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Neuqua again receives Grammy award
May 13, 2009
By TIM WALDORF twaldorf@scn1.com
Neil Tesser, vice chair of The Recording Academy, goes to the Grammy Awards show almost every year.
"But I have to tell you," said Tesser to the audience gathered Wednesday in Neuqua Valley High School's auditorium, "the Grammy show itself is the thing that everybody knows, (but) to me it is arguably the least interesting thing the Recording Academy does.
"But," he added, "it pays for all of the really cool stuff that we do like this."
Tesser then presented the school with a Grammy Signature School Gold award and a $5,000 check.
The award means the school boasts one of the top three music programs in the nation.
The school is getting accustomed to these sorts of ceremonies.
In all, it has been honored by with some sort of Grammy award in eight of its 12 years of existence.
In 2000, 2003 and 2004, Neuqua earned Grammy Signature School Gold awards and the $5,000 checks that go with them.
Then, in 2005, it was named a Grammy National Signature School, earning it a No. 1 ranking and a $25,000 grant — and, in the process, disqualifying it from any Grammy awards for the next three years.
Now this.
What does it mean?
Neuqua Principal Bob McBride said that kind of consistency means the school can boast to having the best high school music program in the country.
"It has almost become the oxygen that we breathe, and that happens only when you have a strong ensemble," he said, crediting the school's music teachers, who'd gathered on the school's stage to receive the award. "These are the best of the best."
And, after acknowledging the teachers' contributions, McBride turned his attention to the other essential element of the program's success — the students.
"They get to experience something rare in life — that you rarely reach for, that you are rarely a part of. That is excellence," he said. "To be around this caliber of teaching, this quality of teachers, to be involved with this program, to be able to play these instruments, they get to touch greatness, and that's all there is to it, and that's what we're really here to celebrate."
Neuqua again receives Grammy award
May 13, 2009
By TIM WALDORF twaldorf@scn1.com
Neil Tesser, vice chair of The Recording Academy, goes to the Grammy Awards show almost every year.
"But I have to tell you," said Tesser to the audience gathered Wednesday in Neuqua Valley High School's auditorium, "the Grammy show itself is the thing that everybody knows, (but) to me it is arguably the least interesting thing the Recording Academy does.
"But," he added, "it pays for all of the really cool stuff that we do like this."
Tesser then presented the school with a Grammy Signature School Gold award and a $5,000 check.
The award means the school boasts one of the top three music programs in the nation.
The school is getting accustomed to these sorts of ceremonies.
In all, it has been honored by with some sort of Grammy award in eight of its 12 years of existence.
In 2000, 2003 and 2004, Neuqua earned Grammy Signature School Gold awards and the $5,000 checks that go with them.
Then, in 2005, it was named a Grammy National Signature School, earning it a No. 1 ranking and a $25,000 grant — and, in the process, disqualifying it from any Grammy awards for the next three years.
Now this.
What does it mean?
Neuqua Principal Bob McBride said that kind of consistency means the school can boast to having the best high school music program in the country.
"It has almost become the oxygen that we breathe, and that happens only when you have a strong ensemble," he said, crediting the school's music teachers, who'd gathered on the school's stage to receive the award. "These are the best of the best."
And, after acknowledging the teachers' contributions, McBride turned his attention to the other essential element of the program's success — the students.
"They get to experience something rare in life — that you rarely reach for, that you are rarely a part of. That is excellence," he said. "To be around this caliber of teaching, this quality of teachers, to be involved with this program, to be able to play these instruments, they get to touch greatness, and that's all there is to it, and that's what we're really here to celebrate."