Video of Chorale Concert

Click HERE to see/hear the video of Estelle singing June 14th.

Click HERE for a 2nd video of another song in this concert.

These songs were sung all strung together, and we didn't have a program to know the order of the songs - thus I had to scramble to get my video going each time, which is why the "start" of each song is missing!

Chorale Concert @ La Gaude

Saturday, Estelle had her big "concert coeur" in a village outside of Nice.  It was stupendous!

 In the photo above, the boy in front of Estelle is the son of her choir director.  He also happens to be an oboist.

 The whole thing was pretty impressive!  14 songs, all with a nautical/sailor theme. 

 That man on the violin is Estelle's "solfege" teacher - Music Theory.  He's a trombone teacher - but apparently also a violinist.  Who knew?

It was a delightful afternoon.  Some of the moms were teary-eyed listening to the kids!


Estelle with her buddies Anaïs and Charlotte, our carpool pal.  They were pretty happy that day.  It was fun to sing in that gorgeous church in a perched village.

Thank you Mr. Richard

Estelle left her nice digital camera on a bus during a field trip last week.  The bus driver from the charter company turned it in and the company mailed it to the school.  Estelle made a thank you.

Oboe

CLICK HERE TO SEE ESTELLE'S RECITAL.

 On May 26th, Estelle had her first "real" oboe recital at the Conservatory.  She played a piece called "Banana Tango", which she practiced in her lessons with her professor, Charlotte (whom you see in the video). 
Estelle also practiced at home, almost every day.  2 days before the recital, she got to go to the Conservatory on a Saturday and play with the accompanist on the piano.  He gave me a photocopy of the music to play so I could help Estelle practice. It was a challenge for me - it was hard to play!  He makes it look easy!  :-)
We were VERY proud of Estelle because Charlotte says Banana Tango is not an easy piece to play for someone who just started the oboe 9 months ago.
Estelle says "J'ai raté", which means "I made a mistake", but we told her mistakes are o-kay!