2019 SAM Statewide Graduation Recitals

LIST OF ENCLOSURES To: Teachers of students participating in 2019 SAM Graduation From: Graduation Co-Chair Date: February 18, 2019 Enclosed you will find:

TEACHER INFORMATION Listening comment forms Listening Guidelines

Downloadable PDFs for Teachers and Students: https://suzukimn.org/graduation-resources/

TEACHER INFORMATION Information for teachers Room schedule for Benson Great Hall at Bethel University Parking at Benson Great Hall at Bethel University

STUDENT INFORMATION Information about rehearsals and recitals Room schedule for Benson Great Hall at Bethel University Maps and directions to Benson Great Hall at Bethel University Parking at Benson Great Hall at Bethel University Special notice on Concert Etiquette Information for Harp Graduates

You will receive the following:

A separate email from recordings coordinators with YouTube links of student recordings for listening and comments

Teachers are responsible for making copies of the student information to pass on to their graduates. All student information will also be available as downloadable pdf’s on our website at https://suzukimn.org/graduation-resources/. These pdfs can be attached to emails to send to students. Thank you teachers, for all the hard work you do to prepare your graduates and for making the graduation day process run smoothly for our participating families.

Julia Bartsch SAM Graduation Co- Chair

president@suzukimn.org

2019 SAM STATEWIDE GRADUATION RECITALS

Information for Teachers

March 16, 2019 – Benson Great Hall

To Do Before Graduation Day: Listen to each YouTube link of a student recording, and write on a comment form for each video.

Bring completed (non-folded) comment forms with you on Graduation Day to give to the teachers of the graduates.

Schedule the day to be with your students and volunteer to help. Please contact our Volunteer Coordinator Meredith Vaughan, if you would like to volunteer: meredith.mv@gmail.com or 651-328-1207.

To Do on Graduation Day:

Pick up your registration packet at the teacher table in the Benson Great Hall Lobby and wear your name tag. Your registration packet will be in the teacher hanging file folder labeled with your name.

Each completed comment form is to be placed in the corresponding teacher’s hanging file folder in the lobby of Benson Great Hall.

Please do not crumple or tape anything to the comment forms. Many students like to keep their comment forms as mementos.

To Do After the Graduation Recital:

Hand out your students’ trophies in the lobby.

After the recital, you are responsible for picking up the following materials for your studio: 1. Your teacher hanging file folder will contain the completed comment forms that have

been returned to you for your students. Please leave your hanging file folder in place and take an empty envelope to keep your graduates completed comment forms flat and dry.

2. Trophies and registration packages for students who did not attend Graduation. 3. Another teacher’s materials if you have been designated as a substitute for a teacher who

cannot attend Graduation.

If you cannot attend Graduation you must have a substitute to represent you. (You might have designated a substitute already in your registration form). The substitute is responsible for handing out your students’ trophies as well as picking up all other materials that belong to your studio.

Note: There is a $25.00 packing and mailing fee for any materials or trophies left at graduation.

The Graduation Committee appreciates your attention to these details.

2019 SAM Graduation Listening Guidelines and Suggestions

Dear SAM teachers,

Thank you for contributing your time to be a listener for the twenty-third Suzuki Association of Minnesota Statewide

Graduation Recitals.

I encourage you to keep several things in mind:

1. Listen to at least a portion of each of your YouTube links as soon as you receive them. If you detect a problem,

please contact the Graduation Chair Julia Bartsch immediately at president@suzukimn.org

2. Reserve plenty of time before the recitals to listen and evaluate the student’s YouTube recording and write

positive and encouraging comments on the evaluation form

3. Please do NOT comment on student apparel or the location where the video was recorded (for example, if a

student is dressed in pajamas or is wearing blue jeans, it is not appropriate for a teacher to suggest a different style

or type of clothing).

4. Please keep comments about posture and student set-up to a minimum, if at all. It is important to prioritize the

student's sound and overall performance in our comments.

5. If the performance on the YouTube link generally meets the guidelines for graduation in the SAM Graduation

Handbook, but there is wrong note or one passage that is not as well in tune or well articulated, please be tolerant.

This may be due to stress of recording, nervousness, or even the age of the student.

6. Not all videos will have fine audio included – this may be due to the technology used. Please keep this in mind

when considering the student’s tone quality.

7. Write your comments with the student in mind. The student will be reading them. Each student has worked very

hard for this Graduation and they are very excited. Your positive, nurturing, and enthusiastic comments will be an

inspiration for them as they continue their study.

8. More than one STRONG POINT can be written on the listeners form if you wish.

9. Offer constructive comments, if necessary, in a gentle manner. For example, if you want to suggest to the student

to incorporate dynamics into their study you may say: “As you continue studying this piece you might enjoy

exploring a greater range of dynamics”. When commenting on musical or technical issues, it is helpful to the

student and the teacher if you include measure numbers for reference.

10. If, however, you hear that there is consistently inaccurate playing throughout a graduation piece feel free to write

specific constructive comments, keeping the age, maturity, and level of the student in mind.

11. SAM Graduation is completely up to the discretion of the studio teacher. When making comments, please keep

this in mind. As commenters, we often do not know an important backstory in a SAM graduate’s life.

Please remember that the written evaluation forms need to be returned to the teacher on Graduation Day and put in the

teachers’ folders.

Thank you for participating in Statewide Suzuki Graduation. Your job takes a great amount of effort and care and I do

appreciate it.

Sincerely,

Julia Bartsch

SAM Graduation Co-Chair

president@suzukimn.org

SAMSuzuki Association of Minnesota

2019 SAM Statewide Graduation Recitals

For Teachers: Room Schedule for Benson Great Hall at Bethel University

TIME Lobby & STAGE CLC Room CLC Room CC Room CLC Room Eastlund AC Room CC Room CC Room CC Room CC Room CC Room TIMETicket Office 109 117 119 148 Room 228 312 311 331 306 326

7:30 AM Harp Load-In 7:30 AM

8:00 AM Harp Tuning 8:00 AM

8:30 AM Set-Up Trophies Thomas 8:30 AM

9:00 AM Bartsch Piano 9:00 AM

9:30 AMPiano Soloist

Soundcheck Accompanist Soloist 9:30 AM

10:00 AM Room Warm-Up 10:00 AM

10:30 AM Room 10:30 AM

11:00 AM

Recital 1

TROPHIES

Cello & Viola

Soloists get

settled 11:00 AM

11:30 AM

Recital 2

REGISTRATION 11:30 AM

12:00 PMViola & Cello

Soundcheck 12:00 PM

12:30 PM

Set-Up

Cello Chairs

Cello Travel

to Set Up

Cello Travel

to Set Up

Cello Travel

to Set Up 12:30 PM

1:00 PM 1:00 PM

1:30 PM

Recital 3

REGISTRATION Violin Tuning

Violin

Tuning

Violin

Tuning

Violin

Tuning 1:30 PM

2:00 PM 2:00 PM

2:30 PM

Recital 2

TROPHIES 2:30 PM

3:00 PM

Violin Solo

Soundcheck 3:00 PM

3:30 PM 3:30 PM

4:00 PM 4:00 PM

4:30 PM 4:30 PM

5:00 PM

Recital 3

TROPHIES

Dismissal from

Stage 5:00 PM

5:30 PM Clean Up Clean Up 5:30 PM

HARP

Rehearsal ALL

Levels

Recital 1

REGISTRATION

RECITAL 2

Cello &

Viola

RECITAL 3

VIOLIN

RECITAL 1 Guitar, Harp,

Piano

Soloists &

Flute

VIOLIN

Rehearsal

Level 4

VIOLIN

Rehearsal

Level 5

VIOLIN

Rehearsal

Level 7 & 8

VIOLIN

Rehearsal Level

TW

VIOLIN

Rehearsal

Level 6

VIOLIN

Rehearsal

Level 1

CELLO

Rehearsal

Level

5 & Above

Piano Soloists

get settled

Violin Soloists

get settled

VIOLIN

Rehearsal

Level 2

VIOLIN

Rehearsal

Level 3

FLUTE

ALL Levels

GUITAR

Rehearsal Level

TW & 1 & 2

GUITAR

Rehearsal

Level

3 & above

CELLO

Rehearsal

Level 3 & 4

CELLO

Rehearsal Level

TW

CELLO

Rehearsal

Level 1 & 2

VIOLA

Rehearsal

All Levels

2019 SAM STATEWIDE GRADUATION RECITALS

Parking at Bethel University - Benson Great Hall 3900 Bethel Drive

St. Paul, MN 55112-6999

SAM Graduates, Teachers, Families and Friends

are welcome to park for free

in Lot 9 (West Parking Lot)

pictured on the included map.

For more information, please visit:

https://www.bethel.edu/about/maps-directions/

or call: (651)-638-6400

11 Edgren Residence 12 Bodien Residence 13 Getsch Residence 14 Heritage Hall Parking Lot 15 Hargis Park16 Sports and Recreation Center (SRC) 17 Bremer Field/Royal Stadium18 SoHo Parking Lot 19 East Parking Lots 20 Arden Village East Residences21 Nelson Residence 22 Townhouse Offices in H, I, M, N23 Arden Village West Residences

1 Benson Great Hall 2 Lundquist Community Life

Center 3 Academic Center (AC) 4 Brushaber Commons (BC) 5 Clauson Center (CC) 6 Hagstrom Student Services Center (HC) 7 Robertson Physical Education Center (RC) 8 Ona Orth Athletic Complex 9 West Parking Lot 10 Heritage Hall

South End of Campus 24 Lissner Residence 25 Scandia Church 26 Seminary Faculty Parking 27 Seminary Classroom Hall 28 Seminary Campus Center 29 Seminary Chapel 30 Seminary Faculty Hall 31 Lundquist Library 32 Recreation Hall

33 Student and Visitor Parking 34 Chalberg Residence 35 Turnwall Residence 36 Danielson Residence 37 Wessman Residence 38 Widen Residence 39 Wingblade Residence, Child Development Center (CDC) 40 Resident Parking

North End of Campus

Key Campus Services: CAS Admissions–7; CAPS/GS Admissions–41; Seminary Admissions–27; Alumni–5; Facilities Management–6; Health Services (TH-H)–22; Library–6; Seminary Library–31; Security and Safety–6

41 Bethel Office Center, 1306 West County Road F 42 Red Fox Campus, 1200 Red Fox Road

Welcome to Bethel

Campus MapBethel University3900 Bethel DriveSt. Paul, Minnesota 55112-6999

Bethel University is located on a 231-acre lakeside campus of wooded, rolling hills in Arden Hills, Minnesota, a suburb of St. Paul. The campus has easy access to freeways and to the Minneapolis and St. Paul metropolitan area.

To Reach Bethel

Maps to Bethel University

From the North: Take I-35W south to the County Road E2 exit. Go east to Old S.T.H. 10 (Snel-ling Ave.), turn right, and take the first left into campus. Or take I-694 east to the Snelling Ave. (Highway 51) turnoff and proceed to campus entrance on the right, one-quarter mile south. Note that Old U.S. Highway 10 connects with I-694 just west of the Snelling Ave. (Highway 51) turnoff.

From the West: During daytime hours, take I-694 east to the Snelling Ave. (Highway 51) turnoff and proceed to campus entrance on the right, one-quarter mile south. During evening hours, take I-694 east; turn south onto I-35W. Take I-35W to the County Road E2 exit. Go east to Old S.T.H. 10 (Snelling Ave.), turn right, and take first left into campus.

From the East: During daytime hours, take I-694 west to Snelling Ave. (Highway 51) exit, then make

immediate left at the turn-around to go south onto Snelling Ave./Highway 51. Campus entrance is one-

half mile on the right. During evening hours, take I-694 west; turn south onto I-35W. Take I-35W to the County Road

E2 exit. Go east to Old S.T.H. 10 (Snelling Ave.), turn right, and take first left into campus.

From the South: Take Snelling Ave. north and exit at County Road E. Turn left, proceed to Old S.T.H. 10 (Snelling Ave.), and turn right. Campus entrance is on the right. Or take I-35W north to the County Road E2 exit. Go east to Old S.T.H. 10 (Snelling Ave.), turn right, and take first left into campus.

From Downtown St. Paul: Take I-35E north, go west on I-694 (see instructions for From the East).

From Downtown Minneapolis: Take I-35W north to County Road E2 exit (see From South).

Main Building Layouts

Local Area Map

Twin Cities Area Map

Seminary Buildings

South End of Campus Main Buildings

Lundquist Community Life Center

(Benson Great Hall)

BCBrushaberCommons

(Library)

BETHEL OFFICE CENTERCollege of Adult & Professional Studies, Graduate School, Office of Development,

and Bethel Foundation1306 West County Road F

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Co. Rd. E

Red Fox Rd.

Co. Rd. E2

Fountain TerraceApartments

Fountain TerraceApartments

2nd

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6th St. NW

FountainTerrace

Apartments

Bethel — Arden Hills(Main Campus)651.638.6400

Lexington Ave.

Red Fox Rd.

Gray Fox Rd.

Dunlap S

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Snelling A

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