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Thank you music educators for your critical role, impact, and inspiration in every musical performer's life. Award your music teacher with a heartfelt thanks!

Sing with us next year! Carlsbad High School has one of the best show choir programs in southern California. Friends, Fun, music and dancing! Choir is a great w...ay to meet people and have fun performing all over southern California. Last year CHS choirs won Most Spirited choir in the country and they got to sing at Disneyland! See more

Yesterday was my grandma's 91st birthday, so we surprised her with a lil' birthday second line. happy birthday grandma, we love you!

Who else is counting down the days to Christmas? #givethanks out now!

Starting Tuesday at 7am, all donations to our donorschoose projects will be doubled. Even just sharing this post is helpful. You never know who might see it. We have 2 projects going: One is for basic supplies like reeds, oils, rosin in case students need them during these touch financial times.... The other is for items to help us be able to play wind instruments outdoors. A portable sound system for music, my voice and/or metronome, wind clips to keep the music on the stand, etc. We are hoping our school will be able to provide our musician masks and bell covers. ($3,000). Thank you for considering us. https://www.donorschoose.org//help-us-play-instr/5299661/

VMS Chamber Orchestra Back in Action!

Some helpful tips for our amazing Musician’s parents as we navigate distance learning together! Thanks for your support!

This is MGSgt Peter Wilson that performed for us in the Spring!

London Mozart Players perform Mozart, Elgar and more at a West London shopping centre in their first live performance as a full chamber orchestra since lockdown.

Vms kids, get in on this! It will be so much fun!

From the 2020 VMS Musical that never was. I give you the opening number from The Addams Family. #snapsnap

Every year, at our final spring choral concert, we perform Yonder Come Day as combined choirs and it’s become such a tradition that past VMS choir members are invited onstage to join and it is always my favorite part of the year to see my students, young and old, performing together. This year we missed that opportunity in person, but managed to pull something together virtually, with the help of Lauren Aadland-Halling, Athena Espinoza, Ryan Clippinger, Kaylen Lash, Jocelyn Lash, Aquila Ewald, Megan Zerby, Megan Kaye Chua, Cat Langen and the members of Valley Middle School choirs. Enjoy!

The Stars and Stripes Together: A Virtual Patriotic Play Along The American Bandmasters Association and the United States Marine Band invite you to perform virt...ually with the Marine Band! On Wednesday, May 27, 2020, at 1 p.m. (EDT) participate in a special Sousa event with Colonel Jason K. Fettig of The President’s Own United States Marine Band. With everyone joining online, Col. Fettig will conduct a performance of John Philip Sousa’s marches The Thunderer and The Stars and Stripes Forever. This free event is open to anyone and will take place on youtube.com/usmarineband. After the online play along, students through 12th grade are invited to submit a video of themselves performing The Stars and Stripes Forever for a worldwide collage performance that will be assembled and debuted on July 4th! For complete details: https://www.facebook.com/events/875169579669177/ https://www.marineband.marines.mil//the-stars-and-stripes/ Get your parts: The Thunderer -- https://www.marineband.marines.mil//Sco/thunderer_ABA.pdf The Stars and Stripes Forever https://www.marineband.marines.mil//stars_and_stripes_ABA.

https://www.susiaruddell.com/ Join our VMS choreographers this June for a virtual dance camp! All are welcome to register, show choir students strongly encouraged.

Jerrod J-rod Sullivan's performance to "Mellow Fusion" is definitely a fusion of mellow and excitable for us! #vfJams #vf5ABRL

It’s Memorial Day here in the United States, a day when we remember those who lost their lives in service to this country. Our celebrations will look different ...this year. There won’t be parades or concerts and most likely no large picnics or barbecues, but we can all still take a moment to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice. Thank you to Kyle Myers (Kyle Myers Music) for this incredible and dramatic new arrangement. Thank you to photographers James South (Weatherford, OK [email protected]) and Gregory W. Alley (Grand Rapids, MI http://www.tootertutor.com) for sharing their stunning images from across the U.S. From all of us here in San Diego: thank you to the brave men and women of the United States military who lost their lives so we can live in this America The Beautiful. Music by Samuel A. Ward Lyrics by Katherine Lee Bates Arrangement by Kyle Meyers TRUMPETS - Chris Smith, John MacFerran Wilds, Ray Nowak, Tim Saeger FRENCH HORNS - Benjamin Jaber, Darby Hinshaw, Elyse Lauzon, Tricia Skye, Douglas Hall TROMBONES - Rachel Trumbore, Logan Chopyk, Kyle Mendiguchia TUBA - Scott Sutherland PERCUSSION - Erin Dowrey, Andy Watkins, Jon Szanto Post Production - Tim Saeger KPBS The San Diego Union-Tribune NBC 7 San Diego 10News ABC San Diego KGTV CBS 8 - San Diego News FOX 5 San Diego KUSI News CBS Sunday Morning San Diego Symphony San Diego Symphony Musicians NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt ABC News CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell ABC World News Tonight with David Muir CNN #memorialday #memorialdaytribute #army #navy #airforce #coastguard #marines #americathebeautiful #memdaypbs

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