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We are LOVE music at SJTBS!
You should too!
Here's why ••••

Music is a Science
It is exact, speci fi c. and it demands exact acoustics. A conductor's full score is a chart. a graph that indicates frequencies. intensities. volume changes. melody, and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of time.

Music is Mathematical
It is rhythmically based on subdivisions of time into fractions, which must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper.

Music is a Foreign Language Most of the terms are in Italian. German. or French: and the notation is certainly not English-but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. The semantics of music is the most universal of languages.

Music is History
Music usually reflects the environment and times of its creation. often even the country and/or racial feeling.

Music is Physical Education
It requires fantastic coordination of fingers. hands, arms. lips. cheek and facial muscles. in addition to extraordinary control of the diaphragmatic. back, stomach. and chest muscles. which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and mind interprets.

Music is all these things, but most of all, Music is Art
It allows a human being to take all these dry. technically boring (but difficult) techniques and use them to create emotion. That is one science cannot duplicate: humanism. feeling. emotion. call it what you will.

Thank you for your continued support of the SJS Music Program!

Regarding CHILDREN'S CHOIR

 I would like to make you aware of the rehearsal schedule for the remainder of the year. Please refer to the calendar on my webpage.

 All Choir students and their mothers are invited to sing at the 12:00 Mass on Father's Day.  Please join us!