St. Francis weekly newsletter – 4/3
The Buzz 
What’s POPpin at St. Francis?
General Updates & Reminders
PLEASE COMPLETE HOME PRACTICE SURVEY
This is a reminder to please complete the [very short!] survey by the end of the day. Your responses will help POP determine the best ways to provide our students with continued access to music education, and prepare for a longer distance-learning period ahead of us.
Click here to complete the survey
(takes less than a minute!)
POP FAMILY PORTAL:
New Practice Videos added weekly! Be sure to check out these online resources for at-home learning.
Keep up with your POP teachers right from the portal. Our wonderful TA’s are recording multiple videos per week.
You can also check out a lesson with a different Teaching Artist on your instrument from another POP site to mix it up!
Resources include:
- Practice videos
- Music theory videos
- Mini lessons on repertoire and technique (3-4 minutes, focusing on different sections of the piece/s)
- Music theory worksheets
- Sheet music
- Links to some fun online Music Theory games, exercises, and other interactive learning
How to access the Portal & POP Resources:
- Go to www.playonphilly.org (bookmark this site if you haven’t already!)
- Click on ‘POP Family’ (right side of the screen, next to ‘About’, ‘Programs’, ‘How we work’, etc)
- Type in password: popfamily
- Click on ‘RESOURCES’ (right side of the screen)
- This will take you to the bottom of the page – find the button that says ‘CLICK HERE’
- After clicking the button, a new page should open on your browser with a Google Drive Folder called ‘Family Resources’. I recommend bookmarking this page on your device(s).
- Here you will see the different resources labeled accordingly.
- NOTE: the Practice Videos are organized by level and instrument. The Music Theory videos are not always instrument specific, and can apply to more than one instrument family.
DRESS REHEARSAL VIDEO UPDATE
We are currently in the process of editing the filmed Dress Rehearsal. An email will go out upon its completion, and POP families will have access to the link of the performance, which you can enjoy at any time! We can’t wait to share it with you soon!
Teacher Feature
Meet our fabulous Teaching Artists!
Each week we will shine a spotlight one of the
18 teachers on our St. Francis team.
We are so lucky to have each and every one of them here at POP!
M0lly Germer
Molly Germer is a Philadelphia and NYC based violinist. She is a former member of the Erie Philharmonic, and has recently performed with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, the New World Symphony, Wordless Music Orchestra, Ensemble LPR, Contemporaneous, and Ensemble Signal. She can be heard on Signal’s recordings of music by David Felder, Tristan Perich, and David Lang. Molly collaborates with numerous groups in NYC while continuing as a teaching artist at Play On Philly and Settlement Music School. She has performed at venues such as The Stone, BAM, Madison Square Garden, Miller Theater, Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and Alice Tully Hall. Most recently, Molly participated several festivals across the world, including the New Music for Strings Festival in Denmark and Iceland, the Lincoln Center Festival, Annapolis Chamber Music Festival, Banff Centre’s Evolution of the String Quartet, June in Buffalo, Lucerne Festival Academy, Bang on a Can at Mass MoCA, and Spoleto Festival USA. Molly has recorded and/or performed with several notable artists, including Alex G, Whitney, Japanese Breakfast, Jazmine Sullivan, The Districts, The Who, Kimbra, Frances Quinlan, and Rhiannon Giddens, among others. Molly is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music (BM), and of the Contemporary Performance Program at the Manhattan School of Music (MM).
Upcoming Events
ALL UPCOMING POP PROGRAMMING AND EVENTS ARE CANCELLED
UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
Be well, stay healthy, stay inside!
-Ms. Allie
