Calendar of Events
May 30th Memorial Day Ceremony - Musical offerings in
the Gym @2:00
June 6th Preschool- Middle School (Band, Chorus & Jazz Ensemble) Spring Concert @ 12:30pm in the Gym
June 7th Burlington’s Discover Jazz Festival – Jazz
on the Marketplace
Fairfield
Jazz Ensemble "52 Soule
Drive" from 12:00 noon to 1:00pm
on the
Church Street Champlain Chocolates Stage
Greetings!
The Music Department is working full blast!
The 2013 Vermont Maple Festival Youth Talent Show was awesome &
Fairfield was well represented. Faith Reed & Emma Archambault, in
Division I, danced to "Illusion" & "Anything You Can Do, I
Can Do Better"; Leah Branon, in Division II, sang "The Climb";
Tori Legrand, now a junior at B.F.A. St. Albans, sang "You & I",
and Dominic Cicilio, a B.F.A. senior, played his fabulous original Piano
composition, "Composed by Dominic" and won 1st place in Division IV
& also won the Ducham "Best in Show" award. You all make us
proud!
The 47th
Annual Vermont Maple Festival Parade was a great success and the weather was absolutely ideal!
Many, many thanks to the Candi Branon for coordinating our
"Trotters" Pep Squad and to Jon & Candi Branon for
providing TWO lovely red wagons, one for the Fairfield Jazz Ensemble
& one for the Trotters. The "floats" were beautifully
decorated with flags, maple leaf emblems created by Desarae Branon, maple syrup bottles & hay bales & everyone
wore their tie dyed tees created in their Art classes. Our entry was a
vibrant, colorful, creative addition to the event! Thank you to Ned
Branon who drove their sweet, antique John Deere tractor for the Trotters
float & to Charlie Branon for smoothly towing the Jazz Band float!!
Special THANKS! to Pat Branon for
providing us with his generator, for the Branons’ ingenious solutions for
accommodating the equipment, soundproofing it & at the same time, providing
seating! Thank you to Kara Garceau, Desarae Branon & the many
parents who helped to decorate, coordinate & manage all the details;
another very special Thanks to Cliff
Coy for his efforts to help us out in our distress at the very last
moment! Thank you to all the parents & students, and
community members who participated with us & who came out to support us!
On Friday, May 10th, St. Albans City's Middle School Jazz Band,
with their Music Director, Mr. Frank Mehaffey, came to Fairfield for a day of
rehearsals with our Jazz Ensemble and presented an excellent Concert for the
Fairfield school that afternoon. Each school ensemble performed two
numbers independently and the combined groups played two pieces together!
It was an invigorating, inspiring, very educational experience and the
Concert was very enthusiastically received by our students & faculty!!
May 30th, the school will hold a Memorial
Day Ceremony in the Gym at
2:00pm. Our Trumpeters, Sofia Spano & Madison Wells will perform an
arrangement of "Taps", and a possible Concert Band offering may
be on the program, too.
On Thursday, June 6th our Preschool through Middle School
students will present their 2013 Spring Concert at 12:30 in the Gym.
Kindergarten through Fifth grade classes will perform vocal selections
including such favorites as "We've Got the Whole World in our Hands",
"I Love Mud", songs from "The Sound of Music", a World
Drumming & Dancing creation, an adorable Mexican Folk Song, "Don Gato"
and a Spoken "Insect" Chorus. The Middle School Concert
Band, Fairfield Jazz Ensemble, "52 Soule Drive", and Middle School
Chorus will offer music they've been perfecting & there'll be some solo,
small ensemble & chamber music showcased as well. Please come over
for the annual Barbecue and a great afternoon of music!
The Fairfield Jazz Ensemble, “52 Soule Drive” has been invited back again, for the 6th
year, & will perform for an hour at the Burlington Discover Jazz
Festival's "Jazz on the Marketplace" concert series, Friday, June 7th beginning at noon
on Church Street's Champlain Chocolates Stage. Come hear our polished
& accomplished group play and look for us on the 5:00pm & 6:00 news
broadcast by WPTZ TV! We've been featured every year!! After our performance, our Jazz Ensemble will have
the fine opportunity to watch & listen to the All-State Jazz Ensemble,
featuring Fairfield Alumni, Pianist Clayton Roberts along with 18 of the
finest High School Jazz musicians in Vermont. Congratulations, Clay!
Listening forward!
Our Middle School Chorus will not
be performing at this year's Eighth Grade Graduation.
The Greater Saint Albans Middle School Band is gearing up for our
June 2014 Concert & Cultural adventure to Washington, D.C. All Middle School Instrumental Music
students from Fairfield, St. Albans City & Town schools will be potential
candidates for this four day event.
Sign-up sheets and informational material will be distributed before the
end of this school year. Contact
me if you need or want more details.
This is an absolutely fabulous opportunity for our players! Sign up as soon as you
can.
And, lastly, many, many of my present and former music students,
colleagues & fellow professional musicians have nominated me for the
first-ever 2014 GRAMMY Music
Educator Award. I am one of 217
quarterfinalists from across the country! The Award was established to
recognize current educators who have made a significant and lasting
contribution to the field of music education and who demonstrate a commitment
to the broader cause of maintaining music education in the schools. One
recipient will be selected from 10 finalists and will be flown to Los Angeles
to accept the award, attend the GRAMMY Awards ceremony, and receive a $10,000 honorarium, plus a matching grant, all for our school's Music Department!!!.
If you wish to share your thoughts for my application, please contact me
or stop by the Common School before June 3rd, or send a short video testimonial
to me at jscott@fcsuvt.org I am totally humbled by the outpouring
of support already!!! Wow! Who knows?!
That’s it for the moment. Always feel free to stop by the Common
School, call me at (802) 827-3071 or email me at jscott@fcsuvt.org with any questions, suggestions,
concerns or comments.
Musically yours,
Miss Scott
