TIME TO ORDER YOUR SONORA STRINGS COOKIES
MIXED VARIETIES
$7.50 ONE DOZEN BAG
$14.00 TWO DOZEN BAG
Delivered to you week of December 13th in a beautiful bag
Email your name and quantity desired to dpopowycz@sbcglobal.net
Orders due by Sunday December 11
Proceeds benefit Sonora Strings Summer Tour 2012 to San Diego
TUESDAY December 6th
Pre-Twinkles 4:00 pm — final class of the semester
Book 1 combined classes 4:00 pm- rehearsal for Meriter concert
Book 2 class 4:00pm-rehearsal for Barnes and Noble concert
Book 3, Book 4, Prelude and Sonora 4:45 tune -rehearsal for Olbrich Gardens Concert
REHEARSALS ARE MANDATORY- Please arrive in time to tune.
Please check front door for room assignments for the 4:00 class and Book 1 /2 rehearsals. The Olbrich Gardens rehearsal is in Fellowship Hall.
SIGN UPS
Can be found on large sheets upon entering building.
DECEMBER SSM EVENTS
Waldorf Winterfest Concert Saturday December 10 at 3:30 pm
Great Wolf Lodge concert ( Prelude and Sonora) rehearsal Tues Dec 13 from 5:00-Concert is Dec 17 at 5:00pm tune at 4:40 pm
Barnes and Noble Gift Wrapping Saturday Dec 10 from 9 am to 9pm shifts
Sonora Holiday Cookie sale orders!!! $7.50 doz, $14.00 2 doz delivered week of Dec 13th
Please join us this coming Saturday, December 3 at Oakwood Village for our first SSM Graduation Recital at 2:00 pm, with a 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 where the student is playing and studying at least in the middle of the next volume in order to graduate from the preceding volume. Students who are ready to graduate will perform a solo from a select list of pieces as well as perform with their particular book specific 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.
Suzuki Strings of Madison is pleased to announce its Holiday Concert season!
December 10 10:30 am Meriter Hospital Lobby
December 10 6:00 pm Barnes and Noble West
December 11 2:00 pm Olbrich Gardens
December 17 5:00 pm Great Wolf Lodge ,Wisconsin Dells
Performance lists, call times and dress code for each concert below.
Book 1 Classes performs at Meriter Hospital tune at 10:00 am — concert black and white
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BOOK 1 classes Holiday Concert
Book 2 Class performs at Barnes and Noble tune at 5:30 pm–concert black and white
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Bk 2 Holiday Concert 2011
This concert is also part of our Holiday Book fair fundraiser- more to come in newsletter
Book 3 through Sonora performs at Olbrich Gardens tune at 1:30 pm–concert black and white
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Olbrich Gardens Dec 11 concert
Sonora and Prelude perform at Great Wolf Lodge arrive at 4:30
SIGN UP REQUIRED- for ride shares and performance.
Concert list is the same as Olbrich Gardens.
WE NEED YOUR GENTLY USED CONCERT BLACK AND WHITE CLOTHING FOR THE GIRLS AND THE BOYS BINS — PLEASE BRING -BLACK PANTS OR SKIRTS AND WHITE TOPS AND SHOES TO GROUP CLASSES
Once again Sonora Strings, the advanced touring ensemble of Suzuki Strings of Madison will be starting their monthly baking.
The month of NOVEMBER
Sweet Potato and Pumpkin Pie
Medium 15.00
Large 20.00
Delivery date is Tuesday Nov 22
Last order date is Tuesday 15
Order at Tuesday group classes or by email: dpopowycz@sbcglobal.net
Proceeds from Sonora baking go towards their June 2012 San Diego tour.
Thank you for your support.
Midori returns to Madison to perform with the Madison Symphony Orchestra Sunday, November 13 at 2pm at the Overture Center
Join Suzuki Strings of Madison for a field trip to a live orchestra concert right here in Madison! The program features world renowned violinist Midori playing the Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1, and John DeMain conducting! Also on the program is Symphony No. 104 “the London” by Haydn, and La Valse by Ravel.
Midori was a child prodigy who has matured into one of the finest violinists performing today. Visit her website at gotomidori.com. And visit madisonsymphony.org for more information about the music on this concert. The Madison Symphony’s retired concert master, Tyrone Grieve, will give a Prelude Discussion talk about the program starting at 1:30pm.
TICKET INFORMATION:
Reduced ticket prices are $15.00 each. Prepayment is required. Children under the age of 6 are not allowed (but a mature 5 year old will pass for 6!)
If you plan to attend, fill out the order form with a check made out to Madison Symphony and give them to Kathy Taylor by Tuesday, November 8.
Tickets can be picked up the day of the concert at the Overture Center box office will call.
Questions? Contact Kathy Taylor: 277-8087 or kathy.taylor@charter.net
The Annual Suzuki Strings of Madison Halloween Concert happens this year on
Saturday, October 29th at 11:00 a.m.
Performers: SSM students Pre-twinkle through Book 4
Concert attire: HALLOWEEN COSTUME
Tune: 10:30 am
Perform: 11:00 am
Location: Wisconsin State Capitol – 1st floor rotunda
Repertoire: (subject to slight changes)
Pre-twinkle pieces Twinkle variations
Lightly Row Song of the Wind
May Song Allegro
Andantino Minuet 3 with Book 3 minor section
Happy Farmer Chorus
Musette Long Long Ago & Variation
Witches Dance Minuet in G
Martini Gavotte Gavotte in g minor
Becker Gavotte Seitz 2/3
Shinichi Suzuki, the man who developed the Suzuki Method, died on January 26, 1998, at his home in Matsumoto, Japan. Though he lived to be 99 years old, Dr. Suzuki always seemed young. He was full of energy, and was cheerful and loving to everyone he met.
Shinichi Suzuki was born on October 17, 1898, in Nagoya, Japan. He was one of twelve children and his father owned a violin factory. Shinichi and his brothers and sisters played near the factory and saw instruments being made, but the children never realized what beautiful sounds could come from a violin. When he was seventeen, Shinichi heard a recording of Schubert’s Ave Maria, played by a famous violinist named Mischa Elman. He was amazed that a violin could make such a beautiful tone because he had thought it was just a toy!
After this, Shinichi brought a violin home from the factory and taught himself to play. He would listen to a recording and try to imitate what he heard. A few years later he took violin lessons from a teacher in Tokyo. Then, when he was 22 years old, he went to Germany and studied with a famous teacher named Karl Klingler. Shinichi also met his wife Waltraud in Germany. They married and moved back to Japan, where he began to teach violin and play string quartet concerts with his brothers.
Shinichi had always loved children and became very interested in teaching them. He thought that children could learn music just as they learned to speak—starting when they were very young and hearing music all around them. He believed that all children have the talent to learn if they are taught well by loving parents and teachers. These were very unusual ideas at that time. If children did play an instrument, they started learning when they were ten or eleven. Also, most people thought that musical talent was a special thing that only a few people had.
Dr. Suzuki’s young students learned to play very well and everyone was amazed when they performed. No one had ever seen so many young children playing music so beautifully. At first people thought all the students were musical geniuses. They did not understand Suzuki’s idea that all children can learn if they are taught in the right way.
For many years Dr. Suzuki continued to work on his teaching method. He chose music that would help children learn to play. He even wrote some pieces himself (like the Twinkle Variations, Allegro, Perpetual Motion, and Etude). Teachers from many countries came to Japan to learn about his method of teaching, and Dr. Suzuki and his students traveled to play in other countries. Over the years, more and more teachers and parents became interested in Suzuki’s ideas and began to teach children with his method. Now there are thousands of children around the world who have learned to play instruments through the Suzuki Method.
Through his teaching, Dr. Suzuki showed teachers and parents everywhere what children could do. He also believed that hearing and playing great music helped children become good people with beautiful, peaceful hearts. Dr. Suzuki hoped that these children would help bring peace and understanding to the world.
For many years, Japanese children sent graduation tapes to Dr. Suzuki so he could hear their playing. He would listen and make comments to the children and then return the tapes to them. Dr. Suzuki encouraged the children and made suggestions for them to improve their playing. But he also wanted children to develop beautiful hearts. He asked them not to hurt other people’s feelings and encouraged them to be kind to everyone—their friends, families, and teachers. On one child’s tape, he said, “You are going to play the music of great composers, and you must try to catch their hearts in the music. You must practice every day to catch the feelings of others without words. Look at your mother and father. Can you see how they feel? Try to see when your mother needs your help before she asks. Then it is too late. If you practice every day, watching not to harm anyone by what you say, and also trying to catch how they feel, then you will develop sensitivity toward the feelings of others. Perhaps later you will also catch the hearts of Bach and Mozart in their music.”
Dr. Suzuki also made these suggestions to children at their lessons. He would ask them to do something special for a friend or someone in their family and tell him about it at the next lesson. Sometimes children would be so excited to report their good deeds to Dr. Suzuki that they could hardly wait to tell him. After his ending bow, one little boy hurried to Dr. Suzuki to whisper, “I polished my father’s shoes without his knowing it!”
A Japanese mother wrote letters to her daughters when they went with Dr. Suzuki on a trip to the United States. To her nine-year-old daughter Makiko, she said, “The teachers must be very busy during the tour. Is there anything you can do to help? It will be wonderful if you can be helpful and willing. Please show your care to everyone around you. For example, instead of serving yourself first at meals, you might serve the smaller children, your friends and the teachers, and then take your share.” And to five-year-old Emiko, she wrote, “The sound that comes dancing out of your violin—that is your heart, Emi. What kind of heart do you have, I wonder? From a beautiful heart comes a beautiful sound.”
On October 17 she wrote to the girls, “Today is Mr. Suzuki’s birthday. I am sure you celebrated and sang Happy Birthday. You have Mr. Suzuki’s poem which says: Wish for a beautiful tone for a beautiful heart. I think this is what Mr. Suzuki always thinks about through the violin. Today, how about giving him your tone, your heart for a present.”
Dr. Suzuki would be very happy to know that Suzuki children all over the world are learning to play music beautifully and to become kind, peaceful human beings. On his next anniversary of his birthday, October 17, please think of him, thanking him for his gifts to children and giving him your beautiful tone and heart in return.
Suzuki Strings of Madison is thrilled to be performance partners at the Union Theater again this fall. We had many families come out to the Saint Martin and the Fields Chamber concert. Let’s fill the Union Theater with Suzuki families for this young violinist in November.
Two concerts to choose from:
Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 7:30 — solo recital
Saturday, November 5, 2011 at 7:30–concerto with UW Chamber Orchestra
Please secure your tickets by filling out this form and returning to Diana Popowycz – no later than Tuesday, October 25
SSM Caroline Goulding Concert Ticket Order Form
When did Caroline begin her studies on the violin?
Caroline began studying the violin at the age of three-and-a-half with Julia Kurtyka and will begin studying with Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory in Boston, fall 2011. A past Starling Foundation Scholarship recipient, Caroline’s previous teachers include Paul Kantor and Joel Smirnoff at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Caroline has been a part of various summer music festivals including the Aspen Music Festival and School, where she won the Aspen Music Festival’s Concerto Competition at age 13, Interlochen Arts Camp, and The Ceilidh Trail School of Celtic Music on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. In summer 2011, Caroline will attend the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont.
Listen as Caroline talks about her first CD, her violin, performing, school, and future plans:
Exciting changes for Play In Tuesdays!!
The faculty has re-evaluated our past Play In format to better serve the SSM community. Several critical changes have been made.
1. Graduations will no longer occur at Play Ins. Separate Graduation recitals will be held once each semester.
2. The Play In will be divided into two sections which will overlap during the middle time frame.
TWINKLERS- BOOK 3
tune at 4:15 and start play in at 4:30
BOOK 4- SONORA
tune at 4:45 and start play in at 5:00
TUNING for Play Ins- please be on time for tuning
TUNING will occur in a separate tuning room– please look for posted signs
Special note: Drawing for free Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra tickets
Submit your name at each Play in section for drawing at the end of that section.
2 pairs to be handed out next Tuesday. Below is the information for the WCO concert that the ticket giveaway will be for.
WCO Masterworks I – Concert of Firsts
Guest Artist Ilya Yakushev, pianist
Friday, October 7, 2011
8:00 pm | Capitol Theater | Overture Center for the Arts
