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River Deep, Mountain High - REC Grade 10-12 Band with Vocalist Sienna Cariati

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Moonlight Sonata - REC Grade 11 & 12 Concert Band

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Danse sacrée - REC Percussion Ensemble

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Fever - RECJO with Vocalist Brooke Singbeil

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1+1 (Marshall Fehr)

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Batucada - REC Percussion Ensemble

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The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (G.F. Handel) – Avery & Madeline Penner

River East Collegiate 2020-21 music recording: Jeff Kula, Music Director.
Piano duet performed by Avery & Madeline Penner.
“The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba” composed by G.F. Handel (1748) is the instrumental introduction to the third part of his oratorio “Solomon”. It’s one of Handel’s greatest hits and often played during wedding ceremonies for the processional, prelude or recessional.
Video captured of the Cedar Bog Trail, at Birds Hill Provincial Park, in Manitoba.

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River Deep, Mountain High - REC Grade 10-12 Band with Vocalist Sienna Cariati

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River Deep, Mountain High - REC Grade 10-12 Band with Vocalist Sienna Cariati

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2021-22 River East Collegiate (REC) Band; Jeff Kula, Music Director. Sienna Cariati (Grade 12) - Vocalist. “River Deep, Mountain High” is a song written by Phil Spector, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich. The song was first released in 1966 on Ike & Tina Turner’s album and has since been covered by many notable artists. “River Deep, Mountain High” is ranked No. 33, by “Rolling Stone” magazine, on ...

Moonlight Sonata - REC Grade 11 & 12 Concert Band

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Moonlight Sonata - REC Grade 11 & 12 Concert Band

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2021-22 River East Collegiate (REC) Grade 11 & 12 Concert Band: Jeff Kula, Music Director. Featuring Darina Lavrukhina - piano and Madeline Penner - oboe. ‘“Moonlight Sonata” by Ludwig van Beethoven was completed in 1801. The piece is one of Beethoven’s most popular compositions for the piano. It was a popular favorite even in his own day. Beethoven wrote the “Moonlight Sonata” in his early thi...

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Danse sacrée - REC Percussion Ensemble

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2021-22 River East Collegiate Percussion Ensemble - Jeff Kula, Music Director. Ericka Harms (Grade 11) - harpist. Claude Debussy composed “Danse sacrée” in 1904. He was commissioned by a harp-making company to write a work for the new chromatic harp. Debussy’s “Danses sacrée et profane” (a two-movement piece) is one of the most anticipated of all of Debussy’s compositions. Video captured at the...

Fever - RECJO with Vocalist Brooke Singbeil

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Fever - RECJO with Vocalist Brooke Singbeil

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River East Collegiate Jazz Orchestra 2020-21 - Jeff Kula, Music Director. Brooke Singbeil (Grade 12) - Vocalist. “Fever” recorded by Peggy Lee in 1958 is her best-known song. It has remained a popular jazz standard. Video captured in Winnipeg, Canada.

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1+1 (Marshall Fehr)

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River East Collegiate 2020-21 music recording: Jeff Kula, Music Director. “1 1” by Philip Glass (1968) performed by Marshall Fehr (Grade 10) on an amplified table top. ‘The player performs “1 1” by tapping the table top with his fingers or knuckles. Two rhythmic units, which build the block of “1 1”, are combined in regular arithmetic progressions.’ Philip Glass is an American composer and pian...

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Batucada - REC Percussion Ensemble

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River East Collegiate (REC) 2021-22 Percussion Ensemble: Jeff Kula, Music Director. Batucada is a very rhythmic musical style, a substyle of samba, originating from Brazil. It is composed only of percussion instruments punctuated by a whistle. Batucada is very popular in most Brazilian festivals and parades, like the famous Rio Carnival. Jeff Kula - ensemble leader; whistle and bass drum beat S...

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O Fortuna - REC Wind Ensemble

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2020-21 River East Collegiate (REC) Wind Ensemble: Jeff Kula - Music Director. Carl Orff, in 1935-36, composed the music for “O Fortuna” as part of “Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi”, the opening and closing movement of his composition “Carmina Burana”. “O Fortuna” is a medieval Latin Goliardic poem, written in the early 13th century. Human struggle and fate are the poem’s themes. Text: O Fortuna velut...

While Still Breathing (Kevin Curtis) - REC Wind Ensemble featuring Erika Harms

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While Still Breathing (Kevin Curtis) - REC Wind Ensemble featuring Erika Harms

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2020-21 River East Collegiate (REC) Wind Ensemble featuring Erika Harms, harp soloist and Jeff Kula, music director. “While Still Breathing” (2020) is composed by Kevin Curtis. ‘This piece was composed during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 … ‘The working title of the piece was “Still Breathing, Still Dreaming”, referring to the most severely ill victims of the virus… imagined t...

Glass Amalgam - Jordan Unger featuring REC Grade 9-12 Band Students

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Glass Amalgam - Jordan Unger featuring REC Grade 9-12 Band Students

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2021-22 River East Collegiate (REC) Grade 9-12 band students directed by Jeff Kula. “Glass Amalgam” (2021) is an electroacoustic work composed by Jordan Unger (REC Alumnus). ‘Jordan Unger wrote “Glass Amalgam” for River East Collegiate’s Grade 12 Concert Band class of 2020-21. However, when the schools went remote-only in May 2021, the song was not completed. Unger and REC music director Jeff K...

Let’s Talk About…(Kevin Curtis) - REC Percussion Ensemble

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Let’s Talk About…(Kevin Curtis) - REC Percussion Ensemble

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2020-21 River East Collegiate (REC) Percussion Ensemble’s recorded World Premiere Performance of "Let's Talk About..." composed by Kevin Curtis and directed by Jeff Kula. The musicians are: 5-string Bass Soloist - Colin Corrigan (Grade 12) Electric Guitar - Brett Smith (Grade 11) Rhodes Electric Piano - Erika Harms (Grade 10) and Avery Penner Alto Saxophone - Madeline Penner (Grade 11) Percussi...

Everybody Counts (Kevin Curtis) - REC Percussion Ensemble

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Everybody Counts (Kevin Curtis) - REC Percussion Ensemble

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2021-22 River East Collegiate (REC) Percussion Ensemble: Jeff Kula, Music Director. “Everybody Counts: Three Movements For Ten Musicians” composed by Kevin Curtis. ‘“Everybody Counts”… is a piece that is inherently tyrannical in its insistence that the players continually count their individual rhythms. This points to the irony inherent in the piece and its title “Everybody Counts”. The final p...

Back to Black - REC Grade 10 Concert Band with Vocalist Madelynne Klapprat

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Back to Black - REC Grade 10 Concert Band with Vocalist Madelynne Klapprat

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2021-22 River East Collegiate (REC) Grade 10 Concert Band’s recorded performance of “Back to Black”: Jeff Kula, Music Director. Madelynnne Klapprat (Grade 10) - Vocalist. “Back to Black” song by Amy Winehouse, co-written in 2006, is about her own heartache. Only two albums were released in her lifetime. At the 2008 Grammy Awards, Winehouse had six nominations and won five (Record, Song, New Art...

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The Chant - REC Jazz Orchestra

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2021-2022 River East Collegiate (REC) Jazz Orchestra music recording: Jeff Kula, Music Director. “The Chant” is a tune arranged by Jelly Roll Morton in 1926. Jelly Roll Morton was an American jazz and ragtime pianist and composer, best known for influencing the formation of modern day jazz, starting his career in New Orleans. According to jazz historians, when Jelly Roll Morton said, “I invente...

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Hero’s Journey (Travis Singbeil)

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Jarryd Elias’ 2014 composition “Hero’s Journey” for Timpani and Electronics. River East Collegiate (REC) 2020-21 music recording: Jeff Kula, Music Director. Performed by Travis Singbeil (Grade 10) - Percussionist. “This is my first composition using electronic music and percussion. In the process of composing this piece, many superhero films were being featured in theaters, and this composition...