Tips for enjoying the upcoming concert season with Ms. Leah Givelber

We have many great concerts and events coming up over the next several weeks....  

 Mr. Christopher is hosting our first Community Concert of the year in October and the annual CYM Ensemble Recital happens in November!  

Mark your calendars and plan to attend the annual CYM Ensemble Recital on November 12 at 10:00am and 12:30 pm at the First Unitarian Church on Ellsworth Avenue.  Both Ensemble Recitals together feature almost the entire CYM student body!  

Violinists, celli and guitars perform both in a large group and in chamber music groups and the pianists and vocalists perform in duos and trios.  

Our Early Childhood Music families will be offered a chance to perform Zum Gali Gali, too!

At CYM we aim to include the most amount of performers, families and audience members that we can at our events.  To keep the concerts calm and to keep the focus on the music please practice a few basic concert etiquette tips.

 

• Young children may need a quiet activity to occupy themselves during the concert.  Coloring and looking at books are fine activities for children at concerts.  If your child becomes disruptive during the concert it is fine to step outside and return when your child is ready.  The Unitarian Church has a lovely outdoor space that we are welcome to use. 

•  If you need to leave the concert for any reason please wait until the applause at the end of the piece of for a natural break in the concert.  Our students at CYM are still learning the art of performing, and seeing audience members leaving during a performance can be quite distracting!  

• Adults can set a good example for young children and student performers by putting phones on silent and by focusing their attention on listening to the performances.  Recitals are always a good time to enjoy music and to take stock in how your child and his or her classmates are becoming more and more musically adept and mature.

We hope to see many students and families at our concerts this fall and during the Holiday season.  Make sure to read your Take Note thoroughly, check out the calendar on our website, and keep up with the information on our chalk and bulletin boards for all of the latest performance and school news.  

-Leah Givelber, Vice President Academic Affairs and violin faculty member