Monhagen Middle School Music Department
Proudly Presents
Our Annual
Spring Concert
Celebrating New Orleans and more
Featuring:
6th Grade Chorus
&
7th & 8th Grade Chorus
Tuesday, May 26th , 2015
7:00pm
The Program
6th Grade Chorus
Directed by Ms. Alexandra Haines
My Dame had a Lame, Tame Crane
Edward Bolkovac/Judith Johnson
The Salley Gardens
Benjamin Britten
The Princess and the Frog Medley
Randy Newman
Soloists: Anaiyah Cruz, Anissia Neysmith, Fanta Wague, Fernando Corando,
Joseph Mazza, Melanie Montano, Rossangel Osorio
7th/8th Grade Chorus
Directed by Mr. Devon Toland
Swingin’ with the Saints
Mark Hayes
It Don’t Mean a Thing
Duke Ellington/Irving Mills
Iko Iko
arr. Mark Brymer
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Middletown Board of Education
Dr. Kenneth Eastwood, Superintendent – Middletown City Schools
Richard Delmoro, Assistant Superintendent for Education - Middletown City Schools
Elizabeth McKean, Assistant Superintendent for Administration
Dominick Radogna, Principal – Monhagen Midde School
David Maffei, Dean – Monhagen Middle School
Monhagen MS Custodial Staff
Viktor Araque, District Theatre Manager
Tonie DePasquale, Music Department Chair
6th grade Chorus
Aaron Crossland
Abraham Fernandez
Aileen Delgado
Anaiyah Cruz
Angelina Peña
Anissia Neysmith
Annabella Arriola
Aryanna Rodriguez
Ashley Mendez
Bryan Juica
Brianna Wisher
Caitlyn Melendez
Calvin Gayton
Cynthia Tuzo
Denim Jordan
Fanta Wague
Felice Dong
Fernando Corando
Gianna Ulloa
Hailey Renovales
Jada Silva
Janaina Settle
Jasmine Cancel
Joseph Downs
Joseph Mazza
Kaylin Smith
Kelly Navarro
Matthew Castano
Melanie Montano
Mya Charles
Pedro Cohetero
Phillip Gazer
Quadair Fox
Rossangel Osorio
Samantha Ramos
Sperry Younger
Steven Hall
Yeimi Rodriguez
Zuleima McGuire
7th/8th grade Chorus
Krista Berry
Erin Bickerdyke
Ahmad Black
Jazmine Blanch
Danielle Boucher
Mikayla Bulson
Danielle Bunn
Jayda Case
Amada Casimiro
Israel Castillo
David Castillo
Amy Chavez
Sarah Connolly
Britany Cortes
Joshua Curry
Itziar De Clavijo
Denise Diaz
Micawber Etienne
Mikayla Fullerton
Adriana Garcia
Sabrina Gazer
Jaslyn Gonzalez
Alexandra Greve
Rhianna Hamilton
Caitlin Irizarry
Brandon James
Keyanna Johnson
Nikoletta Karamitsos
Destiny Lewis
Hannah Loeb
Destiny Lomax
Alondra Lopez
Citlalli Marin
Gabriella Martinez
Jalen Mason
Krislyn Mazza
Destiny Mohan
Alyery Moncada Garcia
Tyshawn Moody
Evelyn Munoz
Olivia Nelson
Maria Noboa
Rosenda Noboa
Isaiah Nock
Aaron Olivera
Jacqueline Paniagua
Scarlett Pilkington
Donyelle Reed
Adriana Ruiz
Tylee Sanchez
Meredith Saint-Vil
Arianna Sicilia
Gregory Smith
Leah Soto
Jordin Stroud
Samantha Sullivan
Thacire Tuck
Ashley Taranto
Amalia Thorpe
Nisa Toole
Abriana Vassell
Diana Vazquez
Cheyanne Villamil-Moran
Kania Walker
Nicholas White
Talia White
Allison Zuclich
Audience Etiquette
These guidelines help you (and others) have the best experience.
1. DO turn off all electronic devices. These interfere with our sound system.
2. DO refrain from talking and making noise. Please move to the lobby if you must have a
conversation - but wait until the end of a song.
3. DO remain seated during the concert. Please do not move until the end of a song, unless you are
carrying an upset child out of the auditorium.
4. As parents of young children ourselves, we welcome families supporting our music students in
the audience and understand that the little ones can be unpredictable. DO feel free to utilize the
area in the back of the auditorium if little ones need some room to move around or are restless.
5. DON’T bring food or drinks in the auditorium. Please eat or drink in the lobby.
6. DO applaud at appropriate times. Wait for the conductor to lower their hands - that is your cue to
applaud!
7. DO remain seated after your child’s portion of the concert is over. Please remain for the entire
concert - all students have worked hard and deserve an audience. Students will meet their parents
after the conclusion of the concert.
Thank you, and enjoy the concert!
Why Music?
Music is a science
It is exact, specific; it demands exact acoustics. A conductor’s full score is a chart, a graph which
indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody and harmony all at one and with the
most exact control of time to be performed by musicians.
Music is Mathematical
It is rhythmically based on the subdivision of time into fractions which be done instantaneously,
not worked out on paper.
Music is a foreign language
Most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French; and notation is certainly not English – but
a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of
music is the most complete and universal language. Also, many songs we study are from other
cultures.
Music is physical education
It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lip, cheek, and facial muscles, in
addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragmatic, back, stomach, and chest muscles, which
respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and mind interprets.
Most of all, music is art.
It allows a human being to take all these dry, technically boring (but difficult) techniques and
use them to create emotion. That is one thing science cannot duplicate: humanism, feeling,
emotion.
Thank you for supporting your child in the arts.