Giocoso: Press

April 11, 2006

Dear Mr. Gruber and the members of Giocoso:

Thank you for your wonderful performance for the 5th – 8th grade students at our school today. The students were very excited as they left the concert, having just experienced a live music performance, many of them for the very first time. The instrument demonstrations were highly informative, as well as thoroughly captivating…the students were absolutely fascinated by the different styles, techniques and instruments of each of the performers and didn’t realize how much they were learning, too! We also appreciated your willingness to answer their questions about the performance and working together as a group. Listening to each other and “staying out of each other’s way musically” was an enlightening perspective on the cooperative nature of a musical ensemble that I don’t think they had thought of before and brought a new respect for those groups that are successful.

The teachers who attended the concert were as enthusiastic as the students and praised the educational, musical, interactive and witty elements of the performance. They were grateful that they had the opportunity to see the show.

Thank you, again, and I hope we have the opportunity for your group to come back again next year.

Sincerely,

Lynn Kaiser
Music Teacher