Friday, January 30, 2015

February 2015



Congratulations to East Brunswick High School Music Teacher Marjorie Lopresti. The New Jersey Music Educators Association will present her with a Master Teacher award at their February conference to be held at the East Brunswick Hilton!



FEBRUARY CONCERTS AND SHOWS

Coming to EBPAC on Tuesday, February 3 @ 7:00 PM
All EB students free!
BALL IN THE HOUSE (with guests the Warnsdorfer Chorus)!
Following in the path of classic harmony groups like Boyz II Men, The Temptations, and Take 6, while incorporating the pop and neo-soul influence of artists like Bruno Mars, Daft Punk, and Pharrell Williams, five member veteran vocal band, Ball in the House, will move audiences with their music.

With their extensive tour schedule (averaging 200 dates a year), Ball in the House reaches millions and is arguably one of the hardest working, most successful indie bands today. Over the years, they have performed with several artists including The Beach Boys, Gladys Knight, Kool & the Gang, KC & The Sunshine Band, Jessica Simpson, and Smokey Robinson.

A review from the Boston Globe put it very succinctly - "Ball in the House has everything you would expect to find in a successful pop/rock band....the one thing it doesn't have is instruments."




Purchase Adult/Senior Tickets Here (All EB Students Free)!

Wednesday     2/4/2015         Chittick Winter Concert            (This is the rescheduled date)
Chittick Elementary School, 7:00 PM 

Thursday, February 5 --this is the rescheduled date
All District Choral Festival

The daytime festival brings together approximately 800 students in grades 3-12 that love to sing! 

Join us for the evening version of the festival for performances by all attendees including the All District Elementary Chorus, Hammarskjold Chorus, Churchill Junior High School Chorus, and the East Brunswick High School Concert Choir, Bella Voce, and Men's Ensemble. 7:00 PM at EBPAC @ Hammarskjold!



Special CJHS Orchestra Event
DATE: Friday, February 6, 2015
TIME: 8:00 am – 9:45 am
LOCATION: CJHS Cafetorium

On February 6th, Churchill JHS will host an event featuring award-winning journalist Joanne Lipman and Chicago Symphony Orchestra violinist Melanie Kupchynsky, authors of Strings Attached: One tough teacher and the gift of great expectations. The true story of Melanie’s father Jerry Kupchynsky, former EBHS Orchestra teacher and Supervisor of Music, Strings Attached is a powerful memoir about resilience in the face of unspeakable tragedy and triumph over adversity. Having survived a horrific childhood in Nazi controlled Ukraine, Jerry transformed his own heartache into a legacy of joy for the hundreds of students who he taught not just to play an instrument or be part of an orchestra, but to be disciplined, develop confidence, and to believe in themselves.

Telling the story of Jerry’s Kupchynsky’s extraordinary life would be incomplete without the inclusion of music. In addition to a solo violin performance by Melanie, both authors will join the Churchill Advanced Orchestra, conducted by Jerry’s former student Dr. Anna Braun, in a performance of his Ukrainian Folk Song Suite. The event will end with a question and answer session. Thanks to a generous Churchill PTA grant for a class set of books, Churchill Orchestra students have been reading excerpts from Strings Attached in preparation for this event. Staff members are welcome to drop in at any time, or Churchill teachers can bring their classes.

For more information about Strings Attached, go to http://stringsattachedbook.com/
A student reflection on the book:
"Music basically was the world to Mr. K. He learned to play music at a young age when he escaped to America and later on found a love for teaching music, but to him it was more than that. He felt a calling for teaching - he wouldn't dream of doing anything else. Music helped him through harder times in life like when he was in Ukraine and he heard the German playing the violin. He was completely enraptured. In addition, when his daughter Stephanie went missing the only thing he could do to keep himself sane was to continue teaching while his daughter Melanie played music to cope with her despair. Overall, Mr. K spent almost his entire life playing and teaching music so he had a profound love for it. To me, music is an integral part of my life although I can't say I love it as much as Mr. Kupchynsky did; I'm not sure anyone can. I simply love music-when I'm sad, listening to music cheers me up. Also I get frustrated a lot with different things and music helps me cope and cheer up. However, as much as I love listening to music, I love playing it almost as much. To me, there is no better feeling than practicing new, exciting, and hard pieces for months in orchestra and all of that practicing culminating in a concert. Playing music is such a fun and amazing experience. I don't know what I would do if music didn't exist or I never chose to play an instrument."  -D.Z.
 
Tuesday, February 10    Warnsdorfer Instrumental Concert                                                     (This is the rescheduled date)  Warnsdorfer Elementary School, 7:00 PM

Wednesday, February 11 (AM) --this is the rescheduled date
Elementary/High School Band Day

180 Elementary Band students descend upon East Brunswick High School to listen to the EBHS Wind Ensemble and play side by side with them!



Wednesday, February 11 (PM) --this is the rescheduled date
Elementary/High School Orchestra Day

225 Elementary Strings students descend upon East Brunswick High School to listen to the EBHS Chamber Orchestra and play side by side with them!



 THEATRE ARTS
The Churchill Junior High School Drama Club
presents
A Night of One-Act Plays
The Love Doctor by Moliere
The King just lost his wife and now his daughter wants to get married.  Not if he can help it.  In this hilarious tale, each character tries to outsmart the other and it turns into a circus of deception, cured only when the Love Doctor appears.
Tick Talk by Lindsay Price
In Tick Talk kids have a lot to say, but no way to say it. What happens when a character has just one word to express hopes, fears, and frustrations? What if they have something terribly important to say but can't? Set in 1999, right before the new millennium, kids are worried about the end of the world, bullying, acceptance and relationships.  This play is a cacophony of one-word teenage angst that challenges our notion of communication. 
CONGRATULATIONS to the following *Churchill Junior High School and Hammarskjold Middle School students and their teachers *Kathryn Reid and Judith Weiss for acceptance into the following honors ensemble:

*Aleda Jomy                CJMEA Intermediate Regional Chorus
*Mary Georgis             CJMEA Intermediate Regional Chorus
*Rachel  Lee                CJMEA Intermediate Regional Chorus
Julian   Ade                  CJMEA Intermediate Regional Chorus
Krish    Desai               CJMEA Intermediate Regional Chorus
Anne    Gambourg        CJMEA Intermediate Regional Chorus
Priyal   Garg                 CJMEA Intermediate Regional Chorus
Ayman Khalil               CJMEA Intermediate Regional Chorus
Eunice Kim                 CJMEA Intermediate Regional Chorus
Vivian  Lee                  CJMEA Intermediate Regional Chorus
Fiona   Liu                   CJMEA Intermediate Regional Chorus
Sally    Lynch              CJMEA Intermediate Regional Chorus
Alankrita Murari          CJMEA Intermediate Regional Chorus
Cayleigh Quiles            CJMEA Intermediate Regional Chorus
Smita Rosemary           CJMEA Intermediate Regional Chorus
Alexander Suponya     CJMEA Intermediate Regional Chorus
Vritika Thadani           CJMEA Intermediate Regional Chorus
Maria   Vypryazhkin    CJMEA Intermediate Regional Chorus
Tina     Zheng              CJMEA Intermediate Regional Chorus
 
The Montclair Art Museum is pleased to announce that EBHS Art Student Yingru Qiu has been awarded a Gold Key Award in the Northern NJ Regional Scholastics Art and Writing Awards. A jury of professional artists, curators, and arts educators spent 30+ hours reviewing over 3700 works of art submitted by over 1100 individual student artists from across northern New Jersey. Yingru's work was selected as part of the top 7% in our region. Sarah (Annagrace) Kasten was Yingru's Studio Art teacher.
There will be an award ceremony and slide presentation on the opening night at the Montclair Art Museum celebrating the Gold and Silver Key winners. Yingru's four works that received a Gold Key award at the regional level will then be forwarded to the National Scholastics Art and Writing Awards for consideration for further recognition. National adjudication occurs in March with award ceremony and exhibitions the first week of June.
AWARD CEREMONY & RECEPTION:
Thursday February 12,  6 – 9 pm
6pm Exhibition Preview
7:30 pm Award Ceremony
EXHIBITION DATES:
February 12 – March 22, 2012



 
Friday, March 13, 2015
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)
1 Center Street, Newark, NJ

6 p.m. Gala Reception


7:15 p.m. Special Recognition Education Partnership Awards:

Jeffrey Lesser
James DeWorken
Dr. Scott Rubin
 
8 p.m. Performance
Dessert Reception with the dancers to follow.
For complete details, please visit cddc.info/gala
 
 

 
 
 

ALL ELEMENTARY DISTRICT ORCHESTRAS
All string students are eligible to participate in their first experience as a member of a large orchestra. Ten rehearsals are held in January, February, March, and conclude with an April concert at the EBPAC. Students are divided into two orchestras; Beginners (grade 4) on Tuesdays and Intermediates (grade 5) on Mondays. For more information, see your child's invitation or contact your child's strings teacher or the office of Arts Education.

 

BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETING ROOM 
ART EXHIBITS

January 26 – February 13      Chittick Elementary School
(Students of Gregory Baron, Laurie Denenberg, and Jillian Sieczkowski)

February 17-March 6              Memorial Elementary School
(Students of Margaret Sasso and Dalia Elhaj)
 
 
 

 


The United State Marine Corps Jazz Ensemble
at the Arts Education Concert Series

Night of Jazz


Wednesday, March 11, 2015


7:00 PM


More information to follow!




IT IS NOT EARLY TO REGISTER FOR THE SOLO AND ENSEMBLE FESTIVAL!


ADJUDICATION/AUDITIONS 12:00 - 6:00 PM
SUNDAY, MAY 3 AT CHURCHILL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

PERFORMANCE 3:00 PM
SUNDAY, MAY 17 AT THE EB CULTURAL ARTS CENTER

TO BE FOLLOWED BY A RECEPTION AND ART DISPLAY BY 
MEMBERS OF THE EBHS AP STUDIO ART CLASS 

REGISTER AT WWW.EBNET.ORG/INTHEARTS
BY FRIDAY, APRIL 24







THIS MONTH IN THE ARTS IS PUBLISHED MONTHLY OCTOBER-JUNE
CONTACT US FOR INFORMATION REGARDING EVENTS
Jeffrey Lesser, Supervisor of Arts Education
(732) 613-6985









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