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Welcome to Musical Moments on DCS-TV Cable Channel 16 (96-6 on digital TV set tuners) and on Dubuque Schools' Website!
raditionally Musical Moments was created as an opportunity for students to showcase their talents, but it was also an opportunity for our music teachers to communicate vital information to parents and family members on how nurture young musical talent.
This season our coordinator of visual and performing arts, Cheryl Werner, is taking us into typical general music education classrooms to show how the total curriculum benefits from the inclusion and integration of music instruction. In general music, the aim is to build on a student's natural appreciation of music and provide as many hands-on experiences as possible to create music. The over-arching objective is to instill in students the benefits of music education as it applies to other coursework including math, language studies, and in a growing education trend, applied technology.
So in Season 2 of Musical Moments, we will visit several classrooms and visit our capable team of music teachers as they demonstrate how music encourages students to collaborate, cooperate, and create something that is greater than something they could do just by themselves.
| Season 2 Musical Moments 2010-2011 School Year | |
| Episode 6 Bryant School's Adopt a Musician Program | |
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 We took our Musical Moments camera to Bryant School and the fourth grade class taught by music teacher Karmella Sellers. Students are participating in a unique program with the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra, "Adopt a Musican." This is the DSO's concert master and first violin, Caroline Curtis. Here Caroline leads the students and accompanies them with her violin in a lesson designed to teach them how to identify families of instruments and individual instruments in a full orchestra. Click here. |
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| Episode 5 Annual Choir Festival 2011 | |
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| We are once again featuring the most popular downloaded video so far this year, the Annual 2011 ChoirFest held at Roosevelt Middle School. The stage and stage front area were filled with students from every school in the district. It was magificent. Click here. |
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| Episode 4 JazzFest, Roosevelt Middle School Auditorium February 2011 | |
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| We are at the annual JazzFest at Roosevelt Middle School Auditorium. Professional musicans are guest clincians for this day long event that is capped off by a concert of epic proportions involving some of the best musicians in the district. Click here. |
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| Episode 3 Lincoln School and Mrs. Niemann's 3rd Grade Class | |
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| We are with Mrs. Niemann's 3rd grade class at Lincoln School, and we are learning our notes, their position on the scale, and what they sound like in relationship to other notes. All this in anticipation of our first venture into learning a musical instrument, the recorder. Click here. |
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| Episode 2 The Prescott BoomWhacker Band | |
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| This episode was filmed in real-time at Prescott Elementary with music educator Patti Millius. What is a boomwhacker? It's a piece of plastic pipe that is cut to a prescribed length that when whacked with a stick or with one's hand creates a musical note The exercise teaches students how to read music, identify and play notes on a scale. This video provides us with an excellent example of how music instruction encourages eye-hand coordination, how to identify and translate visual cues in the music, how to work cooperatively to create something that can only be realized through teamwork and collaboration. These are all valuable learning skills that influence all subjects learned in a student's lifetime. |
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| Episode 1.5: A Clinic and Concert with The Dallas Brass | |
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| This spectacularly talented and celebrated musical group, The Dallas Brass, have recorded their second visit to Dubuque Schools in the past four years. They spent the afternoon with music students from all three middle and both high schools. Then there was a wonderful concert that nearly filled the 800 seat auditorium at Roosevelt Middle School thanks to Mark and Cheryl Falb, generous benefactors to public schools' music programs. Above is Mike Levine, founder of the Dallas Brass, leading the combined middle school band in a rehearsal for the concert held that evening. We have it all on video. |
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| Episode 1: Intro to Guitar with Steve Slade, Washington Middle School | |
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| This innovative class is taught by Steve Slade at Washington Middle School. Steve encouraged the school to obtain the guitar through a grant and parental organization support. "I wanted these students to learn to play an instrument that was well within their reach, and its something that they may aspire to with proper encouragement and support. It's a skill they will have with them for the rest of their lives." |
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| Season 1 of Musical Moments 2009-2010 School Year | |
| Episode 14: Jazz Explained by Rachel and Alyssa | |
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| These students, Alyssa Mendenhall and Rachel Bruflodt, did a marvelous job in this 4 minute lesson on the origins and history of jazz, a truly American artform. Alyssa and Rachel are musicians themselves, and this was a project that originally aired on RTV (Raptor Television) at Eleanor Roosevelt Middle School. |
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| Episode 13: BandFest 2010 | |
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| The gym floor at Senior High School is a sea of music students with instruments glittering like silver and gold among the waves. It's perhaps one of the largest assemblages of musicians in the history of the district. The grandstand is packed with parents and relatives, cameras are flashing and the kids are having a great time as they become part of something truly wonderful. |
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| Episode 12: A Real Concert Band, 6th Graders at Roosevelt | |
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| The Roosevelt Middle School 6th Grade Band is so good, it was the only 6th band to be invited to play at this year's Iowa Bandmasters' Convention in Des Moines in May. Let's meet bandmaster Dan Norman as he runs his students through their paces. |
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| Episode 11: Vocal Music at Irving | |
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| Deb Stevens and vocal music teacher, Mary Beth Hendricks, Irving Elementary, do a fitting song that celebrates music in education. Click here. |
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| Episode 10: The String Festival | |
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| Members string orchestras throughout the district assemble for the annual All-School String Festival. Join Cheryl Werner as she takes us on a soaring Musical Moment that you're suire to love. Click here. |
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| Episode 9: All That Jazz! We kick off the second half of our Musical Moments Series for 2010 on stage at Senior High with Funk 53 Jazz Ensemble! | |
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| Members of Senior High's jazz ensemble, Funk 53 are featured in this episode of Musical Moments. We interview Senior instrumental music teacher, Bill Rowley, as he discussed the importance of improvisational music in our curriculum and how to carries preserves one of America's greatest art forms. Click here. |
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| Episode 7 and 8: Our First Elementary Combined Concerts featuring the West End Band and Orchestra and the South End Band and Orchestra | |
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| Above, members of the West End Band trombone section, do a special number for the students at Carver Elementary. | |
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| Above, a musican from the South End Orchestra, and below a member of the South End Band. | |
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And it's not all first year's. We have some second year's which represent the "Advanced Band and Orchestra" students. They're doing more complex pieces, harmonies, and other sophisticated technique. |
Click here to see the the South End Performance |
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Click here to see the West End Performance |
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| Episode 6: A Lesson with Mrs. Stevens, Percussion Basics | |
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Episode 6: Percussion: We travel to Irving Elementary School for a percussion lesson with Deb Stevens. There is quite a variety of instruments that make up the percussion section, from the mammoth bass and kettle drums to the bells. If it involves sticks and mallets striking something, it likely belongs in the percussion section of the band and orchestra. But remember this. Though the percussion section occupies the back rows, they are among the leaders of the band and orchestra. They establish and maintain the beat to which everyone else must follow. |
| Episode 5: A Lesson with Mr. Enabnit, Woodwinds Basics | |
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 Episode 5: Playing in an Orchstra: We travel to Eisenhower School and join Mr. Brian Enabnit as he teaches his students in flute and clarinet. |
| Episode 4: Playing in an Orchestra: "Contact Inspiration" | |
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 Episode 4: Playing in an Orchstra: We take our camera to Roosevelt Middle School as musicians prepare for a concert. We talk with young musicians and their adult mentors in a combined orchestra featuring the Roosevelt Middle School Orchstra and the Dubuque String Orchestra under the direction of Tracey Rush. |
| Episode 3 Brass Lesson in Real Time | |
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 Episode 3 A Brass Lesson in Real Time: We take our camera into Deb Steven's music room for a weekly lesson featuring six brass players of Irving Elementary. This episode is designed to give parents a chance to see how a lesson is conducted and perhaps provide suggestions on how to support young musicans in the home as they practice. We recorded the entire lesson as one continuous camera shot with very little editing. |
| Episode 2 Nurturing Talent | |
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 Episode 2 Nurturing Talent: What do you do when you discover your student has a passion for music? How do we nurther this talent especially if it's for an instrument as big as a tuba or a bass violin that's nearly seven feet tall? In this episode we meet another parent of a talented musician, and we listen to the Dubuque Senior High Orchestra perform a public concert at the Carnegie Stout Public Library. |
| Episode 1 Choosing an Instrument | |
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Episode 1 Choosing an Instrument: So how do we begin this musical journey? It starts in fourth grade for most students. In this episode we meet a wonderful elementary school percussionist and his mom. |
Episode 7: Our First Concert... |
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