David Sabine

This semester, my first with Keyano College, has been an awesome experience and I want to share some highlights, information, and reminders with you all.

This will be as brief as possible.  (The links should be fun though…check them out.)

September was mostly a blur.

Classes, and homework, began September 1st including Theory, Ear Training, Music History, Percussion Lessons, and Music Technology (part 1).  Some additional materials are available online for these classes.  Try the following links to hear some great music and see more:

• http://my.keyano.ca/VPA/Music100/ (Students can login and listen to the playlists including my favourite playlist, Jazz History in an Hour.)
• http://my.keyano.ca/VPA/Percussion (Check out my favourite shuffles!  That’s great music to listen to while practicing drum.)
•  http://my.keyano.ca/VPA/Music290/ (Students can login and see each others’ projects – but have a look at the studio projects at YouTube.com.)

October: I turned 35 and there was a blizzard on Halloween.

In early November, our Music Technology class hosted DJ Junior G for a great session about electronic music production and his life in the biz.  (Thanks, Gareth, I owe you one!)

In late November, I had a great time at the Keyano Jazz Festival (info here | video recap here) and I think this community owes a lot to Bill Prouten for organizing that annual festival and creating such great opportunities for the local high school students.  Thank you, Bill!

The highlight of December, apart from final exams of course, was The Winter Affair.  I want to thank all the musicians in the Concert Band for their fine performance at the concert -- I was proud to be on stage with you all.  The Concert Band started rehearsing on September 8th and we enjoyed reading and playing music together every Tuesday.  We selected *some* of that music to perform for a nearly-full house in the Keyano Theatre.  We were with friends of course – the Winter Affair featured many of the talents from all areas of the Visual & Performing Arts department.

(The invitation, by the way, is still open to all musicians in Wood Buffalo who are interested to participate in the Concert Band.  Read more about that here or just call me @ 780-791-8993 and say, “Hey, I want to play.”)

Well, I’ve just finished grading the final exams and I’m really looking forward to next semester.  I’ll see you all again after our holiday.

Bye, for now.