OFMA’s Mission

To support, encourage, advance and cultivate through volunteerism and fundraising the musical education of students in the

Olmsted Falls City Schools.

OFMA meets the 1st Wednesday of the month during the school year.Next Meeting: Wednesday, September 6, 2017

A message from the new President S AV E T H E D AT E

Musical Notes June/July 2017

Saturday, August 5, 2017 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. OFMS Cafetorium

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My name is Jamie Reigle and I am the 2017-18 president of OFMA. I was born and raised in Olmsted Falls. I am a 1992 graduate of Olmsted Falls High School. I have fond memories of my years in the bands, masquers and oth-er events. Now I have kids of my own

here in OF schools. I see how far things have come in the years since I was a student here. I have watched the size of the bands and choirs continue to grow. For 11 consecutive years, Olmsted Falls has been declared as one of the Best Communities for Music Education. To continue to be the best and support the growth in the music programs, additional band uniforms, concert attires, and instruments (to name a few) are needed. Parents, students, teachers and community volunteer involvement are needed. As OFMA president, I plan to aggressively pursue sponsors, donors, grants, additional fundraisers and work with and talk to anyone who wants to be involved. I encourage you to contact me with you input and ideas that will help Olmsted Falls music programs to continue to be successful. I welcome you to join OFMA on facebook and follow on twitter. This fall, OFMA will have its own website that will showcase all of the OFCSD music programs and provide information on fundraising and how you can be involved. Save the date of Wednesday, September 6, 2017. That will be the first OFMA meeting of the school year. With Bulldog Pride, Jamie Reigle

2017-18 OFMA Officers President

Jamie Reigle jamiereigle@yahoo.com 440-263-7290

Vice-President Gary Andrus

andrusgary@yahoo.com 216-816-7238

Secretary Barb Gareau

Bgareau@sbcglobal.net 440-532-9026

Treasurer Ellen Bertrand

ellenbertrand@sbcglobal.net. 216-347-2474

@bulldogmusic

https://www.facebook.com/groups/OFMA11/

Thank You For Your Support Leadership David and Danielle Cook Ted and Michelle Cutts The Dahlinger Family Kevin and MaryCay Doherty J.Paul and Katherine Fidler Steve and Heidi Hamel The Kelley Family The McKeigue Family The Shand Family Scott and Tammy Walston Diamond Barb and Dave Gareau Jim and Rhonda Lloyd and Family Greg and Barbara Scott Platinum Christina Anderson and Michael Oliver The Bertrand Family Brian and Debra Bush Theresa and Brian Garrity Kevin and Nancy Gulden The Hassel Family The Hubbard Family Jonathan and Kathryn Iwamasa Jeff and Sherri Lippus and family George and Sharon Porvasnik Jane Rex The Sturm Family Seth and Cynthia Tomasch The Trupo Family Tava Slone-Young and Joe Young

Gold The Andrus Family The Barnard Family The Burkart Family Paul, Judy,Joshua, Matt and Julie Calaway DiFilippo Family The Dregalla Family David Evans Lucy and Howard Evans Roy and Terrie Grospitch Jim and Carri Gluvna Dan and Marilyn Gromek Janet and John Guzik Hyland Software The Hynes Family Kevin and Cindy Kelly Sherri and Michael Kovach and Family Kruichuk Family Lukes-Jensen Family The McKee Family The Moore Family The Palyo Family John and Linda Parkowski Jorge and Jackie Robinson The Simon Family Greg, Lori, Jack and Andrew Surtman The Vidovich Family Chuck and Kelly Walker Jack Warning The Wendling Family Jamie Wood

Silver Paul and Linda Albright Elaine and Tim Atkinson and Family Ruth B. Bertrand Patricia A. Boros The Drobnak Family Tiffany Finau The Hanratty Family The Hoffstetter Family The Ivan Family The Kemock Family Ron and Barb Koeppen Lodato Family Jim and Marilyn Luteran Matt and Kelly McClellan Frank and Sharon Miller Mowery Family Jim and Joan Pesch The Stanczak Family Jim, Loula, Pana, Anastasia, Angelique and Andrew Souris The Souris Family Tom and Janet Stetz Mark and Diane Strohmenger Patron Hunter, Aidan and Cindy Lyons Anne L. Pennock Aina Schuster Student/Friend Emily Kovach Voice Variations – Amy Hanratty Support OFMA in the 2017-18 school year by completing the donor form in this newsletter and send it in today. Thanks for supporting music in Olmsted Falls City School District.. A donor hits the right note!

Mr. Jerry Cergol enjoyed coming to the choir concerts and watch his grandson, Nicholas Wilke-Carr participate. He appreciated the work of Mrs. Crandall and OFMA. That appreciation led Mr. Cergol to put OFMA on the top of his list of candidates to donate his Tadashi piano (Mr. Cergol moved and wasn’t taking his piano to his new home). The Tadashi piano new home is at Olmsted Falls High School. Mr. Cergol has been a professional musician most of his life. On Sundays, Mr. Cergol plays the keyboard at Unity Spiritual Center in Westlake. The Tadashi pianos were manufactured in Japan. Ironically, Japan is where Nicholas graduated from high school this school year. Nicholas completed his junior year in 2016 at OFHS. His mom (Mr. Cergol’s daughter) works for the Department of Defense and accepted a position at Yokota US Air Force base near Tokyo.

OFMA and the music department of OFHS thank Mr. Cergol for this dona-tion. If you have an instrument in good working condition and would like to donate it to OFMA, contact OFMA’s

president Jamie Reigle at jamierei-

gle@yahoo.com

or 440-263-7290.

Jerry Cergol standing here as piano is loaded into truck.

M i d d l e S c h o o l M u s i c N e w s

OMEA Middle School Large Group Contest Results Superior Ratings Excellent Rating

7th grade Women’s Choir 8th grade Women’s Ensemble 7th grade Men’s Choir 7th grade Symphonic Band 8th grade Symphonic Band

Congratulations to OFMS Golden Harmonies for receiving the highest rating at The Cedar Point Music Festival.

OFMS Golden Harmonies & Jazz Band participated in the Cedar Point Music Festival in May.

C e d a r P o i n t M u s i c F e s ti v a l

Congratulations to Kevin Hebovia for

receiving the Best Overall Jazz

Soloist Award at the

Cedar Point Music Festival.

Congratulations to Colin Myers for

receiving the Outstanding

Musician Award at the Cedar Point Music

Festival.

Congratulations to OFMS music teacher Mr. Ryan Patterson

for receiving the Outstanding Director Conductor Award at the Cedar Point Music

Festival

Congratulations to OFMS Jazz Band for 1st place and Best Overall Jazz Band awards at the Cedar Point Music Festival.

H o n o r s • A w a r d s • S c h o l a r s h i p s OFHS Band & Choir Awards

Congratulations to the following seniors who received the honor of

becoming members of The Tri-M Music Honor Society: Michaela Baum Abbey Boenig Dombek Nadia Bubna Melanie Campbell Morgan Conner Mark Drobnak Morgan Finau Cassidy Fudale Megan Green Thomas Legeza- Navarez Molly McCafferty Ryan Miller Carson Moore Nick Romanowski Stephanie Schroth Emily Walchanowicz Madison Zaccardelli

John Phillip Sousa Award Collin Werner & Gwen Gossett Louis Armstrong Jazz Award Megan Green & Jacob Krucek Arion Award Carson Moore & Cassidy Fudale Technology Integration Award Nick Romanowski

Quincy Jones Creative Musicianship Award Kyle Erickson Fred Waring Director’s Award Ryan Miller National School Choral Award Nadia Bubna

Ryan Miller & Nadia Bubna led the sen-iors and audience in the singing of the school’s alma mater at Honors Day.

What is Tri-M? The Tri-M Music Honor Society® is a program of NAfME (National Associa-tion for Music Education) which focuses on creating future leaders in music education and music advocacy.

OFMS Music Awards

Choir Students of the Year Briana Opheim & Colin Meyers

Band Students of the Year Giana Formica Brian Drobnak

Pic #1: Colin Meyers Pic #2: Giana Formica & Brian Drobnak Pic #3: Briana Opheim

Congratulations to these students!!!

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1 2017 Senior Music Scholarships

2017 Music Camp Scholarships

Middle school recipients: Emma Barnard, Ryan Burkhart, Giana Formica, Megan Kovach & Theodore Humphrey

High School recipients: Andrew Barnard, Hope Burkhart,

Brynn Hanratty, Emily Kovach & Kayla Mandak

OFMA will reimburse each recipient up to $250 after the completion of the camps and the students have submitted the required paperwork.

OFMA awarded a total of $10,000 this school

year to be distributed to all of the music

programs (k-12) in the Olmsted Falls City

School District. This was made possible thru

fundraisers and donors financial support.

Congratulations to: Morgan Finau, Gwen Gossett & Carson Moore

Each recipient received a $1,000 scholarship from OFMA.

In The Spotlight (follow-up)

Dominic DiFilippo was featured in April’s “In the Spotlight”. Dominic entered his music composition enti-tled “Nature’s Story” into the Ohio PTA Reflections competition and won an Honorable Mention Award. As shown in picture (to the left), Dominic received his awards and is all smiles. Dominic is currently composing a musical piece for saxophone. Speaking of saxophone, in May, Dominic performed in his first saxophone recital. He is taking saxophone as well as piano lessons at the Baldwin-Wallace Community School. This fall, Dominic will be entering the 5th grade at OFIS.

Dominic with his saxophone teacher, Ethan Miller, at his recital.

Lindsey Smits was featured in June 2016 “In The Spotlight”. Lindsey is considered a triple-threat, an actor, musician and dancer. Lindsey loves acting in musicals, and singing in front of an audience. Since her feature last June, Lindsey has been quite busy. She had the honor of playing Belinda Crachit in "A Christmas Carol" at Great Lakes Theater at Playhouse Square for 30+ perfor-mances last fall. This spring, Lindsey was thrilled to play "Annie" in the 40th Anniversary produc-tion of the show at Brecksville Little Theater. Off stage, Lindsey won First Place in her age division, and swas the overall Grand Prize Winner in the Olmsted Falls K-12 District Talent Show. She also had the privilege of performing the National Anthem at Olmsted Falls 4th of July Celebration in Village Green, at the Faculty Dodgeball Tournament, and for the OFHS women's softball team. She will be singing the National Anthem at a Lake Erie Monster's game

this July. Lindsey achieved a childhood dream, earning her ballet pointe shoes in Janu-ary, and was able to dance en pointe in an excerpt of Swan Lake for her year-end dance recital. Lindsey continues to study ballet, pointe, tap, jazz, and lyri-cal/contemporary dance at Rock City Dance. She competed on Rock City's Dia-mond Tech Competition Dance Team and they are going to Nationals this sum-mer. Lindsey studies vocal performance with Amy Hanratty, and piano with Northcoast Music. Lindsey also plays percus-sion in the Olmsted Falls Intermediate School band. This fall Lindsey will enter the 6th grade at OFMS. She is hoping to audition for Golden Harmonies and to join her older sister, Evelyn, in the Bulldog Theatre Company.

Lindsey with the trophies from the Olmsted Falls Talent Show.

Lindsey (in the middle) as Annie.

Dominic is all smiles with his awards from Ohio PTA Reflection competition.

Olmsted Falls students rocked Severance Hall with the legendary Melissa Etheridge

OF students Lexy Jensen, Greg Smith, Lainey Rambert, Alexis Nelan and Megan Green had the time of their lives performing on stage with Melissa Etheridge at Severance Hall on June 7th. Lexy, Greg, Lainey and Alexis were members of the chorus and Megan played piccolo in the Contemporary Youth Orchestra’s (CYO) Rock the Orchestra con-cert with Melissa Etheridge. Lexy, Greg, Lainey and Alexis an-swered the audition call to be a part of chorus. Megan is a first year member of CYO. CYO’s director, Liza Grossman, had been pursuing Melissa Ether-idge for 10 years trying to convince Melissa to do a concert with

CYO. That persistent pursuit paid off. The concert was videotaped for a documentary. Stay tune for the date and station for the broadcast of this documentary.

Lexxy, Greg, Lainey, Alexis and Megan. Alexis &

Melissa Etheridge.

YOUR SUPPORT IN NEEDED FOR THE 2017-18 SCHOOL YEAR!!

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