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With the kids jingle belling‌ Students set to serenade at annual holiday concerts Port Chester third graders team up for double the holiday spirit Port Chester elementary schools, each shines alone Port Chester Middle School makes a night of music Songs fill the air at Port Chester High School Instruments take center stage at Blind Brook High School Blind Brook middle and high schoolers croon out carols Concerts continue in January for Blind Brook fifth graders and middle schoolers

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Students set to serenade at annual holiday concerts

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very year when December rolls around, out comes the holiday music. After all, it isn’t Christmas without “Jingle Bells,” nor Hanukkah without “The Dreidel Song.” Does it ever feel like winter until “It’s The Most Wonderful Time of The Year” has been heard at least once?

Even though holiday tunes are playing on multiple radio stations and in practically every store, there are also options to hear them live, too. Winter concerts at the various public schools are as much a staple of the season as hot chocolate.

“It’s tradition that schools have their own concerts,” said Ken Kraut, the music department chair for the Port Chester School District.

“Up until a few years ago, they’d have them in their own buildings,” he added.

When the shows became so popular, there was no longer enough room to house all of the parents and community members who wanted to attend, the district decided to hold all the elementary performances in the middle school auditorium. As it is, popularity has only continued to grow and the fans from only one elementary school can still pack the seats in the Port Chester Middle School auditorium.

“This is all driven by the number of people who want to come see the kids and the number of seats in the auditorium,” Kraut explained.

Port Chester third graders team up for double the holiday spirit

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Santa hats on their heads, the Port Chester Middle School Show Choir croons Christmas songs last December. They will perform again at this year’s winter concert on Thursday, Dec. 17.

Courtesy of Carolee Brakewood for the auditorium. About five years ago, “Since we had a separate night for the the district decided to split up the grades JFK third grade, we thought we would for the winter concerts and have the third enhance it and make it a collaborative exgraders perform separately. For this year, perience,” the music department chair exhowever, Kraut decided to try something plained. The Kennedy School third graders Continued a little different.

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DATE SCHOOL PERFORMING GROUPS LOCATION Monday, Dec. 7 King Street School 4th & 5th Grade Glee Clubs; 5th Grade Band Port Chester Middle School Tuesday, Dec. 8 John F. Kennedy School 4th & 5th Grade Glee Clubs; 5th Grade Band Port Chester Middle School Wednesday, Dec. 9 Blind Brook High School Instrumental groups Trautwein Auditorium Thursday, Dec. 10 Park Avenue School 4th & 5th Grade Glee Clubs; 5th Grade Band Port Chester Middle School Monday, Dec. 14 Thomas A. Edison School 4th & 5th Grade Glee Clubs; 5th Grade Band Port Chester Middle School Tuesday, Dec. 15 Blind Brook Middle School Choral groups Trautwein Auditorium Thursday, Dec. 17 Port Chester Middle School 6th Grade Chorus; 7th & 8th Grade Chorus;

Show Choir; 6th Grade Band;

7th & 8th Grade Band; Jazz Band Port Chester Middle School Thursday, Dec. 17 Blind Brook Middle & High Schools Choral groups Trautwein Auditorium Monday, Dec. 21 Port Chester High School Concert Choir; Select Choir;

Concert Band; Jazz Band Port Chester High School Tuesday, Dec. 22 King Street School

& Park Avenue School 3rd Grades Port Chester Middle School

John F. Kennedy School

& Thomas A. Edison School 3rd Grades Port Chester Middle School Tuesday, Jan. 12 Blind Brook Middle School Instrumental groups Trautwein Auditorium Wednesday, Jan. 13 Blind Brook Middle School Jazz groups Trautwein Auditorium Thursday, Jan. 14 Ridge Street School 5th Grade Band Trautwein Auditorium Snow date for Port Chester elementary concerts: Wednesday, Dec. 16

will take part in a joint concert with Edison School. Similarly, the King Street School and Park Avenue School third grade students are teaming up for a performance, too. Each school will sing songs independently and then two songs with its partner school.

For their joint concert, Park Avenue and King Street Schools will each sing their school songs. The King Street students will also perform “It’s The Most Wonderful Time of The Year” while Park Avenue students will go solo on “We Wish You a Merry Christmas.” Then the students from both buildings will combine to perform “La Piñata” and “Jingle Bells.”

The Edison third graders will croon “Fa La La La,” “Everything Is Beautiful,” and “Scallywag.” John F. Kennedy, on the other hand, will be doing “Suzy Snowflake” and “The Dreidel Song.” Then they will team up for “Frosty the Snowman” and conclude with “Auld Lang Syne.”

The Third Grade Festival of Music will be the last Port Chester event of the year taking place on Tuesday, Dec. 22.

King and Park will go first at 6 p.m., followed by Kennedy and Edison at 7:30 p.m.

The last full day of classes before winter break, Dec. 22, is also the date of the bond referendum. As the music festival and the bond vote will both take place at the middle school, there are plans already in the works to create parking spaces in the backfield. There will be lights set up and people to assist with the parking.

Port Chester elementary schools, each shines alone

Before getting to that culminating concert, there are six other ones scheduled.

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First up are the fourth and fifth grade glee clubs and fifth grade band performances. King Street School has the first event on Monday, Dec. 7. The fourth graders will get the chance to belt out “Haida,” “Bless Us All,” “Minka” and “Sleigh Ride.” The oldest students at King Street School will perform “A Ram Sam Sam,” “Christmas Is Coming,” “Frosty the Snowman” and “Carol of the Bells.” Besides the glee clubs, the fifth grade band will also get a chance to shine. Attendees will hear the instrumental version of “Sleigh Ride” as well as “Feliz Navidad.”

Kennedy students will take the stage the next night. The fourth and fifth grade glee clubs will sing a variety of holiday music and the fifth grade band will also serenade the audience on Tuesday, Dec. 8.

Park Avenue School is up next on Thursday, Dec. 10. Since Kristin Fleming is the choral teacher at two elementary schools, the Park Avenue School fourth and fifth grade glee clubs will stage the same numbers as their counterparts at King Street School. As for the fifth grade band, they will get the chance to play “Jingle Bells,” “The Dreidel Song,” “March of the Wooden Soldiers” and “Toyland.”

In a similar move, Anthony Sabia is in charge of the fifth grade band at Park Avenue School and Edison School. Consequently, his students at Edison will be performing the same set of music as Park Avenue. On Monday, Dec. 14, the Edison School fourth and fifth grade glee clubs will take to the stage at the middle school. The fourth graders will be singing, appropriately, “Sing, Sing Together,” and “Shoulda Been a North Pole Elf.” They will also do “Dayenu,” a traditional Hebrew song arranged by Russell Robinson, and “A la Nanita Nana,” a Spanish lullaby arContinued 9

ranged by Cheryl Lavender. Afterwards, the fifth graders will serenade with “Oh, How Lovely is the Evening,” “Joy In My Heart,” “The Beginning of Love” and “Please Don’t Sing Another ‘Fa La La.’”

Port Chester Middle School makes a night of music

With two choruses, one choir, three bands, a brass ensemble and a sax ensemble, the Port Chester Middle School concert on Thursday, Dec. 17 is the largest holiday event for the district.

While all of the instrumental parts have some sort of holiday flair to them, that is not true with all of the choral pieces.

“It’s not a very blatantly holiday program,” explained director Mark Zizolfo.

“It’s more of them building a repertoire of quality music they should know as singers.”

When planning the concert for both the sixth grade chorus and the seventh and eighth grade combined chorus, Zizolfo looks for challenging songs that would also be musically and pedagogically exciting for his students.

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Four King Street School students from the woodwind ensemble pose together at the winter concert last year. The 2015 performance will be on Monday, Dec. 7. From left: Sophia Tsoukalas, Reina Thalheimer, Jenna Provenzano and Sophia Courtesy of Karen Provenzano Ortiz-Heaney.

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Consequently, the first piece the sixth graders will confront is the five-part, traditional Latin piece, “Jubilate Deo.” All singers should learn it at some point, Zizolfo said, and he is thrilled to do it at such an early age with his students. The sixth grade chorus will also harmonize during “Land That We Love,” a partner song which includes parts of “America, the Beautiful.” Their last piece will be “Peace I Leave With You,” an arrange-

ment by Donald Moore that is based off a melody by Mozart and speaks about peace, something that does fit with the holiday season, Zizolfo said.

As with the sixth graders, the older middle school students will have an international flavor to their show. They will kick off with an a capella, threepart harmony for an African folk song.

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into it which he hopes will also entice the audience. “The African song, that is a language they’ve never really been exposed to,” he said. “It’s just a challenge on all sorts of parts.”

His plan is to set the tone for the rest of the seventh and eighth grade chorus performance. Their next number is “Turn The World Around,” a Calypso song, and they will close with “Joyful, Joyful,” a Gospel song based off a Beethoven melody. Like the sixth grade’s final number, the seventh and eighth graders will end with a song that, while not explicitly holiday-themed, still evokes this time of year.

Zizolfo’s show choir performance, however, is all about the holiday jams. The students will sing the well-known “Let It Go” from Disney’s Frozen and “Silver Bells.” The show choir’s third piece is a bit more unique. At its base is “Auld Lang Syne,” but it becomes a mash-up of currently popular songs, as well as some golden oldies. Bruno Mars, The Beatles, Miley Cyrus and U2 will all peek through the Scottish folk song.

Besides the students’ voices, instruments will also sing out on Thursday, Dec. 17. Under the instruction of Linda McDermott, the sixth grade band and the seventh and eighth grade band will set out to dazzle the audience.

The younger students will tackle “A Holiday Processional,” a medley of seasonal favorites arranged by John O’Reilly, “African Noel,” arranged by Johnnie Vinson, and “Joyful Rock,” Scott Watson’s rock arrangement of Beethoven’s famous “Ode To Joy.” The seventh and eighth grade combined band will also be performing three pieces. “Two Spanish Carols,” an arrangement by Mark Williams of two of Spain’s most popular carols, will be the band’s more international piece. The combined band will also play another arrangement by Mark Williams, “Jingle Bell Jazz,” as well as “And All the Bells Shall Ring!” which includes a dramatic section of “The Ukranian Bell Carol” arranged by Rob Romeyn.

The Port Chester Middle School Jazz Band, and the brass and sax ensembles, will also perform a variety of holiday songs. At this point, however, Kraut, their director, is not sure which exactly they Village Views

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will be playing. Even though Christmas CDs make up the largest part of his personal music collection, Kraut has a rule not to start listening to them until Dec. 1. Similarly, he does not like to start rehearsing holiday tunes at the start of the school year.

“I don’t like the idea of coming to school in September and playing ‘Jingle Bells,’” Kraut said.

Consequently, the program is still evolving. Among the possibilities are “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch,” “Nutcracker Swing,” based on the march from the beloved holiday ballet, “Still, still, still,” an Austrian Christmas carol, and “A Jazzy Merry Christmas,” a swing medley of several seasonal songs. In the end, the jazz band will only play three pieces; one will definitely have a jazz aspect, another a rock flavor and the final one will be a slower ballad.

Songs fill the air at Port Chester High School

Unlike all the other concerts, the high school winter concert will be held at Port Chester High School on Monday, Dec. 21.

“We’re doing some a capella pieces in the winter concert,” said choral director Linda Ventura.

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Members of the Blind Brook High School choir sing “Silent Night” at Rye Brook’s holiday tree and menorah lighting at Pine Ridge Park last year. Some Blind Brook students will perform again this year at Rye Brook’s Winter Fest on Dec. 4 before the holiday choral concerts later in December. From left: Katy Comstock, Vanessa Numme, Jamie Epstein, Samuel Landino and Brandon Weston.

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piece. “It’s stunning,” Ventura added. “It’s evocative of cold and winter.”

The Concert Choir will also croon “Jubilate Deo,” the same Latin staple the middle schoolers learned, and “Pachelbel’s Canon” featuring singer Colby Quinlan on string bass. For the beautiful Hebrew folk song “Sim Shalom,” soloists Gisella McCallion, a soprano, and Isabella Rios, an alto, will have the chance to stand out. Similarly, “senior Briana Velazquez will present a soulful rendition of ‘The Christmas Song,’” Ventura said.

The Select Choir will also do four numbers. They will be performing a jazz version of “O Christmas Tree,” as well as “Set Me as a Seal” by Rene Clauson, and two by John Leavitt, “Gloria” and “Kyrie.”

For the songs not done a capella, Port Chester High School alum Jessica Westerman will be their accompanist.

Besides the vocal accomplishments, the high school band will entertain attendees.

Like Kraut, high school band director Bob Vitti had not finalized the list of music for the concert band or jazz band as

Under the direction of Mark Zizolfo, Port Chester Middle School students sing holiday tunes during the 2014 middle school concert. This year’s performance will be on Thursday, Dec. 17.

Courtesy of Carolee Brakewood of press time. Holiday tunes are likely, but the show will be a surprise for residents, although Vitti promised no Queen,

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Instruments take center stage at Blind Brook High School

Just like its neighboring school district, Blind Brook has a series of end-ofthe-year concerts scheduled. Not all of its shows will be in December, however, with half of them occurring in the new year.

The first one is the high school’s instrumental concert on Wednesday, Dec. 9.

“It’s not only holiday music,” said director Howard Levy. “It’s a celebration of not only the holidays, but all the work they’ve put in since the beginning of the year.”

The concert will begin with three pieces by the jazz ensemble, each selection showcasing a different style of jazz. The first is a classic Duke Ellington, “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore,” then “Count Bubba” by Gordon Goodwin and finally “Mambo Loops,” a Latin piece.

Next up is the concert band with a more holiday-themed show. “The Angels Sang” is a medley of Christmas tunes that all feature the heavenly host and will be followed by “A Celebration of Hanukkah,” which is also a medley although centered around the Jewish rather than Christian holiday. “Then they’re playing a beautiful ballad called ‘In Endless Song.’ It’s only a couple of years old this piece,” Levy said.

“Then we’re finishing up with a classic overture called ‘Andromeda.’”

The high school chamber ensemble

Accompanied by Cindy Moore on the piano and directed by Kaitlin Carey, the Blind Brook Middle School Select Chorus sings “Christmastime Is Here” during the 2014 holiday concert. This year’s concert will be on Tuesday, Dec. 15.

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will take the stage afterwards. Haydn’s “Surprise” symphony, the first movement, will be their first piece to tackle. That will be followed by Scott Joplin’s rag, “The Entertainer.” “Then from the Carmen suite, they’re going to be performing two different movements: the prelude and the Habanera,” Levy said. Although people may not be able to call the tunes to memory, Levy said that when they hear them,

the audience should recognize all the songs the chamber ensemble plans to play.

The wind ensemble gets the final spot on stage for their four pieces, including “Where Eagles Soar” and “Yuletide Tapestry,” a “medley of Christmas songs or a tapestry, if it were,” Levy explained.

“Then they’re going to perform a ballad called ‘Mountain Thyme’ and it has an Irish sort of flavor to it. It reflects on the beautiful landscape of Ireland.”

The final song for the wind ensemble—and the high school instrumental concert—will be “A Hanukkah Festival,” another compilation of Hanukkah music.

Blind Brook middle and high schoolers croon out carols

Students in the Blind Brook Middle School Jazz Ensemble play “What a Wonderful World” at last school year’s show. The Jazz Ensemble will be part of the winter concert on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016.

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There will be two different choral concerts with the sixth and seventh graders going first on Tuesday, Dec. 15. Then the eighth graders, as well as the high school students, will get their chance to serenade the community on Thursday, Dec. 17.

“Both programs will feature a selection of holiday classics and will follow the theme of ‘Peace and Good Will To All On Earth,’” explained choral director Kaitlin Carey.

The younger students will sing 10 songs, including two in Hebrew, “Al Shlosha D’Varim” and “Hine Ma Village Views

Tov,” and one in Latin, “Dona Nobis Pacem.” The rest of their repertoire will be “I’d Like To Teach the World To Sing,” “Hanukkah Comes,” “Winter Wonderland,” “Yonder Come Day,” “Play A Simple Melody,” Peace, Peace/Silent Night and “Somewhere In My Memory,” the Christmas song from Home Alone.

Like the younger students, the eighth through 12th graders will end their show with the Latin canon “Dona Nobis Pacem.”

They, too, will be singing a Hebrew song, “Dodi Li.” The rest of their show will involve “Ye Shall Have A Song,” “We Need a Little Christmas,” “Alleluia” by William Boyce, “Hanukkah Night,” “One Candle,” and “Celtic Silent Night,” a unique take on the classic song but with authentic Celtic rhythms.

Concerts continue in January for Blind Brook fifth graders and middle schoolers

Unsurprisingly, the Blind Brook concerts that kick off the new year will not be as holiday-themed as the earlier gettogethers.

The sixth and seventh grade band concert on Tuesday, Jan. 12 will start off with the younger students. The sixth grade band will be performing “Ayre and Dance” by Bruce Pearson, “Heroes and Glory” by James Swearingen, “Hunter’s Mountain” by Rob Grice and “Distant Castle” by James Swearingen. The seventh grade band will follow with “Fanfare and Jubilee” by James Swearingen, “Presto!” by Robert Sheldon, “On the Wing” by Jack Wilds and “Pirates of the Caribbean” arranged by Paul Murtha.

“The concert will also feature works by some of our middle school woodwind trios as well,” added director Don Whitman.

The following night has a jazzier schedule. The Middle School Select Band combined with the eighth grade band will perform along with the Blind Brook Middle School Jazz Ensemble on Wednesday, Jan. 13. The Jazz Ensemble will open with “Bad Attitude,” a swing style blues number by Michael Sweeney, and then perform a rock style song, “J.B. Rides Again,” by Rick Stitzel.

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dents from the sixth and seventh grade, will perform four songs. Audience members will get the chance to nod along to “Kaboom” by Rob Romeyn, “Ignite the Night” by James Swearingen, “Snake Charmer” by Randall D. Standridge and the popular song “Happy” arranged

by Michael Brown. “A small ensemble may be featured at this concert as well,” Whitman said.

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ementary school also has a date set aside for a show. Ridge Street School’s fifth grade band will have the final winter concert on Thursday, Jan. 14. They will be performing songs from their band book Accent On Achievement and Billy Joel’s “Piano Man.” So, if anyone is in the mood for some music—be it holiday or otherwise—there are a number of school-sponsored concerts available. n

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Yorkie Jake Rothweiler of Puritan Drive, Port Chester in his Christmas pajamas.

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Dogs dress up for Christmas, too

Bailey and Daisy Mae Casino of Irenhyl Avenue, Rye Brook pose in front of the Christmas tree.

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Kane Cann of Birch Street, Port Chester, dons an elf hat.

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English Bulldogs Dakota and King Rytelewski of Birch Street, Port Chester.

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Champion Provenzano of Quintard Drive, Port Chester in his Santa suit.

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A tough-looking Bella Luna Turturino of Birch Street, Port Chester wearing reindeer ears.

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Honey, the long haired Chihuahua belonging to Mary Ellen Smith of Madison Avenue, Port Chester.

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Port Chester native Alexander Ceruzzi stands behind the piano where he often composes music.

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Port Chester native publishes CD and song book with eight original Christmas tunes

By Claire K. Racine

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oliday classics are just that: timeless music that is beloved by generation after generation. That does not mean, however, that there is not a market for new songs about Christmastime.

After crafting eight original tunes, a Port Chester native recently published Christmas Holiday: CD and Song Book.

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“I like Christmas. I fell in love with it as a kid,” said Alexander Ceruzzi. “Even now at 69 years old, I still can’t wait for it to get here.”

Born and raised in Port Chester, Ceruzzi started accordion lessons when he was only four years old. He soon added drum lessons to his busy schedule. Luckily for him, Ceruzzi had a natural advantage when it came to his music lessons.

“I was given a gift: perfect pitch,” he

explained. Like most people can look at a stop sign and instantly know the color is red, Ceruzzi can hear a piece of music and easily identify the chords that make it up. “The best thing I can really do is take a look at a piece of music, the black notes, and automatically hear what it sounds like,” he said.

After graduating from Port Chester High School in 1964, Ceruzzi decided to take advantage of his gift and headed Village Views

off to college where he studied music education. He then spent two decades sharing his love of music with students before getting into the transportation business. Today he is back to instructing children, teaching piano lessons near his home in Georgia.

He also spends much of his time writing and promoting music. Sometimes inspiration will strike in the middle of the night and he will have a new piece by morning. “You never know when you’re going to get an inkling,” the songwriter said, adding that other songs, unsurprisingly, can take a little more time.

Ceruzzi has released several CDs, but this is his first holiday compilation. After perfecting the music and lyrics, Ceruzzi sent it off to be recorded. Two tracks were recorded in Las Vegas, Nev. and the rest in Nashville, Tenn. To make the product really special, Ceruzzi decided to release it along with an illustrated song book. Loving her traditional-looking Santa Claus, Ceruzzi hired Tamara Campeau to draw the pictures to go along with his lyrics.

Port Chester native Alexander Ceruzzi recently published Christmas Holiday: CD and Song Book, which includes eight original songs he composed.

Courtesy of Alexander Ceruzzi

Ceruzzi wrote his first holiday piece a decade ago, and “Christmas Holiday” has since won song of the year in 2014.

Although that was his first Christmas

song, there are seven other tracks on the CD he just put out. Out of them, there is one that really stands out, he said.

In “Dear Santa Claus,” a little boy starts off asking for toys after having been good all year. After hearing about poverty on television, however, he has a change of heart. “He tells Santa, ‘Give my toys away to other deserving boys and girls,’” Ceruzzi explained. “That brings the message home real quick that we still care about other people.”

“People will hear that [song and] almost come to tears,” he added.

Anyone interested in purchasing Christmas Holiday: CD and Song Book can visit Ceruzzi’s website at melodymanmusic.com. It is also available for $24.95 from Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Mascot Books, which published the book.

The CD, which comes with the book, is on the inside cover.

“It’s 38 pages. They do get the actual CD and the book with the lyrics and illustrations,” Ceruzzi said. “It’s something that would just make a great gift for anyone.” n

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