Just Coffee is Back!

just coffee

Hi SSM coffee drinkers!

We are happy to bring back coffee sales, offering you a SSM Breakfast Blend by Madison’s own Just Coffee! Bags will be available 3/19 at the cost of $10 each. Cash or check can be made out to Suzuki Strings of Madison. Sign up forms will be available as well, so if the beans run out you can pre-order for the following week!

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March Mendelssohn Month Week 2

Week 2 is here! We hope you’ve been keeping up with your listening logs! Here is the 2nd week edition of Mendelssohn listening- His 4th ‘Italian’ Symphony in A Major.

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GROUP CLASSES CANCELED 3/5

GROUP CLASS IS CANCELED TODAY DUE TO BAD WEATHER CONDITIONS

We hope you enjoy your snow day, and are keeping up with your March listening! Check out some weather appropriate music here to add a new entry to your Listening Log!

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Two March SSM Solo Recitals 3/3/13

SSM March 3 Solo Recitals

Recital no 1  tune 1:00 and perform at 1:30
Recital no 2 tune 2:30 and perform at 3:00

All recitals are held at Oakwood Village Auditorium

All those in attendance can add this concert to their Listening Log Forms for our March Listening Challenge!

Want to add more Suzuki favorites played by famous artists to your listening log? Check out Humoresque played by Yo Yo Man and Itzhak Perlman below.

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March- Month of Mendelssohn and Listening!

This upcoming March, SSM is introducing a listening challenge and get to know a composer project focusing on Felix Mendelssohn!

Goals: Listen at least 30 minutes per day for a total of 1,000 minutes during the month, the more the better!
Purpose: To highlight the importance of establishing and maintaining a daily listening routine and to experience the joy of discovering and learning new music

PLEASE DOWNLOAD ALL FORMS MARCH AS FOLLOWING:

Listening Challenge Guidelines
March Listening Calendar
Listening Log Forms
Mendelssohn Information

As dictated on the Mendelssohn document, each week in March we ask you watch or listen to a specific work of his.  The month will end in a field trip to see his violin concerto performed by the Madison Symphony Orchestra’s concertmaster Naha Greenholtz on April 7th at Overture Hall.
Extra information and musical listening of his can be heard March 4th through the 7th on 98.7WTFM as Bill McGlaughln’s Exploring Music will be featuring the composer as well!

Starting off the month is his famous A Midsummer Night’s Dream Scherzo which can be watched below. Happy listening!

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Registration & Tuition Deadline Is Past Due!

SSM Families- Tuition was due January 29th and many people have still yet to submit payments! There is now an extra $10 late fee added to this semesters tuition. Payment can be made immediately online via PayPal or paid in person to your private teacher.

  • If you are a new family starting Jan 2013 you must fill out a group registration form (use link listed as Fall 2012).
  • If you are a returning family you do not have to re-fill out registration form if you completed one in Fall 2012.
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Upcoming MSO and WCO Concert Opportunities!

SSM is offering discounts on two upcoming concerts to see amazing violinists touring through Wisconsin.

WCO will accompany violinist Tasmin Little on Friday February 22, 2013, 8 PM at the Overture Capitol Theater

Diana has 12 vouchers for $3.50 redeemable at the Overture box office for the best available seats, otherwise we have special Suzuki rates if 10 adult tickets are purchased. See the latest issue of the Scroll Newsletter here to download an order form– Deadline February 12th!

MSO accompanies violinist Henning Kraggerud on Sunday, March 10th 2:30PM at Overture Hall.

Download MSO order form here and return to Kathy Taylor by March 5th.

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Vicky Powell a SSM alum performs 1/27 for the IST Concert

Independent String Teachers of Madison (IST)
3rd Biennial Benefit Concert

Sunday, January 27, 2013 4:00 pm

Mills Concert Hall
Mosse Humanities Building
455 N. Park St.
Madison, WI  53706
Map to Mills Concert Hall in the Mosse Humanities Building

The concert is free and open to the public. Donations in support of local string education are encouraged and may be made at the door.

Click here for ISTs press release regarding the concert.

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Graduation Recital 1/13 2:00 pm

Congratulations January 2013 SSM Book Graduates!
Please join us as we celebrate the accomplishments of 22 violinists

Twinkle through Book 4
at Oakwood Village Auditorium on Mineral Point Road
2:00 pm Sunday January 13
Reception to follow.

Graduations will be celebrated at two special recitals at the ends of each semester. We are now following guidelines that were established by Dr. Suzuki for graduations. We will continue to adhere to the graduation parameters on our policy page online. Students who are ready to graduate will perform a solo from a select list of pieces as well as perform with their particular book specified graduation piece. The student is required to perform the volume that they are graduating from in their private studio. We are excited to truly celebrate these Book milestones in a very special way which honors the graduating students.

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Brian Wicklund Fiddle Pal Camp! June 25-28, 2013

Sign up now for Brian Wicklund’s 1st Annual Fiddle Pal Camp!

When: June 25-28, 2013 Tuesday-Friday 9:00AM-4PM
Where: Covenant Presbyterian Church, 326 South Segoe Road, Madison, WI 53705

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