tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82957371035461399342024-03-13T22:05:07.915-07:00Come Somersault With Sarah!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger97125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8295737103546139934.post-38453240555744222182016-03-20T18:18:00.004-07:002016-03-20T18:18:58.108-07:00Hannah's School Talent show<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8295737103546139934.post-28057465990535455122016-03-16T20:41:00.002-07:002016-03-16T20:41:14.209-07:00Sarah's Violin Performance <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I recently celebrated my 12th birthday, and at my party, I played two pieces on the violin. My first piece was called Theme from Schindler's List by John Williams, an American musician, composer, and conductor. John Williams received his 29th Academy Award nomination for Schindler's List, and he composed many other famous pieces for movies such as Fiddler on the Roof, Star Wars, and E.T. In addition to being a famous violin piece, Schindler's list is also a movie about Oskar Schindler, a famous businessman. In the beginning of World War II, Oscar owned a factory in Poland in which he used the Jewish workers. After seeing what the Nazis did to the Jews, he decides to try and save as many Jews as he can by creating a list of essential workers. The people put on his list got saved. Today, Oskar Schindler is remembered as a hero who saved over 1100 Jewish lives, and this movie and piece is based on his life story. Schindler's list is a very melancholy piece, and although it captures a heart-breaking event in our history, I really enjoyed learning and playing it.<br />
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In addition to playing Schindler's List, my sister, Hannah and I prepared a duet called Canon in D Major by John Pachelbell. This piece is often played at wedding's, or for a special occasions, Although it is a very famous piece, not much is known about it. Historians don't even know the exact date it was composed. They believe it was composed around 1680, and people believe it was written for Bach's brother, Johann Christoph's wedding on October 23, 1694. Pachelbell wrote over 500 classical music pieces during his lifetime, and he composed during the Baroque period. He was an organist, and even taught the man who became Bach's teacher. This piece has a lot of emotion to it, and many challenging parts. When playing a duet, both players have to listen to each other. I played two boxes ahead of Hannah, and it was difficult to always stay two boxes ahead, and not play too fast or too sow. In the end, Hannah and I succeeded in working well together, and I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we do.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8295737103546139934.post-87314079320045725212016-02-28T15:46:00.002-08:002016-02-28T15:46:49.625-08:00Post by Hannah: Fun Time at the Ice Skating Rink <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8295737103546139934.post-23688559048407452052016-01-01T19:06:00.002-08:002016-01-01T19:06:44.850-08:00Sarah's Violin and Piano Recital<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8295737103546139934.post-49192124429541839392015-12-29T18:44:00.000-08:002015-12-29T18:44:22.564-08:00Hannah's Piano and Violin Recital<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In September, I had a music recital. I played two pieces on the piano and one long piece on the violin. My first piece that I played was called Sweet Dreams and composed by Tchaikovsky. This piece is pretty slow and is beautiful. Tchaikovsky is a Russian composer born on May 7, 1840. He is considered the most popular Russian composer in history. The style that he did was called Romance, and he wrote many beautiful melodies on different instruments including piano. His most famous works were Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker. Tchaikovsky died at the age of 53. My next piece that I played was called Sonata by Mozart. Mozart was born in Vienna on January 27, 1756, in Austria, Vienna. He was a composer of the Classical Era, and he created many operas, concerts, symphonies, and sonatas. He died at the age of 35.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8295737103546139934.post-79773603831436152892015-11-28T18:06:00.000-08:002015-11-28T18:06:41.390-08:00Guest Post by Hannah: Thanksgiving Dinner<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Every year, we have a Thanksgiving party at our house with grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, and nieces. Thanksgiving is a time to be thankful. I am thankful for my wonder family and the food that we have. For thanksgiving we had turkey, special yellow rice, stuffing, and salads. For dessert we had banana bread and pumpkin bread. My siblings and I each got to help out by baking something. We decided to have a contest where we tallied who liked which cake better. My sister Miriam and my brother Michael both baked pumpkin bread and my other sister Sarah and I baked banana bread. More of our family liked the banana bread, so Sarah and I ended up winning, but it was a close vote because everyone liked both cakes.<br />
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Over the past couple of months, I have been working on completing multiple puzzles. The first puzzle I attempted was a 500 piece puzzle of a lake with swans swimming around, and beautiful houses in the back-round, with fireworks. When doing any puzzle, you start by doing the edges, which are the outer border of the puzzle. After that is done, you start doing the inside, by picking any small object in the picture to start with. You continue doing that, until you put the final pieces of the puzzle together. After completing the 500 piece puzzle, I decided to challenge myself by trying a 1000 piece puzzle. This is a gorgeous puzzle that describes a snowy winter night in the forest with the aurora lights in the sky. Gray wolves are seen lurking around and howling in the background.<br />
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While in Maui, we met a girl named Florenel at the beach one day, and we all played with her while my parents talked with her parents. She is from Montreal, and stayed in the condo complex near us and was able to came over to play with us. She speaks Russian, English, and French fluently, and is learning Spanish. She also draws really well, and drew pieces from chess, a butterfly, a race car, and dolphins in the ocean for my siblings and I to keep to remember her. One evening she came to Lahaina with us, and we all spent time together looking around at the galleries, going out for dinner, and watching the gorgeous sunset. <br />
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Our first stop was a very muddy and steep trail that would lead us to
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it started raining. As we were hiking, we had to cross a river, and
hike through mud, until we got to the first waterfall. The second
waterfall was even more difficult to reach because we had to hold on to a
rope while climbing up the rocks. My sister, Sarah, helped me and my
brother get up to the top. After that, we finally saw the gorgeous
waterfall. The waterfall dropped into this big pool that we swam in. The
water was cold, but refreshing after the long hike.The first time we
made this trip, we only were able to reach the first two waterfalls.
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river to reach the third waterfall. This third waterfall was the largest
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After lunch our next stop was Black Sand Beach and then Red Sand Beach. Black Sand beach has black sand and huge waves which made it dangerous to swim far out. Red Sand beach was difficult to reach because we had to hike on a steep path that lead to a beach with beautiful red color sand. Unfortunately, there was a really strong current that pulled you out toward the rocks, so we also couldn't swim at this beach. <br />
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Our next stop was the Venus pools. The first time we drove to Hana, we couldn't find the Venus pool, but we are really glad that we found it the second time because it was a beautiful pool of water near the beach. As we arrived we had to hike down a little path and suddenly you see a huge pool of bright blue water. The pool is a mix of salt water from the ocean and freshwater from the waterfalls. The pool was very deep, and we saw people jumping off the high rocks above the pool. Sarah, Michael, and I also jumped off the cliffs into the warm water. <br />
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Our final stop was the seven pools. There are actually 24 pools in that area but the place is called seven pools probably because it sounds better that way. We had to hike half a mile to reach the pools. This area was very windy and the water was much colder than the Venus because the seven pool has freshwater. Here, we also swam and jumped off the rocks before leaving for home. As we got to our car we looked at the time and it was already seven o'clock so we started the two hour drive back to our condo. This was a full day trip, as we left at 8 o'clock and got home after 9 pm. This was definitely my favorite place we have been to in Maui.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8295737103546139934.post-16170152493416507292015-08-15T11:48:00.000-07:002015-08-15T11:48:32.969-07:00A Beautiful Evening Luau<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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When we arrived, they started with a tradition of roasting a pig. They also kept us refreshed with numerous drinks, and the dinner was delicious. After everyone had eaten, and felt refreshed, they started the show. There was a narrator telling stories about the Hawaiians and their culture while the hula dancers danced on the stage. The hula dancers shook there hips and turned around very fast. Their costumes were made up of taro leaves, a special plan that grows in Hawaii. The best part of the entertainment was the fire dance. It was very exciting to watch the male dancers spin, touch, and even eat the fire without getting burnt. They were also able to put out the fire with there skirts. I really enjoyed watching the show, and look forward to the next time we go to a luau.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8295737103546139934.post-4740304280935056222015-07-24T15:21:00.000-07:002015-07-24T15:29:25.900-07:00Guest Post by Hannah: Fur Elise by Beethoven<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I recently learned another famous piece by Beethoven called Fur Elise. This is not my first time playing a piece by Beethoven; last time I played <a href="http://comesomersaultwithsarah.blogspot.com/2015/04/guest-post-by-hannah-and-michael-piano.html">Sonata Opus No 2 Part 1.</a><br />
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Beethoven wrote Fur Elise on April 27, 1810. however, this piece was only published in 1867, long after he died. No one knows for sure who the song was written for, but historians think that maybe he wrote the song for his friend and student named Therese Malfatti. I think this piece is beautiful because the melody is soft and pretty. It was an easy piece to learn, but it is not always easy to make it sound beautiful.<br />
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A few days ago, my mom recorded me playing Sonatina in C major by Mozart. All Sonata's have three movements, and the second movement was the longest. It took me about a month to learn the whole piece. Mozart was born on January 27, 1756 in Salisbury, Austria, and was a very famous Austrian composer. He started composing music at the age of 5. Mozart's father, Leopold, took Mozart on many concert tours. He married in 1782, and had a happy family. This piece was difficult for me to learn because it was fast, and very long. I really like this song because the melody sounds beautiful. <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8295737103546139934.post-81048277579807720992015-06-20T18:37:00.000-07:002015-06-20T18:37:14.469-07:00Wedding Day at the Troldhaugen by Edvard Grieg<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I recently recorded a piece called Wedding Day at the Troldhaugen by Grieg. Edvard Grieg was born on <span class="_xdb"></span><span class="_Xbe kno-fv">June 15,</span>1843 in Bergen, Norway and died in <span class="_xdb"></span><span class="_Xbe kno-fv">September 4,</span>1907. He composed numerous amount of Norwegian folk music, and performed these folk songs in front of large audiences on the piano. He composed in the Romantic period, and is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers. He composed 66 short pieces, published in ten different books, one of them is the Wedding day at the Troldhaugen.<br />
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This piece was a very difficult piece as there were many chords that were fast, and there were numerous octaves that were hard to reach. It was also difficult to memorize as only one part repeated itself during the entire piece. Although it was difficult, it was a beautiful piece and I really enjoyed playing it. <br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8295737103546139934.post-12697627408159976712015-06-14T18:17:00.001-07:002015-06-14T18:17:19.890-07:00Bach invention 14<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This past month, I have been working on a piece called Invention 14 by Bach. <span style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">I worked very hard to learn all the right notes, and playing parts loud and quiet. Many of Bach's pieces have two voices/melodies, the right hand has one melody, and the left hand has a different melody. When I play, I am supposed to show both melodies. Bach wrote these Inventions, as exercises for his students to play. He wrote one invention for all of the scales. These pieces weren't meant to be performed, however they are beautiful, so we decided to record them anyway. </span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8295737103546139934.post-34419524265979146462015-05-02T20:39:00.002-07:002015-05-02T20:39:34.648-07:00Gymnastics Level 6 State meet<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8500003814697px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">I recently attended a a gymnastics state meet competition in San Diego. In order to compete at States, a gymnasts needs to receive a 32.00 all around score or higher during a previous meet. This was my first year being an optional. An optional gymnast is allowed to choose her own music and choreography for the floor and beam routine. There are four events, floor, beam, vault, bars, and my highest scores were on beam and vault. My scores were 9.550 on beam, 9.20 on bars, 9.275 on floor, and 9.475 on vault. I got 6th place on all around with a score of 37.50. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.8500003814697px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7G4IeQB8qEs/VTQnwg1ZkmI/AAAAAAAACiE/tffToIf5aRA/s1600/gym2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7G4IeQB8qEs/VTQnwg1ZkmI/AAAAAAAACiE/tffToIf5aRA/s1600/gym2.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.8500003814697px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">On vault, the only difficult part is to stick the landing. I stuck my first vault, however took a small step on my second. On floor, the difficult part is also the landing, however you also have to make the tumbling passes powerful. The higher the flips, the more points you receive. On beam, the hardest element for me is the full turn, as I get nervous on that and wobble. I wobbled a little bit on the turn, so I didn't get many points off. Another difficult skill is the back walk over back walk over. To get full credit, you have to stick the landing, and connect both of the back walkovers. The last skill of the routine is the dismount. The dismount is a front pike off the beam, and you have to stick the landing to not get any deductions. Bars is the hardest event for me because it is easy to fall. The hardest part is the cast handstand. It is hard to get the cast exactly at handstand, as you could cast a little to hard and go over, or not cast hard, and not make it to hand stand. I luckily made my cast handstand on both the low bar and the high bar. My dad couldn't video my bars, as it was too far away from where he was sitting, however he got all of my other events. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.8500003814697px; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">Next year, I will be a level 7, and my routines will get even more challenging. I hope you enjoy watching! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: magenta; font-size: x-large;">Do you participate in a sport?</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8295737103546139934.post-73226229893057014112015-04-26T13:21:00.000-07:002015-04-26T13:21:14.744-07:00Guest Post by Hannah and Michael: Piano Performance<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Hannah</b><br />
In the video below, I played two pieces, one is a Sonata by Beethoven and the second is an Invention by Bach.<br />
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<span class="readaloud">Beethoven composed during the Classical and Romantic period. .He was born on December 16,1770 in Germany and was gifted in music as a child. He played both piano and violin which he learned from his father. A few years later he started losing his hearing. And then they noticed he was completely deaf, but he still was able to compose music. </span> <br />
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Bach was a German composer and was born in Eisenach, Germany on March 21, 1685. Bach's parents died before Bach was 10. Then he went to live with his older brother. His older brother taught Bach to play the clavichord and harpsichord. He wrote music during the baroque period. Bach studied music. Bach wrote 30 inventions which are exercises for students. In the video below, I played Invention No 13. I really like pieces by Bach and Beethoven <br />
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I played 2 songs Musette in D Major by Bach and and Etude by Nikolayev. Bach wrote Musette as a gift for his second wife, Anna Magdalena. In 1722 and 1725, he gave his wife two notebooks, and this piece was part of the second notebook as a gift to celebrate a special occasion like a birthday. <br />
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Etude is usually a short piece that is written as an exercise for the piano.This is a fun exercise to help my fingers play faster. <br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8295737103546139934.post-87833394778538861482015-04-18T17:05:00.000-07:002015-05-02T20:45:25.384-07:00A school trip to Astrocamp<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A few weeks ago, I went to Astrocamp located in Idyllwild. We drove for three and a half hours to get to camp, but luckily we were on a comfortable bus meant for driving to faraway places. We stayed at Astrocamp for three amazing days and experimented with gases, launched rockets, rock climbed, swam, and dropped water balloons from the balcony. Some of my teachers were our counselors, such as Ms. Dickinson, Mrs. Duncan, and Mrs. Bostrom, and they spent a lot of time making sure everyone had an incredible camp experience. <br />
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On the afternoon of the first day, we had two evening classes learning about gases and gravity. During our gasses lab, someone was holding a fire stick and another person was holding two balloons. They lit the fire stick, and touched it to the balloon, and suddenly a loud boom filled the room. Everyone jumped out of there seat, after the explosion. Our gravity lab was done in the pool, where we had to try to build a cube without touching our feet to the ground. This was how astronauts trained before going into space. It was difficult to communicate with students within our group because of a no talking rule, and therefore we used hand signals and signs to communicate.<br />
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The next morning, we went rock climbing. We learned about mars, and then had to tell one of the counselors what we learned. After, we were attached to a safety rope, we were allowed to climb. The counselors let us choose a climbing path of easy, medium, or hard. I climbed the hard path three times and made it to the top every time. This was my favorite activity. After climbing, we went to a room to make our rockets. We brought a two liter empty bottle with us on our trip, and designed the bottles how we wanted our rocket to appear. Then we went to the launch site and launched our rockets. When it was my turn, I filled my bottle with air and water, and then pressed a button to launch it. It soared through the air before it hit the roof and fell. This was my favorite school trip, and I look forward to going to Catalina next year. <br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8295737103546139934.post-13247404402306053422015-02-17T16:53:00.001-08:002015-02-17T16:53:29.520-08:00Fall Orchestra Rehearsal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8295737103546139934.post-50275493625516605332015-01-17T19:54:00.005-08:002015-01-17T19:54:42.679-08:00Guest Post by Hannah: A day at the beach<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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During winter break, My family and I went to the Santa Monica Beach. It was a really fun day. Michael and I took our scooters because we wanted to ride on the bicycle path, and Sarah, Miriam, and my mom wanted to go rollerblading.<br />
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The beach was very crowded that day, and we were lucky to find a parking spot right near the bike path. Michael and I took our scooters out of our car and helped our sisters get on there roller blades. It had been a warm day, and the sky was very blue. After my sisters and my mom got there roller blades on, we started walking to the bicycle path. Michael and I went ahead of our sisters. My dog Romeo was pulling my mom while she was rollerblading. Romeo really wanted to be in front of Michael and me, so the faster we scooted the faster my dog would pull my mom. After skating and scootering for an hour, we were ready to turn around and go back to our car to each lunch. My mom brought with her sandwiches and fruit for lunch. <br />
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After we ate, we saw some bars, rings, beams, and ropes to climb. We took some chalk, and my family and I went to do some pull ups and leg lifts on the bars. Then Sarah and I went to climb the ropes. she climbed to the top first, and then I climbed underneath her. Afterwards, we went to the rings. Since Michael was going first, we told him to hold on to the rings tight. Then we started pushing him back and forth. He was easy to push because he was light. When his hands started to hurt, he jumped off, and it was my turn. My siblings pushed me very hard and I flew up high like a bird. It was really fun.<br />
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Then we went to the beam. We took turns playing this really fun game that we made up. We have never really made a name for this game, so we just call it knock them off. The game is played with two people on the beam, and each person has to push the other person off the beam. Michael and I played against each other, and Sarah and Miriam played against each other. Sometimes Michael pushed me off, and sometimes I pushed him off first.<br />
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Finally, we saw people trying to balance on a tightrope. My siblings and I really wanted to try balancing on it, so we asked if we could try. Sarah tried first. She was actually the best of all of us. When It was my turn to try to balance I kept on falling off, so I asked Sarah if she can hold me while I walk across it. It looked really easy when the experienced people walked the tight rope, but it was hard when I tried it. When we were done taking turns balancing on the tightrope, it was time to go home. My family and I had an amazing time and hope to come back to the beach more often.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8295737103546139934.post-63045269135172482062015-01-01T21:26:00.003-08:002015-01-01T21:26:41.116-08:00Guest Post by Hannah: Hiking at Malibu Creek Park: <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Malibu Creek Park was used to film many television series and movies. Between 1972 and 1983, a television drama about the Vietnam war called MASH was filmed at Malibu creek Park. The set had street signs, cars, and a shed. We really wanted see the inside of the car so my siblings and I climbed inside from the trunk. As we walked to the front of the car we noticed that the car didn't have any wheels or pedals.<br />
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Over the weekend, Hannah and I recorded a duet together called Student's Concerto, by Seitz. Fritz Seitz was a German Romantic Era Composer. He was a violinist who served as a concertmaster, wrote chamber music, and eight student concertos for the violin. The duet was difficult at first as I needed to learn my part very well, and Hannah also needed to learn her part well, and we needed to play it even, to be together. Hannah had the melody while I mostly had chords, however I had some solo parts. This piece is rowdy and has some fast parts, but also slow and melodic in other parts. Hannah has improved through her years, and is now currently playing in the first violin section at the Conejo Valley Orchestra. She played part of this song for the audition. I hope you enjoy!<br />
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I really love preparing for Thanksgiving. This morning we got up really early to play finish playing piano and violin. Then we started cleaning the house. We all had different jobs. I dusted the furniture, and Michael and I vacuumed. Sarah swept and washed the floors. Miriam cleaned the bathroom, and Michael did the laundry. We also had to clean up our own rooms. Once the house was cleaned, we got to bake.<br />
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Sarah and I made banana bread, while Michael and Miriam made pumpkin bread. We worked on opposite sides of the table. Sarah and I worked on one end, and Miriam and Michael worked on the other side. Sarah helped me crack the eggs, she did one and I did one. Miriam and Michael also had some eggs to crack for their pumpkin bread.When Miriam was cracking one of the eggs she had twins! There were two yolks in one egg. Then she let Michael have a turn to crack but when he cracked his egg it was just a regular egg. Now it was our turn to crack our eggs. I let Sarah go first, and when she cracked it we also saw twins. When I cracked my egg I noticed it was just one big yolk. To make banana bread, we also had to add the flour, sugar, butter,bananas, and the best part was lots of chocolate chips.The pumpkin bread had flour, sugar, oil, pumpkin puree, spices, and of course lots of chocolate chips. After we mixed all the ingredients, we put the batter on a greased pan, and set it in the oven to bake for one hour. The kitchen smelled delicious while the breads baked. <br />
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After baking, we had to put all the ingredients in the right place, wash the dishes and clean the table. Then we are ready to make stuffing. We had four cutting boards. Michael and I cut celery, Sarah cut carrots, and Miriam cut onions. The onions made Miriam and Sarah cry because Sarah was sitting right next to her. Then Miriam sauteed all the vegetables, and we combined it with the stuffing crumbs and chicken broth. It all went in the oven to bake.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Over the weekend, Hannah,
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I played Sonata no 6
by Mozart and Album Leaf by Grieg. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Mozart was an Austrian composer, and is
considered to be the most creative composers of all times. Together with Haydn,
he was the leading composer of the classical</span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> style
of the late 1700's. Mozart started playing at age 4, composing at age 5, and at
age 6 he played for the Austrian empress at her court in Vienna! Leopold,
Wolfgang's father, took Wolfgang on concert tours through much of Europe, and
Wolfgang gave many public performances in front of a
large crowd. He also met many famous musicians, and played the
organ in many churches. The piece I played was a fast, rowdy piece
with numerous sudden changes in dynamics (e.g. louds and quiets). I had to play
with strong fingers throughout the piece, as it had many fast notes. I worked
very hard to learn the piece by memory, and to play the rhythm evenly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The second piece I played was Album
Leaf by Grieg. Grieg was a very famous Norwegian composer that composed music
for the piano,</span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> chorus and orchestra, and numbers
for small instrumental groups during the Romantic period.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Most of
his music was written in the style of Norwegian folk songs and folk dances.
Griegs most famous music includes</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Album Leaf, the song that I recorded, and Wedding Day at
Troldhaugen, a song that I am learning to play now. Album Leaf is a very
repetitive song, and at the beginning, it has a steady beat in the left hand,
and a melody in the right hand. In the middle, however, it changes up, as the
right hand has a steady beat, while the left hand has the melody. The hand with the melody needs to play louder than the hand with the </span><span style="font-size: 15px;">rhythm</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. which was a bit
challenging at first. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I
hope you enjoy listening to these pieces. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">This week my mom
recorded me playing two pieces, Sonatina 3 by Clementi and Sweet Dreams by
Tchaikovsky. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clementi started playing in
a church at the age of 9 and when he was 14 he was invited to England to study
music. Clementi composed during the classical period and was considered the best pianist of his time. He composed over 100 Sonatas! He died at age 80 in the English countryside. The sonata is very fast, and I had to have strong fingers to play this piece. It also
had many dynamics, such as louds and quiets. The second piece I learned was
Sweet Dreams by Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer in the Romantic period, and his pieces
had a lot of melody and emotion. He was known for composing many symphonies,
operas, and concertos. Sweet Dreams is part of his Children Album, and it is dedicated to his favorite nephew, Vladimir Davydov. This piece was very slow, and is played with the pedal.
I hope you enjoy listening to me play!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Michael </span><br />
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I recently recorded a piece called Clowns by Kabalevsky. Kabalevsky
was a Russian composer that created music for young people, like me. He
wrote pieces for the orchestra, operas, and many instruments. He also
composed pieces for children’s
choruses. Dmitry Kabalevsky was born in St. Petersberg on December 30<sup>th</sup>
1904 and died on February 10<sup>th</sup>,
1987. One of the most important things that he did was try to teach children to like music. He wrote pieces that children would like and set up music programs in schools. The song I played is a fast piece that has many staccatos. It took a
lot of time and practice to learn it because it was very fast. <br />
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During our trip to Israel, we visited numerous friends and family members. One of the days, we went to visit family that live in Beer Sheva.This city is considered the capital of the Negev, which is the desert in southern Israel. The family gave us a warm welcome with a large lunch and dinner. We also visited friends that live near Tel-Aviv, which is the second most populous city in Israel. They had two girls close to our age, and we taught them a few popular American games such as
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My dad, sister, and I floating in the Dead Sea</td></tr>
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driving we saw numerous wild camels roaming the Negev desert. When we finally
arrived at the Dead Sea, it was over a hundred degrees! Since it was so hot, we decided to get a
day pass at a hotel to hide from the heat. The hotel had a swimming pool, spa's, and the Dead Sea was
just across the street. The swimming pool was very refreshing, as it was
blazing hot outside. We would go to the Dead Sea, and float for a while, and then once our body was overheated, we would run back to the pool, shower off the salt, and then jump in the pool. The Dead Sea is 9.6 times as salty as the ocean! Not only is it salty, but it is also very oily, and before we were allowed to go into the pool, we had to shower. The Dead Sea is the saltiest body of water, and since it
contains so much salt, it makes you float. Since
there is so much salt, no animals can live there, which is why it is called the
Dead Sea. What was really amazing was that there was so much salt, that salt
crystals developed on the sand. The downside, is that the salt also stings all of our cuts and bruises. However, after a while, the body gets used to it, and it no longer stings. We had to wear shoes when we went in because the sea floor bed was rocky and hurt our feet. If one of our shoes floated off, that was not a problem, because it would just float up, and we would find it right away. </div>
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At about 6 o'clock, we started our drive back to Netanya. About one hour into our drive, our front left tire popped, and completely disintegrated. We quickly pulled over to the side of the road to examine the damage. We could feel the hot air on our faces as the cars and trucks zoomed by. We were in the middle of the desert, with no gas station or people in sight. We were very lucky that we had a spare tire, and a very handy dad that new how to change a tire. While my dad was putting in a new tire, we took out a blanket, and waited away from the freeway near a field. Soon we were on our way, and glad to have arrived home safely. </div>
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