PLP Strings Performs the National Anthem for the CSD Games
Fine Arts News
ORCHESTRA NEWS
- Thank you to all the students who performed the national anthem last Friday at the PLP vs CSD basketball game!
- Mark your calendars to attend PLP's production of Bye Bye Birdie! There are several string and band students performing in the live orchestra for this show, including Danielle Anderson, Alex Partridge, Nolan Markovich, Will Angelino, and Alex Bleuzen. This is sure to be a fun show with a lot of great music; come and show our students your support!
- On Thursday, April 30, all string and band students in grades 4 - 8 will have the opportunity to take a field trip to see the Charlotte Symphony! The concert will take place at 10 am at the Belk Theatre, and students will leave school in the morning and return by noon. More details, including the cost for each student, will be emailed home mid-February.
- The spring concert will be held on Monday, May 4. We are going to split the orchestras into two different concerts. The LS concert will start at 6:30 pm, and the MS/US concert will start at 7:30 pm. Location is TBA.
- Congratulations to 5th grade cello student Noah Allemeier, who successfully auditioned into the chamber music program at the Community School of the Arts! Noah is the first non-middle or upper school student to be accepted into this program.
- Looking for additional opportunities outside of PLP to play in orchestra? Auditions are coming up soon for next year for some great programs, including the Charlotte Symphony Junior Youth Orchestra and the Cornelius Youth Orchestra. Please see Mr. Primm if you are interested in any of these for more information
Matthew Primm
Night Out at the Opera! Students at PLP were invited for a performance of Opera Carolina's Turandot
CHORAL NEWS
MS Chorus News
Upcoming Events:
March 13, NCASA Show Choir Competition
April 3, Chorus to Carowinds
April 14, Show Choir to sing for PLP PTO meeting
May 13, Spring MS Chorus Concert and Musical Theatre presentation of "Pirates the Musical"
Show Choir Notes:
Show Choir meets every Thursday from 3pm -4pm. We will be performing in the NCASA Show Choir Competition in Kannapolis on Friday, March 13th.
Show Choir will have rehearsal Tuesday and Thursday of this week. We are meeting Tuesday to work on choreography with Ms. Reuter.
Show Choir will have a special rehearsal scheduled on March 13 to prepare for competition. This is a non-school day for students. More information will follow.
Carowinds:
Singers interested in going to Carowinds to perform for the Festival of Music will be getting information this week about attending. There will be opportunity for parents to chaperone as well. Tickets this year will include park admission, a t-shirt, and a picnic lunch that includes a bottomless drink pass at the park.
Have your eye on someone? Want to share your love for someone? Why not send a love song to your best friend, girlfriend/boyfriend, favorite person? The gentlemen of the Pride Singers will come serenade the person YOU choose! Customize your gram by choosing the song (from their list), include a flower, and/or add a love note.
Order Dates for Love Song Sing-Grams
? Monday, Feb. 2nd to Wednesday, Feb. 11th
US and MS Lobby
$5.00 = Love Song + Flower
$3.00 = Love Song
The Pride Singers are anxiously preparing for MPA, or Music Performance Adjudication, hosted by the North Carolina Music Educators Association. The students will perform 2 pieces for 3 judges and receive a rating of Superior, Excellent, Fair or Poor based on their total points in each category. MPA is scheduled for March 3rd.
-Ashley Krebs
Theatre News
US Theatre
Students in the Upper School theatre program are very busy these days. All three acting classes are working on class plays right now which requires teamwork and lots of dedication. The regular theatre students have been working on Bye Bye Birdie set design projects!
The musical, Bye Bye Birdie, is coming along nicely and promises to be a huge crowd pleaser! Please mark you calendars for March 19, 20, 22, 27, 28, or 29 so you won't miss out on this fantastic show! Tickets will go on sale in a few weeks. If you would like to purchase an ad in the program for the show please contact Susan Howard or Susan York.
"The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation." ~ Stella Adler
-Susan Howard
MS Theatre
7th grade theatre arts will be performing a living wax museum on February 19th from 7-8pm. Students will portray famous and fascinating historical figures.
8th grade musical theatre classes will present "Pirates the Musical" on May 13th in the ACC.
-Susan York
ART NEWS
7th and 8th Grade Art
This month, Pine Lake Prep would like to highlight what an amazing job the 8th grade Computer Generated Art class did on their comic book covers. These covers were illustrated in pen and ink, then scanned into the computer and colored on Photoshop. These works of art can be seen on the second floor art gallery in the Fine Arts Building in the window of room 201. Please be sure to check them out.
6th Grade Art
Kendal D. -Warm Colors
6th grade art is finishing up the still life color schemes. Currently we are working on putting together two snowflake chandeliers to hang in the Fine Arts Building. Be on the lookout for them.
-Jackie Grant
Maddy C -Cool Colors
US Art
Balloon, Megan Brochetti, 9th
Art 1 is wrapping up their first painting project, a "Creative Color Wheel." Students created an original composition to showcase each of the 12 hues of the color wheel, all of which they mixed using only the three primary colors.
Drawing and Painting II students are beginning a unit on Social Commentary art, which explores how artwork can be used as a powerful advocacy and educational tool. Each student has chosen a topic to bring more awareness to and will create an original artwork to educate their audience.
Advanced Art students have just completed an oil pastel project, depicting a trio of oranges in different states.
-Ashley Hook
LS Fine Arts
Art
LS Art for February 2015
Lower School Art classes are focusing on the following:
The entire Lower School is collaborating on a sculpture they will be creating which will be on display during the Lower School Evening of the Arts on Tuesday, March 31st. The students are very excited!
Kindergarten is currently creating a piece of abstract artwork inspired by Joan Mir�. Catalan painter Joan Mir� combined abstract art with Surrealist fantasy to create his lithographs, murals, tapestries, and sculptures for public spaces.
First grade is learning about stained glass windows. We will explore artist that have created stained glass works of art.
Second grade is finishing up painting the abstract relief self portrait sculptures. The construction of these pieces has been quite a lesson about design and engineering. I can't wait to see the final pieces painted!
Third grade is creating cubist paintings inspired by the artist Pablo Picasso. We will be reading a fun story, When Pigasso met Mootisse, by Nina Laden to get our creative juices flowing.
Fourth grade is finishing up painting their abstract animal sculptures.
Fifth graders are learning about the expressionistic painter and art educator Alma Woodsey Thomas. They will be using paint chips (the kind you get from Lowes or Home Depot) to create their artwork. If anyone has extra paint chip samples please send them to me - Leslie Clegg in the Lower School. [email protected]
LS Music
LS Music is busy, busy, busy rolling out our recorder unit for 4th and 5th grades and celebrating the Magic of Mozart! Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756 in Salzburg Austria and forever changed the world of music. We are also gearing up for our very first Opera Express performance of Hansel and Gretel by our very own Opera Carolina in March, and students are learning about the story, characters, voices, and glorious music that goes with this delightful fractured fairy tale. We are also composing our very own rhythms and melodies for TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN and performing them on various instruments by grade level. Ask your K-5 student about their favorite things from music!
-Katherine Ward-Washington
BAND NEWS
Important Dates:
Monday, April 20 - 5/6/7/8 Band Concert
Tuesday, April 28 - US Band Concert
Be on the look out for Pep Band performance opportunities at PLP home basketball games - more information to follow via email & Edmodo.
Reminder:
Miss Wahl is available for Band Tutoring/Practice Time Mondays & Thursdays 3-3:45PM in FA 103 (Band/Strings room)
