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#12341

1212

Oct. 18, 2023, 11:17 a.m.

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Smolen: "...Cellos? Are the violins gaslighting me?" Andy: "We are not gaslighting you, Ms. Smolen! It's all in your mind!"

P4 Phil Orch. Smolen was talking about chord progressions, and miswrote a couple notes while explaining minor scales.

orchestra, smolen, andy

#12340

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Oct. 18, 2023, 11:07 a.m.

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//P4 Phil Orch. Smolen is giving a lesson on chord progressions, and asked the class to transpose Twinkle Twinkle to a minor key. Smolen: "The little star has grown up! It went to college, and is now working a 9-5 job with unresolved debt!" //Old McDonald. Smolen: "Unfortunately, because of the economy... Old McDonald had to sell the farm. It is now a slaughterhouse."

#12288

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Oct. 11, 2023, 10:28 a.m.

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Smolen: "Okay, please don't set this classroom on fire." Smolen: "If you really want to, do it in the auditorium. We need a new auditorium."

Impromptu P4 Phil Orchestra when the PSAT we were supposed to be taking got rescheduled. Smolen needed the planning period.

auditorium, orchestra, fire, smolen

#12140

1313

Sept. 15, 2023, 8:35 p.m.

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Smolen: "The others are still rehearsing, so please don't scream your head off in the hallways. Save it for the bathrooms."

#12030

1313

Aug. 31, 2023, 10:24 a.m.

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Smolen: "I cut open a brain named Tim and ate it... Yunyi, come out."

P4 Phil Orch, second day of class. We were doing an activity where Smolen tried to match what someone did over the summer to the student.

brain, yunyi, orchestra, smolen

#12029

1313

Aug. 31, 2023, 9:39 a.m.

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Smolen: "This will be a death to the match! ...I mean, a match to the death!" Ricky: "Why not slapboxing?" Smolen: "No, no. That is Week 2 material."

P4 Phil Orchestra, second day of school. Smolen wants to get the class' energy going with a Rock Paper Scissors tournament.

ricky, orchestra, smolen

#11852

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May 17, 2023, 2:21 p.m.

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Smolen: "Dream big! Steal the Mona Lisa!"

P4 Phil Orch. Arrangement of Pink Panther, Smolen was trying to get the firsts to be more playful. // mod note: Ms. Smolen stop giving us ideas

orchestra, smolen

#11844

1111

May 16, 2023, 1:23 p.m.

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Smolen: See what happens when you play with the vigorous energy of hate in your heart? You play so well!

#11837

2222

May 15, 2023, 1:16 p.m.

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Smolen: If you guys play this really well I might hit the griddy.

#11643

1313

March 7, 2023, 9:50 a.m.

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Smolen: They said there was a crescendo there and I say bite me.