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The Daily News
1 Beautiful day, yesterday was!
2 Puffy clouds and bright sunshine.
3 Great day for a protest.
4 Great day for music.
5 Went to the water’s edge, moved through Beethoven, and just what DO you do with a drunken sailor?
6 Spring concert last night. With everything that has gone down in the past few months, it sorta worked on so many levels.
7 What did I hear? Listen.
8 What do you DO with a drunken sailor, earlie in the morning?
9 Nautical music. I got slapped in the face by thunderous waves.
10 So much music!
11 So much love.
12 Great performances from our Concert Band, String Orchestra, Symphonic Band, and our always amazing Wind Ensemble.
13 Worked lights, and the design was one of the best ever.
14 The Concert Band and String Orchestra landed so much love that the building shook with ovations from above.
15 I couldn’t BEGIN to tell you how much lovely music reached my very soul, and the very soul of the audience.
16 I’ll try to keep it short, but our Concert Band absolutely kicked in with some of the most beautiful stuff I have enjoyed in quite some time.
17 The Concert Band threw a tune called At Water’s Edge (Dr. Gary P. Gilroy) at us, and every trip to the ocean, or to any body of water brought lovely sounds that perfectly moved with the rhythms and images we all hold dear when enjoying a sunset at the ocean, or a river running through our souls.
18 Our String Orchestra, which has grown from around 15 in number to well over 30 did some Beethoven (Presto: STring Quartet Opus 131), and then went into a lovely piece called Variations on a Well-Known Sea Chanty by Richard Stephan. The “chanty” part was a lovely variation of “What do you do with a drunken sailor”, and it just worked.
19 Nautical music, and wondrous!
20 So much music.
21 So much love.
22 The second half of the evening brought out our AWESOME Symphonic Band, who played a grand old march, and who finished with a piece about being inspired by the awesome theme of perhaps a teacher watching students suddenly grow and realize things. It was called When Honor Prevails, by one James Swearingen. I was moved beyond anything.
23 Our Wind Ensemble finished up with an amazing piece by Mendelssohn called Overture by Band, and by the evening’s end, finished with The Hounds of Spring by Alfred Reed.
24 It was all about love, and about celebrating the Spring.
25 Music.
26 Love.
27 Music.
28 So Much Love.
29 Love the coming of Spring.
30 Thank you, Mr. Barnhill and your entire music program, for bringing it last night.
31 All I could think was that we all must fight for education, and NO MORE CUTS, and really to re-think the disgraceful way education has been treated in the past few years.
32 It’s time to fight for education in California. It’s time to fight for keeping sports, music, and an affordable college opportunity for EVERBODY, and it is time to take it to the streets.
33 Let’s all join that cause.
34 Speak up for intelligence and opportunity for EVERYBODY.
35 And love music, always.
36 Love the coming of Spring. Love intelligence, and art. Love music. Love the coming of your weekend.
37 Share it with everybody.
38 ‘Tis time.
39 Love your weekend.
40 Love your friends and families.
41 Love your new friends, but love your old friends more, because you could always make new friends, but you can’t make old friends.
42 So Much Love.
43 Spread the word.
44 I love you all, everything.
45 Peace.
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