Spring Recital Information

Dear Preparatory 1 Families:

I am truly excited for the upcoming recital to celebrate our semester end! Cantabile’s Prep classes all have their own recitals at the end of each term to showcase what we have accomplished. The recitals take place at the Parish Hall (walking distance from the Learning Center.) Please come and support your young singers by enjoying a performance of our songs, games, and activities. This is a relaxed and fun event that you don’t want to miss! All singers must come in their Cantabile uniform – please see instructions below.

Uniform

Prep Recitals - Singers must purchase and wear their Cantabile uniform - Cantabile red polo shirt, black pants and black shoes & socks for boys; Cantabile red polo shirt,black pleated skirt, black stockings & shoes for girls. Uniforms are purchased from Merry Mart Uniforms in Santa Clara, either in store or online.

Recital Times

Prep 1 Tuesday 3:30-4:15

Prep 1 Wednesday 3:30-4:15

Prep 1 Thursday 4:00-4:45

Recital Potluck

It is a Cantabile tradition for us to follow our recitals with a potluck for singers and families. Please sign up by clicking a link below:

Tuesday Prep 1

Wednesday Prep 1

Thursday Prep 1

Classes at alternate location April 27-May 4

Dear Preparatory 1 Families:

Next week classes will take place at Los Altos United Methodist Church- 

655 Magdalena Ave, Los Altos Hills

Please park in the back parking lot and sign your singer in with your choir parent or teacher.

Please note the following dates and room numbers:

Tuesday, April 28th Prep 1 Room 7

Wednesday, April 29th Prep 1 Room 7

Thursday, April 30th Prep 1 Room 9

For the month of May, we are getting ready for our Spring Recital on May 18-21:

Spring Recitals at Foothills Congregational Church, Los Altos

Cantabile’s Prep classes all have their own recitals at the end of each term to showcase what we have accomplished. The recitals take place at the Parish Hall (walking distance from the Learning Center). Please come and support your young singers by enjoying a performance of our songs, games, and activities. This is a relaxed and fun event that you don’t want to miss! All singers must come in their Cantabile uniform – please see instructions below.

Recital Times

Prep 1 Tuesday, May 19, 3:30-4:15PM

Prep 1 Wednesday, May 20, 3:30-4:15pm

Prep 1 Thursday, May 21, 4:00-4:45pm

Recital Potluck

It is a Cantabile tradition for us to follow our recitals with a potluck for singers and families. Instructions on what to bring will be coming soon!

Uniform

Please make sure that you have already ordered your singer’s Cantabile uniform! Here is a link to our uniform page: http://cantabile.org/index.php/tickets-a-store/uniforms.html

The Cantabile Prep 1 uniform must include black socks (boys) or tights (girls), black dress shoes, and hair neatly combed/tied back and off the face (so we can see your beautiful facial expressions!) Please, no boots, noticeable jewelry (watches, dangling earrings, bracelets, etc.), or colorful hairbands/ties.

Dear Preparatory 1 Families:

We have four more classes until the recital (5/18-5/21)!

It has been a great, fun journey with our children and I cannot wait to show them off at their recital.

This week, we learned a new movement song "Here we go looby loo"! You can listen to this recording on Youtube. Here are the words:

Here we go looby loo

Here we go looby light

Here we looby loo

All on a Saturday night

You put your right hand in

You put your right hand out

You shake it a little a little a little and 

turn yourself about

Uniform:

Please make sure that you have already ordered your singer’s Cantabile uniform for the recital (last class of the semester)! Here is a link to our uniform page: http://cantabile.org/index.php/tickets-a-store/uniforms.html

The Cantabile Prep 1 uniform must include black socks (boys) or tights (girls), black dress shoes, and hair neatly combed/tied back and off the face (so we can see your beautiful facial expressions!) Please, no boots, noticeable jewelry (watches, dangling earrings, bracelets, etc.), or colorful hairbands/ties.

Class Next Week

Dear Preparatory 1 Families:

A reminder that we do hold classes next week!

We are currently at week nine and cruising along for more fun, engaging and singing activities. This week, I was impressed with children coming up with their own desired places to go on a train ride; coming up with movements for Sarasponda song; and knowing songs and singing them in class!

I hope they are sharing these fun activities and singing at their home as well.
Please have children listen to the recordings previously uploaded and have them share one activity or a game we did in class.

Singing "Hot Cross Buns" and "Who's That?" in solfege by themselves is our goal for next week. The intention of introducing these two music is to reinforce solfege, Re that we learned recently.

I am suffering from a cold and resting at home- please stay warm and watch out for that cold!

Have a great weekend.

Happy Singing!

Summer Camp Registration is Now Opened!

Dear Preparatory Division Singers and Families:

We invite you to join us this summer for Cantabile’s Singing Summer Camp.  Cantabile has partnered with the Parks and Recreation Departments of Los Altos and Los Altos Hills to offer this exciting summer camp.   Our program offers singing, theater, crafts and outdoor fun all taught with Cantabile’s signature Kodaly/Orff approach to children’s music education for a truly enriching and exciting experience.  This year camp is offered for three one-week sessions each with a different musical theme.  Campers can sign up for one, two or all three sessions.  Cantabile’s Singing Summer Camp is a non-auditioned camp for children entering first-fourth grade in Fall 2015.

We will hold a performance on Fridays for families and their invited guests. Children will experience teamwork and build social skills through making props together at camp, preparing their production for an audience.  This is where creativity starts!

Camp Sessions

Session	Week	Time	Performance
Peter and the Wolf	7/6-7/10	8:30AM- NOON	7/10, Friday
Ahoy, There Mate!	7/13-7/17	8:30AM- NOON	7/17, Friday
Tell Me a Tale	7/20-7/24	8:30AM- NOON	7/24, Friday

Camp Location:  Los Altos Hills Town Hall; 26379 Fremont Rd, Los Altos Hills

Registration

You can register two ways: 

Through the Parks and Rec Department in Los Altos Hills please click here and scroll down to register on line: Los Altos Hills Registration

Los Altos Hills residents: $295/ Non-resident: $309

Through the Parks and Rec department in Los Altos please click here:

Los Altos Registration 

Los Altos residents: $307/ Non-resident: $325

You can also register over the phone through each Parks Department:

Los Altos Hills Parks and Recreation: Sarah Gualtieri; 650-947-2518

Los Altos Parks and Recreation: 650-947-2790

Camp is also listed in the Parks and Rec guides for each city and we will have a limited supply of these at prep classes starting the week of March 16.

Materials Fee

Please note that the materials fee of $35 will be collected on the first day of each session. This fee includes materials for crafts, music and our Cantabile Singing Summer Camp T-Shirt! Please make your check payable to Cantabile Youth Singers.

Weekly Camp Themes

Peter and the Wolf               Week 1 (7/6-7/10)

Children will learn to improvise melodies and movements by understanding the concept of leitmotif, a recurrent theme throughout a composition that describes a character. Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev, is loved by children from all around the world. This famous orchestral musical tale is a perfect way to understand the timbre of different instruments since each different character has a specific instrument that represents it in the score. Based on Cantabile’s signature youth music education model Teacher Jina will help campers combine the elements of speech, rhythm, movement, dance and song to present a full musical play of Peter and the Wolf.

Ahoy There Mate!                 Week 2 (7/13-7/17)

Children will hoist the sail and join the pirate crew in Greg Gilpin’s “How to Be a Pirates.” This mini-musical introduces an ornery yet sweet Captain and a reliable First Mate who transform landlubber students into pirates. Through story and song, the shipmates dress in pirate costumes, raise the Jolly Roger, spy with telescopes, find buried treasure, and show “thar” pride in a raucous pirate party. This is fast-paced, funny, and perfect way to splash summer away! Children will be making their own props and costumes for this full stage production.

Tell Me a Tale                      Week 3 (7/20-7/24)

Our Tell Me a Tale program exposes children to world cultures through music. This week features new tales from around the world, explored through multi-instrument and multi-cultural elements each day. The tales include an around-the-imagination adventure of stories from Europe, Malaysia, India, South Africa and other cultures. This collection brings storytelling and literature to life through music. Through singing, dancing, and instrument play, children will discover five delightful folk tales that represents the rich, diverse, humorous and profound legacies of the cultures and eras they feature.

Please contact Jina Han at:  jina@cantabile.org or 510-919-4648 with any questions you have or for more information about the program.

This is a choo choo train!

Dear Preparatory 1 Families,

We are on an exciting journey of exploring train sound, discovering train music and hopping on a train using movements! As children continue to listen and sing to the track Choo choo choo, ask them "Where is the train taking us today?" and see what ideas they come up with. They can also invite families to help build a train (like we do in class.) Simply, families stand in one line and place hands on the shoulder of a person in front of you. The conductor gets to say, "All aboard!"

Children love "This is a choo choo train," a sit-down chant that we do in class with motions. Ask them if they remember and have them share it with you:

This is a choo choo train
Puffing down the track
Now it's going forward
And now it's going back
Now the bell is ringing (ding ding ding)
Now the whistle blows (whoo whoo whoo)
What a lot of noise it makes
Everywhere we go!

Lastly, Sarasponda is a nonsense made up song that children love to say. Please have them listen for an octave leap (low Do to high Do) on "A-dorayo" in the music. They have not learned a high Do yet, but we will explore them next week. See what kind of motions they come up with when listening to this track!

Happy Singing!

Choo Choo Choo

Dear Preparatory 1 Families:

Here is the recordings we will be focusing on next week:

Choo choo choo
(This song is in minor modality)

Sarasponda
(Clap on "ret set set," fill in the missing words, and both hands in the air on "a doray-o")

I pass my shoe
(Listen for the accelerando and tap the beat)

We will be exploring sounds of a train, riding on a train and singing various train songs. Meanwhile, see if your child can solfege "I'm coming out!" from the recording "We are dancing."

We are dancing
(Ask children what they want to do in the forest other than dancing. Then, have them move around accordingly while singing! They can invite parents to the game.)