Mrs.Debus

What is Music In Our Schools Month (MIOSM)?

Music In Our Schools Month is an annual celebration during March which engages music educators, students, and communities from around the country in promoting the benefits of high quality music education programs in schools.

Music In Our Schools Month began as a single statewide Advocacy Day and celebration in New York in 1973 and grew over the decades to become a month-long celebration of school music in 1985.

There are many ways to celebrate the month, why not sing a song with your child? Maybe teach them one you enjoyed as a keiki. Trust me, your child will NOT care if you don’t sound like an “American Idol”. You are the most important person in your child’s life and a music interaction with them will be a cherished memory for them. Have fun please share a comment with me after you have sung with your child, I’d love to hear about it!

The photos from the Spring Beatles Concert and the 2014 Christmas Concert are available for viewing through a link on the BLOG. Simply scroll down the right of the BLOG until you get to “BLOGROLL”. Then click on the title you would like to see. A beautiful slide show will appear. I hope you enjoy looking at all the memories made those evenings!

Our wonderfully talented technology teacher is also a very talented musician. She grew up playing in her school band and still plays today. She was nice enough to bring her instruments into school so that our 1st graders could learn about the clarinet and alto saxophone. As an added treat we also watched a video of Miss Galang marching in her college band at a halftime football game.  Playing and singing in a musical organization can be life long endeavor. Thank you Miss Galang!!!

Did you also know that musicians can also go to other countries and join a musical group without speaking a foreign language. MUSIC IS A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE! Everyone in every country reads the same notes the same way. It is truly and international language!

The Keiki Choir recently offered a mele at the Charles Reed Bishop celebration commemorating his contribution to our kula. Thanks to Miss Galang for video taping it so that we could share it with you.http://

IMG 4979 from KSH Kula Ha’aha’a on Vimeo.

Christmas at the Movies

Click on the link above and choose your favorite performance to watch over and over again from the 2014 Christmas Concert. Feel free to share the link with friends and family on the mainland.

Well we have hit the Grand Daddy of the violin family, known as the String Bass, Bass Viol, or just the Bass!. It’s bigger than all of us and as you can see the keiki had to stand on a chair to even play it. But it was good fun and we can now say we have worked our way through the string section of the orchestra. Just ask them. Violin, viola, cello and bass. Yay us!!

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We had a wonderful meet the instrument concert on Friday, September 19 at the William Charles Lunalilo Center.Along with performing some of the beautiful Hummel Piano Septet in D minor, as an added treat the septet played a favorite song and asked us to sing along. What a thrill for all of us!

Last week the first graders all thought they might all grow up to be violin virtuosi, and now they aren’t so sure, there are so many choices!! Auntie Kaori Mahelona brought her beautiful cello to music class today and not only played for the keiki, but let them play as well. The looks on their faces say it all, sheer concentration and delight!

Me Ka Maluhia

Pinwheels for Peace will soon be here! We are using our iPads to make our beautiful pinwheels and now we can use our iPads to practice the mele that will accompany and help symbolize the day for us as well. Here is a beginning practice session,  to help you learn the lovely words and melody composed by Kumu Silva. As more classes become ma’a with the words I will upload another version. I hope this helps!

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On Thursday September 10th a new portrait of Pauahi was donated to our kula. It was dedicated in a ceremony that was attended by the artist, and his ‘ohana along with many members of the K.S administration and our big brothers and sisters from the high school. We shared four mele to thank the family for their wonderful gift of aloha.