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MS winter band concert showcases students' progress
Ransom Everglades' middle school band concerts are always part-performance and part-primer as director Cathi Leibinger showcases her students while also helping parents understand their child's musical development. At the Winter Holiday Concert at Swenson Hall on Dec. 6, students performed holiday classics and parents participated, using a "jingle" app on their phones to accompany "Jingle Bells" and following a rhythmic pattern (the clave) to clap along with "Feliz Navidad."
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The concert opened with the RE Raider Band, which performed "Carol of the Bells," a famous Ukrainian carol played in honor of the war-torn nation, then "Hanukkah Holiday" and "Feliz Navidad." That was followed by the four-person RE Percussion Ensemble – Israel Garcia '28, Aly Kaplan '28, Lucas Noblet '28 and Isaac Zide '28 – which performed two pieces and then donned elf hats, sat at the edge of the stage with Leibinger and played "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" on melodicas.
Leibinger then guided the RE Beginning Band through a "score order" performance tour of the various instrument families, beginning with the flute and clarinet and concluding with the euphonium and tuba. The young musicians also performed "Ode to Joy." For the concert finale, all of the band students assembled on stage for a combined performance of "Holiday Rock."
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Leibinger then guided the RE Beginning Band through a "score order" performance tour of the various instrument families, beginning with the flute and clarinet and concluding with the euphonium and tuba. The young musicians also performed "Ode to Joy." For the concert finale, all of the band students assembled on stage for a combined performance of "Holiday Rock."
Beginning Band
FLUTE
Sukhari Afflick ’27
CLARINET
Sebastian Appel ’29
Liv Brantley ’29
Annabella Ciocca ’28
Charlie Gershman ’29
Dylan Kantesaria ’29
Matt Khvorostianyi ’29
Mia Lipovaca ’29
Manu Mendes ’29
Axel Sirinyan ’29
ALTO SAX
Daniel Bry ’27
Daniel Coscarelli ’29
Cody Lindemann ’28
Quinnard Mays ’28
Billy Newton ’29
Matthew Pomeraniec ’29
Noah Sterling ’29
TRUMPET
Benjamin Alexander ’28
Eloise Battier ’29
Alexander Bontas ’29
Jaaz Brooks ’29
William Duncan ’29
Harrison Filer ’29
John Hadjilogiou ’29
Rahul Kumar ’29
Sebastian Lara ’29
Oliver Mark ’29
Edward Ronan ’29
Sandro Salvat ’29
Hudson Yarckin ’29
HORN
Beatrice Hill ’29
Olivia Karp ’27
John Lew ’29
Evan Powe ’29
TROMBONE
David Martin ’29
Jacob Rothberg ’29
Daniel Wals ’29
EUPHONIUM
Isaiah Afflick ’29
Alexis Mosse ’29
William Sterling ’29
TUBA
Eitan Carrasco ’29
Noah Veras ’29
Connor Yagnik ’29
Raider Band
FLUTE
Israel Garcia ’28
Alex Lombard ’29
OBOE
Salo Sawicki ’27
CLARINET
Aly Kaplan ’28
Joey Louis ’28
Avery Zubok ’27
BASS CLARINET
Alex Quintero Kontopoulos ’28
CONTRA-ALTO CLARINET
Yiani Tettamanti ’28
ALTO SAX
Stella Armstrong ’27
Roberto Erana ’27
Aaron Sadovnik ’27
Eitan Sawicki ’28
Inti Yankelevich ’28
TENOR SAX
Simone Carrasco ’27
Robbie Stieglitz ’28
BARI SAX
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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.