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Putnam Valley Middle School Band Students Perform at Playland Park
 | | PVMS students assemble to hear other performers at the High Note Festival |
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On May 31 a group of talented Seventh and Eighth Grade musicians- both band and chorus members- from Putnam Valley Middle School traveled once again to Playland Park in Rye, New York, to participate in the 2007 High Note Festival, a one-day motivational music festival. The festival consists of a morning performance, which is adjudicated by trained music educators, and afternoon activities within the park.
The nationwide High Note Festival program encourages the combination of high quality musical performance with good old-fashioned fun. Students are encouraged to wear comfortable, casual clothes- this year the PVMS group wore brilliant orange t-shirts- and groups do not compete against each other, which eliminates much of the stress associated with competitive school music programs.
Douglass Denniston, one of two PVMS instrumental music teachers (incoming instrumental music teacher, Laura DeNitto, who will take over for the retiring Edwina Pratt, also joined the group at Playland), was very optimistic that his band would do well, and he was right. The 8th graders scored 97 out of a possible 100 points, the 7th graders scored 94 out of 100, with ratings of "superior," and the 7th and 8th grade chorus received a rating of "excellent."
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