Its concert time again!!!

Mankato Symphony Orchestra
Sunday,  November 18 - 3pm
Mankato West High School

It should be a good concert!  Pieces include:

Fanfare for the Common Man - Aaron Copland
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story - Leonard Bernstein
Knoxville - Samuel Barber
and a variety of songs sung by Maria Jette, soprano

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Mankato Area Youth Symphony Orchestra (MAYSO)

Sunday, November 4th at 3pm

Christ the King Lutheran Church in Mankato

It should be an awesome concert!

The program:
Overture to the Barber of Seville - Rosinni
Carmen Suite - Bizet
Selections from the Ballet Romeo and Juliet - Prokifev
Cello Concerto - Saint-Saens

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Northfield Middle School Choir and Orchestra Concert

Thursday, October 25 - 7:30pm

Northfield Middle School Auditorium

I'm so proud and excited :)

So sing while you have time,
Let the sun shine down from above,

And fill you with songs of love.

"Songs of Love" - Ben Folds

A friends only blog is below - please read it

Thank you

The sky was on fire this morning...


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I had a funny moment today.

One of the people that I live with gives string lessons to students in the Northfield area.  Several of them are my students either at the middle school or the elementary for student teaching.

This evening I was reading the paper wearing my walking clothes after I went for a walk/sort of run and ate dinner and the ( Read more... )

I just practiced conducting while at the local coffee shop and got lots of stares as I used my pen as a baton.

I feel awesome - bring on the 7th and 8th grade orchestra tomorrow!

Student teaching is going well so far - after two days I've seen all of the students and they seem like a group of really good hearted human beings.  That is so encouraging and really exciting!

Life in Northfield is good - much slower paced (so far) than before, but one plus is that the local coffee house here has wi-fi and that is awesome!

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I move out tomorrow for the first time other than going to IMC.

So many questions to be answered starting tomorrow!

Its exciting :)