Sunday, April 29, 2012

Video: Moonglowers at NJAJE Finals 2012

Congratulations to the Moonglowers on their performance at the New Jersey Association for Jazz Education Finals on April 28, 2012. The group placed second overall (edged out by less than a point!). It took 1st Place for its sax section, and 1st Place for sight reading. Nick Poulios received a soloist award.

Here are three videos shared by music parent Mark Davis. Enjoy!



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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Congratulations on great performances in Boston

Our musical students traveled to Boston April 19-22 to take part in a Festival of Music evaluation program.


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DID YOU TAKE PICTURES?

We're looking for photos
of our SPFHS musicians on the
2012 Spring Evaluation Trip
to Boston.

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PHOTOS OR VIDEOS!

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your images to our collection.
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Twelve schools from Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia and Canada participated. The ensembles were given ratings of superior, excellent, good, fair or poor.

Here are the results for Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School:
  • SELECT CHOIR: Superior, 1st Place
  • CONCERT CHOIR: Superior, 1st Place, Best Overall Mixed Choir
  • LAS CAN: Superior, 1st Place
  • CHAMBER CHOIR: Superior, 1st Place, Best Overall Choir
  • MEN'S CHOIR: Excellent, 1st Place
  • CONCERT BAND: Excellent, 1st Place
  • JAZZ BAND A: Excellent, 1st Place
  • JAZZ BAND B: Excellent
  • PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE: Good
  • RHYTHMSENSE: Excellent, 2nd Place
  • WINTER GUARD: Excellent, 2nd Place
  • SPF JAZZ: Superior, 1st Place
  • MOONGLOWERS: Superior, 1st Place, Best Overall Jazz Band
  • WIND ENSEMBLE: Superior, 1st Place, William D. Revelli Award for Best Overall Concert Band
  • MOONGLOWER SAXOPHONE SECTION: Best Overall Section
  • NICK POULIOS: Outstanding Jazz Soloist, Outstanding Choral Accompanist.


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Video: Festivals of Music-Boston 2012

We've found a couple of videos on YouTube from the April 2012 evaluation trip to the Festivals of Music in Boston. If you have or know of other videos, please send us links so we can add them to this collection.

Here, the Moonglowers perform "The Little Clam"
Next: The Moonglowers perform "Bugle Call Rag"


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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Featured photo: Kicking up their heels



Congratulations to the cast and crew of "Anything Goes" for a great run!


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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Photos: 'Anything Goes' Performance, March 17, 2012

The Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School Repertory Theater put on a wonderful production of "Anything Goes," featuring the music of Cole Porter and the singing, dancing, acting and comedy talents of the student cast. Congratulations to everyone who worked so hard to make the show a success!

Here's a gallery of photos taken Saturday, March 17, at the second of the six performances.

Copyright 2012 by Dan Murphy, all rights reserved

Dan Murphy, keeper of this website, took most of these photos with his trusty little Canon PowerShot camera from his seat on the aisle. (Update: Another photo has been added, contributed by the parents of a cast member. Thanks!)

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Video: "Anything Goes" big finish - March 17, 2012

The final moment of the second performance of "Anything Goes" by the SPFHS Repertory Theater.



And - found on YouTube - The cafeteria flash-mob rendition of the first-act finale!



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