Recitals This Weekend!

This weekend is an informal setting. Choose what you wear. Have a smaller audience. Start over if you need to, and as many times as you like. Think of this as the best way to start in front of people, and learn to get over stage fright. All students who have a song ready are welcome to participate. If the student isn’t quite ready for this, they are also invited to attend and see what it’s all about.

Friday night is for teens and adults only in Gahanna. Saturday afternoon and early evening is located in Polaris location. Sunday afternoon and evening are in the Gahanna location.

Have a wonderful time and we can’t wait to hear you!

Spring Recital is Coming!

Spring recital will be April 28-30. The 28th (Friday) is teen and adults only. The 29th (Saturday) will be in Polaris and the 30th (Sunday) will be in Gahanna.

MTMS will text next week (the 24th) about confirmed recital times. Our next performance opportunity will be the Summer YouTube Playlist in August.

Recital signups are open here, starting today. Family members will be scheduled together. MTMS is very excited to hear what you’re working on!

Vivaldi and Happy Spring!

The first day of spring is here. It may not feel like it quite yet, but warmer days are coming.

Antonio Vivaldi’s best known works are the Four Seasons, a group of four violin concertos that each gives expression to one season of the year. Spring is linked below. These seasonal concertos represent flowing creeks, singing birds, a shepherd and his dog, buzzing flies, storms, drunken dancers, hunting parties from both the hunters’ and the prey’s point of view, frozen landscapes, and warm winter fires. This was a musical revolution of concept- and Vivaldi kept notes and even wrote sonnets to go with each concerto. This is one of the earliest and most detailed examples of what would become “program music” (music with a narrative element).

Vivaldi published the Four Seasons in 1725. There is some debate on how much earlier they were written, whether the sonnets were written to go with the music or vice versa, and whether Vivaldi or someone else wrote the sonnets. Each concerto has three movements (allegro, largo, allegro or fast, slow, fast) and the sonnet was likewise broken into three parts.

Spring sonnet translation by Armand D’Angour
Allegro
Springtime is upon us.
The birds celebrate her return with festive song,
and murmuring streams are
softly caressed by the breezes.
Thunderstorms, those heralds of Spring, roar,
casting their dark mantle over heaven,
Then they die away to silence,
and the birds take up their charming songs once more.

Largo
On the flower-strewn meadow, with leafy branches
rustling overhead, the goat-herd sleeps,
his faithful dog beside him.

Allegro
Led by the festive sound of rustic bagpipes,
nymphs and shepherds lightly dance
beneath spring’s beautiful canopy.

Winter Benefit Concert!

On Saturday, January 14, MTMS Winter Benefit Concert will happen from 3-5pm at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, 4456 Morse Rd, Gahanna. Your entry fee for the concert is to bring one non-perishable food item to benefit GRIN (Gahanna Residents in Need).

This concert will be set in two sessions. Our students will delight friends and family alike with their hard work and great music – you don’t want to miss this exhibition. MTMS is extremely proud of every student and the progress they make with their music. We will be cheering them on with you.

photo shows last year’s concert proceeds for GRIN