph Giacalone

Joanne Zhender

Kim Semder

Kristen Corrigan

Louise Fernandez

Marianne Derych

Michael Neary

Peter Hidasi

Rudy Wu

Sarah Slotnick

Yes indeed, these devoted students are the first musicians on the East Coast that have a weekend gig every Friday morning. (You saw 8 of the Hybrid B students while 23 more are participating at home on zoom)

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

Joseph Rutkowski

35 CMS of LC Young Musicians Innovation Challenge 2021 Preliminary Round 02-08-21

Invitation to Young Musicians Innovation Challenge Preliminary Round Matthew Tommasini [mtommasini@chambermusicsociety.org] You replied on 1/20/2021 9:42 PM. Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2021 3:45 PM To: RUTKOWSKI, JOSEPH

Dear Joe,

I hope you are doing well and thank you for your submissions to the Young Musicians Innovation Challenge!

We are pleased to invite both of your teams to the Preliminary Round taking place at 7:30pm EST Monday February 8, 2021 via Zoom. So we may distinguish between both projects, we have assigned a number to each project:

Lobby Music Project I (Hovhaness: Divertimento)

Lobby Music Project II (Haydn: London Trio)

For the Preliminary Round, each team will have their pitch video played back, followed by around 5 minutes of questions from the Panel about their project. We would like to ask that the ensembles members from each featured work only join us for the Preliminary Panel.

We are asking that all students log on to the Zoom webinar session at 7:00pm EST so we may go over presentation details before the event officially begins at 7:30pm EST. My colleague, Sean Campbell, will be following-up with a complete rundown of the event, technical requirements and details, the order in which teams will appear, among other details.

In order for all ensemble members to join via Zoom webinar, they will each need to be sent a dedicated Zoom link connected to their e-mail address. Pease send the names and e-mail addresses of all students in each team (both the team leader and ensemble members) by Friday January 22 so they may sent a Zoom webinar panelist invitation.

We welcome you, team friends and family and your colleagues to attend the Preliminary Round webinar. They may register to attend via this link. Again, team students will be receiving a separate dedicated link for their appearance at the webinar.

If you have any further questions, please let me know.

Thank you again for your submissions and we look forward to meeting your teams on February 8!

Best,

Matt

Matthew Tommasini

Director of Education

70 Lincoln Center Plaza New York, NY 10023

mtommasini@chambermusicsociety.org

212-875-5793

= Dear Musicians (and Parents!!)!!!!

Congratulations!!!! Both our chamber groups are invited to the Preliminary Round taking place at 7:30pm EST Monday February 8, 2021 via Zoom.

For the Preliminary Round, each team will have their pitch video played back, followed by around 5 minutes of questions from the Panel about their project. YOU, the ensembles members from each featured work only join us for the Preliminary Panel.

Matthew Tommasini from Lincoln Center would like all students log on to the Zoom webinar session at 7:00pm EST so we may go over presentation details before the event officially begins at 7:30pm EST. His colleague, Sean Campbell, will be following-up with a complete rundown of the event, technical requirements and details, the order in which teams will appear, among other details.

In order for YOU to join via Zoom webinar, YOU will each need to be sent a dedicated Zoom link connected to YOUR e-mail address.

I need YOUR commitment to be on the Feb 8th 7:00 pm zoom by THIS FRIDAY so that Lincoln Center can send you a Zoom webinar panelist invitation. Please email me a statement that you can participate on the Feb 8th 7:00 pm with your parents on the CC. as soon as possible.

YOU, YOUR friends and YOUR family and NH Teachers are permitted attend the Preliminary Round webinar. They may register to attend via this link<https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_14-I95VSRQaPj5vlr_QJYw>.

YOU, the winning MUSICIANS will be receiving a separate dedicated link for YOUR appearance at the webinar.

Lobby Music Project I (Hovhaness: Divertimento)

Hovhaness Divertimento

Nina Phillips Violin (I) 12

Hwi-On Lee Violin (II) 10

Stephany Barbu Violin (I) 9

David Choi Violin (II) 9

Daniel Choi Cello (III) 12

Mizuki Natsu Cello (III) 9

Trinity Wu Cello (IV) 11

Tricia Wu Cello (IV) 10

Shuyuan Julie Sun Piano (II) 10

Spectators not in the ensemble

Michal Chan Oboe 11

Linda Li Clarinet 10

Stanley Chan Bassoon 10

Kevin Khadavi Saxophone 11

Cheongjun Oh French horn 12

Preston Chan Tuba 12

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VRNJMUCUmYKtUowb-7R7R6U96HjUegVV/view

Script that Nina Phillips composed and read on the video

Hovhaness Divertimento

I am Nina Phillips. Great Neck North High is immensely fortunate in that we are part of a select few orchestras with the opportunity to play music together amidst a pandemic. Our chamber music ensemble, which has meet every morning since 2009, opens every Friday morning with live performances for the student body and staff.

Our chamber group is going to play Divertimento by Alan Hovhaness, a 20th century American composer, notorious for his uncharacteristic stray from traditional western music. Interested in his heritage, he experimented with Armenian sounding music, and eventually included the Middle East and Asian styles in his music.

Due to safety precautions against the virus, wind players are sadly unable to participate in school chamber ensembles. In order to accommodate to this challenging situation, wind players are replaced with strings and a piano, and the parts are doubled to achieve a rich sonority which would otherwise be easily attained by a woodwind instrument. A student conductor also eases the difficulty of socially distant performers.

Our chamber ensemble intends to record a video of an “open rehearsal,” and share it with the middle and elementary schools in our district. We hope to inspire younger students to venture out pursue music in the face of these disquieting times.

Lobby Music Project II (Haydn: London Trio)

Haydn London Trio No. 1

Scott Levy Conductor 12

Jason Mei Violin 11

David Zeng Violin 11

Mizuki Natsu Piano (playing 2 flute parts) 9

Alex Zhuang Cello 10

Joshua Li Bass 11

Spectators not in the ensemble

Mark Li Drums 10

(wind players unable to play but participate by humming into their masks:

Katherine Sun Flute 10

Christine Tiong Oboe 11

Cheongjun Oh French horn 12

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UwWecHonvi1_z2-TQCR_dneEFWA18_Ff/view

Script that Scott Levy composed and read on the video

The Haydn London Trio

I am Scott Levy. In 1794, Haydn traveled to Hertfordshire with Willoughby Bertie, the fourth Earl of Abingdon and one of his leading patrons in London. It was for this occasion that the composer wrote the London Trios for the unusual combination of two flutes and a cello. Our rendition, however, replaces the two flutes with two violins and piano per the COVID-19 demands of no winds.

We are one of the few suburban high schools meeting every morning for a Chamber Music Class, broadcasting our music live every Friday. This chamber performance would only add to the already meaningful impact that this music has on our culture.

We also already perform an annual Young People’s Concert to inspire younger students to stick with their instruments, and through this performance we would like to instill a passion for chamber music as well.

Now please enjoy Jason Mei, David Zheng, Alexander Zhuang, Joshua Li and Mizuki Natsu performing an excerpt of Haydn’s London trios.

A very lucky mr r

00 Introduction

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1px9mUCEgcjbt8nXs3HQKu6yOWn3NPhDl/view

01 Hovhaness intro.MOV

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11tl7AqBGn1kHczCoGuJYzhb7tFgixISF/view

02 Hovhaness.MOV

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QAQ4bh0t74m3Hph-hatBXkLlqBO3qJUs/view

03 Haydn intro.MOV

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xp40U1Yd2Dd6pNd62GhEU-eaIJ67-UmD/view

04 Haydn.mov

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DVPi7_NDyM4yV6Y_NvNmQOogQ_KFDhH2/view

06 Finale.MOV

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kfn6Rxjos07dMLF-36m30k_YVdvaCnM_/view

36 Tri-M meeting 2-10-21

Here is the attendance list from the meeting today-

Stephany Barbu

Jack Brenner

Michael Chan

Stanley Chan

Daniel Choi

Jaslyn Gao

Clara Goldman

Leila Hawa

Hani Kang

Kevin Khadavi

Jonathan Kim

Linda Li

Liz Margiloff

Tyler Menker

Jonathan Moalemi

Lauren Murphy

Arabella Notar-Francesco

Cheongjun Oh

Nina Phillips

Joshua Rafaeil

Sara Rafaeil

Chantal Sadighpour

Kate Smolens

Julie Sun

Kirsten Tam

Christine Tiong

Maverick Williams

Christopher Yang

David Zeng

37 Live from room 218 no. 20 Valentine Weekend

Live from room 218 #20, It’s THURSday Morning! February 11, 2021

We played songs of Romance

https://youtu.be/8BkZqM2kZOA

Afghan Dance Tune: “Watan Jan”

We recorded with a video of the Afghan Women's Orchestra "Zohra" with their conductor, Zarifa Adiba. The Afghan Women's Orchestra "Zohra" performed at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland along with students from the Orchestre du College de Geneve.

Falling in Love with Love

I Love Paris in the Springtime

Isn’t It Romantic

My Funny Valentine

My One and Only Love

My Romance

Red Clay

Thank you, Devoted Fans of Live From Room 218 today

Cathy Behar

Dan Holtzman

Diane Micelotta

Donna Kramer

Emily Rice

Jodi Kahn

Joseph Giacalone

Kim Semder

Kristen Corrigan

Lisa Binder

Marianne Derych

Peter Hidasi

Sarah Slotnick

Tommy Hahn

Mike Neary

JoAnn Zehnder

Thomas Liguri

Today's Lobby Music featured Songs of Romance

Our hosts were Nina Phillips, Stephany Barbu, Daniel Choi, Scott Levy and Kevin Khadavi

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

38 Valentine Soirée 2-11-21

We are pleased to present our annual Valentine's Soirée which features the North High instrumental and vocal music students performing solo and ensemble selections. The instrumental and vocal music programs are under the direction of Joseph Rutkowski and Pamela Levy. We thank the following students for their contribution to the videos:Emily Hyman for editing the video, Maurice Zalta for creating the animation for "When You're and Addams," and Tyler Menker for his help with the video.

A special thank you to Mike Meehan and Joseph Giacalone for their assistance.

Vocal selections:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsigfPyjKQ0OebCpjQqhBeH3QZBJ_7Vw/view?usp=sharing

Instrumental selections:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BarCDtP19qCbtEsXJoggAplMTkfFrxyt/view?usp=sharing

39 Live from room 218 #21, It’s Friday Morning! The Beatles Early Albums PART I February 26, 2021

We played the early songs of the FAB FOUR Part I

https://youtu.be/E5RHr5UjVpc

Thank you devoted fans of Live from room 218 today

Allyson Cerino

Cathi Behar

Donna Kramer

Ilana Merideth

James Chow

John Reynolds

Joseph Giacalone

Kim Semder

Lisa Binder

Louise Fernandez

Marianne Derych

Michael Neary

S. Slotnick

Russell Cohen

Joan Lazaunik

Thursday's Lobby Music featured The Beatles with Dan Ringo Holtzman on drums

The Early Songs:

1."I Saw Her Standing There"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C0v7AH0XK38

2. "All My Loving"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TSpiwK5fig0

3. "Do You Want to Know a Secret"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3T7iFfkX_nA

4. She Loves You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S302kF8MJ-I

5. I Want To Hold Your Hand

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jenWdylTtzs

6.This Boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW5D7HpYhBU

7. 90 "A Hard Day's Night"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjyj8qnqkYI

Our hosts were be Nina Phillips, Elizabeth Margiloff, Stephany Barbu, Daniel Choi, Scott Levy and Kevin Khadavi

and our musicians were (12 in room 218 and 19 on remote):

Barbu Stephany violin

Chan, Michael oboe

Chan, Preston tuba/bass

Chan, Stanley bassoon

Cheung, David S violin

Choi, Daniel cello

Choi, David violin

Khadavi, Kevin alto sax

Kokhabi, Joelle violin

Lee, Hwi-On violin

Levy, Scott saxophone

Li, Joshua bass

Li, Linda clarinet

Li, Mark percussion

Margiloff, Elizabeth viola

Mei, Jason violin/sax

Mizuki, Natsu cello

Oh, Cheongjun horn

Phillips, Nina violin

Sarker, Sydney violin

Katherine Sun flute

Sun, Shuyuan Julie flute

Tiong, Christine oboe

Wu, Tricia cello

Wu, Trinity cello

Zeng, David violin

Zeng, Michelle violin/accordion

Zheng, Han flute

Zheng, Lan flute

Zhou, Yuxi violin

Zhuang, Alex cello

Yes indeed, these devoted students are the first musicians on the East Coast that have a weekend gig every Friday morning. (You saw 12 of the Hybrid A students while 19 more were participating at home on zoom)

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

Joseph Rutkowski

Instrumental Music Director, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Administrative Teacher-MUSIC, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Tri-M Chapter 2605 Advisor

35 Polo Road

Great Neck, NY 11023

(516) 441-4751

JRutkowski@greatneck.k12.ny.us

Alternate email: josephrrutkowski@gmail.com

Check our web site:

https://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/Page/13704

40 Cello Fermatas Club Hovhaness Divertimento Prelude

Victoria Guan - Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon Trinity Wu - Oboe, Bassoon Tricia Wu - Bassoon

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sVaReuSXpWqhxTS-bgKj9fXaLCU31F9G/view

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sVaReuSXpWqhxTS-bgKj9fXaLCU31F9G/view?usp=sharing

41 5 essays about MUSIC composed by Tri-M Officers

Christine Tiong on Leon Botstein United We Play

https://vimeo.com/489862152

https://www.annandaleonline.org/controls/email_marketing/view_in_browser.aspx?sid=990&gid=1&sendId=2049938&ecatid=4&puid=0e2f089d-02cd-4a9f-a19a-7203bf03fc42

Password: un1t3dw3play

Through the turbulence of 2020, Marcus Roberts, The Modern Jazz Generation ensemble, and the ASO’s string section came together to create the short film “United We Play” which features works for strings, jazz instrumentals, and piano composed by renowned pianist Marcus Roberts. The 24 minute film starts off with a short introduction by Marcus Roberts who tells of the trying times of 2020 and how music can bring us together. Musicians must often depend and trust one another in order to create something greater together. The first piece played is “America has the Blues” which, as the title suggests, a blues song! The next piece is “Seeking Peace” which is composed by Marcus Roberts for piano and string. This is a very gentle and calming song, and as Marcus said, “Sometimes, in the midst of chaos and turmoil, we just need to find a quiet place to reflect”. The last piece performed is “United We Play”, which is a very diverse and jazzy piece. It is said musicians must listen to each other and make room for each other to be heard. The same can be applied to the events that are happening at this very moment. The world has become very political and being able to work together to make everyone heard is something that keeps us from total chaos.

Jack Brenner on A Beautiful Symphony of Brotherhood: A Musical Journey Into the Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.

https://www.wqxr.org/story/11702-beautiful-symphony-brotherhood-musical-journey-life-martin-luther-king-jr/

They say “music makes the world go ‘round”. If there ever was a story that exemplifies this, it is “A Beautiful Symphony of Brotherhood: A Musical Journey Into the Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.” Music has aided and inspired numerous historical events throughout human history. The assassination of John Lennon, the cultural revolutions of the 1920s, and the accomplishments of Martin Luther King Jr.—all of these events were linked to music in some way or another. Martin Luther King, through both the church music from his upbringing and the jazz and blues movements of his time, was inspired to speak out against segregation, and to lead followers into his battle against racial injustice across the country. This social justice movement, inspired by music, also created music itself. While protesting, people often sang songs of hope for a future integrated society, such as “We Shall Overcome,”; musical artists—both black and white—sang songs in large awareness gatherings, such as Bob Dylan’s “Only a Pawn in Their Game” and Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come”. In such instances, music provided the energy to maintain the strength of social movements that were inspired by music in the first place, while such movements also generated music of their own. In short, music does “make the world go ‘round,” as the points in human history that show the passage of time and the growth of society are almost all related to it. Listening to this documentary left me amazed at how such arbitrary vibrations of the air are able to carry emotions and push onward the March on Washington that is time.

Kevin Khadavi on Playing the music from Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story every year

Every school year, the Great Neck North High School Music Program plays through pieces of Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story. In tandem with playing each piece of music, our teacher, Mr. Rutkowski, plays a movie clip featuring the piece of music we are playing. In fact, we often play along with the movie clip and try to keep up. Although we play through all the music in class, I never had a chance to watch West Side Story myself until December 2019. After watching the movie, I promptly texted Mr. Rutkowski to share my appreciation for the music and the movie. Mr. Rutkowski was delighted to hear that I watched the movie and sent me a number of resources regarding the story of West Side Story and its filming. The setting of West Side Story no longer exists as it did in 1960. The location of filming has since been demolished but its musical significance has not ceased. A large site of the filming of West Side Story has become Lincoln Center — the home of the New York Philharmonic. In May 1959, President Eisenhower was present for the groundbreaking ceremony of Lincoln Center. The movie was still being filmed while the neighborhood was being demolished and Lincoln Center was being built. Our music teacher’s genuine desire to play the music and teach us has played a large role in our enjoyment of the music and the history around it, as evidenced by this example of West Side Story.

Linda Li on 50th Anniversary of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/about/support/50th-anniversary-celebration/

We have all been forced into a constant whirlwind of change during these abnormal times. But, each and every musician that continues to perform brings us together, allowing us to revive the passion we have for music. As each year passes, I see the same spark and unwavering eathesiasium in the chamber music program. Making history, Lincoln Center virtually celebrates its 50th year of the chamber music society in 2021. The skillfully orchestrated Gala gives us a chance to appreciate timeless music and learn more on the history of the prestigious program. This year's Gala was yet another testament to the dedicated artists who need support during this global crisis. If you would like to learn more about the chamber music society or how to help its musicians you can visit their website at https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/ .

Maverick Williams on The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Young Musicians Innovation Challenge

Chamber Music Project:

Due to the current pandemic situation, Lincoln Center has decided to host a different sort of competition than in years previous. Instead of the vocal/instrumental chamber music competition held usually, this year students were given the task of devising a project to benefit the world of chamber music. North High entered three groups into this competition, two of which were run by Mr. Rutkowski and one of which was under the direction of Dr. Levy. The groups competing had to focus on including creative, viable, and sustainable aspects into their respective projects while also addressing diversity, equality and inclusion. Mr. Rutkowski’s groups presented their “Live from Room 218” projects, which would use zoom to stream their live chamber music broadcast across North’s Schools in the morning. Dr. Levy’s group presented their “Chamber Music Education Association” project, which would set up an organization somewhat similar to Tri-M, laying the groundwork for further pursuit of chamber music in numerous schools via education and history. All three of these groups had their video proposals selected to proceed to the next round. After the nine groups selected further presented their proposals to a panel of judges on zoom, North High’s three groups proceeded to the final round. For the next few weeks, the groups will undergo coaching from the judges to refine their proposals. The final round will be held sometime in March, wherein the winning group will be decided and their project will be implemented.

42 Live from room 218 no. 22 The Beatles Early Albums PART II 03-05-21

Live from room 218 #22, It’s Friday Morning! March 5, 2021

We played the EARLY SONGS: PART 2 of the FAB FOUR

https://youtu.be/J101JVo6IuY

Thank you devoted fans of Live from room 218 today

Cathi Behar

Donna Kramer

Emily Rice

Griffin

James Chow

Jodi Khan

John Reynolds

Jordana Cohen

Joseph Giacalone

Kathy Snyder

Kim Semder

Kristen Corrigan

Lisa Binder

Ilana Meredith

Louise Fernandez

Lpesk0210

Michael Neary

nhsecurity

S. Slotnick

Russell Cohen

Joan Lazaunik

Thursday's Lobby Music featured The Beatles with Dan Holtzman on guitar and Maverick Williams on drums

The Early Songs PART 2:

1. "A Hard Day's Night" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjyj8qnqkYI

2. "Can't Buy Me Love" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3WJiqc_bEs

3. "Eight Days a Week" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kle2xHhRHg4

4. "Help!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q_ZzBGPdqE

5. "Ticket to Ride" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyNt5zm3U_M

6. "I've Just Seen a Face" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vm7lQ3EheY

7. "Yesterday" McCartney https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXTJBr9tt8Q

This is my favorite scene from the very corny movie "Yesterday." All memory of The Beatles has been erased from every human on Earth except for this one struggling musician.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VgRuLQgeSE

Our hosts were be Nina Phillips, Elizabeth Margiloff, Stephany Barbu, Scott Levy and Kevin Khadavi

and our musicians were (9 in room 218 and 22 on remote):

Barbu Stephany violin

Chan, Michael oboe

Chan, Preston tuba/bass

Chan, Stanley bassoon

Cheung, David S violin

Choi, Daniel cello

Choi, David violin

Khadavi, Kevin alto sax

Kokhabi, Joelle violin

Lee, Hwi-On violin

Levy, Scott saxophone

Li, Joshua bass

Li, Linda clarinet

Li, Mark percussion

Margiloff, Elizabeth viola

Mei, Jason violin/sax

Mizuki, Natsu cello

Oh, Cheongjun horn

Phillips, Nina violin

Sarker, Sydney violin

Katherine Sun flute

Sun, Shuyuan Julie flute

Tiong, Christine oboe

Wu, Tricia cello

Wu, Trinity cello

Zeng, David violin

Zeng, Michelle violin/accordion

Zheng, Han flute

Zheng, Lan flute

Zhou, Yuxi violin

Zhuang, Alex cello

Yes indeed, these devoted students are the first musicians on the East Coast that have a weekend gig every Friday morning. (You saw 9 of the Hybrid A students while 22 more were participating at home on zoom)

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

Joseph Rutkowski

43 Lincoln Center The Lobby Music Project Coaching Session no. 2 03-05-21

Nina Phillips, Scott Levy, Kevin Khadavi, Stephany Barbu, Jason Mei

· Short description: specifically, identify what need is being met with this project (limit 100 words) *

The Lobby Music Project brings the music of our chamber ensembles to the entire school in new ways through the Zoom platform. It’s been said that chamber music is the classical version of a garage band. You don’t need 10 or more musicians to play music with your friends. Chamber music is where it’s at. And what better way to reach the masses than to put on mini concerts in the school lobby. It is important for our young musicians to know they can “Play for Life” so they can find opportunities to make music throughout their lives.

44 Live from room 218 # 23 The Beatles RUBBER SOUL March 12, 2021

We played the RUBBER SOUL

https://youtu.be/kWXOdXHV16Y

Thank you devoted fans of Live from room 218 today

Donna Kramer

James Chow

John Reynolds

Joseph Giacalone

Kieran Griffin

Kim Semder

Kristen Corrigan

Michael Neary

NH security

Peter Hidasi

Russel Cohen

Louise Fernandez

Sarah Slotnick

Patrick Kennedy

Thursday's Lobby Music featured The Beatles with Dan Holtzman on drums

Rubber Soul

1. "Drive My Car" McCartney with Lennon 2:25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfSQkZuIx84

2. "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" Lennon 2:01

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_V6y1ZCg_8

3. "Nowhere Man" Lennon 2:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8scSwaKbE64

with George's spoken intro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4ZE4arxJwc

4. "The Word" Lennon 2:41

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfBEqiEhCgM

5. "Michelle" McCartney 2:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoBLi5eE-wY

Girl

was written by John Lennon and was the last complete song recorded for that album"Girl" is considered to be one of the most melancholic and complex of the Beatles' earlier love songs

As for the inspiration of the song's lyrics, Lennon stated that the "girl" was an archetype he had been searching for and would finally find in Yoko Ono.He said: "'Girl' was a dream. It wasn't just a song, and it was about a girl – that turned out to be Yoko, in the end – the one that a lot of us were looking for." In an interview for Rolling Stone magazine in 1980, Lennon said of his song "Woman": "Reminds me of a Beatles track, but I wasn't trying to make it sound like that. I did it as I did 'Girl' many years ago. So this is the grown-up version of 'Girl'."

"Woman" is a song written and performed by John Lennon from his 1980 album Double Fantasy and it was the first Lennon single issued after his murder on 8 December 8, 1980. Lennon wrote "Woman" as an ode to his wife Yoko Ono, and to all women.[2] The track begins with Lennon whispering, "For the other half of the sky ...", a paraphrase of a Chinese proverb, once used by Mao Zedong.

Woman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhfWiU8wGCc

And now ladies and gentlemen, we will play this song with John singing

6. "Girl" Lennon 2:30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8l3ntDR_lI

7. John’s “grown up” version of his “Girl”:

Woman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhfWiU8wGCc

8. "In My Life" Lennon 2:24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBcdt6DsLQA

music video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqpysaAo4BQ

9. "Day Tripper" Lennon and McCartney 2:47

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYZlME0mQB8

Our hosts were Nina Phillips, Elizabeth Margiloff, Stephany Barbu, Scott Levy and Kevin Khadavi

and our musicians were (12 in room 218 and 19 on remote):

Barbu Stephany violin

Chan, Michael oboe

Chan, Preston tuba/bass

Chan, Stanley bassoon

Cheung, David S violin

Choi, Daniel cello

Choi, David violin

Khadavi, Kevin alto sax

Kokhabi, Joelle violin

Lee, Hwi-On violin

Levy, Scott saxophone

Li, Joshua bass

Li, Linda clarinet

Li, Mark percussion

Margiloff, Elizabeth viola

Mei, Jason violin/sax

Mizuki, Natsu cello

Oh, Cheongjun horn

Phillips, Nina violin

Sarker, Sydney violin

Katherine Sun flute

Sun, Shuyuan Julie flute

Tiong, Christine oboe

Wu, Tricia cello

Wu, Trinity cello

Zeng, David violin

Zeng, Michelle violin/accordion

Zheng, Han flute

Zheng, Lan flute

Zhou, Yuxi violin

Zhuang, Alex cello

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

Joseph Rutkowski

Instrumental Music Director, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Administrative Teacher-MUSIC, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Tri-M Chapter 2605 Advisor

35 Polo Road

Great Neck, NY 11023

(516) 441-4751

JRutkowski@greatneck.k12.ny.us

Alternate email: josephrrutkowski@gmail.com

Check our web site:

https://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/Page/13704

45 Lincoln Center Final Round 03-16-21

Final Round

Tuesday, March 16, 2021 at 7:30pm EST

Zoom webinar event with registration required.

Global Cultural Representation Initiative

Team Members: Kevin Zhu, Xiaozhou Xu

Program: Juilliard Pre-College, The Juilliard School

Project Connect

Team Members: Eugene Yoo, Cynthia Tan, Sophia Brodsky

School: Stuyvesant High School

Establishing a Chamber Music Educational Association

Team Members: Sahar Tartak, Sara Rafaeli, Ashley Schlusselberg, Maverick Williams, Christopher Yang

School: John L. Miller Great Neck North High School

Musical Diversity: Promoting the Chamber Music of Historically Underrepresented Composers and Their Cultural Heritage

Team Members: David Vallejo, Giah Bush, Isabella Ortiz, Ricardo Mendez

Program: Miami Music Project

Lobby Music Project

Team Members: Nina Phillips, Scott Levy, Kevin Khadavi, Stephany Barbu, Jason Mei

School: John L. Miller-Great Neck North High School

"The Whole Note" Podcast

Team Members: Amy Baskurt, Heather Wang

Program: Juilliard Pre-College, The Juilliard School

Chamber Connect

Team Members: Rosanna Gao, Arianna Alvarez, Nancy Schoen, Eli Newman, Yonatan Eilon

School: William A. Shine-Great Neck South High School

46 Live from room 218 no. 24 Music from Ireland 03-17-21

Happy St Patrick's Day!

Live from room 218 #24, It’s St Patrick’s Day ! March 17, 2021

Thank you devoted fans of Live from room 218 for celebrating the music of Ireland today

https://youtu.be/jJsALSlyvhI

Ilana Meredith

John Reynolds

Kirsten Corrigan

Michael Neary

Loretta Peskin

Donna Kramer

Joseph Giacalone

Jodi Kahn

Kathy Snyder

Corinne Tortorice

Cathi Behar

Matthew Shore

Joanne Zehnder

Tommy Hahn

Our hosts was Elizabeth Margiloff and our musicians were (12 in room 218 and 19 on remote):

Barbu Stephany violin

Chan, Michael oboe

Chan, Preston tuba/bass

Chan, Stanley bassoon

Cheung, David S violin

Choi, Daniel cello

Choi, David violin

Khadavi, Kevin alto sax

Kokhabi, Joelle violin

Lee, Hwi-On violin

Levy, Scott saxophone

Li, Joshua bass

Li, Linda clarinet

Li, Mark percussion

Margiloff, Elizabeth viola

Mei, Jason violin/sax

Mizuki, Natsu cello

Oh, Cheongjun horn

Phillips, Nina violin

Sarker, Sydney violin

Katherine Sun flute

Sun, Shuyuan Julie flute

Tiong, Christine oboe

Wu, Tricia cello

Wu, Trinity cello

Zeng, David violin

Zeng, Michelle violin/accordion

Zheng, Han flute

Zheng, Lan flute

Zhou, Yuxi violin

Zhuang, Alex cello

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

47 LIVE from room 218 no 25 Revolver 03-19-21

Live from room 218 #25, Revolver ! March 19, 2021

https://youtu.be/016ncJDwZ4w

Thank you devoted fans of Live from room 218 for tuning into Live from room 218 #25 Revolver

Donna Kramer

Ilana Meredith

James Chow

Kieran Griffin

Kim Semder

Kristen Corrigen

Louise Fernandez

Marianne Derych

Michael Neary

Peter Hidasi

Russel Cohen

Diane Micellotta

Emily Rice

Jacky Scott

Jordana Cohen

Jodi Kahn

John Reynolds

Loretta Peskin

Maya Lerner

Sarah Slotnick

GNNHS PTO

Revolver is the seventh studio album by the Beatles. It was the Beatles' final recording project before their retirement as live performers and has since become regarded as one of the greatest and most innovative albums in the history of popular music.

Eleanor Rigby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gluNoLVKiQ

Here, There and Everywhere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdcSFVXd3MU

Yellow Submarine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztHxu-13UqI

For No One

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELlLIwhvknk

Got To Get You Into My Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r95-7zfgtLw

Paperback Writer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SepZDSkY4Ro

All You Need Is Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7xMfIp-irg

Our hosts was Elizabeth Margiloff and our musicians were (12 in room 218 and 19 on remote):

Barbu Stephany violin

Chan, Michael oboe

Chan, Preston tuba/bass

Chan, Stanley bassoon

Cheung, David S violin

Choi, Daniel cello

Choi, David violin

Khadavi, Kevin alto sax

Kokhabi, Joelle violin

Lee, Hwi-On violin

Levy, Scott saxophone

Li, Joshua bass

Li, Linda clarinet

Li, Mark percussion

Margiloff, Elizabeth viola

Mei, Jason violin/sax

Mizuki, Natsu cello

Oh, Cheongjun horn

Phillips, Nina violin

Sarker, Sydney violin

Katherine Sun flute

Sun, Shuyuan Julie flute

Tiong, Christine oboe

Wu, Tricia cello

Wu, Trinity cello

Zeng, David violin

Zeng, Michelle violin/accordion

Zheng, Han flute

Zheng, Lan flute

Zhou, Yuxi violin

Zhuang, Alex cello

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

48 NH sophomore Katherine Sun wins BLUE RIBBON prize with the New York Flute Club Young Musician Contest

It gives me so much pleasure to report that NH sophomore flutist Katherine Sun competed in the New York Flute Club Young Musician Contest and was able to receive the Blue Ribbon which is the second best award given out (first award is usually given out to Precollege Students from Juilliard and Manhattan school of music!).

49 Tri-M Meeting 03-24-21

50 LIVE from room 218 no. 26 Jesus Christ Superstar

Good Friday Lobby Music! April 2, 2021

https://youtu.be/dObyMV3YkF8

if that doesn’t work try this

https://youtu.be/35As8Bz9X68

This is a re-run of Live from Room 218 recorded last week on Thursday, March 25th

Thank you devoted fans of Live from room 218 for celebrating the music of the Rock Opera JC Superstar last week.

Colleen Bowler Dlugolecki

Dan Holtzman

Donna Kramer

Ilana Meredith

Jodi Kahn

John Reynolds

Joseph Giacalone

Kristen Corrigen

Maya Lerner

Michael Neary

Rudy Wu

S. Slotnick

James Chow

Loretta Peskin

Ann Bertorelli

Joan Lazaunik

Joanne Zehnder

Our hosts were Nina Phillips, Stephany Barbu, Elizabeth Margiloff, Kevin Khadavi, Scott Levy and Daniel Choi and our musicians were (12 in room 218 and 19 on remote):

Barbu, Stephany violin

Chan, Michael oboe

Chan, Preston tuba/bass

Chan, Stanley bassoon

Cheung, David S violin

Choi, Daniel cello

Choi, David violin

Khadavi, Kevin alto sax

Kim, Jonathan clarinet

Kokhabi, Joelle violin

Lee, Hwi-On violin

Levy, Scott saxophone

Li, Joshua bass

Li, Linda clarinet

Li, Mark percussion

Margiloff, Elizabeth viola

Mei, Jason violin/sax

Mizuki, Natsu cello

Oh, Cheongjun horn

Phillips, Nina violin

Sarker, Sydney violin

Katherine Sun flute

Sun, Shuyuan Julie flute

Tiong, Christine oboe

Wu, Tricia cello

Wu, Trinity cello

Zeng, David violin

Zeng, Michelle violin/accordion

Zheng, Han flute

Zheng, Lan flute

Zhou, Yuxi violin

Zhuang, Alex cello

and special guest Maverick Williams on drumset

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

Heaven on Their Minds - Jesus Christ Superstar Track 2 Official Soundtrack 1970

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R8tRKIiAII

Hosanna

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsKLXFlhk7s

Pilate’s Dream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry7M28EtADY

I Don’t Know How to Love Him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1xrCXNmPSw

Last Supper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKu8BzTiN_Q

Gethesuane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Dhck0Y0lo

King Herod

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTH6cQD9yZE

the entire vinyl record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cZsHLOKR3g

51 LIVE from room 218 it’s Friday morning no. 27 March 26, 2021--Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

LIVE from room 218 it’s Friday morning no. 27 March 26, 2021--Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

https://youtu.be/UIxUeIKb4iM

We returned to our annual review of the Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

which incorporates a range of stylistic influences, including vaudeville, circus, music hall, avant-garde, and Western and Indian classical music. The band continued the technological experimentation marked by their previous album, Revolver.

Thank you devoted fans of Live from room 218 for tuning in to hear our Sgt Peppers today, the day before SPRING BREAK

Anna Bertorelli

Cathi Behar

Colleen Bowler Dlugolecki

Donna Kramer

James Chow

Kieran Griffin

Kim Semder

Kristen Corrigan

Loretta Peskin

Louise Fernandez

Mark Skolsky

Maria Fiore

Marianne Derych

Michael Neary

Nh security

Ron Levine

Rudy Wu

S Slotnick

T.E. Hahn

Thomas Liguori

Ilana Meredith

Joanne Zehnder

Joan Lazaunik

Our hosts was Elizabeth Margiloff and our musicians were (12 in room 218 and 19 on remote):

Barbu Stephany violin

Chan, Michael oboe

Chan, Preston tuba/bass

Chan, Stanley bassoon

Cheung, David S violin

Choi, Daniel cello

Choi, David violin

Khadavi, Kevin alto sax

Kokhabi, Joelle violin

Lee, Hwi-On violin

Levy, Scott saxophone

Li, Joshua bass

Li, Linda clarinet

Li, Mark percussion

Margiloff, Elizabeth viola

Mei, Jason violin/sax

Mizuki, Natsu cello

Oh, Cheongjun horn

Phillips, Nina violin

Sarker, Sydney violin

Katherine Sun flute

Sun, Shuyuan Julie flute

Tiong, Christine oboe

Wu, Tricia cello

Wu, Trinity cello

Zeng, David violin

Zeng, Michelle violin/accordion

Zheng, Han flute

Zheng, Lan flute

Zhou, Yuxi violin

Zhuang, Alex cello

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

side A

1. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" McCartney 2:02

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtXl8xAPAtA

2. "With a Little Help from My Friends" Starr 2:44

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C58ttB2-Qg

3. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" Lennon 3:28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naoknj1ebqI

4. "Getting Better" McCartney 2:48

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGlo9LzmOME

5. "Fixing a Hole" McCartney 2:36

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPBd8eHQqIw

6. "She's Leaving Home" McCartney with Lennon 3:35

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaBPY78D88g

7. "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" Lennon 2:37

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJVWZy4QOy0

side B

1. "Within You Without You" Harrison 5:04

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsffxGyY4ck

2. "When I'm Sixty-Four" McCartney 2:37

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCTunqv1Xt4

3. "Lovely Rita" McCartney 2:42

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysDwR5SIR1Q

4. "Good Morning Good Morning" Lennon 2:41

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjb9AxDkwAQ

5. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP47nqo2cf4

6. "A Day in the Life" Lennon with McCartney 5:39

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSGHER4BWME

Yes indeed, these devoted students are the first musicians on the East Coast that have a weekend gig every Friday morning. (You saw 12 of the Hybrid A students while 21 more were participating at home on zoom)

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

52 LIVE from room 218 it’s Friday morning no. 28 April 9, 2021—Magical Mystery Tour

Live from room 218 #28

Magical Mystery Tour!

April 9, 2021

https://youtu.be/yZ_YmSiP1tU

HEY! What other teenage ensemble (or ANY ensemble for that matter!) has offered 28 different LIVE performances on Zoom since September 2020? Please somebody, TELL ME!

And what a great audience of so many of the members of our staff at the John L. Miller-Great Neck North High School on Long Island, as well as outside guests like my wife, Lisa and my friends Mark Skolsky and Lorraine Lee!

Thank you devoted fans of Live from room 218 for tuning in to hear our Magical Mystery Tour today

Anna Bertorelli

Cathi Behar

Donna Kramer

James Chow

Joan Lazaunik

Jodi Kahn

Jordana Cohen

Kieran Griffin

Kristen Corrigan

Lisa Binder

Maria Fiore

Marianne Derych

Maya Lerner

Michael Neary

nhsecurity

Patrick Kennedy

S. Slotnick

Stephanie Weeks

Thomas Liguori

Ilana Meredith

Joanne Zehnder

Lorraine McNeece

Mark Skolsky

Our hosts were NINA PHILLIPS , ELIZABETH MARGILOFF, STEPHANY BARBU, DANIEL CHOI, JONATHAN KIM, SCOTT LEVY AND KEVIN KHADAVI and our musicians were (13 in room 218 and 19 on remote):

Barbu Stephany violin

Chan, Michael oboe

Chan, Preston tuba/bass

Chan, Stanley bassoon

Cheung, David S violin

Choi, Daniel cello

Choi, David violin

Khadavi, Kevin alto sax

Jonathan Kim, clarinet

Kokhabi, Joelle violin

Lee, Hwi-On violin

Levy, Scott saxophone

Li, Joshua bass

Li, Linda clarinet

Li, Mark percussion

Margiloff, Elizabeth viola

Mei, Jason violin/sax

Mizuki, Natsu cello

Oh, Cheongjun horn

Phillips, Nina violin

Sarker, Sydney violin

Katherine Sun flute

Sun, Shuyuan Julie flute

Tiong, Christine oboe

Wu, Tricia cello

Wu, Trinity cello

Zeng, David violin

Zeng, Michelle violin/accordion

Zheng, Han flute

Zheng, Lan flute

Zhou, Yuxi violin

Zhuang, Alex cello

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

Joseph Rutkowski

Instrumental Music Director, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Administrative Teacher-MUSIC, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Tri-M Chapter 2605 Advisor

35 Polo Road

Great Neck, NY 11023

(516) 441-4751

JRutkowski@greatneck.k12.ny.us

Alternate email: josephrrutkowski@gmail.com

Check our web site:

https://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/Page/13704

53 2021 Tri-M Chapter 2605 Induction Ceremony no. 25

On GNPS facebook

https://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=4&ModuleInstanceID=11834&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=78843&PageID=1

2021 Tri-M Chapter 2605 Induction Ceremony no. 25

on google drive

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZvOASJsLZInTpJHPOIbamzcp6hMYBgE7/view

2021 Tri-M Chapter 2605 Induction Ceremony no. 25

https://youtu.be/DhKdysbmESU

Tri-M Chapter of the Year 2017!

https://nafme.org/2016-2017-tri-m-music-honor-society-chapters-year-announced/

TRI-M MUSIC HONOR SOCIETY-Chapter 2605 (since October 18, 1995)-Tri-M is the international music honor society which recognizes and motivates musical achievement. Great Neck North High has Chapter No. 2605 of the Tri-M Music Honor Society. Our Tri-M members perform services (musical and non-musical) for the North High students and staff, district-wide and community wide.

The 25th

(we are combining 2020 and 2021 this season)

Induction Ceremony

of the

TRI-M MUSIC HONOR

SOCIETY

The John L. Miller-Great Neck North High School

Chapter 2605

since October 18, 1995

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

5:30 PM

On ZOOM

A 2019 Long Island Music Hall of Fame High School of Excellence

https://www.limusichalloffame.org/news/2019-high-school-recognition-program-awards/

Lauren Murphy

Arabella Notar-Francesco

Joseph Rutkowski

Alex Zhuang

Brendan McAloon

Cheongjun Oh

Christine Tiong

Christopher Yang

Dan Krauz

David Zeng

Gerald Cozine

Hani Kang

Hwi-On Lee

Ilana Meredith

Jack Brenner

Jennifer Brenner

Jonathan Kim

Jonathan Moalemi

Joshua Rafaeil

Sara Rafaeil

Julie Sun

Kajal Ramphul

Kate Smolens

Kathy Okin

Kevin Khadavieth

Leila Hawa

Linda Li

Elizabeth Margiloff

Maverick Williams

Nina Phillips

Pamela Levy-Majnemer

Patty Hugo

Sabrina Schlusselberg

Sahar Tartak

Stephany Barbu

Steven Khadavi

Susan Babkes

Trinity Wu

Tricia Wu

Tyler Menker

William Okin

54 LIVE from room 218 it’s Friday morning no. 29 April 16, 2021—Chamber Music Recital A

Live from room 218 #29, A Real Chamber Music Concert ! April 16, 2021

https://youtu.be/d_tsCz8QWw0

Thank you devoted fans of Live from room 218 for tuning in to hear our Magical Mystery Tour today

Colleen Bowler Dlugolecki

Dr. Dan Holtzmam

Emily Rice

Ilana Meredith

Jordana Cohen

Joseph Giacalone

Kathy Snyder

Kristen Corrigan

Lisa Binder

Marianne Derych

Michael Neary

Nhsecurity

Joanne Zehnder

Joan Lazaunik

Amy Ford

Donna Kramer

Jodi Kahn

Kim Semder

Louise Fernandez

Diane Micellotta

Mark Skolsky

I have 165 students that I teach every day, including Jordan Barbach. I don’t know how he got on my roster in the google classroom, but it’s great having him!

I love all 165…but not equally.

These 32 students in chamber music class are truly special. They are the first people I see every morning, whether in room 218 or on Zoom and we play great music every day. Then, they come back in the band or orchestra classes later in the day to continue their development as musicians by our conservatory style.

That they have put on 29 live performances to date this year is mind boggling.

Thank you musicians of the GN NH Chamber Music Society! You make this year so much better than it would be without you. You make it worth for me to come here every day.

Our hosts were NINA PHILLIPS , ELIZABETH MARGILOFF, STEPHANY BARBU, DANIEL CHOI, JONATHAN KIM, SCOTT LEVY AND KEVIN KHADAVI and our musicians were (13 in room 218 and 19 on remote):

Barbu Stephany violin

Chan, Michael oboe

Chan, Preston tuba/bass

Chan, Stanley bassoon

Cheung, David S violin

Choi, Daniel cello

Choi, David violin

Khadavi, Kevin alto sax

Jonathan Kim, clarinet

Kokhabi, Joelle violin

Lee, Hwi-On violin

Levy, Scott saxophone

Li, Joshua bass

Li, Linda clarinet

Li, Mark percussion

Margiloff, Elizabeth viola

Mei, Jason violin/sax

Mizuki, Natsu cello

Oh, Cheongjun horn

Phillips, Nina violin

Sarker, Sydney violin

Katherine Sun flute

Sun, Shuyuan Julie flute

Tiong, Christine oboe

Wu, Tricia cello

Wu, Trinity cello

Zeng, David violin

Zeng, Michelle violin/accordion

Zheng, Han flute

Zheng, Lan flute

Zhou, Yuxi violin

Zhuang, Alex cello

Yes indeed, these devoted students are the first musicians on the East Coast that have a weekend gig every Friday morning. (You saw10 of the Hybrid A students while 22 more were participating at home on zoom)

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

Joseph Rutkowski

Instrumental Music Director, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Administrative Teacher-MUSIC, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Tri-M Chapter 2605 Advisor

35 Polo Road

Great Neck, NY 11023

(516) 441-4751

JRutkowski@greatneck.k12.ny.us

Alternate email: josephrrutkowski@gmail.com

Check our web site:

https://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/Page/13704

55 2605 Chapter members viewed live broadcast of NH Alum Lauren Goldsamt’s String Quartet at Oberlin College 04-18-21

EVENT

Virtual Recital: Oberlin College of Arts & Sciences Chamber Music

DATE, TIME, LOCATION

DATESUNDAY, APRIL 18, 2021

TIME5:00 PM TO 6:00 PM

Location

David H. Stull Recital Hall

77 W. College St.

Oberlin, OH 44074

Get Directions

ADDITIONAL DETAILS

Livestream Event

Watch the webcast – streamed live at concert time.

A virtual recital, performed by College of Arts & Sciences chamber music students, streamed live from Stull Recital Hall.

Program:

String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 35 Anton Arensky

Moderato-Allegro non troppo

Thea Samaha, violin

Aidan Sweney, viola

Evie Samaha and Nicolas Stebbins, cello

String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810, “Death and the Maiden” Franz Schubert

Allegro

Reagan Farmer and Alyssa Leon, violin

Julia Cornell, viola

Evan McGuire, cello

Wapango Paquito D’Rivera

Wood Works Traditional (arr. Danish String Quartet)

IV. Waltz after Lasse in Lyby

Jakob Farber, Lauren Goldsamt, violin

Anna Bosco, viola Xander Lee, cello

- Pause -

Suite for Two Violins, Cello, and Piano Left Hand, Op. 23 Erich Korngold

Präludium und Fuge. Kräftig und bestimmt

Mina Oh and Jeffrey Zhang, violin

Jonah Covell, cello

Arman Yagci, piano

London Trio No. 1 in C Major Josef Haydn

Allegro moderato

Kerensa Fu, flute

Aidan Duffield, violin

Jonathan Dormand, cello

CHECK OUT OTHER EVENTS:

EVENT CONTACT

Concert Production440-775-8610conpro@oberlin.edu

56 Visit from GNPS Public Relations Director Colleen Bowler 04-20-21

Room 218 was graced with the first visitor from the outside world (outside North High) since February 28, 2020. Colleen Bowler was actually that last visitor when she observed the final dress rehearsal of our band and orchestra before the March 1st Carnegie Hall concert in 2020.

Ms. Bowler arrived at 7:20 am to observe and take photos of our chamber music class for the GNPS newsletter.

We are flattered and proud!

57 LIVE from room 218 it’s Friday morning no. 30 April 23, 2021—Chamber Music Recital B

Live from room 218 #30, Another Real Chamber Music Concert ! April 23, 2021

Thank you devoted fans of Live from room 218 for tuning in to hear our Chamber Music Recital Preview today

https://youtu.be/ZjHWRXnX3ak

Allyson Cirano

Anna Bertorelli

Dr. Daniel Holtzman

Emily Rice

James Chow

Joan Varghese

Jodi Kahn

Joseph Giacalone

Kiera Griffin

Kristen Corrigan

Loretta Peskin

Louise Fernandez

Marianne Derych

Michael Neary

Nhsecurity

Rudy Wu

S. Slotnick

Joan Lazaunik

Joanne Zehdner

Diane Micellotta

I have 165 students that I teach every day, including Jordan Barbach. I don’t know how he got on my roster in the google classroom, but it’s great having him!

I love all 165…but not equally.

See, these 32 students in chamber music class are truly special. The fact that they are the first people I see everyone, whether in room 218 or on Zoom and we play great music every day. Then, they come back in the band or orchestra classes later in the day to continue their development as musicians by our conservatory style.

And because they have put on 29 live performances to date this year is mind boggling.

Thank you musicians of the GN NH Chamber Music Society! You make this year so much better than it would be without you. You make it worth for me to come here every day.

Our hosts were NINA PHILLIPS , ELIZABETH MARGILOFF, STEPHANY BARBU, DANIEL CHOI, JONATHAN KIM, SCOTT LEVY AND KEVIN KHADAVI and our musicians were (13 in room 218 and 19 on remote):

Barbu Stephany violin

Chan, Michael oboe

Chan, Preston tuba/bass

Chan, Stanley bassoon

Cheung, David S violin

Choi, Daniel cello

Choi, David violin

Khadavi, Kevin alto sax

Jonathan Kim, clarinet

Kokhabi, Joelle violin

Lee, Hwi-On violin

Levy, Scott saxophone

Li, Joshua bass

Li, Linda clarinet

Li, Mark percussion

Margiloff, Elizabeth viola

Mei, Jason violin/sax

Mizuki, Natsu cello

Oh, Cheongjun horn

Phillips, Nina violin

Sarker, Sydney violin

Katherine Sun flute

Sun, Shuyuan Julie flute

Tiong, Christine oboe

Wu, Tricia cello

Wu, Trinity cello

Zeng, David violin

Zeng, Michelle violin/accordion

Zheng, Han flute

Zheng, Lan flute

Zhou, Yuxi violin

Zhuang, Alex cello

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

58 A REAL Chamber Music Recital April 28, 2021

https://youtu.be/5IsT03bcxhw

NH Chamber Music Recital

Wednesday, April 28

4:00-4:40 pm

NO audience in attendance

while student musicians will be performing live from the small gym

at the John L. Miller-Great Neck North High School

STAGEBILL

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRYfKQkcXu4yMuVtCFKNdkX0weHeBUCNoLc2rbkh09mAb28h0bgsqZuh_LJKQZZBROiVsiDlfnxZZPJ/pub

I am SO excited about this year’s Chamber Music Recital, which was like never before.

It will be the FIRST TIME in over a year that there are 25 student musicians together playing MUSIC at North High!

Hybrid A students were with Hybrid B students and even some of the Remote students!

Recently named as one of the 5 winners nation-wide in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Young Musicians Innovative Challenge, our Chamber Music Society continues with our plan to inspire the students at the J.F. Kennedy Elementary and Richard S. Sherman Great Neck North Middle Schools to consider the joys of playing chamber music.

Thanks to the expertise of our Technical Director of Instrumental Music

Mr. Michael Meehan

and the accommodations made by Athletic Director

Coach Mitchell Braun

We will had a REAL LIVE Chamber Music Recital

Wednesday Afternoon, April 28, 2021 at 4:00 PM

W. A. MOZART Serenade No. 12, K. 338 AND Quintet No. 4, K. 515 in C minor

(1756-1791) Allegro

NORTH HIGH CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY

KATHERINE SUN, SHUYUAN JULIE SUN, HAN ZHENG, LAN ZHENG, flute

CHRISTINE TIONG, MICHAL CHAN, oboe

JONATHAN KIM, LINDA LI, clarinet

STANLEY CHAN, bassoon

JASON MEI, saxophone

CHEONGJUN OH, horn

PRESTON CHAN, tuba

NINA PHILLIPS, STEPHANY BARBU, SYDNEY SARKER, DAVID CHOI, JASON MEI, MICHELLE ZBIZIKA, DAVID ZENG, YUXI JULIA ZHOU, violin

DANIEL CHOI, MIZUKI NATSU, TRICIA WU, TRINITY WU, ALEX ZHUANG, cello

F. J. HAYDN London Trio No. 1 in C, IV:1

(1732-1809) Andante

SHUYUN JULIE SUN, KATHERINE SUN, flute, MIZUKI NATSU cello

REINHOLD GLIÈRE Duo No. 3 for 2 Cellos, Op. 53

(1785-1956) Andante

TRICIA WU, TRINITY WU, cello

ALAN HOVHANESS Divertimento, Op. 61 No. 5

(1911-2000) Prelude

NORTH HIGH CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY

W. A. MOZART Adagio for Glass Harmonica

Arr. Livinston Gearhart/Don Cassel JONATHAN KIM, LINDA LI, JOSEPH RUTKOWSKI, clarinet

GEORGE GERSWHIN (1898-1937) Summertime

JOHN LENNON/PAUL McCARTNEY Yesterday

(1940-1980)/(b. 1952)

MILES DAVIS (1926-1991) So What

JOHN COLTRANE (1926-1967) Bessie’s Blues

NORTH HIGH CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY

F. J. HAYDN London Trio No. 1 in C, IV:1

(1732-1809) Allegro

SHUYUN JULIE SUN, KATHERINE SUN, flute, MIZUKI NATSU cello

JIMMY PLANT/ROBERT PLANT Stairway to Heaven

(b. 1944)/(b. 1948)

SCOTT JOPLIN (1868-1917) Sunflower Slow Drag

NORTH HIGH CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY

KATHERINE SUN, SHUYUAN JULIE SUN, HAN ZHENG, LAN ZHENG, flute

CHRISTINE TIONG, MICHAL CHAN, oboe

JONATHAN KIM, LINDA LI, clarinet

STANLEY CHAN, bassoon

JASON MEI, saxophone

CHEONGJUN OH, horn

PRESTON CHAN, tuba

NINA PHILLIPS, STEPHANY BARBU, SYDNEY SARKER, DAVID CHOI, JASON MEI, MICHELLE ZBIZIKA, DAVID ZENG, YUXI JULIA ZHOU, violin

DANIEL CHOI, MIZUKI NATSU, TRICIA WU, TRINITY WU, ALEX ZHUANG, cello

59 LIVE from room 218 it’s Friday morning no. 31 April 30, 2021—Chamber Music Recital from Wednesday with Rutkowski comments

Live from room 218 #31, A Real Chamber Music Concert ! April 30, 2021

Thank you devoted fans of Live from room 218 for tuning in to watch a re-broadcast of Wednesday’s LIVE Chamber Music Concert in the small gym

https://youtu.be/P9OTSujWMag

Here is the entire concert with admirable camera work by Mike Meehan and his crew

https://youtu.be/5IsT03bcxhw

Lisa Binder

Dr. Dan Holtzmam

Mark Skolsky

James Chow

Cathi Behar

Mike Neary

Joanne Zehnder

Loretta Peskin

Kristen Corrigan

Phil Voogt

Patrick Kennedy

Mike Calderero

Peter Hidasi

Louis Hernandez

Anna Bertolli

Joan Lazaunik

Our host was NINA PHILLIPS and our musicians were

Barbu Stephany violin

Chan, Michael oboe

Chan, Preston tuba/bass

Chan, Stanley bassoon

Choi, Daniel cello

Choi, David violin

Jonathan Kim, clarinet

Li, Linda clarine

Mei, Jason violin/sax

Mizuki, Natsu cello

Oh, Cheongjun horn

Phillips, Nina violin

Sarker, Sydney violin

Katherine Sun flute

Sun, Shuyuan Julie flute

Tiong, Christine oboe

Wu, Tricia cello

Wu, Trinity cello

Zeng, David violin

Zeng, Michelle violin/accordion

Zheng, Han flute

Zheng, Lan flute

Zhou, Yuxi violin

Zhuang, Alex cello

This has been the BEST week of the school year for me. For 3 days after school, we had 24 music students in the gym for rehearsals and the live concert you are about to see.

10 students from hybrid A, 7 students from hybrid B and 7 students that have been on remote only all year were finally together playing music TOGETHER For the first time in over a year!

It was a dream come true for me.

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

Joseph Rutkowski

Instrumental Music Director, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Administrative Teacher-MUSIC, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Tri-M Chapter 2605 Advisor

35 Polo Road

Great Neck, NY 11023

(516) 441-4751

JRutkowski@greatneck.k12.ny.us

Alternate email: josephrrutkowski@gmail.com

Check our web site:

https://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/Page/13704

60 Lincoln Center Coaching session with violinist Sean Lee April 30 2021

Our 5 Lincoln Center Team had a fantastic coaching session with violinist Sean Lee

About — Sean Lee

Violinist Sean Lee has captured the attention of audiences around the world with his lively performances of the classics. A recipient of a 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant, he is one of few violinists who dares to perform Niccolò Paganini’s 24 Caprices in concert, and his YouTube series, Paganini POV, continues to draw praise for its use of technology in sharing unique perspectives and insight into violin playing. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras including the San Francisco Symphony, Israel Camerata Jerusalem, and Orchestra del Teatro Carlo Felice; and his recital appearances have taken him to Vienna's Konzerthaus, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall. As a season artist at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and an alum of CMS’s Bowers Program, he continues to perform regularly at Lincoln Center, as well as on tour. Originally from Los Angeles, Mr. Lee studied with Robert Lipsett of the Colburn Conservatory and legendary violinist Ruggiero Ricci before moving at the age of 17 to study at The Juilliard School with his longtime mentor, violinist Itzhak Perlman. He currently teaches at The Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division, as well as the Perlman Music Program. He performs on a violin originally made for violinist Ruggiero Ricci in 1999 by David Bague.

61 Lincoln Center Coaching session with violinist Sean Lee May 3 2021

Coaching Session with Sean Lee 5-5-21.mp4

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OhXRx4JJlSkEth-TtQCD76VaBNHbkS8G/view?usp=sharing

if that doesn't work, try this

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OhXRx4JJlSkEth-TtQCD76VaBNHbkS8G/view

62 International Night 5-4-21

Chamber Music Society Program for North High International Night

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jMBmXO5D1uhBKLw5sxlTyY4RmzyjL71P/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jMBmXO5D1uhBKLw5sxlTyY4RmzyjL71P/view

Nina Phillips, President and Lead Violinist

Joelle Kokhabi, violin

Scott Levy, saxophone

Joshua Li, string bass

Mark Li, drums

Jason Mei, violin

Cheongjun, horn and cinematographer

Katherine Sun, flute and cinematographer

Christine Tiong, oboe and cinematographer

David Zeng, violin

Alex Zhuang, cello

Stephany Barbu, violin

Stanley Chan, bassoon and cinematographer

Daniel Choi, cello

David Choi, violin

Kevin Khadavi, saxophone and cinematographer

Hwi-On Lee, violin

Linda Li, clarinet and cinematographer

Elizabeth Margiloff, viola

Shuyuan Julie Sun, flute and piano

Tricia Wu, cello

Trinity Wu, cello

Mizuki Natsu, cello and piano

Michael Chan, oboe

Preston Chan, tuba

David Cheung, violin

Sydney Sarker, violin

Michelle Zbizika, violin

Han Zheng, flute

Lan Zheng, flute

Yuxi Julia Zhou, violin

63 Lincoln Center Coaching session with violinist Sean Lee May 5 2021

Coaching Session with Sean Lee 5-3-21.mp4

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oEjGFLJiCtJOgNRhefTmsDqt7r0HIV4e/view?usp=sharing

if that doesn't work, try this

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oEjGFLJiCtJOgNRhefTmsDqt7r0HIV4e/view

64 LIVE from room 218 it’s Friday morning no. 32 May 7, 2021—The Beatles White Album

Live from room 218 #32, The Beatles White Album! May 7, 2021Live from room 218 #32, The Beatles White Album May 7, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLvkLD9_Znk

Live from room 218 #32, The Beatles White Album! May 7, 2021Live from room 218 #32, The Beatles White Album May 7, 2021

https://youtu.be/SLvkLD9_Znk

Google drive link to #32 with original video

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qLvirbblo_W1Bjx4FeVvTkzebhbP3SKt/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qLvirbblo_W1Bjx4FeVvTkzebhbP3SKt/view

and youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLvkLD9_Znk

Thank you devoted fans of Live from room 218 for tuning in to hear our version of The Beatles White Album today

Cathi Behar

Colleen Bowler Dlugolecki

Donna Kramer

James Chow

Jodi Kahn

Jordana Cohen

Joseph Giacalone

Kathy Snyder

Kieran Griffin

Lisa Binder

Loretta Peskin

Louise Fernandez

Mark Skolsky

Marianne Derych

Michael Neary

Phil Voogt

Patty Hugo

Joanne Zehnder

Joan Lazaunik

Sarah Slotnick

Joseph Giacalone

Anna Bertorelli

Robert Zahn

Kim semder

And thank you Dr. Holtzman for playing the drums with us today!

Our hosts were NINA PHILLIPS , ELIZABETH MARGILOFF, STEPHANY BARBU, DANIEL CHOI, JONATHAN KIM, SCOTT LEVY AND KEVIN KHADAVI and our musicians were (13 in room 218 and 19 on remote):

Barbu Stephany violin

Chan, Michael oboe

Chan, Preston tuba/bass

Chan, Stanley bassoon

Cheung, David S violin

Choi, Daniel cello

Choi, David violin

Khadavi, Kevin alto sax

Jonathan Kim, clarinet

Kokhabi, Joelle violin

Lee, Hwi-On violin

Levy, Scott saxophone

Li, Joshua bass

Li, Linda clarinet

Li, Mark percussion

Margiloff, Elizabeth viola

Mei, Jason violin/sax

Mizuki, Natsu cello

Oh, Cheongjun horn

Phillips, Nina violin

Sarker, Sydney violin

Katherine Sun flute

Sun, Shuyuan Julie flute

Tiong, Christine oboe

Wu, Tricia cello

Wu, Trinity cello

Zeng, David violin

Zeng, Michelle violin/accordion

Zheng, Han flute

Zheng, Lan flute

Zhou, Yuxi violin

Zhuang, Alex cello

And because they have put on 32 live performances to date this year is mind boggling.

Thank you musicians of the GN NH Chamber Music Society! You make this year so much better than it would be without you. You make it worth for me to come here every day.

Yes indeed, these devoted students are the first musicians on the East Coast that have a weekend gig every Friday morning. (You saw 12 of the Hybrid A students while 20 more were participating at home on zoom)

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

Joseph Rutkowski

Instrumental Music Director, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Administrative Teacher-MUSIC, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Tri-M Chapter 2605 Advisor

35 Polo Road

Great Neck, NY 11023

(516) 441-4751

JRutkowski@greatneck.k12.ny.us

Alternate email: josephrrutkowski@gmail.com

Check our web site:

https://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/Page/13704

Thank you devoted fans of Live from room 218 for tuning in to hear our version of The Beatles White Album today

Cathi Behar

Colleen Bowler Dlugolecki

Donna Kramer

James Chow

Jodi Kahn

Jordana Cohen

Joseph Giacalone

Kathy Snyder

Kieran Griffin

Lisa Binder

Loretta Peskin

Louise Fernandez

Mark Skolsky

Marianne Derych

Michael Neary

Phil Voogt

Patty Hugo

Joanne Zehnder

Joan Lazaunik

Sarah Slotnick

Joseph Giacalone

Anna Bertorelli

Robert Zahn

Kim semder

And thank you Dr. Holtzman for playing the drums with us today!

Our hosts were NINA PHILLIPS , ELIZABETH MARGILOFF, STEPHANY BARBU, DANIEL CHOI, JONATHAN KIM, SCOTT LEVY AND KEVIN KHADAVI and our musicians were (13 in room 218 and 19 on remote):

Barbu Stephany violin

Chan, Michael oboe

Chan, Preston tuba/bass

Chan, Stanley bassoon

Cheung, David S violin

Choi, Daniel cello

Choi, David violin

Khadavi, Kevin alto sax

Jonathan Kim, clarinet

Kokhabi, Joelle violin

Lee, Hwi-On violin

Levy, Scott saxophone

Li, Joshua bass

Li, Linda clarinet

Li, Mark percussion

Margiloff, Elizabeth viola

Mei, Jason violin/sax

Mizuki, Natsu cello

Oh, Cheongjun horn

Phillips, Nina violin

Sarker, Sydney violin

Katherine Sun flute

Sun, Shuyuan Julie flute

Tiong, Christine oboe

Wu, Tricia cello

Wu, Trinity cello

Zeng, David violin

Zeng, Michelle violin/accordion

Zheng, Han flute

Zheng, Lan flute

Zhou, Yuxi violin

Zhuang, Alex cello

And because they have put on 32 live performances to date this year is mind boggling.

Thank you musicians of the GN NH Chamber Music Society! You make this year so much better than it would be without you. You make it worth for me to come here every day.

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

Joseph Rutkowski

Instrumental Music Director, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Administrative Teacher-MUSIC, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Tri-M Chapter 2605 Advisor

35 Polo Road

Great Neck, NY 11023

(516) 441-4751

JRutkowski@greatneck.k12.ny.us

Alternate email: josephrrutkowski@gmail.com

Check our web site:

https://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/Page/13704

65 Artfest Band Recording Sessions May 10-12, 2021

66 LIVE from room 218 it’s Friday morning no 33 May 14, 2021 Duke and George

Live from room 218 #33, Duke and George May 14, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jye0BZn-c0c

Thank you devoted fans of Live from room 218 for tuning in to hear our version salute to two great American Composers: Duke Ellington and George Gershwin

Staff:and Others:

Anna Bertorelli, Dan Moriarty, Donna Kramer, Gail Schwartz, James Chow, Kristen Corrigan, Lisa Binder, Loretta Peskin, Louise Fernandez, Mark Skolsky, Marianne Derych, Phil Voogt, Tommy Hahn, Kim Semder

Our hosts were NINA PHILLIPS , ELIZABETH MARGILOFF, STEPHANY BARBU, DANIEL CHOI, JONATHAN KIM, SCOTT LEVY AND KEVIN KHADAVI and our musicians were (13 in room 218 and 19 on remote):

Barbu Stephany violin

Chan, Michael oboe

Chan, Preston tuba/bass

Chan, Stanley bassoon

Cheung, David S violin

Choi, Daniel cello

Choi, David violin

Khadavi, Kevin alto sax

Jonathan Kim, clarinet

Kokhabi, Joelle violin

Lee, Hwi-On violin

Levy, Scott saxophone

Li, Joshua bass

Li, Linda clarinet

Li, Mark percussion

Margiloff, Elizabeth viola

Mei, Jason violin/sax

Mizuki, Natsu cello

Oh, Cheongjun horn

Phillips, Nina violin

Sarker, Sydney violin

Katherine Sun flute

Sun, Shuyuan Julie flute

Tiong, Christine oboe

Wu, Tricia cello

Wu, Trinity cello

Zeng, David violin

Zeng, Michelle violin/accordion

Zheng, Han flute

Zheng, Lan flute

Zhou, Yuxi violin

Zhuang, Alex cello

And because they have put on 33 live performances to date this year is mind boggling.

Thank you musicians of the GN NH Chamber Music Society! You make this year so much better than it would be without you. You make it worth for me to come here every day.

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

Joseph Rutkowski

67 Artfest String Orch Recording Sessions May 17-19, 2021

68 LIVE from room 218 it’s Friday morning no 34 May 20, 2021 Abbey Road SIDE A

Live from room 218 #34, The Beatles Abbey Road SIDE A May 20, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOr6x4LccXs

Thank you devoted fans of Live from room 218 for tuning in to hear our version of The Beatles Abbey Road Side A

Colleen Bowler Dlugolecki,

Donna Kramer,

Dan Moriarty,

Joan Lazaunik,

Jordana Cohen,

Kieran Griffin,

Kristen Corrigan,

Maria Fiore,

Mark Skolsky

Michael Neary,

Officer Phil Voogt

Edith McCaffrey

Joanne Zehnder

Michael Neary

Patrick Kennedy

Our hosts were NINA PHILLIPS , ELIZABETH MARGILOFF, STEPHANY BARBU, DANIEL CHOI, JONATHAN KIM, SCOTT LEVY AND KEVIN KHADAVI and our musicians were (13 in room 218 and 19 on remote):

Barbu Stephany violin

Chan, Michael oboe

Chan, Preston tuba/bass

Chan, Stanley bassoon

Cheung, David S violin

Choi, Daniel cello

Choi, David violin

Khadavi, Kevin alto sax

Jonathan Kim, clarinet

Kokhabi, Joelle violin

Lee, Hwi-On violin

Levy, Scott saxophone

Li, Joshua bass

Li, Linda clarinet

Li, Mark percussion

Margiloff, Elizabeth viola

Mei, Jason violin/sax

Mizuki, Natsu cello

Oh, Cheongjun horn

Phillips, Nina violin

Sarker, Sydney violin

Katherine Sun flute

Sun, Shuyuan Julie flute

Tiong, Christine oboe

Wu, Tricia cello

Wu, Trinity cello

Zeng, David violin

Zeng, Michelle violin/accordion

Zheng, Han flute

Zheng, Lan flute

Zhou, Yuxi violin

Zhuang, Alex cello

And because they have put on 34 live performances to date this year is mind boggling.

Thank you musicians of the GN NH Chamber Music Society! You make this year so much better than it would be without you. You make it worth for me to come here every day.

Yes indeed, these devoted students are the first musicians on the East Coast that have a weekend gig every Friday morning. (You saw 27 students while 5more were participating at home on zoom)

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

Joseph Rutkowski

69 LIVE from room 218 it’s Friday morning no 35 May 21, 2021 Abbey Road SIDE B

Live from room 218 #35, The Beatles Abbey Road Side B May 21, 2021

https://youtu.be/6wWOvA9Zpyw

Thank you devoted fans of Live from room 218 for tuning in to hear our version of The Beatles Abbey Road, SIDE B

Next week, we finish our annual review of The Beatles with the last album they produced. All the recordings were actually done BEFORE they recorded Abbey Road

Cathi Behar

Colleen Bowler Dlugolecki

Donna Kramer

James Chow

Jodi Kahn

Jordana Cohen

Joseph Giacalone

Kathy Snyder

Kieran Griffin

Lisa Binder

Loretta Peskin

Louise Fernandez

Mark Skolsky

Marianne Derych

Michael Neary

Phil Voogt

Patty Hugo

Joanne Zehnder

Joan Lazaunik

Sarah Slotnick

Joseph Giacalone

Anna Bertorelli

Robert Zahn

Kim semder

Ilana Meredith

Kristen Corrigan

Tommy Hahn

Jodi Kahn

We know Mike Neary was busy with the AP exams..

Our hosts were NINA PHILLIPS , ELIZABETH MARGILOFF, STEPHANY BARBU, DANIEL CHOI, JONATHAN KIM, SCOTT LEVY AND KEVIN KHADAVI and our musicians were (28 in room 218 and 4 on remote):

Barbu Stephany violin

Chan, Michael oboe

Chan, Preston tuba/bass

Chan, Stanley bassoon

Cheung, David S violin

Choi, Daniel cello

Choi, David violin

Khadavi, Kevin alto sax

Jonathan Kim, clarinet

Kokhabi, Joelle violin

Lee, Hwi-On violin

Levy, Scott saxophone

Li, Joshua bass

Li, Linda clarinet

Li, Mark percussion

Margiloff, Elizabeth viola

Mei, Jason violin/sax

Mizuki, Natsu cello

Oh, Cheongjun horn

Phillips, Nina violin

Sarker, Sydney violin

Katherine Sun flute

Sun, Shuyuan Julie flute

Tiong, Christine oboe

Wu, Tricia cello

Wu, Trinity cello

Zeng, David violin

Zeng, Michelle violin/accordion

Zheng, Han flute

Zheng, Lan flute

Zhou, Yuxi violin

Zhuang, Alex cello

And because they have put on 32 live performances to date this year is mind boggling.

Thank you musicians of the GN NH Chamber Music Society! You make this year so much better than it would be without you. You make it worth for me to come here every day.

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

Joseph Rutkowski

70 Lincoln Center Coaching session with Sean Lee and Matthew Tommasini May 26 2021

71 LIVE from room 218 it’s Friday morning no 36 May 28, 2021 Let It Be

Live from room 218 #36, The Beatles Let It Be May 28, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3r-YX5_f6E

if that doesn’t work try this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KjQjMa07SI

Thank you devoted fans of Live from room 218 for tuning in to hear our version of The Beatles Let It Be . All the recordings were actually done BEFORE they recorded Abbey Road.. Next week, we will cover the rock opera TOMMY

Cathi Behar,

Donna Kramer,

Edith McCaffrey,

Emily Rice,

James Chow,

JoAnne Zehnder,

Jodi Kahn,

Jordana Cohen,

Joseph Giacalone,

Kim Semder,

Kristen Corrigan,

Lisa Binder,

Louise Fernandez,

Mark Skolsky,

Matthew Shore,

Michael Neary,

Phil Voogt

Joan Lazaunik

Our hosts were NINA PHILLIPS , ELIZABETH MARGILOFF, STEPHANY BARBU, DANIEL CHOI, JONATHAN KIM, SCOTT LEVY AND KEVIN KHADAVI and our musicians were (28 in room 218 and 4 on remote):

Barbu Stephany violin

Chan, Michael oboe

Chan, Preston tuba/bass

Chan, Stanley bassoon

Cheung, David S violin

Choi, Daniel cello

Choi, David violin

Khadavi, Kevin alto sax

Jonathan Kim, clarinet

Kokhabi, Joelle violin

Lee, Hwi-On violin

Levy, Scott saxophone

Li, Joshua bass

Li, Linda clarinet

Li, Mark percussion

Margiloff, Elizabeth viola

Mei, Jason violin/sax

Mizuki, Natsu cello

Oh, Cheongjun horn

Phillips, Nina violin

Sarker, Sydney violin

Katherine Sun flute

Sun, Shuyuan Julie flute

Tiong, Christine oboe

Wu, Tricia cello

Wu, Trinity cello

Zeng, David violin

Zeng, Michelle violin/accordion

Zheng, Han flute

Zheng, Lan flute

Zhou, Yuxi violin

Zhuang, Alex cello

And because they have put on 32 live performances to date this year is mind boggling.

Thank you musicians of the GN NH Chamber Music Society! You make this year so much better than it would be without you. You make it worth for me to come here every day.

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

Joseph Rutkowski

Instrumental Music Director, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Administrative Teacher-MUSIC, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School

Tri-M Chapter 2605 Advisor

35 Polo Road

Great Neck, NY 11023

(516) 441-4751

JRutkowski@greatneck.k12.ny.us

Alternate email: josephrrutkowski@gmail.com

Check our web site:

https://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/Page/13704

72 The GN North High’s Young People’s Concert No. 30 June 2, 2021

See our Young Peoples Concert presented on June 2 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLSHHybN2e0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFUe0oFSGX8

73 LIVE from room 218 it’s Friday morning no 37 June 4, 2021 Tommy

Live from room 218 #37, TOMMY June 4, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ3RRbwuGUI

If that doesn’t work, try this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9p5mZLh2dE

Thank you devoted fans of Live from room 218 for tuning in to hear our version of the rock opera TOMMY

FYI, our own Ilana Meredith went to see Tommy on Broadway when she was the same age as our students. Email me the total number of times she saw it. (Asking Ms. Meredith is not cheating).

Some of you already made good guesses, but you were not even close….

I will announce the grand prize to whoever emails me the correct answer.

Alan Schwartz

Anna Bertorelli

Cathi Behar

Daniel Leone

James Chow

Joseph Giacalone

Kim Semder

Loretta Peskin

Louise Fernandez

Mar Skolsky

Maria Fiore

Michael Neary

Nhsecurity

Peter Hidasi

Vicky Anastasis

Kevin Khadavi

Joan Lazaunik

Diane Micelotta

Ilana Meredith

Lorraine Fitz

Our hosts were NINA PHILLIPS , ELIZABETH MARGILOFF, STEPHANY BARBU, DANIEL CHOI, JONATHAN KIM, SCOTT LEVY AND KEVIN KHADAVI and our musicians were (28 in room 218 and 4 on remote):

Barbu Stephany violin

Chan, Michael oboe

Chan, Preston tuba/bass

Chan, Stanley bassoon

Cheung, David S violin

Choi, Daniel cello

Choi, David violin

Khadavi, Kevin alto sax

Jonathan Kim, clarinet

Kokhabi, Joelle violin

Lee, Hwi-On violin

Levy, Scott saxophone

Li, Joshua bass

Li, Linda clarinet

Li, Mark percussion

Margiloff, Elizabeth viola

Mei, Jason violin/sax

Mizuki, Natsu cello

Oh, Cheongjun horn

Phillips, Nina violin

Sarker, Sydney violin

Katherine Sun flute

Sun, Shuyuan Julie flute

Tiong, Christine oboe

Wu, Tricia cello

Wu, Trinity cello

Zeng, David violin

Zeng, Michelle violin/accordion

Zheng, Han flute

Zheng, Lan flute

Zhou, Yuxi violin

Zhuang, Alex cello

And because they have put on 32 live performances to date this year is mind boggling.

Thank you musicians of the GN NH Chamber Music Society! You make this year so much better than it would be without you. You make it worth for me to come here every day.

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

Joseph Rutkowski

74 LC Webinar for JFK 06-07-21

https://youtu.be/mCbAPh7kCpc

Attendance on June 7, 2021

Teachers:

· Patrick Kennedy

· Allie Lambraia

· Mathew Tommasini

· Dr. Levy

Students:

· Anat Kamali

· Ariella Banos

· Brandon Cohen

· Brandon Shamash

· Camila Reyes Lucas

· Dana Guo

· Daniel ?

· Eliana Nejat

· Gabrielle Shahverdi

· Jojo Ohebshalom

· Jonathan Cadena

· Jonathan Banilivi

· Maya ?

· Mila Kashinejad

· Nathaniel Moirzadeh

· Noah Hourizadeh

· Rose ?

· Sheldon ?

· Sofia Somer

· Zoe Rios

· Ethan Yeroushalmi

· Paula ?

· Ethan K...?

· Ariella Sakhai

The lobby project set out on its journey to reach as many young ears in order to create more

Chamber Music lifetime listeners. We created a video in which we explained what Chamber

Music is, and its importance. Students at the elementary and middle school watched this video

and also had an opportunity to ask questions. Many students from the middle school were

excited to join the high school music program and begin their Chamber Music playing career. At

the elementary school level, many couldn’t wait to begin learning how to play their instrument!

SCRIPT for June 7 and June 8 Webinars

Remember Time: Monday, June 7 at 5:00 pm for JFK students

Tuesday, June 8 at 5:00 pm for NM students

Join Zoom Meeting

https://zoom.us/j/83006040729?pwd=T0l5dWdBdTRSVW5JdnFzcW82Qis1dz09

SCRIPT

MR R

Welcome Mr. Kennedy and the wonderful musicians of the Kennedy School. I hope you enjoyed watching the 15-minute movie that our concertmaster and Lincoln Center Team Leader Nina Phillips created for you. The script was written by Stephany Barbu. The videographer for most of the room 218 videos were shot by Kevin Khadavi. You also saw Jason Mei and Scott Levy in that movie.

Let me introduce our Team and they will tell you which elementary school they attended, the instrument they play and the grade they are now in. The 2 seniors will also tell you which college they are going to in September.

Stephany Barbu (Hi, I’m Stephnay and I attended….)

Jason Mei (Hi, I’m Jason and I attended….)

Kevin Khadavi (Hello, I’m Kevin and I attended….)

Scott Levy (Good afternoon, I’m Scott and I attended…)

Nina Phillips (Hello everyone, I’m Nina and I attended…)

Each of our students will give a little bit of background on the pieces of music you saw in that movie:

Stephany: The first piece you saw was “Here Comes The Sun” from the Beatles’ album “Abbey Road” with the famous violinist Joshua Bell playing an arrangement of that popular rock song for violin and 2 cellos.

Jason: (Elizabeth on Monday)

As mentioned on the movie, chamber music began during the Baroque Period and became standardized into string quartets and piano trios during the Classical Period that was centered in Vienna, Austria.

Kevin: I filmed the coaching session of the students rehearsing the Haydn London Trio that you saw on the movie. In his day, Haydn was probably the most famous classical composer. Besides chamber music, Haydn composed solo piano pieces, concertos for many different instruments, oratorios, and over 100 symphonies.

Scott: The Mozart Serenade No. 12 was composed for wind players (2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons and 2 french horns) by Mozart in 1782. Five years later, he re-wrote the piece for string quintet (2 violins, 2 violas and cello).

Nina: In 1791, the last year of his life, Mozart wrote a piece for Glass Harmonica.

That is the piece played by our two clarinet friends.

You may ask, What is a Glass Harmonica?

It was invented by Benjamin Franklin, the American statesman, diplomat, politician, writer, printer, political philosopher, scientist, inventor, and all-around Enlightenment Renaissance man in 1761.

Only continue with this, if there is a lull in the conversation.

While visiting Cambridge, England in 1761, he was fascinated with the “celestial” tones, his friend, Edmund Delaval, produced by rubbing a wet finger around the rim of wine glasses filled with varying quantities of water. It’s a practice that has been documented as far back as the Renaissance. Working with a London glassblower, Charles James, Franklin developed a greatly improved instrument by “affixing glass bowls of graduated sizes concentrically around a horizontal metal spindle and rotating the apparatus with a crank attached to a treadle.” Benjamin Franklin wrote to an Italian friend,

“The advantages of this instrument are, that its tones are incomparably sweet beyond those of any other; that they may be swelled and softened at pleasure by stronger or weaker pressures of the finger, and continued to any length; and that the instrument, being well tuned, never again wants tuning. In honor of your musical language, I have borrowed from it the name of this instrument, calling it the Armonica.”

Questions that you should expect to answer.

When did you start playing your instrument?

What got you interested in chamber music?

How much do you practice?

What if I don’t like to practice?

What if I don’t like classical music?

Who were those young cellists playing with the violinist Joshua Bell?

Does the principal at North really play drums with you guys?

The 15- minute movie:

Youtube link

https://youtu.be/Mvjy0WeHXs8

Google Drive Link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J12WCWU0nV7d4HjdKJBmZdmz2cSdo7rE/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J12WCWU0nV7d4HjdKJBmZdmz2cSdo7rE/view

Great Neck North High Musicians encourage young students to pursue playing chamber music!

Chamber music is the one of the most intimate yet sophisticated of all genres of music performance. The subtle nonverbal dialogue, which must be maintained in the rehearsals and throughout the performance is difficult to describe.

Chamber music has the power to enrich lives. That is why we hope that with this video your curiosity will grow and you will further explore this nurturing world.

If you like playing your instrument, there are 3 ways you can play it. The first is playing alone, like when you practice, but that's not much fun right!? Another is playing in a big band or orchestra, like the class you are in right now! The third is playing Chamber Music! Now, we understand that many of you don't know what Chamber Music is! These types of arrangements are designed for each player to have their own separate part, but when played simultaneously creates beautiful pieces of art. This, we find, is the most spiritually uplifting.

Each of us has the ultimate responsibility of matching our own part with that of the other musicians in the duet, trio, or quartet. Chamber music is the one of the most intimate yet sophisticated of all genres of music performance. The subtle nonverbal dialogue, which must be maintained in the rehearsals and throughout the performance, is difficult to describe. Traditionally, only the most accomplished young musicians attempt to study chamber music. The Lobby Music Project hopes to demonstrate how student instrumentalists on all levels can become engaged in playing chamber music and more importantly become life-long listeners of chamber music.

Chamber music started in the Baroque Period with Solo and Trio Sonatas. Before the Baroque Period, there was no difference between small and large ensembles. The Baroque Period saw the beginning of an obvious difference between orchestras and chamber ensembles. Chamber music became more popular during the Classical Period, focused in the city of Vienna. Composers like Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven began writing string quartets, piano trios, piano quartets, piano quintets, string sextets, woodwind octets, serenades and divertimenti. Because these ensembles did not need large concert halls or churches, they could perform in peoples’ homes. Thus the term “chamber” was very fitting.

from:	JOSEPH RUTKOWSKI <jrutkowski@greatneck.k12.ny.us>
to:	MATTHEW TRINKWALD <mtrinkwald@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, "MURDOCCO, ARIELLE" <AMURDOCCO@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, "VIRGILIO, ANTHONY" <AVIRGILIO@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, "DENISE, ANDREW" <ADENISE@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, PATRICK KENNEDY <pkennedy@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, ALEXANDRA LAMBRAIA <alambraia@greatneck.k12.ny.us>
cc:	GERALD COZINE <gcozine@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, "ANDERSEN, JENNIFER" <JANDERSEN@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, "GUNNING, NANCY" <NGUNNING@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, RONALD GIMONDO <rgimondo@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, MICHELLE BELL <mbell@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, DANIEL HOLTZMAN <dholtzman@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, RONALD LEVINE <rlevine@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, KATHLYNE SNYDER <ksnyder@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, PAMELA LEVY-MAJNEMER <plevy-majnemer@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, "GIACALONE, JOSEPH" <jgiacalone@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, ILANA MEREDITH SCHIKLER <ischikler@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, "PRENDERGAST, TERESA" <TPRENDERGAST@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, "LANDO, STEPHEN" <SLANDO@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, "NEWMAN, KELLY" <KNEWMAN@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, "POWELL, JOHN" <JPOWELL@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, "HICKEY, JOSEPH" <JHICKEY@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, "BOWLER, COLLEEN" <CBOWLER@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, "ZAHN, ROBERT" <RZAHN@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, "LANDER, JUSTIN" <JLANDER@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, MAYA LERNER <mlerner@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, Matthew Tommasini <mtommasini@chambermusicsociety.org>
bcc:	JOSEPH RUTKOWSKI <jrutkowski@greatneck.k12.ny.us>
date:	Jun 3, 2021, 8:32 PM
subject:	We look forward to our Zoom Q&A meeting with -Mr. Kennedy and his students on Monday, June 7 from 5:00 pm-5:45 pmand with -Mr. Trinkwald and his students onTuesday, June 8 from 5:00 pm-5:45 pm
mailed-by:	greatneck.k12.ny.us

Dear Mr. Trinkwald, Ms Murdocco, Mr. Virgilio, Mr. Denise and Mr. Kennedy, Ms. Lambraia

We look forward to our Zoom Q&A meeting with

-Mr. Kennedy and his students on

Monday, June 7 from 5:00 pm-5:45 pm

and with

-Mr. Trinkwald and his students on

Tuesday, June 8 from 5:00 pm-5:45 pm

joseph rutkowski is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Zoom Q&A meeting NH Musicians encourage young students to pursue playing chamber music

Time: Monday, June 7 at 5:00 pm for JFK students

Tuesday, June 8 at 5:00 pm for NM students

Join Zoom Meeting

https://zoom.us/j/83006040729?pwd=T0l5dWdBdTRSVW5JdnFzcW82Qis1dz09

Meeting ID: 830 0604 0729

Passcode: 218

Thank you for both (and Ms. Lambraia!) having shown our 15-minute video to your classes this week!

Youtube link

https://youtu.be/Mvjy0WeHXs8

Google Drive Link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J12WCWU0nV7d4HjdKJBmZdmz2cSdo7rE/view?usp=sharing

Kindly alert your students and their parents that they are welcome and encouraged to participate in our Zoom Q&A on those dates.

Our goal is to inform your students----our future students----what chamber music is and how understanding how to engage in chamber music playing and study will enhance their lives to grow as musicians and people who care about each other.

Sincerely

joseph rutkowski

Our Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) Young Musicians Innovation Challenge-winning team with CMS Artist, Sean Lee

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75 LC Webinar for NM 06-08-21

Attendance on June 8 2021

North Middle School

1. Pamela Levy-Majnemer

2. Sabrina Bowen

3. Abigail Monasebian

4. Adam Smulovics

5. Alex Chu

6. Angelika Jiang

7. Angelina Zhang

8. Nina Philips

9. Ashley Dong

10.Ashley Engoron

11.Brian Ainehsazan

12.Caressa Chan

13.Cassie Tang

14.Dale Yang

15.Daliah Segal

16.Daniel Kardos

17.Diana Smolens

18.Eliav Sehati

19.Ellen Barbu

20.Gaby Klebanov

21.Isaac Yan

22.Isabelle Ku

23.Jacob Levine

24.Jeremy Ng

25.Jonathan Kaplan

26.Joyce fu

27.Julian enayatian

28.Kattie Huang

29.Kayla Baron

30.Kevin Khadavi

31.Kian Soleymani

32.Leanna Ng

33.Liana Kase

34.Liona Kohansieh

35.Lucas Turofsky

36.Matthew Tommasini

37.Matthew Trinkwald

38.Maxwell Pour

39.Melvin Moreno

40.Mia Rios

41.Natalie Shoshani

42.Natan Davidson

43.Noah Choi

44.Riley Ng

45.Samuel da Silva

46.Samuel Saidian

47.Sarah Friedberg

48.Scott Levy

49.Tama Smulovics

50.Jonah Berkowitz

JFK

1. Allie Lambraia

2. Anat Kamali

3. Ariella Sakhai

4. Brandon Cohen

5. Brandon Shamash

6. Camila Reyes Lucas

7. Cynthia

8. Dana Guo

9. Daniel

10.Eliana Nejat

11.Ethan Yeroushalmi

12. Gabrielle Shahverdi

13.GVELA0702

14. Jojo Ohebshalom

15.Kevin Khadavi

16.Liz Margoloff

17. Matthew Tommasini

18.MDEDV1209

19.Mila Kashinejad

20.Nathaniel Moirzadeh

21.Nina Philips

22.Noah Hourizadeh

23.Pamela Levy

24.Patrick Kennedy

25. Scott Levy

26.Sheldon

27.Sofia Somer

28.Zoe Rios

SCRIPT for June 8 Webinar

Tuesday, June 8 at 5:00 pm for NM students

Join Zoom Meeting

https://zoom.us/j/83006040729?pwd=T0l5dWdBdTRSVW5JdnFzcW82Qis1dz09

SCRIPT

MR R

Welcome Mr.Trinkwald and the wonderful musicians of the NM school. I hope you enjoyed watching the 15-minute movie that our concertmaster and Lincoln Center Team Leader Nina Phillips created for you. The script was written by Stephany Barbu. The videographer for most of the room 218 videos were shot by Kevin Khadavi. You also saw Jason Mei and Scott Levy in that movie.

Stephany Barbu (Hi, I’m Stephnay and I attended….)

Jason Mei (Hi, I’m Jason and I attended….)

Kevin Khadavi (Hello, I’m Kevin and I attended….)

Scott Levy (Good afternoon, I’m Scott and I attended…)

Nina Phillips (Hello everyone, I’m Nina and I attended…)

Each of our students will give a little bit of background on the pieces of music you saw in that movie:

Jason: (Elizabeth on Monday)

As mentioned on the movie, chamber music began during the Baroque Period and became standardized into string quartets and piano trios during the Classical Period that was centered in Vienna, Austria.

Nina: In 1791, the last year of his life, Mozart wrote a piece for Glass Harmonica.

That is the piece played by our two clarinet friends.

You may ask, What is a Glass Harmonica?

It was invented by Benjamin Franklin, the American statesman, diplomat, politician, writer, printer, political philosopher, scientist, inventor, and all-around Enlightenment Renaissance man in 1761.

Only continue with this, if there is a lull in the conversation.

Questions that you should expect to answer.

When did you start playing your instrument?

What got you interested in chamber music?

How much do you practice?

What if I don’t like to practice?

What if I don’t like classical music?

Who were those young cellists playing with the violinist Joshua Bell?

Does the principal at North really play drums with you guys?

The 15- minute movie:

Youtube link

https://youtu.be/Mvjy0WeHXs8

Google Drive Link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J12WCWU0nV7d4HjdKJBmZdmz2cSdo7rE/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J12WCWU0nV7d4HjdKJBmZdmz2cSdo7rE/view

Great Neck North High Musicians encourage young students to pursue playing chamber music!

Chamber music has the power to enrich lives. That is why we hope that with this video your curiosity will grow and you will further explore this nurturing world.

from:	JOSEPH RUTKOWSKI <jrutkowski@greatneck.k12.ny.us>
to:	MATTHEW TRINKWALD <mtrinkwald@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, "MURDOCCO, ARIELLE" <AMURDOCCO@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, "VIRGILIO, ANTHONY" <AVIRGILIO@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, "DENISE, ANDREW" <ADENISE@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, PATRICK KENNEDY <pkennedy@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, ALEXANDRA LAMBRAIA <alambraia@greatneck.k12.ny.us>
cc:	GERALD COZINE <gcozine@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, "ANDERSEN, JENNIFER" <JANDERSEN@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, "GUNNING, NANCY" <NGUNNING@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, RONALD GIMONDO <rgimondo@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, MICHELLE BELL <mbell@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, DANIEL HOLTZMAN <dholtzman@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, RONALD LEVINE <rlevine@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, KATHLYNE SNYDER <ksnyder@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, PAMELA LEVY-MAJNEMER <plevy-majnemer@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, "GIACALONE, JOSEPH" <jgiacalone@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, ILANA MEREDITH SCHIKLER <ischikler@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, "PRENDERGAST, TERESA" <TPRENDERGAST@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, "LANDO, STEPHEN" <SLANDO@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, "NEWMAN, KELLY" <KNEWMAN@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, "POWELL, JOHN" <JPOWELL@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, "HICKEY, JOSEPH" <JHICKEY@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, "BOWLER, COLLEEN" <CBOWLER@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, "ZAHN, ROBERT" <RZAHN@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, "LANDER, JUSTIN" <JLANDER@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, MAYA LERNER <mlerner@greatneck.k12.ny.us>, Matthew Tommasini <mtommasini@chambermusicsociety.org>
bcc:	JOSEPH RUTKOWSKI <jrutkowski@greatneck.k12.ny.us>
date:	Jun 3, 2021, 8:32 PM
subject:	We look forward to our Zoom Q&A meeting with -Mr. Kennedy and his students on Monday, June 7 from 5:00 pm-5:45 pmand with -Mr. Trinkwald and his students onTuesday, June 8 from 5:00 pm-5:45 pm
mailed-by:	greatneck.k12.ny.us

Dear Mr. Trinkwald, Ms Murdocco, Mr. Virgilio, Mr. Denise and Mr. Kennedy, Ms. Lambraia

We look forward to our Zoom Q&A meeting with

-Mr. Kennedy and his students on

Monday, June 7 from 5:00 pm-5:45 pm

and with

-Mr. Trinkwald and his students on

Tuesday, June 8 from 5:00 pm-5:45 pm

joseph rutkowski is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Zoom Q&A meeting NH Musicians encourage young students to pursue playing chamber music

Time: Monday, June 7 at 5:00 pm for JFK students

Tuesday, June 8 at 5:00 pm for NM students

Join Zoom Meeting

https://zoom.us/j/83006040729?pwd=T0l5dWdBdTRSVW5JdnFzcW82Qis1dz09

Meeting ID: 830 0604 0729

Passcode: 218

Thank you for both (and Ms. Lambraia!) having shown our 15-minute video to your classes this week!

Youtube link

https://youtu.be/Mvjy0WeHXs8

Google Drive Link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J12WCWU0nV7d4HjdKJBmZdmz2cSdo7rE/view?usp=sharing

Kindly alert your students and their parents that they are welcome and encouraged to participate in our Zoom Q&A on those dates.

Sincerely

joseph rutkowski

Our Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) Young Musicians Innovation Challenge-winning team with CMS Artist, Sean Lee

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76 Class of 2021 gift to Rutkowski 06-10-21

77 LIVE from room 218 it’s Friday morning no 38 June 11, 2021 The 60s

Lobby Music #38 June 11, 2021 The 60s

Live from room 218 #38, The 60s June 11, 2021

https://youtu.be/6BQE9mfo-YA

If that doesn’t work try this

https://youtu.be/YpZOi-ZknDM

You say you want a revolution? Look no further than the 1960s. The decade of political protest, sexual liberation, psychedelic drugs, eyebrow-raising fashions and sweet, sweet music. Rock 'n' roll had spread from the US and marked the arrival of youth rebellion in the 'teenager'. Music from now on would always come with a hint of rebellion.

We played music composed by Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, Carole King, John Denver and music from the musical Hair.

Thank you devoted fans of Live from room 218 for tuning in to hear our version of The 60s

Cathi Behar Ilana Meredith James Chow Jodi Kahn Kieran Griffin Kim Semder Kristen Corrigan Leslie Bravo Maria Fiore Michael Neary Peter Hidasi Vicky Anastasis Anna Bertorelli Joan Lazaunik Sarah Slotnick

Our hosts were NINA PHILLIPS , ELIZABETH MARGILOFF, STEPHANY BARBU, DANIEL CHOI, JONATHAN KIM, SCOTT LEVY AND KEVIN KHADAVI

and our musicians were (28 in room 218 and 4 on remote):

Barbu Stephany violin Chan, Michael oboe Chan, Preston tuba/bass Chan, Stanley bassoon Cheung, David S violin Choi, Daniel cello Choi, David violin Khadavi, Kevin alto sax Jonathan Kim, clarinet Kokhabi, Joelle violin Lee, Hwi-On violin Levy, Scott saxophone Li, Joshua bass Li, Linda clarinet Li, Mark percussion Margiloff, Elizabeth viola Mei, Jason violin/sax Mizuki, Natsu cello Oh, Cheongjun horn Phillips, Nina violin Sarker, Sydney violin Katherine Sun flute Sun, Shuyuan Julie flute Tiong, Christine oboe Wu, Tricia cello Wu, Trinity cello Zeng, David violin Zeng, Michelle violin/accordion Zheng, Han flute Zheng, Lan flute Zhou, Yuxi violin Zhuang, Alex cello

These 32 students in chamber music class are truly special. The fact that they are the first people I see every morning, whether in room 218 or on Zoom and we play great music every day. Then, they come back in the band or orchestra classes later in the day to continue their development as musicians by our conservatory style. And because they have put on 32 live performances to date this year is mind boggling. Thank you musicians of the GN NH Chamber Music Society! You make this year so much better than it would be without you. You make it worth for me to come here every day.

With a paucity of live music events going on in this strange world, the musicians from the John L. Miller-Great Neck North High School (Tri-M Chapter 2605) broadcast a live 25-minute show every Friday morning via ZOOM to the whole school. Yes indeed, these devoted students are the first musicians on the East Coast that have a weekend gig every Friday morning.

And here is the chat box

07:38:53 From Leslie Bravo : loved the Both Sides Now. Just excellent!!! Thanks everyone. 💕💜💕💜💕💜 07:40:47 From Cathi Behar : Thank you for always brightening our Friday mornings... 07:45:03 From Leslie Bravo : These are all just wonderful songs. Woohoo!!! Thanks. 07:49:21 From JAMES CHOW : Yes, great songs. Thanks! 07:52:32 From Leslie Bravo : Okay, just so you know I am singing along with every song!!!!! 07:56:33 From Leslie Bravo : oh, that Carole King, she is just so good. 07:57:05 From joseph rutkowski : Thank you all for tuning in....especially Leslie!!!!

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

Joseph Rutkowski Instrumental Music Director, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School Administrative Teacher-MUSIC, John L. Miller - Great Neck North High School Tri-M Chapter 2605 Advisor 35 Polo Road Great Neck, NY 11023 (516) 441-4751 JRutkowski@greatneck.k12.ny.us Alternate email: josephrrutkowski@gmail.com Check our web site: https://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/Page/...

78 Artfest on Zoom 06-14-21

https://youtu.be/_FjBOlwmRpQ

JOHN L. MILLER-GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL

2020/2021 SEASON

The Virtual

Instrumental Artfest Concert 2021

Date to be released June 14, 2021

Music by American composers

Great Neck Public Schools

Board of Education

Barbara Berkowitz, President

Rebecca Sassouni, Alternate Vice President

Donna Peirez, Trustee

Jeffrey Shi, Trustee

Grant Toch, Trustee

District Administration

Dr. Teresa Prendergast, Superintendent of Schools

Mr. John Powell, Assistant Superintendent for Business

Dr. Stephen Lando, Assistant Superintendent for Secondary Education

Ms. Kelly Newman, Assistant Superintendent for Elementary Education

Dr. Joseph Hickey, Assistant Superintendent for Special Education & Pupil Personnel Services

John L. Miller-Great Neck North High School

Dr. Dan Holtzman, Principal

Ron Levine, Assistant Principal

Kathlyne Snyder, Assistant Principal

Cathlene Behar, Dean

Michael Calderaro, Dean

Great Neck North High Department of the Fine and Performing Arts

Dr. Pamela Levy, Chair

ART, Joseph Giacalone, Emily Man, Christine Hakanjin, Linda Haase

DRAMA, Ilana Meredith

MUSIC, Dr. Pamela Levy, Joseph Rutkowski

2020/2021 NH Music Booster Co-Presidents

Nancy Notar-Francesco and Vivian Hong

Acknowledgements

The Administration, Faculty and Staff of the John L. Miller-Great Neck North High School Michael Meehan & TV North-GNPS/TV Keith Grier & Michele Domanick Custodial Staff led by Christopher Vecchio and Kevin Meigh Colleen Bowler, Publicity

Every effort was made to maintain accuracy in this program. We regret any errors or omissions that may have occurred

2020/2021 Honorees

NYSSMA All State

Ashley Schlusselberg, All State Treble Chorus, soprano 1 grade 12

Dana Livian, All State, Mixed Chorus, alto 1 grade 12

NAfME National Honors Ensembles

Ashley Schlusselberg, All National: soprano, alternate

Instrumental Artfest Concert 2021

Date to be released June 14, 2021

Pre-Concert Recital

Solo Recital: Instrumental and Vocal program

01 04:46 William Okin Beethoven Piano Sonata "Pathétique" No.8 in C minor, Op.13

02 0507 David Zeng Lalo Symphonie Espagnole 2nd movement

03 05:19 Mizuki Natsu Gershwin Preludes (nos. 1 and 2)

04 09:11 Tiantian Emily Wei Vieuxtemps Violin Concerto No. 5

05 12:40 Victoria Guan Schumann Cello Concerto in A minor

06 10:59 Shuyuan Julie Sun Carmen Fantasy for Flute and Piano

Music by American composers

ARTFEST 2021

WIND ENSEMBLE

GEORGE M. COHAN A Touch of Cohan

(1878-1942) Over There

Arranged by Stan Applebuam I’m A Yankee Doodle Dandy

Give My Regards to Broadway

EDWARD KENNEDY ELLINGTON A Tribute to Duke Ellington

(1899-1974)

Arranged by Calvin Custer It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)

Ariella Sakhi fluteKatherine Smolens fluteJulie Sun fluteChristine Tiong oboeDanielle Kobrick bassoonRyan Cho clarinetJonathan Kim, CONCERTMASTER&clarinetAndrew Suh clarinetScott Levy saxophone Jason Mei saxophoneCheongjun Oh French hornHarrison Rich trumpetBenjamin Malekan trumpetJack Brenner euphoniumHani Kang string bassChristopher Chang percussionLauren Murphy percussionBilly Okin percussionMaverick Williams drum set

ARTFEST 2021

STRING ORCHESTRA

ALAN HOVHANESS Fugue, Op. 40a

(1911-2000)

SAMUEL BARBER Adagio for Strings, Op. 11

(1910-1981)

Dedicated to the Memory of All Those Lost to Covid

Nina Phillips CONCERTMASTER&violinHwi-On Lee violinJason Mei violinClaire Cho violinDavid Zeng violinJonathan Souferian violinStephany Barbu violinJonathan Shen violinChloe Zhou violinMan Chun Anna Han violinChristine Zhou violinElizabeth Margiloff violaArabella Notar-Francesco violaBenjamin Souferian celloMizuki Natsu celloMatthew Kwong celloTricia Wu celloTrinity Wu celloVictoria Guan celloAlex Zhuang celloHani Kang bass

THE GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

(SINCE 1928)

2020/2021 SEASON

STRINGS:

Violin

Odelya Ajoudanpour

Serena Askari

Shayla Bakhshi

Stephany Barbu

Rebecca Bernstein

Mia Carrillo

David S Cheung

Claire Cho

David Choi

Nethaniel Darvishzadeh

Angelina Dayani

Ryan Fu

Jaslyn Gao

Rena Geula

Ariel G

Dylan Hakimian

Man Chun Anna Han

Menash Harooni

Leila Hawa

Julia Huang

Albert Jan

Yihao Sean Jiang

Jason Kashanian

Liam Kashinejad

Joelle Kokhabi

Hwi-On Lee

Rachel Liu

Jason Mei

Aaron Nasiri

Joshua Ohebshalom

Zoe H Paisner

Gabriella Paknoush

Nina Phillips

Ilan Rastegar

Sydney Sarker

Jonathan Shen

Jonathan Souferian

Alex R Sun

Tiantian Wei

Kelly Yam

David Zeng

Lawrence Zeng

Michelle Zeng

Renee Zeng

Chloe Zhou

Christine Zhou

Yuxi Zhou

Viola

Simon Adjakple

Jeremy Davoodzadeh

Justine Khadavi

Alexander Khazzam

Ryan Liu

Matthew Manesh

Sean Manesh

Elizabeth Margiloff

Arabella Notar-Francesco

Jonah Nouriyelian

Alex R Sun

Matthew Zhang

Cello

Daniel J Choi

Celine Chou

Ethan Dayani

Victoria W Guan

Alexandra Katchis

Matthew Kwong

Maximillian Lee

Gregory Leung

Mizuki Natsu

Alfonso Renteria

Adrian Shiu

Dylan Solomon

Jaren Solomon

Benjamin Souferian

Tricia Wu

Trinity Wu

Alex Zhuang

Bass

Asher, Colin

Chan, Preston

Chan, Timothy

Kang, Hani

Li, Joshua

Maher, Brandon

Talledo, Ashley Niki

Keyboard

Jonathan Gabo

Jasmine Lin

William Okin

Alexander Sheng

Xiomara M Trinidad Perez

Xiongningfan (Benny) Wang

Guitar

Eden A Monhian

Jared Ohebshalom

Noa Pourmoradi

WINDS, BRASS, PERCUSSION

Piccolo

Carina Bazac

Katherine Smolens

Flute

Carina Bazac

Liel Ezroni

Carly Fan

Amitha Kumar

Yi Liu

Yasmine Missaghieh

Napat Ruangphung

Ariella Sakhai

Katherine Smolens

Katherine Sun

Shuyuan Sun

Kirsten Tam

Katharine Tang

Han Zheng

Lan Zheng

Oboe

Michael Chan

Christine Tiong

Bassoon

Stanley Chan

Danielle Kobrick

Clarinet

Connor Chen

Ryan Cho

Benjamin Feingold

Joseph Harounian

Ashlee Hollander

Bruce Huang

Vian Hwang

Jonathan Kim

Asher Kokhavim

Renee Lan

Kirsten Law

Rachel Levy

Linda Li

Gan Shi

Andrew Suh

Ashleigh Wong

Bass Clarinet

Luke Cronin

Jesse Racsko

Alto Saxophone

Kevin Khadavi

David Kim

Scott Levy

Ethan Schulman

Chenkang Zhao

Tenor Saxophone

Shengqi Cuibari

Sandy Gao

Baritone Saxophone

Eytan Ran

Horn

Cheongjun Oh

Eric Ohebshalom

Trumpet

Vincent Huang

Michael Kahen

Aidan Lam

Benjamin Malekan

Joshua Rafaeil

Harrison Rich

Trombone

Jonathan Moalemi

Randy Talledo

Jinchen Yang

Ryan Xing Zhang

Euphonium

Jack Brenner

Karen Fukuoka

Ethan Hassid

Tuba

Percussion

Dhruv Bagchi

Christopher Chang

Alexander Geula

Amanda Lee

Mark Li

Tyler Menker

Lauren Murphy

William Okin

Sabrina Schlusselberg

Timothy Tung

Maverick Williams

Oscar Wostenholme

Qining Yang

Zihan Yu

Senior Instrumentalists

Chan, Preston

Chan, Timothy

Cheung, David S

Choi, Daniel J

Chou, Celine

Ezroni, Liel

Fan, Carly

Geula, Alexander

Huang, Vincent

Jan, Albert

Kahen, Michael D

Kang, Hani

Law, Kirsten

Levy, Scott

Liu, Yi (Lucy)

Malekan, Benjamin

Monhian, Eden A

Murphy, Lauren

Notar-Francesco, Arabella R

Oh, Cheongjun

Ohebshalom, Joshua B

Phillips, Nina

Ran, Ethan

Renteria, Alfonso

Ruangphung, Napat (Angie)

Sakhai, Ariella E

Schlusselberg, Sabrina

Sheng, Alexander

Shi, Gan

Smolens, Katherine

Solomon, Dylan A

Souferian, Jonathan

Trinidad Perez, Xiomara M

Zbizika, Michelle

Zhao, Chenkang

79 LIVE from room 218 no. 39 Ragtime 06-18-21

Live from room 218 #39, Ragtime. The Musical June 18, 2021

https://youtu.be/XvP12H5tM3A

If that doesn’t work try this

https://youtu.be/M0B5Cg3OTkE

Thank you devoted fans of Live from room 218 for tuning in to hear our version of Ragtime programmed this morning in anticipation and in honor of the NEWEST national holiday: Juneteeth.

If there was ever a time in history that the story of Ragtime meant something, it is right now

Ragtime is a musical based on the 1975 novel by E.L. Doctorow.

Ragtime is historical fiction inspired by actual events in New York City at the turn of the twentieth century telling the story of three groups in the United States: African Americans, represented by Coalhouse Walker Jr., a Harlem musician; upper-class suburbanites, represented by Mother, the matriarch of a white upper-class family in New Rochelle, New York; and Eastern European immigrants, represented by Tateh, a Jewish immigrant from Latvia. The show also incorporates historical figures such as Harry Houdini, Evelyn Nesbit, Booker T. Washington, J. P. Morgan, Henry Ford, Stanford White and Emma Goldman.

Amanda Reilly

Anna Bertorelli

CATHY CHIMENTI <cchimenti@greatneck.k12.ny.us>Cathi Behar

Colleen Bowler Dlugolecki

Dan Moriarty

Donna Kramer

Ilana Meredith

James Chow

Kristen Corrigan

Lisa Binder

Loretta Peskin

Louise Fernandez

Maria Fiore

Michael Neary

Mr. G

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Peter Hidasi

Maria Fiore

Vicky Anastasis

Anna Bertorelli

Joan Lazaunik

Sarah Slotnick

Our hosts were NINA PHILLIPS , ELIZABETH MARGILOFF, STEPHANY BARBU, DANIEL CHOI, JONATHAN KIM, SCOTT LEVY AND KEVIN KHADAVI and our musicians were (28 in room 218 and 4 on remote):

Barbu Stephany violin

Chan, Michael oboe

Chan, Preston tuba/bass

Chan, Stanley bassoon

Cheung, David S violin

Choi, Daniel cello

Choi, David violin

Khadavi, Kevin alto sax

Jonathan Kim, clarinet

Kokhabi, Joelle violin

Lee, Hwi-On violin

Levy, Scott saxophone

Li, Joshua bass

Li, Linda clarinet

Li, Mark percussion

Margiloff, Elizabeth viola

Mei, Jason violin/sax

Mizuki, Natsu cello

Oh, Cheongjun horn

Phillips, Nina violin

Sarker, Sydney violin

Katherine Sun flute

Sun, Shuyuan Julie flute

Tiong, Christine oboe

Wu, Tricia cello

Wu, Trinity cello

Zeng, David violin

Zeng, Michelle violin/accordion

Zheng, Han flute

Zheng, Lan flute

Zhou, Yuxi violin

Zhuang, Alex cello

And because they have put on 32 live performances to date this year is mind boggling.

Thank you musicians of the GN NH Chamber Music Society! You make this year so much better than it would be without you. You make it worth for me to come here every day.

Yes indeed, these devoted students are the first musicians on the East Coast that have a weekend gig every Friday morning.

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

80 Final day in room 218 for class of 2021

Friday, June 18, 2021 was a VERY emotional day for me......

Last day in room 218 for the very special class of 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr21WeX93C8

81 LIVE from room 218 no. 40 The Musician’s Picks

Live from room 218 #40, The Musicians’ Picks June 21, 2021

https://youtu.be/iF1nY308o4E

If that doesn’t work try this

https://youtu.be/oxXFOuodE-Q

Thank you devoted fans of Live from room 218 for tuning in to hear our Musicians’ Picks.

All season long (40 weeks), these 32 student musicians studied and rehearsed and performed 39 programs of music the I selected. Not ONE complaint. Today, I chose nothing and they all picked their favorites and then they all SIGHT READ them!

June 21, 2021

The Musicians' Picks

Yuxi Julia Zhou Mozart Serenade #12

Trinity Wu Dvorak Serenade

Michael Chan and Cheongjun Oh Yesterday

Nina Phillips, Sydney Sarker and

Han Zheng Stairway to Heaven

Lan Zheng Joplin Sunflower

Jason Mei Cherry Pink

David Cheung and David Zeng Agua De Beber

Mark Li and Daniel Choi Misty

Michelle Zbikida & Jonathan Kim My One and Only Love - In a Sentimental Mood

Mizuki Natsu My Favorite Things

Joshua Li Girl from Ipanema and In the Mood

Elizabeth Both Sides Now

Alex Zhuang and Hwi-On Lee Pinball Wizard

Shuyuan Julie Sun Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite

Linda Li All You Need is Love

Stanley Chan Help

Katherine Sun Hey Jude

Tricia Wu Eleanor Rigby

Stephany Barbu and Kevin Khadavi Let It Be

I am so grateful to you for tuning in and in debt to the students who made getting up early in this most unusual year a JOY!

Amanda Reilly

James Chow

Kieran Griffin

Kristen Corrigan

Linda Haase

Lisa Binder

Loretta Peskin

Marianne Derych

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Peter Hidasi

T.E. Hahn

Ilana Meredith

Our hosts were, ELIZABETH MARGILOFF, STEPHANY BARBU, LINDA LI, JONATHAN KIM, our cinematographers were LINDA LI, JOELLE KOKHABI and STANLEY CHAN and our musicians were

Barbu Stephany violin

Chan, Michael oboe

Chan, Stanley bassoon

Choi, David violin

Jonathan Kim, clarinet

Kokhabi, Joelle violin

Lee, Hwi-On violin

Li, Joshua bass

Li, Linda clarinet

Li, Mark percussion

Margiloff, Elizabeth viola

Mei, Jason violin/sax

Mizuki, Natsu cello

Sarker, Sydney violin

Katherine Sun flute

Sun, Shuyuan Julie flute

Tiong, Christine oboe

Wu, Tricia cello

Wu, Trinity cello

Zeng, David violin

Zheng, Han flute

Zheng, Lan flute

Zhou, Yuxi violin

Zhuang, Alex cello

And because they have put on 32 live performances to date this year is mind boggling.

Thank you musicians of the GN NH Chamber Music Society! You make this year so much better than it would be without you. You make it worth for me to come here every day.

Yes indeed, these devoted students are the first musicians on the East Coast that have a weekend gig every Friday morning.

It means so much to our musicians that you care!

82 Visit to JFK to meet future legends of room 218 06-22-21

What a thrill for this old teacher to see the future NH legends when they are still in elementary school with Patrick Kennedy

83 Senior Awards 06-23-21

Cue up to 13:01

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn_ZiNF9BEc

Chan, Preston Louis Armstrong Jazz Award no. 1

Choi, Daniel J National School Orchestra Association Award no. 1

Geula, Alexander John Phillips Sousa Band Award no. 1

Kahen, Michael D Earl Higgins Instrumentalist Award no. 1

Kang, Hani National School Orchestra Association Award no. 2

Levy, Scott Louis Armstrong Jazz Award no. 2

Liu, Yi (Lucy) Earl Higgins Instrumentalist Award no. 2

Malekan, Benjamin Earl Higgins Instrumentalist Award no. 3

Monhian, Eden A Earl Higgins Instrumentalist Award no. 4

Murphy, Lauren John Phillips Sousa Band Award no. 2

Notar-Francesco, Arabella R NYSCAME Leadership Award

And Taney Violist Award

*Oh, Cheongjun Eugene Brusiloff Musician Award

Atlantic Wind Symphony Outstanding Band Student Award no. 1

Phillips, Nina Bruce Thompson and

National School Orchestra Association Award no. 3

Ran, Ethan Earl Higgins Instrumentalist Award no. 5

Renteria, Alfonso Earl Higgins Instrumentalist Award no. 6

Sakhai, Ariella E Earl Higgins Instrumentalist Award No. 7

Schlusselberg, Sabrina Louis Armstrong Jazz Award no. 3

*Smolens, Katherine John Phillips Sousa Band Award no. 2 and

Ray Olsen Renaissance Award

Atlantic Wind Symphony Outstanding Band Student Award no. 2

Souferian, Jonathan Earl Higgins Instrumentalist Award no. 8

Trinidad Perez, Xiomara M Earl Higgins Instrumentalist Award no. 9

Zbizika, Michelle Earl Higgins Instrumentalist Award no. 10

National School Orchestra Association Award no. 4

This is a remarkable class of musicians. Figuring that there are 180 days in the school year and each of them spent at least 40 minutes every day for 4 years=that’s 480 hours that I have spent with these students. For this class, many hours were spent on remote, but thank goodness I did get to see most of them in room 218 every day in the past month.

84 Commencement 06-24-21

Graduation NHS ceremony released on Thursday, at 2:00 P.M.

https://youtu.be/vVzW0Bi5t60

It begins with the Lobby Music Ensemble playing Let it Be from earlier this season.

And continues with

LIVE from Room 218 JAZZ Falling in Love

LIVE from Room 218 Afghan Dance Watan Lan

LIVE from Room 218 JAZZ I Love Paris in the Springtime

Grad Orch 2017 Jupiter and Carmen

Grad Orch 2016 Romeo and Juliet

Carnegie Hall 2016 Shostakovich 5

CM Recital Scott Joplin

Artfest 2021 Hovhaness Fugue for Strings

Artfest 2022 Duke Ellington It Don’t Mean A Thing

And then our June 10th recording in the Commons of Pomp and Circumstance.

85 LIMHoF 06-25-21

LIMHoF

https://youtu.be/dBgEEzS4R5E

https://www.limusichalloffame.org/news/12-li-schools-winners-in-2021-high-school-music-education-awards/

The awards were presented by the Long Island Music Hall of Fame.

The Long Island Music Hall of Fame announced the 12 high schools that won its fifth annual High School Music Department Recognition Program. (Courtesy of Long Island Music Hall of Fame)

LONG ISLAND, NY — Twelve Long Island high schools are among the winners of the fifth annual High School Music Department Recognition Program presented by the Long Island Music Hall of Fame (LIMHoF), according to a news release.

Centereach HS, Farmingdale HS, Great Neck North HS, Great Neck South HS, Half Hollow Hills HS East, Harborfields HS, Hicksville HS, Kellenberg Memorial HS, Long Beach HS, Lynbrook HS, Southampton HS and Wheatley HS are the winners this year on the island.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 awards had to be canceled. In 2021, the awards shifted to a virtual application process. For the first time, video entries were accepted. “Amazing music” crafted by students under “unbelievably difficult conditions” brought on by the pandemic was showcased, according to LIMHoF.

“During the pandemic, school music programs, in particular, were dealing with incredible restrictions due to social distancing and remote learning, which created major difficulty for students learning to play music,” LIMHoF Education Chairman Tom Needham said via news release. “Music is a collaborative process and students need to be able to play music together. A lot of schools made it work, and we wanted to showcase their accomplishments under the circumstances. These schools found a way to do something great. The students overcame tremendous odds. This showcases, and is a tribute, to the students who adapted to a difficult situation.”

Both the LIMHoF Education Committee and a panel of music educators reviewed the videos that were submitted from each school. As a result, 12 Long Island high school music programs were awarded recognition wins and celebrated via video format. For the first time in its history, music performance videos from each applicant were posted to LIMHoF’s website. And some high schools submitted multiple videos to showcase their different music groups.

The videos can be watched on the LIMHoF website.

The LIMHoF is encouraging schools to apply for the 2022 High School Recognition Program. The program is designed to identify Long Island high school music programs that are creating notable music experiences for their students and are incorporating the National and New York State Standards for The Arts in creative and meaningful ways. LIMHoF accepts applications from Brooklyn, Queens, and Nassau and Suffolk Counties.

Application categories included program details, inclusion of national and state standards for music in curriculum, facility, staffing, and community and board support. All applications were reviewed by a panel of music educators, some of whom have also been recognized as the Long Island Music Hall of Fame’s “Music Educators of Note.”

86 Congratulations to the 2021 NH Musicians of Room 218

This was, by no stretch of anyone’s imagination, an incredibly unusual year.

If you wish to see the performances of the past year, check them out below…

As you've heard me say before, every time you pick up your instrument, it's a performance. You never know when somebody is listening or being moved by your sounds. You've done so much for so many people this year in the work we've done in class, in the time you've spent practicing alone and in our public performances--live and on TV75. When the Great Neck residents watch your performances on TV75, they know that their tax dollars are being put to excellent use in our school music program.

I am very proud of what you've accomplished this year. It was the most unusual end of the year I ever experienced.

Have a great summer and email or text me when you hear, sing or play great music!

Practice when and as much as you can,

or quit.

~xo mr r

41 LIVE Shows streamed on Zoom from room 218 during the 2020/2021 Season

https://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/Page/15044

Winter Concert

North High Virtual Winter Concert 12/17/20

The 92nd Winter Concert at the John L. Miller-Great Neck North High School was released as a Virtual Winter Concert Thursday, December 17th 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vckY4ZD4_3I

Young Peoples’ Concert #30

Thanks to Maya Lerner, Justin Lander, Mike Meehan and seniors Arabella Notar-Francesco, Katherine Smolens, on June 2, we presented our Young People's Concert #30.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLSHHybN2e0

Artfest 2021

https://youtu.be/_FjBOlwmRpQ

Graduation NHS ceremony released on Thursday, at 2:00 P.M.

https://youtu.be/vVzW0Bi5t60

It begins with the Lobby Music Ensemble playing Let it Be from earlier this season.

And continues with

LIVE from Room 218 JAZZ Falling in Love

LIVE from Room 218 Afghan Dance Watan Lan

LIVE from Room 218 JAZZ I Love Paris in the Springtime

Grad Orch 2017 Jupiter and Carmen

Grad Orch 2016 Romeo and Juliet

Carnegie Hall 2016 Shostakovich 5

CM Recital Scott Joplin

Artfest 2021 Hovhaness Fugue for Strings

Artfest 2022 Duke Ellington It Don’t Mean A Thing

And then our June 10th recording in the Commons of Pomp and Circumstance.

Our Lincoln Center 15-minute movie created by Nina Phillips with the screenplay by Stephany Barbu and Scott Levy for the students at NM and JFK as part of our Lincoln Center project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvjy0WeHXs8

Chamber Music Recital presented on Wednesday, April 28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IsT03bcxhw

Pirates of Penzance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Ge_5H7dnynw

Social Justice Week in Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzjrI98ChFk

Music Night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWcGaab_1GY

Valentine Soirée

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CV7GVqag2k

International Night

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jMBmXO5D1uhBKLw5sxlTyY4RmzyjL71P/view

NAfME blog What Music Has Meant to My Students 12/22/20

https://nafme.org/what-music-has-meant-to-my-students/

Noa playing "She talks to angels" in Genelle's Gazebo copy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QrTaE9Dtp8

On Thursday, Oct 22, I took the ninth grade band outside to play because wind players are not allowed to play inside...

One of the ninth graders in the class is a guitarist name Noa. I know that she plays rock concerts, so I asked her if she wanted to play something for us while we were all around Genelle’s gazebo.

https://www.greatneck.k12.ny.us/Page/11363

Noa picked the song played by the Black Crowes called “She talks to Angels”

I asked her if I could send this video to you because she remembered my “Genelle story” and she was touched and said yes!

How fitting this was in Genelle’s Gazebo to watch my “hybrid A” ninth grade band students with the rest of the students on zoom watching on zoom this girl play such a beautiful song outside...

I sent the this story and the video to Genelle’s mother who wrote back:

“How amazing!! Thank you so much for sharing this with us. And a huge thank you to Noa for making our day. So beautiful!! Please extend our gratitude to Noa.”

PS….

For the 107 of you who played at Carnegie Hall on March 1, 2020…..you should know that there still has not been a concert performed there since March 12, 2020.

Carnegie Hall officially cancelled all performances beginning on March 13, 2020. The American Symphony Orchestra was scheduled to perform on March 12, but they cancelled. The last performances in the building took place that day (3/12) in Zankel Hall and Weill Recital Hall. The last performance in Isaac Stern Auditorium took place on March 10, the evening performance of the New York Wind Band Festival.

See the link for Carnegie Hall archives of past concerts

https://www.carnegiehall.org/About/History/Performance-History-Search?q=&dex=prod_PHS

and notice that our March 1, 2020 was still one of the very last concerts there as of now (June 30, 2021)

https://www.carnegiehall.org/About/History/Performance-History-Search?q=&dex=prod_PHS_Newest_First&page=3

https://www.carnegiehall.org/About/History/Performance-History-Search?q=&dex=prod_PHS_Newest_First&page=3&event=64272