<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; ">Had a blast today at Providence Classical Christian Academy. It's "Mark Twain" days, and Chamber orchestra performed Providence Two Step while students were arriving, and had it's own entry for the Presentations.<br><br>In previous years, it was the "Two Truths and a Lie" contest, where the students told tales about something they did, two of which were truths, and one was not, and you had to guess which was not.<br><br>For Chamber, we "are performing a special piece. It's a period piece that Mark Twain would have heard. It's likely to be remembered". We proceeded to rig picking a teacher name from a hat, and called up Mr. Klousia, the Greek Teacher, known for singing "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees in his car on field trips.<br><br>We handed him a "Boom Box", and proceeded to play an arrangement I did for Stayin' Alive for 2 violins, cello, piano and Flute. Jacqui rolled her eyes a lot in rehearsal, but gamely did a great job with the High Parts.<br><br>Lots of folks enjoyed the School inside joke, I believe. <br><br>After that, students performed excerpts from Mark Twain Literature. Lauren did a FABULOUS job on the Sunday School scene, with rapid character transformations, and cleanly memorized... in a week. I suppose I'm allowed, as a proud poppa to say she was wonderful.<br><br>Lots of students did well in their presentations as well, many of which are now in the choir I'm teaching as well. Kudos, guys!<br><br>Tomorrow, it's the great Raft Race... </span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Jonathan Gathman</div><div><a href="mailto:jonathan@stl.gathman.org">jonathan@stl.gathman.org</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span>
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