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Student Showcase
Friday, April 24, 2026 @ 5:30
Teacher: Ms. Bethany Harris
Sound Beginnings Showcase
This fun program for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers provides a solid music and preschool foundation to prepare even the youngest students for a lifelong love of music and learning. This semester we had several songs that introduced us to French! Some of our friends are going to share 2 of our songs with you!
This Little River & Il Court Il Court Le Furet (It Runs, It Runs, the Ferret)
Featuring: Opal Anderson, Aurora Algra, Ana Banov, Summer Broadbent, Weston Chesnut, Celeste Cordes, Liam Cottle, Sienna Duncan, Billie Gonsalves, Brady Goodin, Alida & Lucy Johnson, Beckett Marygold, Aiden & Phronzie Nelson-Jewkes, Felicity Peterson, Matty Prerost, Luka Ray, Theo Shelton, Daisy & Iyla Stephenson
1st and 2nd Year Showcase
1st Year Students
Gwen Cottle
Evalynne Duncan
Annie Elmer
Joah Gerdes
Kapena Gonsalves
Joseph Prerost
Dallin Shearer
Jackson Shelton
2nd Year Students
Michael Broadbent
Nora Dokos
Jiya Gerdes
Lizzie Knight
Sam Knight
Logan Lenkersdorfer
Ezra Mitchell
Saylor Purbaugh
Evie Riggs
In keeping with our teaching philosophy, this performance will be full of playing and music but NOT full of talking. Follow along with this program to learn the names of our talented performers and a brief explanation of the musical concepts demonstrated by each song!
LET’S PLAY MUSIC — All Students
We’ve learned to hear and identify common melodic cadences in music both by sound and on the staff. They even sound good together!
DINOSAUR SONG — Tone Bells: Annie, Jackson
This song helps us read music on the staff as we follow the steps & skips and play it with our bells; this is preparatory to playing keyboards in 2nd & 3rd year.
EL GALLO — Autoharp: Evalynne, Kapena
This song teaches us to hear harmonic rhythm through the chords.
CAN’T BUG ME CHANT — 1st Year Students
We can keep a steady beat, subdivide a beat, identify the music notation for all these rhythms, and ‘sight read’ them in any order you challenge us with.
OLD PAINT — Tone Bells: Dallin, Evalynne
Autoharp: Jackson, Joah
Once we understand how our primary chords work, we can use them to make music! This song has only one chord – the red chord! We can play broken chords on our bells and play the chords on the autoharp at the same time!
BILL GROGAN’S GOAT — Autoharp: Joseph, Annie
This song helps us count 4 beats between each line of the song, whether we tap each beat or just count it in our heads; we’ve learned to read a chord map.
DO, RE, MI — Tone Bells: Gwen, Joseph
Solfege hand signs are over 100 years old and they help with ear training & singing on pitch. This allows young minds to see how notes move around the staff before note reading is possible.
A FROG WENT A-HOPPIN’ — Tone Bells: Joah, Dallin
This is an ostinato played in harmony with our singing; we can read these ‘leaps’ on a staff; a leap is anything bigger than a skip.
HOW TO SKIP — Tone Bells: Kapena, Gwen
Keyboard: Jiya, Lizzie
We learned this song in First Year to help us recognize skips on the staff, using our tone bells. In second year we have learned to play skips on the piano. Understanding the differences between steps and skips has helped us as we’ve learned to sight read!
TURTLE SHELLS — Keyboard: Ezra, Logan
An important skill of reading music is the ability to quickly see the relationship between two notes. This relationship is called an interval, but we like to call our intervals turtle shells! Listen to how well we know our intervals!
I AM ROBIN HOOD — Keyboard: Evie, Ezra, Lizzie (1st verse), Nora, Sam, Saylor (2nd verse)
Playing rhythms correctly can be difficult. We have learned to do this by first feeling the rhythm through full body involvement. Listen for the dotted quarter & eighth note rhythm on the keyboards as we “shoo-oot the arrows!”
THE CATERPILLAR SONG — Keyboard: Evie, Sam
We can play hands together in “contrary motion” which is where our hands mirror each other. Our finger numbers are the same, but we’re playing different notes on each hand.
HICKORY DICKORY DOCK — Keyboard: Logan, Nora
We can play hands together in “parallel motion” which is where our hands are playing the same notes, but they aren’t playing with the same finger numbers on each hand.
TINGA LAYO — Keyboard: Saylor, Michael
We can change a block chord into a stylized calypso chord to add excitement!
PRACTICE EVERY DAY — Keyboard: Michael, Jiya
Throughout second year, we have learned about the grand staff, the treble and bass clefs, how to play steps and skips, and how to play hands together. We’ve also learned that “if we practice every day, lots of songs we’ll learn to play!
THE PIRATE SHIP — 2nd Year Students
Listening intelligently to classical music is both a skill and an art! By guiding the children’s ears to hear the individual themes in music, and the recurrence of themes in a balanced form, we are teaching them to understand classical music, which makes them love it! It also helps them later on (in 3rd Year and beyond) as they create original compositions.
After a hearty round of applause, each student will receive a certificate. Then we’ll take pictures!
LET’S SAY GOODBYE — Everyone “We’ll see you next year!”
A special thank you to all the loving parents who are helping their children along this journey. This program wouldn’t be the same without you!
3rd Year & Bridge Recital
Friday, April 24, 2026 @ 6:15
Teacher: Ms. Bethany Harris
3rd Year Students
Sterling Beckley
Zoe Fisher
Tanner Lenkersdorfer
Marilyn Liljegren
Stockton Morrill
Micah Orton
Ava Shelton
Graham Taylor
Original Compositions
All pieces are composed and performed by the students themselves!
Crazy Science — Ava Shelton
“If you listen carefully, you will hear harmony.”
The Angry Cloud — Graham Taylor
“If you listen carefully, you will hear wind and the night sky.”
Butterfly in the Wind — Marilyn Liljegren
“If you listen carefully, you will hear the butterfly in the wind and not in the wind.”
A Boy and a Kitten — Micah Orton
“If you listen carefully, you will hear a boy and a kitten’s footsteps. And maybe even an angel helping them when they’re lost.”
Saturn — Sterling Beckley
“If you listen carefully, you will hear Saturn.”
Ten Topping Pizza — Tanner Lenkersdorfer
“Something that makes my song special is it is funny.”
Under the Ocean — Stockton Morrill
“If you listen carefully, you will hear a dolphin.”
The Fruit Bats — Zoe Fisher
“Something that makes my song special is it’s mostly red chords.”
Bridge Students
Eva Fisher
Georgia Liljegren
Tayla Mathis
Original Compositions
All pieces are composed and performed by the students themselves!
Hallow Night — Eva Fisher
“If you listen carefully, you will hear candy being dropped, someone getting scared, and ghouls, ghosts, and goblins.”
LEH (“Why” in Egyptian) — Georgia Liljegren
“If you listen carefully, you will hear that it sounds like Egyptian.”
Magic — Tayla Mathis
“If you listen carefully, you will hear magic.”
After a hearty round of applause for these fabulous young musicians, each will be presented a certificate. Then we’ll take pictures!