Notes from the Music Room
Dear families,
We continue working towards a successful Spring Concert for you. I ask that those of you that look at the blogs, please help your child listen to the song El Barquito de Cascara de Nuez. I included that in the blog two weeks ago or so. I am also very excited to announce that we will have Señor Waters as our accompanist for the Spring concert! I have to say that the children are terribly excited about performing for you. I hope you can all make it to the concert.
The Grade 1 students are now learning the following Venezuelan folk song:
Con real y medio
Con real y medio
Con real y. medio
Compré una pava
La pava tuvo un pavito
Tengo la pava, tengo el pavito
Siempre me queda mi real y medio.
Translation: with a dollar and a half I bought a turkey, the turkey had a baby turkey. I have a turkey and a baby turkey and I am always left with my dollar and a half.
With this song we start adding animals. The video below is quite fast, but the music is representative of Venezuelan instrumentation and the order of the animals is the one that we will be singing. Please don’t expect the children to sing it that fast… well, not yet anyway. We won’t perform it that fast either because otherwise the whole concert would be over in 15 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoQAYYq8OBI
Past Updates:
I am happy to say that we are moving along with the preparation of the music for the Spring Concert in March. Please keep an eye out for an email in the next week asking for help from our wonderful volunteer community. I will be needing help with props and other performance essentials.
The Grade 1s are learning two Venezuelan folk songs:
The first song is:
Los chimichimitos estaban bailando el coro corito
Tamboré
Los chimichimitos estaban bailando el coro corito
Tamboré
Que baile la niña tamboré
Que baile el niñito tamboré
Que baile la gata tamboré
Que baile el gatito tamboré
Los chimichimitos estaban bailando el coro corito
Tamboré
Los chimichimitos estaban bailado el coro corito
Tamboré
Que baile la vieja tamboré
Que baile el viejito tamboré
Que baile la mona tamboé
Que baile el monito tamboré
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