On last Sunday, Nov. 25th, CISH Maple Dragon Orchestra Team had its first all-member rehearsal. Everyone fully participated and performed well in the rehearsal. 

The rehearsal started with different voice parts practices and ended with all group joining together practices. In the afternoon, the students arrived at the theatre early and under the guidance of the teachers they got seated into their right voice parts and grasped an understanding of the basic performance skills very quickly. Within a few hours’ rehearsal, our young musicians were full of spirit and giving their fully participation. The whole rehearsal process was carried out in an easy and orderly manner.

Orchestra rehearsal is a group activity with team efforts, which also requires collaboration of different voice parts. It is wonderful to see that after just two months of learning our young instrument players have already mastered certain performance skills and are capable of collaborating and performing professionally.

We will also continue to work hard to keep practicing, our students will be performing better and better after the next few rehearsals.

We would like to thank Ms. Yvonne and other parent committee members for their strong support throughout the whole rehearsal preparatory process. With the joint efforts of all of you the Orchestra rehearsal can go very smoothly. 

Let us look forward to the upcoming Christmas concert performance, we will be giving a wonderful show for everyone.

11月25日下午，合肥加拿大国际学校枫叶龙国际青少年乐团迎来了成立以来的第一次全体排练，乐团成员们在这次排练中表现认真，状态良好。

第一次排练分为分声部排练和全体合排两个部分进行。当天下午，孩子们早早地来到了中加部一楼剧场大厅。在指导老师的带领下，孩子们一步步熟悉了乐团表演的声部安排和座次规则，以及一些在表演中常用的基本知识，随后进行了几首演奏曲目的排练。在几个小时的排练里，各位小乐手们精神饱满，丝毫没有懈怠，整个排练过程轻松有序进行。

乐团排练更是一项有着极强团队协作性的集体活动，要求各个声部不同成员之间的相互配合。令人欣慰的是，经过短短两个多月的课程训练，乐团的孩子们已经掌握了一定的演奏技巧，拥有了能够合作呈现团体曲目的专业能力，这是非常让人欣喜的。

我们也会继续努力加紧排练，相信经过接下来的几次排练磨合，乐团孩子们会表现得越来越好。

同时，特别感谢Yvonne女士及其他乐团家长后援会成员在整个筹备过程中提供的大力支持，有了大家的共同努力才保障了乐团排练的顺利进行！

最后，让我们共同期待即将到来的圣诞音乐会，乐团全体成员一定会为大家呈上一场精彩的表演，感谢大家的关注和支持！

枫叶龙国际青少年乐团