Notre Dame of De Pere 5th-8th Spring Concert 2026

Added: 2026-05-15

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[00:08:16][music] >> [music] >> How are you?

[00:08:55]Let's go.

[00:09:58]All right. Good evening and welcome to tonight's middle school band concert. We are so grateful you are here to support our students and celebrate the hard work they put into preparing for this performance. Before we begin, please join me in prayer. In the name of the father, the son, the holy spirit.

[00:10:20]Thank you for the gifts of music, learning, and community. We ask that you bless our students this evening with confidence and joy as they share their talents and bless our community and our audience members that may tonight be filled with gratitude and celebration.

[00:10:35]Amen. The name of the father, the son, and the holy spirit. Amen.

[00:10:40]A couple quick reminders before we start. Out of respect for all performers, we ask that families remain for the entire concert so every student has the opportunity to perform for a full audience. We also ask that children and younger siblings remain seated with their parents throughout the concert so everyone can safely enjoy the evening.

[00:11:01]Thank you again for being here. Please sit back, relax, and enjoy the concert.

[00:11:42]>> [laughter] >> Hello and welcome to the fifth grade portion of the Notre Dame spring concert. We've been hard at work all year and can't wait to show you what we're going to have today. Hello. My name is and I'm My favorite thing about my instrument is how it sounds. Our first piece is called Fantastic. It combines all of our first five notes in one song.

[00:12:27][music] >> [music] >> Hallelujah.

[00:12:41][music] My name is Ed.

[00:13:15]Our next piece is called better known as hot. It has a melody in harmony part. You will get to hear it in unison.

[00:13:25]in grass and wood. Finally, we will let everyone choose their own Heat. Heat.

[00:13:51][music] Heat. Heat.

[00:14:14][music] >> [music] >> I'm doing this.

[00:15:51]My name is Grace and I play the clarinet. Our next song is lamb ch a fun take on marrying our little there are pauses and melodies that highlight our content and of course percussion section.

[00:16:19]>> [music] [applause] [music] >> My name is Mary and I play the third. My favorite memory from this year was learning all the notes on my instrument.

[00:17:24]We hope you are enjoying our Our last piece is called the melody of symph.

[00:17:36]It is one of our favorites to play and I hope you enjoy it.

[00:18:01]>> [music] >> Heat. Heat.

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[00:18:34]Beautiful.

[00:18:40]>> [music] [music] [music] >> Happy [music] birthday.

[00:19:18]Something I try to do every year is give parents a bubble hop. So everyone smile.

[00:19:39]>> All right. Thank you very much. Fifth grade. You got an excellent job with a round of applause.

[00:19:44][applause and cheering] >> I would love one more round of applause for our fifth grade teachers this fall.

[00:19:54][screaming] [applause] Fifth graders, we are going to grab our music. If we move to stand back to where it was. Stand up and in our lives. We are going to work our way around backstage away. Then you go sit there.

[00:20:14]Your teachers will help you. Excellent job. As stage, let's do one more round of applause. [applause] So at this point, our sixth I'll kind of be narrating what's going on to make sure that we know what's going on. Sixth grade will be coming out in their rows into our concert. first three rows while the seventh grade quietly assemble their check. So quietly >> [clears throat] >> Hello everyone. So if you can access to our most recent version of the concert program on it, you will you will see the uh the order of operations for our pieces today as well as instruments for all of our students and even a little bit of information about the composer solos for better. Um I'm actually a sixth grade band concert band. They've only been playing for about two years and I would defy you to try and guess that from what you hear.

[00:23:21]There's some really really nice playing, really nice progression this year. We're gonna be playing two pieces for you.

[00:23:26]Both in the developing band category.

[00:23:29]There's a lot of emphasis in steady rhythms.

[00:23:33]Working out the first seven or eight notes we've been working on, but also with some more complexity, some more independent lines in a more soloistic way. And I think they do a really really nice job with it. Up next is Rock This Band by Robert Shelton.

[00:24:31]>> [music] >> Heat. Heat.

[00:24:49]Hey, [music] hey, hey.

[00:25:12]Heat. Heat.

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[00:26:15][music] [music] Thank you very much. The next and not quite final piece of the program is uh John Mac. John is one of my favorite composers for middle school band. You'll see his music with a lot of our concerts um students that we really enjoy his his playing. And I don't want to give too much away, but this next piece we like so much we actually kind of would say we elevated it a little bit. So we you're going to hear building blocks uh twice. First as written and then next is a little twist.

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[00:28:21]>> [music] >> Heat. Heat.

[00:28:35]Oh yeah.

[00:28:38][clears throat] Heat.

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[00:28:53][music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> So this next part I I don't have very much to do with except that I really liked it. So in one of our classes our love on the group kind of felt like the music on the page set up they knew that there was they like dynamics and they like the rhythm but they just felt they needed one thing.

[00:29:48]What was that one thing?

[00:29:50]>> That's right. Choreography what every middle school band concert means. And so we're going to play and to make sure they didn't do it the first time I said let's do it the second time.

[00:30:01]So we are going to do uh just a little snippy choreography.

[00:30:28]Heat. Heat.

[00:30:30][music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> As promised, a quick photo from our exceptional sixth grade band.

[00:31:41]Thank you very much. Sixth grade [applause] to remember sixth grade. So, this is a new thing we're doing which introduces me to another point, but sixth grade remember we are going to sit with our instruments quietly in our music over here. We're not going to go backstage.

[00:32:02]You should be in the front row over there behind this first group of people.

[00:32:07]So, these three groups, we're going to go sit with our instruments and our music. And I'll explain why in a second as our seventh grade.

[00:32:29]Thank you.

[00:32:52]All right, that's for English. Okay, fifth grade should be sitting down. Eighth grade, sixth grade is sitting back.

[00:33:15]Um, so as many of you know, I was lucky enough to have elementary [snorts] still holding their one more time. So, big round of applause.

[00:33:54][laughter] Thank you very much. This is our sixth seventh grade body. These are students that have been playing for about three years. Um I know three years it feels feels like it was just yesterday.

[00:34:55]Um but it's pretty amazing what they can when they start uh even hearing our fifth grade. What happens every year the progress we make and the notes we learn and skills we we identify and work.

[00:35:07]These next two pieces are conquest and uh these published by John. Conquest is actually from one of our upcoming events, Grace Bandit, which is around it third rescheduling. We made the mistake about having a snow day for a field trip in February. We learned our lesson when we get out of here. I think it's because we took the piece Blizzard Fury off and that was the last last. So, I think that was um but they're going to play all the pieces that we're playing on our upcoming bandaid conquest. It's a really exciting piece of music as a as a quick theme there. There's a a fast beginning opening and closing with a really lovely section that showcases all of our legato playing with us here. So, please enjoy conquest and mythos unleashed.

[00:36:09]>> [clears throat] [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat.

[00:36:40][music] Happy birthday.

[00:37:26][music] Forever God.

[00:37:58]Heat. Heat.

[00:38:02][music] down.

[00:38:21][music] Okay.

[00:38:51]So our final piece for just the center is mythos unleashed by John a few times. I'm a huge fan of his work.

[00:38:58]I think this writing fits our style really well. This is mythos like the title suggest. It's kind of a sports legendary might be reminded of different different heroes Greek or uh Swedish or Germanness. Um, so kind of allow your your ear to inform your memory on this one and see if you find any stories that Glory [music] to God.

[00:39:56][music] Hallelujah.

[00:40:08][music] Heat. [music] Heat.

[00:40:45]for [music] [music] you to World forever.

[00:41:46][music] >> [music] [applause] >> Runner. Another round of applause for our seventh grade. [applause] [cheering] stage.

[00:42:25]One quick chance to smile after our parents sacrificing our instrument, recording our practice sample.

[00:42:41]Great.

[00:42:47]So, uh, stand up again. We're going to go back there. Keep your instruments, keep your pieces coming right back out for our final two pieces of the evening.

[00:42:58]So, let's go out this way, please.

[00:44:48]Now that we're all set up, I want to do a special shout out for the eighth grade man. This is my fourth year at the middle school, which means this was my first fifth grade class and now my first eighth grade class to go all the way through. It would be really sweet to perform this last piece with them. But they worked hard the last four years.

[00:45:03]I've really enjoyed getting to know them and working with them this whole time.

[00:45:07]So, thank you for thank you for being you and thank you for leaving better than you found it. And you'll see two more pieces. One on Moose March. Um Moose March. Listen for some pretty fun percussion sections where we're kind of emulating the moose antler sounds before finally joined uh by our seventh graders for our first combined ensemble. I'll talk a little bit more about that in the room, but for now the final for the final time, the eighth graders of 30 plan is strong.

[00:46:00][music] [snorts] >> [music] >> I'm feeling cold.

[00:46:28]Heat. Heat.

[00:46:38]Heat. Heat. Heat.

[00:46:48]Good.

[00:46:54][music] Hey. Hey.

[00:47:13]Hey, All right. So, as seventh grade comes back on stage, we're going to have eighth grade readjust to our larger city. So, we'll reuse those papers I gave you to make sure we're in the right spot.

[00:48:33]Look at this one.

[00:48:56]August.

[00:49:04]August.

[00:50:00]Thank you. That uh we had a little bit of a a shaking around to make this ensemble happen, but it is well worth it. I'm pretty excited for this piece.

[00:50:07]This is the world premiere. This was actually written for this band. If you look if you look at the top for Johnson and the dam written by a really good friend of mine, Dr. Jenna Abero. She is the she's a char professor at soon to be a very big school somewhere that I can't say. Um but uh she's she's pretty amazing. I get to work with at the Brass Institutes of America every summer. um when when I saw that she was writing a music for this grade level, there's a piece for trumpet and and middle school band and because of the timing of it was written, we couldn't do that one. And she was like, you know, I could write another one. I was like, well, that sounds like even better idea. And so we talked about what we were looking for and she um she got the idea of kind of making kind of a Celtic highland theme with with roving this in the hills and it's really beautiful beautiful metal piece and with a lot of uh a lot of imagery and the most fun part about it is I get to bring one of my amazing colleagues on stage.

[00:51:10]When I'm not here as a professor I'm also the professor at St. Norman College, which means every once in a while I get to people in to do stuff for me. And so I'd like to bring Professor Nick Borov to the stage, the Sax professor at St. Harvard College.

[00:51:26][applause] So again, this is a really beautiful piece of music that highlights the the range of our students and what they're able to do. and also uh gives him a chance to work with some really really top players in the area.

[00:51:48]Oh yeah, there's quite a few stand there.

[00:51:55]>> Yeah, we had our first run through of this on Tuesday and it was one of the one of the definitely one of the highlights of working here getting together the group. They sound amazing.

[00:52:02]And so I'd like you to hear for the first time Midsummer Miss featuring the combined seventh and eighth grade band here.

[00:52:42]>> [clears throat] >> foral. [music] [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Hey now.

[00:54:12]Heat. Heat.

[00:54:23][music] [clears throat] 2.

[00:54:46][music] Hey, hey, hey. Heat.

[00:55:13]Heat. [music] Heat. Heat.

[00:55:33]>> [music] [applause] >> for our final receiving the sixth spray back down for power.

[00:56:07]>> So, if you are percussion and you can grab a couple stands that were over there, please move them back.

[00:56:20][clears throat] >> [snorts] >> Thank you.

[00:58:12]>> [laughter] [snorts] [clears throat] >> So to close our concert, we will have our first ever 6th through 8th grade band. Um, and before that, I'd like to thank our administration, um, our teachers that are helping, and just everybody else part of tonight.

[00:58:40]Please give them a round of applause.

[00:58:42][applause] [cheering] For our final piece, we have power rock selection of we rock and another one bites the dust. It should be a lot of fun. Feel free to join in.

[00:59:18]>> [snorts] [music] >> Heat. Heat.

[01:00:00]>> [music] >> 2.

[01:00:12]Hallelujah.

[01:00:15]Heat. Heat.

[01:00:39]Heat. Heat.

[01:00:49]>> [music] >> for my brother. Hallelujah.

[01:02:01]All right. Um, for those of us counting down to the end of the school year or maybe just a very full May calendar of this concert, one more event bites the dust and our eighth graders if you are doing the first of the last year as well. I'll give you one more round of applause for Dr. So with that that wraps up our evening.

[01:02:35]students. I think we might have some direction about stands and clean up everybody.

[01:02:45]>> Before we go, uh, percussion, can we please make sure that our percussion in the back of the room? Uh, if you have a plastic stand, can you please put it on one of those carts? If you have a metal stand, please grab it. We're going to grab it and put it outside of the band.

[01:03:02]We grab the middle plastic standard metal skin outside percussion in your hand. Once you accomplish that task, you are free to go.

[01:03:56]Yeah.

[01:04:17]That's it.