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 from Dennis Crystal, Director of Instrumental Music
"Greetings! Thank you for taking the time to check out the official website of the Newbury Park High School Instrumental Music Department. It is our mission to provide the students at Newbury Park with a top notch music education, extraordinary performance opportunities, and a laboratory environment where young people can learn and develop critical life skills like dedication, leadership and excellence."
"I hope that you find this site full of useful information and will consider it your resource to maximizing the opportunities that exist within our department. As the director of this program, I am here to serve the students and parents of this community. If there is anything at all that I can do to help you, please do not hesitate to contact me."
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 Saturday, March 20, 2010, 9:00 AM, NPHS
Newbury Park High School Band is proud to announce that Newbury Park High School will be hosting its 2nd annual Jazz Festival coming this March. We have managed to secure some of the best adjudicators and clinicians from all over southern California to come here for a full day of performances, concerts, clinics and free workshops all geared to inspire and educate your students as they grow musically.
The Jazz Festival brings jazz enthusiasts together from around the southland to listen to some very well-known artists blow their horns and get an opportunity to jam with some legends. The Joe La Barbera Trio and the CSU Long Beach Jazz Orchestra will be performing special concerts at noon and in the evening and world-renowned artists will be hosting hourly clinics throughout the day. It was a smashing success last year and we’re expecting to blow the doors off again this year. If you want to register, select here to download and submit an application by March 1, 2010. Otherwise, select the link below to learn more.
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 A welcome address to the parents and freshman class at Boston Conservatory given by Karl Paulnack, pianist and director of the music division at Boston Conservatory
One of my parents' deepest fears, I suspect, is that society would not properly value me as a musician, that I wouldn’t be appreciated. I had very good grades in high school; I was good in science and math, and they imagined that as a doctor or a research chemist or an engineer, I might be more appreciated than I would be as a musician. I still remember my mother’s remark when I announced my decision to apply to music school, she said, "You're WASTING your SAT scores."
On some level, I think, my parents were not sure themselves what the value of music was, what its purpose was. And they LOVED music, they listened to classical music all the time. They just weren’t really clear about its function. So let me talk about that a little bit, because we live in a society that puts music in the "arts and entertainment" section of the newspaper; and serious music, the kind your kids are about to engage in, has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with entertainment. In fact it’s the opposite of entertainment.
Let me talk a little bit about music and how it works.
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