Merry Christmas!

Dear young musicians and parents,


You did a remarkable job of presenting our Christmas concert. Thank you for all your practice. I was thrilled with your performance and so very proud of each of you.

Parents, you did an awesome job of serving the tables. So many have commented on how well you all did. Thank you so much. A very special THANK YOU to Amy Finke for her organizational skills in putting that all together and taking charge of the ticket sales, printing tickets, etc. That was a huge job!
You can see some of the photos taken on our blog. Please become a friend. We had quite a number of hits on the site after our concert. www.youngartistsstringorchestra.blogspot.com If you have other pictures, we would love to have them. If you send them to my e-mail, Anna will post them on the blog. THANK YOU, Anna, for keeping the blog updated.

We will resume our YASO rehearsal schedule starting on Friday, January 20 at 4:00 P.M. New music will be given out for our spring season. I would like to have a meeting of the parents after that rehearsal, so I hope at least one parent of each family will be able to attend.

The rehearsal will be shortened a bit to allow for that meeting.

In addition, my private music lessons will resume the week of January 23.

Don't forget the concert at South Florida Community College of the St. Petersburg (Russian) Orchestra  on January 30. I have all the tickets for that event since one person is responsible for turning them in at the door. THANK YOU to Kathi Jensen for her help in organizing the ticket purchase and all that was involved.
Love you all, and wish you a very Happy New Year, filled with God's Best.

Diane (including Peggy and Bill)