Arts a la Carte Department of Visual & Performing Arts June 2016

Westfield Public Schools Westfield New Jersey

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Madeline Hudelson, Mr. Devlin and

Madeliene Rosenthal at MSU “Theatre Night Awards”

Members of the Cast and Crew of The Cherry Orchard at

MSU “Theatre Night Awards”

Members of the Cast of

Into the Woods rehearse at Paper Mill

Playhouse for the “Rising Star Awards”

CHARLES ADDAMS MEMORIAL ART AWARD: Elise Lloyd

LOUIS ARMSTRONG JAZZ AWARD: Jacob Ritter MADELEINE WILD-BRISTOL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIPS: Albert Chen and Madeleine Rosenthal

DIRECTOR’S AWARD FOR BAND: Albert Chen DIRECTOR’S AWARD FOR THEATRE: Madeline Hudelson

THEATRE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Frank Guerriero

JEAN MCDERMOTT SCHOLARSHIP: Chanel Shum JOHN PHILIP SOUSA BAND AWARD: Brian Lawrence

NATIONAL BAND ASSOCIATION OUTSTANDING JAZZ MUSICIANS: Jake Barrow, Albert Chen, Brian Lawrence, Sarah Morton, Jacob Sagal

NATIONAL BAND ASSOCIATION OUTSTANDING MUSICIANS: Michael Bergman, Benjamin Cook, Danielle Gabuzda, Nova Qi

RACHEL MATHER SULLIVAN SCHOLARSHIP: Sarah Davis

THESPIAN OF THE YEAR: Sarah Morton WESTFIELD ART ASSOCIATION AWARD: Amelia Ritter

WESTFIELD HIGH SCHOOL CONCERT CHOIR AWARD: Madeleine Rosenthal WESTFIELD HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR ESPIT DE CORPS: Erin Hanlon

WESTFIELD THEATRE DEPARTMENT TECHNICAL THEATER AWARD: Jack Frankola

WESTFIELD THEATRE DEPARTMENT ESPRIT DE CORPS: Jesse Zimmermann

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Westfield High

School

Drama

As the year winds down to a close,

the WHS Theatre Department finds

itself busier than ever, both in class and out. In the Drama 1 class, the

students are working on their final performance scenes from All My Sons, by Arthur Miller. The Drama 2

students are also preparing their final projects. They are exploring their

comic sides as they work on scenes from Come Blow Your Horn, by Neil

Simon, the American master comedic playwright. In Drama 3, the students

are examining the actor’s approach to

Musical Theatre by analyzing and performing songs from assorted

Broadway musicals. In Stagecraft, the students are working on their final

Scenic Design projects, which will

culminate with the building of scale models representing their original

scenic designs.

Members of the Cast and Crew of

Into the Woods at Paper Mill Playhouse “Rising Star Awards”

In addition to these various projects, the end of the year brings several

external recognitions of student work

this year. WHS was nominated for nine awards by Montclair State

University at its annual “Theatre Night Awards”, which recognizes

excellence in high school plays. The

fall production of The Cherry Orchard received three awards, including

“Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role” for

Madeline Hudelson, “Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a

Supporting Role” for Madeliene

Rosenthal and “Outstanding Production of a Classical Work”.

Meanwhile, at the Bucks County

Theatre Festival in New Hope, PA, the

students performed three one act plays, The Odd Couple, by Neil

Simon, Baby with the Bathwater, by Christopher Durang, and The Actor’s Nightmare, by Christopher Durang. All three shows were excellent and

received the following recognitions:

“Outstanding Overall Production” – The Actor’s Nightmare, “Outstanding

Performance by an Actress” for Claudia Dougherty – Baby with the

Bathwater, and

“Outstanding Performance by an

Actor” for Steve Heron – The Actor’s Nightmare.

Closer to home, the members of the WHS

Thespian troupe celebrated the end of the

year with the Fifth Annual “International

Thespian Gala”, which

was held at The Westwood on May 18th.

This marks the sixth year that WHS has been

involved in the International Thespian

Society, which is the National Honor Society representing high school

theatre students. At the Gala, the

students celebrated the many

successes of the year with family and friends. This celebration included

various external recognitions, academic

accomplishments and community service commendations as well as

department awards. This year the end of year Theatre Department

awards went to the following

students: “Theatre Director’s Award” – Madeline Hudelson; “Theatre

Achievement Award” – Frank Guerriero; “Technical Theatre Award”

– Jack Frankola; Theatre Esprit de Corps – Jesse Zimmermann and

“Thespian of the Year” – Sarah

Morton.

Additionally, the WHS spring musical production of Into the Woods was

recognized with four Paper Mill

Playhouse “Rising Star Awards”, including “Outstanding Achievement

in Lighting Design”, Student Achievement for Costume Design

(Maddie Kevelson), Student Achievement for Assistant Technical

Director (Sarah Morton) and Student

Achievement for Stage Management (Devyn Tibbals). The production

received 11 total nominations & 1 honorable mention including

“Outstanding Overall Production of a

Musical”; “Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role” (Tony

Peer as The Baker); “Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a

Supporting Role” (Frank Guerriero as

The Wolf/Cinderella’s Prince); “Outstanding Performance by a

Chorus”; “Outstanding Achievement by a Teacher or Outside Director”

(Mr. Devlin); “Outstanding Scenic Achievement” (Mr. Chambers);

“Outstanding Hair & Make-up

Achievement” - Allie Safonov; and Honorable Mention “Outstanding

Performance by an Orchestra”. Congratulations to all of the WHS

theatre students for their outstanding

work, both in and out of the classroom.

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Art

Students in Crafts Exploration have

finished up the Sculpture Unit by each completing a hand carved

Soapstone sculpture. Some of the completed pieces were displayed in

the District Art Show. The entire unit consisted of a bas relief balsa foam

letter, a carved and painted plaster

mask, a Mod Podge collaged bowl, and the soapstone carving. The last

unit of the year is Mixed Media. This unit covers Japanese Koinobori fish

kites, collaged baskets and a student

planned project. The Koinobori fish kite involves printmaking, painting,

attaching embellishments and sewing. The baskets use materials

including round reed, flat reed, raffia, feathers, sticks, beads and found

objects. Below are pictures of some

of the Crafts Exploration pieces form the District Art Show.

Ceramics 1 classes completed their

wax resist organic bowls and are ending the year by carving a 6 inch

square tile. Students will be

combining some of the techniques learned throughout the semester in

order to roll out an even square slab, carve out their design in multiple

layers, and then glaze the final

project. I hope you had the chance to check out all of the amazing

Ceramics projects at the District Art Show!

Students in Foundations of Art

finished up Intaglio printmaking based on the style of art known as

Surrealism. Having kept a dream

journal for several weeks, students created works of art based on their

own dreams and nightmares. Finishing their study of Principles of

Art, students showed use of Contrast, Emphasis, Balance, creating a

harmonious work of art. Rounding

out the academic year is study in Modern Art styles including

Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Expressionism, and Pop Art.

Students learn about key artists in

each of the styles and the characteristics as well as

philosophical underpinnings that guided each of these innovative

movements.

The Drawing students in Ms. Happe-

Conway’s class are wrapping up the year with portraiture. They are

incorporating all the knowledge they

have gained from September on. Students are combining techniques

learned, as they investigate proportions of the human head with

value blocking to create beautiful

profiles of their class-mates.

Composition students are

investigating the Formal Critical Method of critique. They are studying

the use of Mind Mapping as a way of

breaking down works of art. This will begin to expose them to some of the

ways they will investigate art history next year in the Advanced Portfolio

Preparation and Art History course.

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Advanced Portfolio & Art IV students have presented written

critiques with a supporting slide show from work observed at the District Art

Show. They have presented their

year end, personal portfolios in slide format to the class. They will be

participating in a peer review of their Sr. Exhibition Displays, which have

been hung throughout the year on

the second floor at the high school.

Graphic Design I and II The District Wide Art Show was a

great success this year. The new set-

up, which created separate spaces for each grade level and subject area,

added greatly to the educational impact of the show.

The graphic design area showcased

all of the varied projects in the two

levels of Graphic Design. There was also a silkscreen installation created

by Graphic Design II students entitled “Politics, People, & Polarization”,

which depicted images with opposing

viewpoints on multiple political topics. Artist statements accompanied the

silkscreens explaining the students’ point of view (pictured above).

Currently Graphic Design II students

are creating Infographics, (pictured

below) which visually depict facts and statistics on a wide range of topics

they are interested in representing. The some of the images were hand

drawn and scanned, others were created directly on the computer

using Adobe Photoshop or Adobe

Illustrator. Text and additional graphics were added to complete

each Infographic.

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Music

NJMEA All State Chorus

The Westfield Choral Department is

proud to announce that we had 11 students accepted into All State

choirs! These students auditioned

and were accepted from over one thousand students who auditioned.

These students will have the opportunity to perform at NJPAC in

November and in February next

school year. Congrats to the following students on their hard work and

dedication to their craft!

Noah Bram Alison Brown

Alex Cestero

Joseph Maldonado Olivia McElheny

Catherine Moore Nicole Player

Abby Rothenberg

Matt Siroty Emma Stern

Max Wasilewski

Back Row: Alex Cestero, Noah

Bram, Max Wasilewski, Catherine

Moore, Emma Stern, Olivia McElheny

Front Row: Matt Siroty, Joseph Maldonado, Nicole Player, Alison

Brown, Abby Rothenberg

District Choral Festival – April 6

Thanks to all of the over 400 Intermediate and High School singers

who lifted up their voices in song at

our first-ever District Choral Festival on April 6! Thank you to district vocal

teachers, Mr. Losco, Mrs. Romero, Mr. Geyer, Mr. Markowski, Mrs.

Morasso, and Mr. Horn for helping to

organize and prepare students for this impressive event.

Chamber Music Night – April 27

The Westfield High School Music

department hosted a night of chamber music at the First United

Methodist Church in Westfield. The evening featured several small band

and orchestra groups as well as the

WHS Chorale. The Chorale sung traditional and sacred chamber music

repertoire, guest-conducted along with Mr. Lee Mamolen, student

teacher from Rutgers University and Ms. Maureen Francis, vocal teaching

assistant at WHS.

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Summit Choral Festival On the evening of April 21st, the

WHS Concert Choir participated in the

Hilltopper Choral Festival at Summit High School. The festival featured

performances from some of the finest high school choirs from around the

state. In addition to their

performance, the students received a 20-minute clinic from Dr. Christopher

Thomas from Rowan University.

Rutgers ACDA NJ High School Choral Festival

On May 19th, the WHS Concert Choir

and Treble Chorus participated in performance adjudication at the NJ-

ACDA High School Choral Festival at Nicholas Music Hall at Mason Gross

School of the Arts, Rutgers. In

addition to their stellar performance, our Westfield Choir students received

valuable critiques from Dr. Mark Boyle, Director of Choirs at Seton Hill

University and Dr. Ronnie Oliver from Manhattan School of Music. Both

ensembles received the highest

performance rating of “Superior” at the festival and received perfect

scores from two of the judges!

Jazz Night May 14th

The WHS Choraleers (pictured above) participated in the annual Jazz night

hosted by the WHS Band department on May 14th. The singers in

Choraleers performed four jazz

standards accompanied by Mr. Craig Stanton (WHS orchestra teacher) on

bass and Alex DiFabio (WHS alumnus) on drums.

Choral Concert May 25 The choral department held its spring

concert on May 25th in the WHS Theater. The concert featured 7

choral ensembles and several student

accompanists and soloists. The senior choir class of 2016 was recognized

for their hard work and participation in the choral department.

Congratulations to Erin Hanlon who

was the recipient of the WHS Choir

Esprit d’corps award and Madeleine Rosenthal who was the recipient of

the WHS Concert Choir Award. Thank you for your dedication to the choir!

THANK YOU! The WHS Choral Department would

like to thank all those who helped to make this a successful year for our

students. We would also like to give a very special “Thank You” to the

Westfield Choral Parents Association

and Westfield Coalition for the Arts for your generous support!

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June 2016 Arts a la Carte WHS BANDS

Congratulations to WHS Director of Bands, Mr. Chris Vitale, on his

“PTSO Teacher of the Year” award.

Teacher of the Year!

Mr. Vitale has served Westfield’s students with tireless enthusiasm for

the past 5 years. Over that time, the band has grown by over 60% and

has earned regional and national

recognition. Please join us in congratulating him on this well

deserved honor!

Concert Bands

The WHS Wind Ensemble participated in the U.S. Marine Band’s “March

Madness” contest this spring.

Members of the band (and a few faculty members from the high

school) filled out brackets pitting 32 famous marches against each other.

Senior Percussionist, Jake Barrow,

was crowned the “March King” and conducted the winning march “The Stars and Stripes Forever” at the spring concert.

Bravo! On April 27th, fifty band

students participated in the first annual Music Department Chamber

Concert. The audience enjoyed performances by small ensembles of

Flutes, Double Reeds, Clarinets,

Saxophones, Trumpets, and Low Brass. Students worked outside of

class in early morning rehearsals to prepare for this

performance.

Members of the WHS

Wind Ensemble performed at the

Kimmel Center (pictured at right), home of the

Philadelphia Orchestra,

on May 24th. Following their concert, they had

an enlightening clinic with Andrew Mast, the

Director of Bands at

Lawrence University Conservatory of Music.

The day was filled with great performance and

learning opportunities.

The year ended with a terrific concert

on June 13th, filled with wonderful performances by the Concert Band,

Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble. Best of luck to the Class of 2016!

(pictured below) Thanks for your

efforts over the last four years. We hope there are many years of music-

making in your future!

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Jazz Bands

Over 500 people packed the WHS Cafeterias on May 14th for our annual

Jazz Night. The Band Council, under

the leadership of Senior Albert Chen, did a fantastic job planning and

operating the evening. Thanks to all the musicians from RIS, EIS and WHS

for their fine performances!

June 7th marked the end of the jazz

season. All three big bands at WHS played with the featured guest, Todd

Groves. As a special treat, Mr. Groves

shared 3 of his original compositions with the students. The students

enjoyed working on music alongside the composer!

Winterguard The 2016 Winterguard wrapped up

their competitive season with a 4th place finish at MAIN Championships.

The girls worked hard all winter,

under the direction of Danny Matos, to have the most successful season

WHS has ever seen! They look

forward to continuing

their success this fall.

Marching Band The WHS Marching

Blue Devils have announced their 2016

production entitled

“Bach and Roll.” The show will feature

well-known Bach works including

Toccata and Fugue in d Minor, Air on the G String, and

Bouree in E Minor with rock

undertones. This year’s band welcomes one of the largest

freshman classes in recent history. After several spring rehearsals in

May, the Marching Band staff is

excited to get underway with the new edition of the Marching Blue Devils!

For more information regarding the

Westfield High School Bands or

affiliated groups, please see our website at www.westfieldhsbands.org

Orchestra

This has been such an exciting and

fun year in the WHS orchestra program. During Spring Break in

April, members of both the String Orchestra and the Chamber

Orchestra were able to take a trip to

Boston, where we saw the sights and sounds and were able to participate

in the Festivals of Music - Boston. On the trip, the students were able to

play in front of the world famous Faneuil Hall at Quincy Market. They

also went on various tours of historic

Boston and got to see world class

performances like the Blue Man

Group and the Boston Symphony

Orchestra! It was an amazing experience for all of the students

involved and we look forward to planning more trips like this in future

years.

Since the trip, our orchestras have

been preparing for and participating in other concerts as well. On April

27th, members of the Chamber Orchestra, along with members of the

WHS Chorale and Band program, put

on the first annual WHS Chamber Music Night at the United Methodist

Church in Westfield. The night featured small student chamber

groups that performed a variety of different styles and genres of music.

Student groups from the orchestra

were student-led groups that have been practicing throughout the year,

expanding their understanding of chamber string music.

In May, we were able to send a small student-led string quartet to

represent the orchestra and the music department at the Annual

Westfield Art Show. It was an honor to be asked and wonderful to have

our students participate in such a fun

event.

One of our final events of the year was the WHS Spring Orchestra

Concert. This concert was on Friday,

June 3rd in the WHS Auditorium. It featured both of our large orchestras

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Orchestra and the String Orchestra). This spring the program featured the

music of Mendelssohn, Dvorak,

Glasunov, as well as the music of John Williams (Star Wars, Jurassic

Park) and the Wizard of Oz. With our concert now behind us, we would like

to say congratulations to our Class of

2016 and we look forward to the 2016-17 school year!

Roosevelt

Intermediate

Art

The 8th grade students, in Mrs.

Cohen's class are finishing up their

product design. They had to invent a product and create a box for it- with

the execution of all the sides. They are using colored pencils, markers,

watercolors and even acrylics.

The 7th graders are completing their

2-point perspective city scapes. After completing their 1-point perspective

on the elements of design project, they now are well equipped for their

2-point! Some students have drawn

downtown Westfield, while others are doing NYC as well as Paris, London,

and many imaginary cities.

The 6th graders just finished their

clay creations and are now working on their name kaleidoscope designs.

This project deals with symmetry as well as color theory.

With the conclusion of this year’s

District Art Show, Mr. Greenwood’s

6th grade classes completed artworks based on the artists Georgia Okeeffe,

Vincent Van Gogh, Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstein and geometric artist

Frank Stella. Other projects the

students worked on were designing Fantasy houses, which students were

shown architecture from around the

world and were challenged to create

their own fantasy design. They also worked in teams to build straw paper

sculptures. Last week students were

introduced to commercial art and product design and marketing

concepts while being asked to design a soda can. After the design phase,

models of their own soda can designs

will be completed. Lastly students will be completing the year glazing

ceramic sculptures that they made earlier and exploring water color

painting.

The 8th grade students in Mr.

Greenwood’s class recently completed a project where they discussed the

artwork of contemporary artist Romaro Britto and the impact of color

in art. Students were to design an art

piece in a Britto style. This was a mixed media artwork of drawing and

painting. Prior to this students created multi-layered construction

paper cutouts. Students also completed 3D dodecahedrons. Each

of these 12 sided paper sculptures

were decorated with black and white ink designs. Preparing for the District

Art Show the 8th grade classes completed drawings based on

Renaissance art History and currently

fine arts students are working on water color paintings based on the

artist Winslow Homer. Finally the 8th grade students will wrap up the year

glazing their ceramic sculptures.

Mr. Thompson’s two 6th grade

classes are just finishing up a very green project. We “upcycled”

discarded magazines and turned them into works of art. We created

unique and functional bowls made

entirely of magazine pages folded into strips, attached together, then

formed and glued into a permanent vessel shape. Some students opted

for a random color scheme while

others spent time searching and choosing pages within a color range.

Mr. Thompson’s 7th grade art classes

are working on a multi-media project

using metal, gel pens, and metallic

pencils. We looked at examples of

tooling, the art of pressing images

into metal. Students then divided a

small piece of newsprint into 4 or 5

sections and filled each one with a

different pattern or texture. After a

demonstration on technique, students

taped their paper design onto the

metal. We pressed right through the

paper into the metal using a variety

of tools. Drawings were discarded,

and impressions in the metal were

deepened and expanded upon,

adding texture in spots. We then

glued our completed metal onto black

paper, and used gel pens and

metallic colored pencils to extend

and/or alter the patterns. Unique and

cool!

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Mr. Thompson’s 8th grade crafts class

has just finished a super cool lesson

using scratchboard and collage. We

used the same old magazines that

the 6th graders made bowls out of to

find a full body photo of a person. We

carefully cut out only the visible skin

parts, glued them on a sheet of gold

or silver scratchboard, and then

reimagined the clothes, hair, and

background. We were inspired by

Zentangles to create designs, and

explored the many textural

possibilities inherent in working with

scratchboard. The results are

fantastical and very dramatic!

Music

RIS Bands It is hard to believe that another

school year is coming to an end! But what better way to celebrate than

putting on a concert!? On

Wednesday, June 8, the RIS Concert Bands gave their final performance of

the year. The 6th grade band performed three pieces under the

direction of all three of their band teachers: Mr. Doyle, Ms. Minogue,

and Mr. Freeman. Mr. Freeman began

the concert by leading the band in “The Song of the Blacksmith” from

Gustav Holst’s Second Suite for Military Band. This was followed my

Ms. Minogue and the band

performing a beautiful setting of the folk tune “Danny Boy” in an

arrangement by Richard Saucedo called “Fantasy on An Irish Air”. Mr.

Doyle then took the stage to lead the band in a fun arrangement of an old

American folk song about John

Henry. “Steel Driving Man” prominently features the percussion

students, recreating the sounds of John Henry working on the railroad.

The 7th Grade Band also performed a

piece by Gustav Holst, called “Three Folk Tunes”. Ms. Minogue then led

the band in a very challenging piece called “The Red Balloon, which was

composed by Anne McGinty. The

composer based the piece on a painting she saw only one time, and

the music is depicting the balloon floating in the air. The 7th grade

closed the concert with an energy filled piece called “Doppler Effect”,

which used drastic dynamic contrasts

to depict sounds coming close and going away.

The 8th Grade Band gave their final

performance at Roosevelt and it has

been a fun three years. They celebrated by performing four pieces:

“Rough Riders”, a concert march by Karl King; “Sketches of Spain”, a two-

movement work using elements from

Spanish folk and dance music; “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing”, a

beautiful and challenging

arrangement of an old hymn called “Nettleton”; and a medley from the

latest Star Wars movie, “The Force Awakens”. It was a fun and

bittersweet evening as the 8th graders

say goodbye to RIS and move on to new musical experiences at the high

school level.

In recent events, the 8th grade band participated in the annual CJMEA

Concert Band and Orchestra Festival

at Freehold Township High School on May 12. Students performed and

received comments from leading music educators, and had the chance

to listen to other middle school bands

and orchestras. Our students performed extremely well and

received some very useful tips on how to improve. Mr. Doyle and Ms.

Minogue are extremely proud of their accomplishments! On May 20, the

auditioned music groups (jazz bands,

orchestra, and Sharps and Flats) went on the annual trip to Hershey

Park. The day was near perfect! All ensembles performed well, students

had fun at the park, and the weather

was BEAUTIFUL! We couldn’t have asked for a better day.

The jazz ensembles, performed on

Thursday, June 9th. The Naturals,

Morning Jazz, The Accidentals, and The Afternoon Ramble all took the

stage in their final performance of the school year. Some of the featured

artists and composers on this concert included: Thelonius Monk, Count

Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles,

The Beatles, Chicago, Bruce Springsteen, and more. It was a

great performance!

All of the RIS Band family would like

to thank all of the Roosevelt teachers, administrators, and students for their

continued support for music in our

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the Westfield parents and community for their dedication to strong arts

programs in the town of Westfield.

Without your help none of what we do would be possible! Thank you, and

have a great summer!

Drama

Congratulations to the cast of RIS

Fall Play Legend of Sleepy Hollow nominated by the Montclair State University Theatre Night Awards for

“Outstanding Production of a Middle School Play” and Olivia Ebel who

received the award for “Outstanding

Performance by a Middle School Actor”!

Edison

Intermediate

Art

The art show was a treasure trove of the talents of the middle school

students. We could not be more proud of the hard work the kids put

into their projects, and their effort

making QR codes for our new endeavor. Mrs. Frees and Ms. Hooper

were impressed with the variety of challenges their students took in all

their work. The 8th grade Fine arts classes had a great representation of

portraiture this year. The 6th grade

and 7th grade learned and excelled at new lessons. The art teachers are

truly proud of their students.

Currently the 7th graders in Mrs. Frees’ class are prepping for next

year by learning to grid a picture and enlarge it using the grid technique.

They are working with oil pastels and

using blending techniques as well as learning to use tint (white) and shade

(black) to alter the pictures to make them look like the subjects they are

drawing. The students are about to

begin a gesture sculpture, they spent a day of preparation drawing Mrs.

Frees using proportion techniques to draw the human form. Mrs. Hooper

taught the 7th grade students about

Alberto Giacometti and George Segal in her lesson on sculpture of the

human form. The students are also working with a wire armature, and

plaster. Both classes are either beginning to create Medieval

Gargoyle inspired ceramics or

finishing them up.

The 8th grade Fine arts is working with water based oil paints and doing

subjects that are close to their hearts, places they have visited or pets. The

students viewed an edited version of the film “Exit Through the Gift Shop”

and learned about street artists

Banksy and Shepard Fairey. They are now working on murals by Mrs. Frees

room that are their own version of

street art that means something to them or recreations of famous works

of art.

The students in Ms. Hooper’s class learned about the painting techniques

of Jackson Pollock and created a 2D painting which they then turned into

a 3D form. They were to build a sculpture using wire, ribbon, yarn and

paper scoring techniques to assemble

a free standing abstract sculpture. The students were challenged in that

they could not use tape or glue to hold the projects together. They had

to pass an “upside down shake test”

to see if the sculpture would stay intact.

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8th grades crafts in Ms. Hooper’s class

learned the history of the craft of Quilling and are using the techniques

used in the craft of paper rolling to

create a 2D design which reflects an image of their choosing such as

flowers, insects and birds. They will be starting their plaster masks from a

culture around the world and they

are doing research at home on the history of the mask they chose.

The 6th graders in Mrs. Frees’ class

are finishing a lesson on drawing in multiple media. They are drawing

animals with ebony pencil (learning drawing techniques of hatching,

crosshatching, stippling and value shading), oil pastel texture, and

watercolor. They are then taking a

doodle and turning it into something else using all the same drawing

techniques and their imagination. It has proved to be a fun project.

In Mrs. Frees and Ms. Hooper’s class students are learning the difference

between functional and aesthetic through creating decorative ceramic

mugs that function for drinking or

storing items. They are then making an aesthetic sculpture of an animal

building from newspaper and plaster or a flower vase from recycled

containers. Ms. Hooper’s classes also

did a proportional drawing of the human face. They then translated

what they learned into creating the face for their mug.

The students in Ms. Hooper's

Crafts class met with artist, Joanne Petuchovas, who

demonstrated various paper

folding techniques that she incorporates within her mixed

media paper sculptures. The students used either the Iris or

Tea Bag methods to design one-of-a-kind greeting cards.

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Music

The EIS Bands are capping off a

great year of hard work and great performances. The 8th grade

students performed their final concert on the EIS stage. Their final

performance capped off the year

after they received a “Superior” rating for Concert Band at their Spring Six

Flags Music Festival.

The concert season also saw a first for the band. The EIS Flute

Ensemble made its debut performing

Comedian’s Gallop. The 16 member ensemble got to work with

professional flautist, Jenny Cline, in their preparation for the concert.

The Jazz Band had a busy spring. With great performances at Jazz

Night and the Spring Concert, the Jazz Band also received a “Superior”

rating at the Spring Six Flags Music

Festival. The Jazz Band also got to take part in a fantastic field trip to

Jazz at Lincoln Center. Watching an open rehearsal for that group, the

students got a front row seat to jazz legend Wynton Marsalis and his Jazz

at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Eighth

grade student, Steven Freidenrich had the opportunity to sit in on drum

set while the bands drummer, Ali Jackson was working on a piece with

the group.

Orchestra Congratulations to all of the talented

orchestra students for a successful spring festival and concert season!

The 8th grade Orchestra and Chamber

Orchestra made the EIS orchestra program proud by earning superior

ratings at our Spring Music Festival. The expert guest clinicians were

impressed with the musicianship and dedication our students expressed

through their performances!

Our June 8th concert presented the

6th and 8th grade Orchestras. Sixth grade impressed the audience with

their exciting rendition

of Celtica, featuring violin soloists Genevieve Duguid and Amy Xiao.

Cellist, John Gonzalez described Celtica as “a fun, and

energetic,” and “sure to put a smile

on your face!” Eighth grade concluded the concert with Kirt

Mosier’s Waltz of the Wicked, described by bassist Declan

O’Connor as a “difficult, fun, and interesting piece.” Cellist, Laura

Masciola, added that Waltz of the Wicked is a “slightly eerie” piece that helped us to “drastically play

dynamics to create a very interesting melody.”

Our June 14th concert included the 7th grade Orchestra and Chamber

Orchestra. Seventh grade performed

a challenging program; opening with

the Schubert’s haunting “Unfinished” Symphony No. 8, and

closing with one of our favorites, Blue Rhythmico. Violinist, Olivia Donofrio, described Blue Rhythmico as a “jazzy

piece that has interesting melodies and showed us a fun way to play.”

Under the direction of Mr. Craig

Stanton, the Chamber Orchestra ended the concert with The James Bond Theme, a piece that the students had fun both learning and

performing.

Thank you to the EIS community for

an incredible school year! It has been a pleasure to work with such

talented, dedicated teachers and students. I am excited for Mrs. Gant

to return next school year and see all

of the hard work the orchestras have done this year! Have a wonderful

summer! Sincerely, Ms. Maggie Fatsis

Franklin

Elementary

Art

The Art Students at Franklin School

certainly enjoyed a creative year. Mrs. Coveney developed a wide range

of projects, which utilized different

media for each grade level.

The 2nd grade was thoroughly engaged in a study of a still life. They

learned a variety of painting techniques creating texture and

flowers. Fluorescent paint on black

paper is very effective. The results are very colorful and well balanced. A

review of the warm and cool colors prior to their painting helped with

their patterns as they created a

cropped animal within a colorful background. All was enjoyed.

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The 3rd grade is finishing up on their

3-D project as they complete their Model Magic Birds. A drawing or

thumbnail sketch was done which

assisted them while they created their sculpture. Colored model magic

proved to be a satisfying medium. Dimension and form came alive with

the layering of colors. Texture was

seen and felt. Scissors were a great tool for this medium. Once dried, a

gloss was applied and the bird was ready for flight.

The 4th grade has reviewed positive,

negative shape and space. A block

letter was created and set in a drawn grid. The students were asked to

follow a pattern using fluorescent paint to determine where the positive

shape could be seen and the negative

space could be found. The level of concentration and the attention given

to detail is what creates the effectiveness of the painting. Success

was achieved.

The 5th grade used the medium of

Colored Pencils for a Macaw drawing. Crayola has a woodless colored

pencil, which the students enjoyed using for this particular project. The

bird’s layered colored feathers were

observed and discussed. Once the students compared the colors of the

bird to the colors on the color wheel, drawings began. They became aware

of the placement of the primary

colors and how to blend the secondary colors. The results were

very effective. This was a great segue into the final project of tin tooling.

Texture was the focus of this art experience as an embossed and

stippled bird was developed and

created. Many an “ahaha” moment could be heard.

All of the Franklin School Art students

finished out their year, by

participating in a school wide mural. Caren Frost Olmsted, Artist in

Residence provided the framework

for this experience with the

assistance of parent volunteers, teachers, staff, paraprofessionals,

custodians and students. Everyone

became involved in a once in a lifetime painting experience. Franklin

history was made as everyone picked up a paintbrush and applied color to

a floor to ceiling mural in the

entrance and hallway of our school. The building developed a heartbeat

and the walls took on a life of its own. What a wonderful community

project for Franklin School.

This year the District Art Show was a

complete success. Every school district wide showcased art students’

works. Many new elements were introduced and accepted. The

support and appreciation of the Arts

was quite evident.

Hope everyone enjoys their summer and see you in September!

Music For the past month, music has been

filling the gym at Franklin. From band

to chorus to special music assemblies, the students at Franklin

have been enjoying these wonderful performances. The 5th graders were

challenged this year with some of the

hardest choral music for elementary choirs. Songs included the use of the

Orff instruments, incredible ranges, the use of solfege entirely, and two

to six part harmonies.

Our 2nd graders have been working

on their creative musical skills through improvisation. They were

encouraged to improvise dance

movements in the song “Zudio” and also dabbled in pentatonic melodies

as they improvised with the song “Rocky Mountain”. Some 3rd graders

were demonstrating their creativity as

they have been continuously rewriting lyrics to our known clapping

games and then teaching them to their classmates.

The 4th graders are taking up the

challenge of learning all 50 states and their capitals through a song set to

the tune of “Turkey in the Straw”. Some students are about half way

there while others have gone the

distance and used my online resource to learn it at home.

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of sound by exploring sound frequencies and their influence on

certain objects. They then created

oobleck, a non-Newtonian substance, using a mixture of corn starch and

water. This was then placed on a speaker cone connected to an online

frequency generator. Using their prior

knowledge, the students experimented with the frequencies to

see which ones would get the oobleck to “dance”. It was a fun and

messy experiment, but allowed the students to visualize sound.

From all of the Franklin music staff,

thank you for another wonderful year of music making. We wish all of you a

wonderful, safe, and relaxing

summer!

Jefferson

Elementary Art

It has been a wonderfully creative year at Jefferson school. First

graders are finishing up there "outer

space landscapes" which is a multi-media project encompassing paint

mixing, paint splatter, broad shape cutting, fine motor cutting, sketching,

markers and lots and lots of

creativity. The 2nd grade students

studied body proportion and Marcel Duchamp to finish their people in

motion collages. The 3rd graders

learned about radial symmetry creating personal mandalas. Fourth

grade students are making texture board shadow boxes using simple

origami designs that they made up

and 5th graders are going out with a bang with their Picasso people

sculptures! Thanks for a great year!

Music

Jefferson School music classes in Grades 1-4 have been singing about

gardens, parading to marches (John

Philip Sousa), singing about summer fun, and creating their favorite-song

end-of-the-year “Review Flowers”. These are fun little flowers to hang in

a special spot at home as a reminder of their favorite songs this year, and

to have some musical fun on those

rainy or exceptionally hot summer days. Students can choose a song

to sing, watch a movie (like “Mary Poppins”, “The Sound of Music”,

“Charlotte’s Web”, “The Music Man”,

etc.), go see an outdoor musical at Plays In The Park (2016 offerings

are: “The Little Mermaid”, “Sister Act”, and “South Pacific”), go to a

band concert in Mindowaskin Park or

Echo Lake with your family and friends, listen to some downtown

jazz, or pick up your instrument to play a solo or duet for someone

special.

In May, the Fifth Grade had three

fabulous performances of “Joust!”, a wonderful field trip to Medieval

Times, another field trip to see the All-City Band, Chorus and Orchestra

perform (as WHS), and recently

many fun reports and discussions with a special unit on Rock and Roll

(Form/Style).

Wishing everyone a very happy,

healthy and MUSICAL summer!!

McKinley

Elementary Art

McKinley’s 1st grade artists are

completing their Fish Bowl art project focusing on overlapping, patterns and

repetition. The students can revisit many of the materials that they used

throughout the year in the creation of this mixed media piece. A very

challenging last step of mimicking a

patterned square to create their background wallpaper had students

feeling very accomplished once they completed it. Here is a picture of a

work in progress by one of McKinley’s

own first grade artists.

McKinley’s 2nd grade artists just

completed their cross-curriculum rainforest project. Working with the

rainforest theme, the students researched various animals found

within the four layers of the

rainforest. The students assembled their collages upon a painted

background once they drew, colored, and cut their animals out of paper.

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Every animal was placed in its correct

location, emergent layer, canopy, understory or the forest floor.

Placement of their shapes also helped

to create space as well as overlapping techniques and changing of the size

of the animals.

The 3rd grade artists are finalizing

their Sensory Project that allows students to experience and

conceptualize color without the use of their sight. Students were motivated

through a video that shows how a blind artist paints as well as a quick

read of the famous book “The Black

Book of Colors”. Students created a phrase like “Yellow tastes like cool

lemonade on a summer’s day.” A very experimental project that allows for

abstract thought to prompt new ways

of experiencing the world around us. Once the students typed their

sentence, they then cut it out and glued it onto an oil pastel colored

background highlighting their chosen color. Upon the background, the

students created a raised line

drawing to illustrate their sentence. When we are complete with the

work, the students will then blindfold themselves and try to guess what

color is being described and what

image is being illustrated. So much fun!

Fourth grade artists will be finishing

their colored scratchboard project.

These artists learned how to make a scratchboard and two different ways

of transferring images through carbon paper and chalk rubbing. To

create our scratchboards, we drew our image on watercolor paper then

colored it in with oil pastels. After the

image was all colored in, we then painted two layers of India Ink on top

of it. Once dry, the student would be able to scratch away areas where

they wanted to reveal color. The

students really enjoyed the process of making a scratchboard and enjoyed

the project.

McKinley’s 5th grade artists are

displaying their mixed media textured wave paintings for their end of the

year Graduation party! We created

our waves out of tape paper to make our textured relief form. The students

were able to see movement in their work through the raised lines that

created their wave form. Blending

cool colors to paint their wave and warm colors to paint their skies, the

students also learned about impasto brushstrokes to add more texture and

life to their works. These waves will be mounted on wood panels so the

students have something that will last

throughout the years and always remind them of their wonderful

elementary art education. We will miss our 5th Graders and wish them

lots of luck and adventure in Edison

Intermediate School!

Music

The 1st graders have been exploring instruments of the orchestra. We

heard the story of Peter and the Wolf and learned how this story was put to

music to make it even more exciting.

Next we learned about each of the

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each character has been given their own melody. Together we

discovered each characters melody

and the instrument that plays their melody.

Second grade students recently

created rhythm clocks. Students had

to use a variety of notes at different values to create a group of rhythms

for each number on their clock. The students worked hard to create these

unique rhythm clocks.

Third grade at McKinley has spent the

last few weeks exploring instrument families. We began our exploration

of instruments and their families with a scavenger hunt. Our month

completed with an exciting Game

Show, where students worked to identify instruments and instrument

families found in the orchestra.

Our 4th and 5th grade Orchestra students gave fantastic concerts! We

had a concert at school, in addition to

our evening concerts at EIS, where we performed a variety of pieces as

an entire group. One of our favorites was called Ludwig’s Dance Party, a

parody of Ludwig Van Beethoven’s

Symphony No. 5. We also performed in a variety of smaller groups at our

school concert. We heard students that are in All City Orchestra play

Counting Stars. We also had a few

solos and even a duet. All of the students worked hard to give very

successful performances!

The 4th graders at McKinley school recently performed the song "First" at

the annual Wax Museum. Students

dressed up as different inventors, pioneers and trailblazers and opened

the museum with their beautiful singing. In class they have been

learning about the different periods

of music and how their orchestras grew over time.

The 5th graders at McKinley had a

blast at their concert on May 16th. During the day, a Rutgers Acapella

group came to sing with the students,

accompanying them on Toto's Africa. The students had a great time

working with them during the day, and then finished off the

evening with a wonderful

performance for parents. Now that the concert is over, they are

preparing to sing at the 5th Grade “Moving Up” Ceremony on June 21st.

We wish them all the best at Edison next year!

Tamaques

Elementary

Art

Second graders in Mrs. Massenzio’s

class were excited to create patriotic self-portraits. The students learned

about collage, how to determine proper facial proportions, and how to

create texture in their pictures. They

created fireworks with glitter for the background, and wrote about why

they love the USA.

The 3rd graders in Mrs. Massenzio’s

classes created a giant sized collaborative mural of sunflowers in

the style of Vincent van Gogh. Artists paint something called a still life. A

still life doesn’t move, and the artist can paint for a while, and then come

back to it. The children enjoyed a

story about van Gogh’s life, his post-Impressionist style, and his influence

on the art world. He is considered one of the great artists of his time.

Three cheers for the red white and blue! The American flag has been a

symbol of pride and inspiration. Grade 4 students created beautiful

American flags using optical illusion to create the impression of a waving

flag. Op Art, as this style is known,

creates movement through line and pattern. The children worked

diligently on their flags, and the

results were impressive!

The 5th grade students in Mrs. Massenzio’s were fascinated as they

created portraits in the style of Pablo

Picasso. He experimented with a revolutionary style called cubism. In

Cubism the subjects are analyzed and broken up into different sections.

Then the sections are put back together and painted from different

perspectives and angles. The children

enjoyed learning about Picasso, and how his revolutionary style influenced

the world of art.

Music

The final month of school is a fun time for Tamaques music class. All

classes are reviewing various topics

from throughout the year in exciting, creative and sometimes competitive

ways. In addition to sharing the song “My Dad” for Father’s Day, 2nd

graders play the famous “Mr. M’s

Music Matching Memory Game” reviewing definitions and symbols of

rhythm, tempo, and dynamics. The 5th grade wraps up the year after

their final “Composer of the Week”

presentations with a cumulative Jeopardy Game! In 3rd grade, a sing-

a-long style review of favorite songs throughout the year precedes the 4-

Suits game where 4 teams test their knowledge of staff and keyboard

notation, rhythm, tempo, meter, and

much more. While the 4th grade reads and discusses the historical fiction

tale of “Beethoven Lives Upstairs,” our 1st grade classes become

composers themselves with their own

individual class songs to be displayed on Mr. Markowski’s website.

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Congratulations to both the

Tamaques 4th and 5th Grade Bands and the Washington 4th and 5th

grade bands on a WONDERFUL

SPRING Concert!

This is an exciting time of year! Our third grade students get to choose

what instrument they would like to

play next year! The week of June 13th the 3rd grade students at

Tamaques and Washington Schools will view the instrumental

demonstration assembly. Ms. Naylor will demonstrate the string

instruments, Mr. Furrer and Mrs.

Brezinski will demonstrate the band instruments.

Congratulations to all the Tamaques

and Washington All City Band

members on a WONDERFUL All CITY Concert! Nice job everyone!

Washington

Elementary

Art

Washington School artists are

finishing the year strong with a variety of exciting art experiences.

The 1st grade class is working on a

set of portrait projects. They have

learned about Mona Lisa, the most famous portrait in history. Each

student was provided a color copy of her face with its classic smile, and

designed new clothes and a unique

setting for her. Our “Mona’s” have been on picnics, visited the beach,

and even became a new Star Wars hero! Classes then learned about

Rembrandt and his collection of self-

portraits. Their portraits will be saved until the end of elementary

school to help monitor growth.

In 2nd grade, students are using the aboriginal art of Australia to inspire

abstract line and circle creations. They have created intricate drawings

using rulers, templates and tracers.

These will carefully be filled in with marker for some colorful results.

They will finish by incorporating their hands into optical illusion projects

and dotted designs.

Third grade artists are applying their

social studies lessons on Native Americans to a unit in art. Thus far,

they have learned how to weave in a circle. Using a colorful yarn

collection, this over/under assignment

has proven to be quite a relaxing favorite. Their final project is to

design the sun in a new and interesting way. Instead of a circle in

the corner with sunglasses and sunrays, they have filled their papers

with geometric designs and warm,

solid coloring.

The 4th graders have been learning

about perspective. They each painted a masterpiece of a tree-lined

path. This was to show 1-point

perspective and included a variety of blended colors in the sky, leaves and

ground. With a little imagination, you may think you’re taking a walk in the

park. They are now completing a

pop-up design of a room, as inspired by Vincent Van Gogh.

Fifth grade has used their knowledge of Pop Art to create some delicious

designs. They created 3D paper cake sculptures. These slices were

attached to decorated places and

“frosted” with tissue paper. Students went on to draw a large,

round cake on paper and shaded each accordingly with oil pastels.

Perhaps we will finish with ice cream collages and donut paintings. Yum!

It is my hope that the many art experiences we have had this year

will be further developed over the summer in sketchbooks, art classes,

camps, and some creative free time!

Music

What an exciting year it has been at

Washington! We are continuing to learn about many intriguing musical

concepts, even until the end of the year! In May, we focused on

instrument families, their sounds, and

other characteristics. We watched orchestras, bands, and other

ensembles play and attempted to identify as many of them as we

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to recognize instruments just by listening to their sounds!

In the 3rd grade, we are getting ready to choose instruments for next

year. We had “Mini Music Talent Shows” in each 3rd grade class,

where we learned about each other’s

musical talents, whether it be singing, dancing, or playing an instrument. As

we watched and listened, some acts were completely surprising to us!

In May, the 5th grade chorus had the

privilege of opening the Somerset Patriots’ game by singing our

National Anthem (pictured at right). This was a super exciting opportunity

for us! The following week, we had

our final spring chorus concert, where the students sang

marvelously! They performed a

variety of songs, and some numbers even included soloists from our very

own 5th grade class! We are now

working on our 5th grade Variety and Talent Show that is set to take place

on June 23rd, right before the last day of school!

On June 1st, the All City Concert took place at Westfield High School. The

entire 4th and 5th grade classes from Washington went to observe and see

the Band, Chorus, and Orchestra perform. The students enjoyed

watching and cheering on their fellow

classmates that were involved.

On June 2nd and 3rd, we had a group called “Simple Gifts” do a

workshop and assembly for the

students at Washington. The group comprises two women, both

musicians, who performed guitar, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, psaltery, and

ukulele for the school. They even

taught the students how to play a few songs on the psaltery and

ukulele! The students were fascinated by these unique instruments,

especially because they were able to

rapidly learn how to play on them!

As the summer approaches, I hope everyone has a safe and musical

summer, filled with singing, dancing,

and practicing their instruments! I look forward to another exciting

musical year at Washington in September! Sincerely, Ms. Marisa

Minogue

Wilson

Elementary

Art

It’s been an awesome year in the art room at Wilson School! Everyone is

finishing up their final projects! The

first grade students are busy working on dream catchers inspired by Native

American Art. They are using tempera, sand, beads and feathers.

Grade two is finishing up the year with a patriotic collage utilizing red,

white and blue materials. They will be

all ready to hang for July 4th! Third grade is focusing on Cubism and

Pablo Picasso. They have learned that the artist could paint realistic portraits

perfectly when he was a young child

and that he became bored with realism and set out to express himself

in new innovative ways. To better understand Cubism, they had fun

creating chalk pastel portraits complete with multiple perspective

viewpoints! The students in 4th grade

are finishing up the year with magnificent

monochromatic paintings. They

created value

scales and then applied their new

found skills to paint pictures of their

own chosen

subject matter. The 5th graders are

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putting the finishing touches on their

Pop Art inspired sculptures. There are giant Rubix Cubes, oversized

lollipops, cookies, Legos and a giant

Tardis from Dr. Who, just to name a few!!!

Wilson School Grade Four

Monochromatic Paintings

Lincoln

School

Lincoln’s pre-K artists are just starting

out in their artistic journeys but I must say there is a lot of talent in

these young artists. They love

experimenting with various techniques and materials. Their

creativity astounds me. In Pre-K, we mainly focus on process art, which is

art that uses various tools and media

with a result that is open-ended. These artists work at their own pace

to create art that is satisfying to them. I love watching these little

ones explore. They are ready to move on up to Kindergarten!

The Kindergarteners at Lincoln school have been preparing for our

Graduation Ceremony on June 17th. Students will be singing a variety of

songs including "I Don't Want to Live

on the Moon" and "When You Wish

Upon a Star". We wish them the best

of luck in 1st grade next year!

Wow! The kindergarteners in Lincoln

School have had an amazing year creating all different kinds of art.

They started the year making line drawings to the sounds of “Peter and

the Wolf” to guide us. They learned

guided drawing techniques to paint a turkey for Thanksgiving and a still life

of apples like the artist, Cézanne. Learning all about birds and how to

draw them was a highlight of many student artists this year. And to top it

all off they have created amazing

collages to decorate the gym for their celebration. We have done so much

and now they are ready to BLAST OFF to 1st grade.

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Best Wishes for a HAPPY, HEALTHY & SAFE Summer!

See you in September!

Congratulations to all Band, Chorus and Orchestra members selected for the All-City groups.

We are proud of you and your fine musical accomplishments!!

Ruth Vincent All City Band Award Tyler Richter Franklin School

Ruth Vincent All City Orchestra Award Tristan Wroe Franklin School

Drude Sparre Crane All City Vocal Award Sarah LaMonica

Wilson School

Congratulations to Jefferson student, Lauren Lane! Winner of the 2016 All City T-Shirt / Program Cover Contest

Barry Furrer Retires

Mr. Furrer has worked in the Westfield School district for the past 34 years tirelessly devoting himself to music education. The students privileged to be under his direction certainly enjoyed their lesson time with Mr. Furrer. His wonderful sense of humor kept students on their toes while enjoying their musical experiences. We commend Mr. Furrer for the valuable work he has done for his students and our department for the

past 34 years. He will be missed.

Best wishes for a healthy and happy retirement!

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Westfield Coalition for the Arts

FALL 2015

Dear Westfield Parents: The mission of the Westfield Coalition for the Arts is to act as an advocate for the arts, including music, drama, visual arts, and dance in the Westfield Public Schools, by speaking out on behalf of the arts, maintaining public awareness and utilizing sources of community, financial and philosophical support. Each year we award grants to different arts programs in the schools based upon applications submitted to us from the Westfield Schools’ faculty. This year, we were happy to award over $20,000 in grant money for the following: Guest Clinicians to work with the WHS Band, an Apple TV for RIS music program, a field trip for Ms. Gant’s 8th Grade Orchestra at EIS, a Guest Collegiate Choral Director for WHS Choir, acoustic ceiling tiles for the WHS Band Room, transportation for the WHS Choir to travel to a senior housing complex, Master Classes for the WHS Chorale, musical instruments for Franklin School, music conferences for faculty, art supplies for RIS, new drum sets for RIS, EIS and WHS, and beautifully embroidered choir robes for the high school. We are so fortunate to live in a community that reveres the arts and believes strongly in nourishing the diverse talents of our youth. Demonstrate YOUR commitment to the arts by making a donation today. With your donations we are able to assist the music, choral, fine art, and theatre programs at the elementary, intermediate and high school levels. We are an independent, not-for-profit organization, and we depend solely on the generosity of parents and supporters. In addition, the Coalition is interested in your ideas, suggestions, and comments and hope that you will take the time to email us at WestfieldCoalition@yahoo.com. PLEASE “LIKE” us on FACEBOOK and visit our website: http://www.WestfieldCoalitionForTheArts. We look forward to hearing from you! Thank you for your support. ~ Margaret Smith, W.C.A. President _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Yes, I/we would like to support the WCA. I/we will donate: Benefactor $500 Sponsor $75 Angel $200 Sustaining Member $50 Patron $100 Donation $_______ In appreciation of your gift of $75.00 or more, your name will print in the Winter & Spring concert programs. Name: ____________________________________________________________________________ (If donating $75 or more, please print the name as you would like it to appear in the programs.) Email: _________________________________________________Phone: _________________________ Westfield Public School (where youngest child attends): _____________________________________ Yes, I am interested in volunteering with the Coalition. Check here:___

Please make checks payable to Westfield Coalition for the Arts and mail to:

WCA Treasurer, 562 Pierson St., Westfield NJ 07090