ASW Winter Concert 4.0

Artwork by Lucy Jordan

American School of Warsaw Elementary School Winter Concert December 12, 2023 6:00 P.M.

Jennifer Shaw, Director for Grades 2-5 Goldie Willis, Director for Grades 1, 4, 5

“Song of Seasons” Program Notes “We sound like dancing fireflies on the water….can we decorate with little Christmas lights? How about a fog machine?”

“Metal instruments sound like twinkling stars! But I think we should add wind chimes to…..well, everything.”

“Hey… wait a minute, the dance is the same pattern as the music!”

“Can we take our shoes off? I love how this carpet feels under my feet!”

These are some of my favorite quotes by your children from over the past few weeks as we prepared for tonight’s performance. Listening to and discussing their thoughts on how music is influenced and celebrated by our surroundings and environment was invigorating and inspiring.

It was fun for everyone as we described our perception (“what I hear”); imagination (“what I wonder”), cognition (“what I know”), experiences, and feelings about the four seasons of winter, spring, summer, and fall. Metal instruments convey the idea of stars; crumpling newspapers sound like rain; eerie sounds of doors creaking and ghosts floating, horses galloping, and more.

Children’s musical creativity is cultivated through singing, chanting rhymes, clapping, dancing, and keeping a beat on anything nearby. This is what children are most comfortable experiencing. In an extraordinary way, I have found that our students are intuitively sensitive to the subtleties in the art they feel, see, and hear. They know beauty when they see and hear it! And, although they may not realize it, the true joy and learning are in the journey, not necessarily in the final destination.

We hope you enjoy the performance!

By Tomasz Koss, 3C

By Eva Tadic, 3M

By Emily Olesen, 4R

SONG OF SEASONS Presented by First Grade Directed by Goldie Willis

Act 1 March from the Nutcracker Suite Making Rain/Rain Song

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky from The Body Electric/Traditional

Falling Leaves Scarf Dance Robot Beat Dance, Theme and Variations

Stephanie Leavell Denise Gagne

Nutcracker March Ensemble

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

“Mmah Went the Little Frog”

Denise Gagne

Goodbye Song

Traditional rewritten by Ms. Goldie

By Lydia Danulevicius, 3OG

SPRING Waiting For Wings

By Lois Elhert

A Musical Adaptation performed by Second Grade

Over in the Garden

Jennifer Shaw, Lyrics from A Child’s Book of Poems, by Kate Dietrich Accompanied by 2Z

North Winds Blow

James O’Donnel Accompanied by 2B

Butterfly!

Julia Parrish Accompanied by 2S

Born Again

Spring 1, Max Richter

We’re Back in the Garden Again

Peter Tenchant

Accompanied by “The Concert Sprinkles”

SUMMER Presented by Third Grade

Summer is Here!

Accompaniment by 3C

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Carl Orff & Gunild Keetman Music for Children, Vol. 1 Lyrics by each third-grade class

Summer is here!

Friends all gather near!

Freedom, play at night, vacation, do it right Summer is here!

School is done for now!

Late nights are allowed!

Swimming, ice cream eating, don’t forget your summer reading, School is done for now!

June, July, and August, Longer days are promised!

Warm days give way to summer’s harvest, June July and August!

All Through the Night

Carol King

Accompaniment by 3OG Recorder Guest Artists from 4th grade

Fireflies Accompaniment by 3M Haikus by Julia and the “Third Grade Concert Sprinkles” Fireflies With my family Beautiful

Japanese Folk Song Arranged by 3M

Glowing moon river Mossy forest flickering The breeze blows the trees

AUTUMN Presented by Fourth Grade

Who Has Seen the Wind

Christina Rossetti

Orchestrated and accompanied by 4O Recorder Guest Artists from 5th grade Dancers: Maja Jasinska, Pola Kubiak, Stefania Rosa-Perek, Mila Rosati, Oliwia Slupezynska

Rake Dance Performed by 4R & 4D

Carl Orff & Gunild Keetman, Music for Children, Vol. 2

Performed by 4S & 4O

Carl Orff & Gunild Keetman, Music for Children, Vol. 1

All Hollow's Eve

WINTER Happy New Year!

Gunild Keetman Rhythmische Ubung Performed by 5Ma

Winter’s First Snow

Carl Orff & Gunild Keetman, Spielbuch Vol. 1 Performed by 5J & 5G

Sanibel

Paul Corbiere Performed by, 5MU & 5G

Sleigh Ride

Ukrainian Folk Song Performed by 5J & 5MU

By Ela Zorluuysal, 3M

By Max Viswat, 3C

By Nazar Vodoviz, 3OG

Thank-You! As always, these performances are never a one-person job and I have many people to thank! ~Thank you, theater manager Jagoda Madej, for handling so many logistics for this performance! ~Thank you, Mr. Fladager & Ms. Rose for your never-ending support! ~ Thank you to my colleagues for all your flexibility, support muscle! ~FMD is an amazing group of individuals that ASW relentlessly relies on. Our performance was no different. We are so grateful for all your help.

1L Malina Brzozowska Barys Charapakha Akin Dogan Maria Geraldes Meireles Raian Ghadi Jacob Glance Aurelia GolebiewskaPiekut Helena Kadri Dohyeon Kim Jack Koser Finnigan Krauthoefer Savva Morozov In Ah Park Eva Raimundo Madeleine Romeo Jan Wiercinski James Wilczek Yi Ning Zeng 1M Jan Darowski My Duong William Grignon Yasmin Jabbir Oded Katz Yeonchul Lee Haoze Lu Naim Ludeman Sofia Lukaszuk Theodore McSpadden David Pogoriler Oscar Romaniuk Hanna Sabaleuskaya Blanka Salwa Charlotte Scheib Vincent Smith Khloe Van Wezel Kerem Yavuzalp

1M Marisa Villarreal Luca Altadonna Vincent Briganti Daniel Bukharin Baran Cem Minseo Cho Hannah Cipriano Naomi Danulevicius Jose Maria Fraga Charlotte Kallmeyer Maria Kowalczyk Zoja Kubiak Juhan Lee Antoni Lutoborski Stanislaw Ptak Natasha Roy Polina Simmon Benjamin Varhaug Bart Viswat Efe Tarik Yilmaz

2S Angeliki Adamopoulou Alberto Alvarez Sanchez Katelyn Bullert-Niesen Mia Busconi Ricci Oddi Aiden Druckman London Ellis Luka Fedoriv Woomin Jeong Qianhang Jin Anastasiya Kartynnik Yuval Mizrachi Laura Noga Herman Protoven Nathan Romeo Sofiya Sapbyyeva Cong Hao Shan Matilda Tadic Jackson Winn Miron Zhornovoy Zeynep Zorel

2B Nikola Bednarek Lilia Butrym Aya Campbell Yoonjae Chung Brandon Flake Vera Gutsul Camilla Heath Oleksandr Khosh Tae Yoon Kim Zofia Kisiel Charlotte Lazides Super Liao Patrik Liska Arabella Mu Nicolas Pirnot Daiana Samoshyna Edward Skinner Naeun Song Danylo Veremyeyev Yun Bo Zhang

2Z Joana Borges Adam Czerwinski Spencer De Amusategui Vicente Geraldes Meireles Yelyzaveta Korobkova Nestor Kovbasiuk Estera Kusiak Yuchan Lee Maja Lubiak Nora Markus Erica McRae Veronika Motuzko Yeseniia Mykal Vincent Przygucki-Pawlowski Frederick Skinner Evelien Steiginga Roger Wojcicki Dong Yoon Woo Woohyun Yang Wiktoria Zeh

3C Eldar Bondar Sierra Bush Junhyeok Choi Elliott Cipriano Jiyul Doh Jozef Florczuk Helena Jurczak Elizabeth Keilty Chanyu Kim Lina Kim Aleksander Korczak John Koser Tomasz Koss Masha Kravchenko Jagoda Krzeminska Rafael Kubista Nora Lindberg Oleksandra Paliienko Can Pusuroglu Julia Rebkowska Marcin Slotala Max Viswat 3M Dina Aspengren Livia Babieno Helena Belcarz Ines Borges Maurycy Bronowski Lorenzo Calcagno Benjamin Curtis Guaillas Leo Drozd Sofiya Fadhil Duarte Fraga Louis Hoang Lucille Jordan David Kazarian Hayong Kim Alexander Lutoborski Wiktoria Nawrocka

Brian Parsons Emmalani Shane Franciszek Swolkien Maksym Zaslavets Ela Zorluuysal Grant Zwolinski 3OG Gavin Abrams Colin Armstrong Willow Chisholm Lydia Danulevicius Magdalena Filipiak Nikodem Kadri Nayeong Kil Adam Kobylecki Angelia Lee Kai Yan Li Boris Marinov Karolina Martinez Julian Mazi-Szepietowski Daniel Mitoraj Deleena Paudel Maelle Pavlos Eva Tadic Stefan Tobola Adam Turupalov Zara van Heel Nazar Vodoviz Woojun Yang

4D Robert Armstrong III Borys Brzozowski Alain Cordero Noemi Darceuil - Li Fraine Bohan Huang Adam Kallmeyer Kate Kasik Hagyeong Kim Maria Kondrat Raphael Maggio Zalan Markus Viola Musile Teodor Noga Sydney Popescu Olivia Prasniewska-Steggles Nina Robadey Milda Sabrinskaite Maksymilian Wojcik Seungwon Yoo 4O Lance Flake Ji-min Hwang Franciszek Iwinski Ksawery Kadri Jakub Kepinski Nicole Koczut-Kaczmarek Pola Kubiak Hudson LaBaw Pedro Lopez Espinosa Pawel Malinowski Roxane Puech Matilde Ramalho Filipe Stefania Rosa-Perek Dahlia Rosenkrans Ihnat Sabaleuski Gaon Shin Milana Skokova Antoni Sliwinski Emilia Zimowska

4R Piotr Bednarek Griffin Campbell Bulut Cem Yoonjoo Chung Kennedy Dachpian Berat Demirci Anastazja Donmez Rhett Ellsesser Benjamin Glance Dror Katz Jeremi Kopa Zofia Latek Jiyoon Lee Diana Lisicka Emily Olesen Seung-ah Park Arabelle Romeo Ivan Susak Jiamiao Ye 4S Emilia Briganti Batu Cem Connor De Amusategui Magdalena DymanusBielecka Alena Ivanova Maja Jasinska Aleksander Kadri Yuna Kim Mariya Kostyuk Milan Mikulski Maksym Polit Natalia Quesada Mila Rosati Eylul Sancak Oren Shamir Oliwia Slupczynska Hayul So Henry Toscano-Edwards Matej Vaner Leo Wilczek Henryk Zebrowski

5G Artem Abrosymov Vusi Barnes-Lusinga Vito Borgnia Bozzini Daria Boz Vienna Bush Jaeyeong Choi Seungyeon Choi Galen Derry Mateus Fraga Timur George Mila Grove Emilia Grzeszczak Suah Jeong Maksim Kartynnik Hleb Kladau Wiktoria Lisicka Hannah McRae Frida Meronk Franciszek Pytel Addison Quiroz 5J Nhi Duong Anna Enderle Illia Gapochenko Annabelle Glance Marcel Kalestynski Ali Kaya Soo Min Kim Chloe Koser Defne Kucukkara Yifei Li Varvara Liashchuk Anna Ligay Adam Mesquita Alexine Neven Taeyoon Park Carolyn Price Daniil Samoshyn Andrii Stamburskyy Jasper Taylor Brody Turner Si Yoon Woo Ada Yavuzalp

5M Kartmaya Ally Emiliia Bondar Rita Borges Anastasiia Borovyk Dayeon Choi Siwon Choi Jan Czubak Roza Grzeda Laura Iwanska-Guerreiro Janina KielczewskaSkoczylas Sang Woo Kim Marina Liron Rosas Pearl Macbride Romanos Mitzalis Micah Pavlos Miron Polkhovsky Dhananjeyan Ramesh Babu Alexander Smith Csongor Adam Toka Brandon Turner Maksymilian Yuen 5MA Mikolaj Belcarz Nicole Bullert-Niesen Joowon Chung Genevieve Curtis Guaillas Daria Diachenko Colin Dow Mia Druckman Maksymilian Filipiak Bruno Fontana Yire Han Seyun Jeong Dana Kim Anna-Maria Kovbel Lia Mattos Rodrigues Julia Mitoraj Maksymilian Motz Yevheniia Paliienko Michael Parsons Nida Rudauskaite Sardar Sadigbayli Samantha Tenderenda Uraz Tokat