SJHS News

Kristi Hatch
SJHS Staff Writer
You always hear about Honor Choirs and Marching Bands, or in other words, extra-curricular activities for band and choir members.  But this year, Nebo School District has put together an Honor Orchestra.  Each school had about ten or twelve students who got to go to Springville High School on Thursday, January 21st [...]

Dr. Sam Tsugawa plays along with the junior high orchestra.
Sarah Jensen
SJHS Staff Writer
January 20th is the first concert of the year for Springville Junior High’s eighth and ninth grade orchestras. They will play many different songs. Alex Hawker, a seventh grader in the eighth-grade orchestra, said, “We will play six songs, and one we learned [...]

Hayde Blanco
SJHS Staff Writer
Dr. Sam Tsugawa conducts the Springville High School folk ensemble, which meets every Thursday after school.  This program is mainly for high school students, but two Springville Junior High students are involved. Emily Daybell and Dylan Larsen both play the bass. Anyone in the high school can join. All they have to [...]

Kalin Stewart takes a playing test using Smart Music.
Christopher Taylor
SJHS Staff Writer
One of the hardest and scariest things about orchestra and band class is taking playing tests.  A playing test is when a student plays a specific song for the teacher, and the teacher grades on how well that student has played.  Dr. Samuel Tsugawa’s [...]

Mr. Tsugawa teaches his 8th grade orchestra class.
Julie Barbosa
SJHS Staff Writer
Have you ever wandered through the halls and heard the beautiful melody of the violin? Or perhaps the viola, cello, of bass? Here at Springville Junior High, hearing an instrument isn’t hard to come by.
Mr. Tsugawa not only teaches 96 students at the junior high, [...]

Jennfer Darlenne Galindo Enriquez
SJHS Staff Writer
The spotlight is on the Director of the Orchestra, Samuel Tsugawa, who has been teaching since 1987. He has enjoyed making music at both Springville Junior High and High School. “He’s outgoing, and not afraid of anything. He’s nice and very awesome,” Hayde Blanco, an orchestra student said. “I enjoyed [...]

The SJHS Chamber orchestra preparing to go on stage at the festival.
Robin Anderson
SJHS Staff Writer
The orchestras at Springville Junior High School busily prepared all last week for the Utah Valley University (UVU) festival on Wednesday May 6th.  They traveled to UVU and stayed there all day to perform in the district-wide festival.  The festival was [...]

Emily Regan
SJHS Staff Writer
On April 29th Springville Junior High School and Mapleton Junior High School combined their efforts for a spectacular orchestra concert. Held in the SJHS auditorium, students from both junior highs came to play and be conducted under one teacher. There were a total of 85 students on stage, being led by Springville [...]

Kara Dunn
SJHS Staff Writer
Once again, music is filling the halls and, more specifically, the auditorium, at Springville Junior High.  Mr. Samuel Tsagawa, orchestra director at Springville Junior High, has led his Synfonia Orchestra to success and this time is taking a few others along with him. The Springville Junior High Synfonia orchestra was joined with [...]

Miranda Grigg, Robin Anderson and Emily Daybell are junior high members of Mr. Tsugawa’s SHS Folk Ensemble.

Emily Regan
SJHS Staff Writer
On an unlucky Friday the 13th a very lucky thing occurred for those who knew about it. Springville High School Folk Ensemble, also known as Sam’s Club, played an enriching performance at the Theuson Barn in [...]

Kara Dunn
SJHS Staff Writer
For the last few months, students participating in the Chamber and Synfonia orchestras had an opportunity to practice for and attend the Nebo District Orchestra Festival held at Springville Junior High School on March 18, 2009. Schools from Nebo School District came to Springville Junior High to participate in the festival. The [...]

Kristi Hatch
SJHS Staff Writer
On Tuesday, January 13, Springville Junior High’s Sinfonia and Chamber orchestras performed at SJHS. The orchestras are made up of eighth and ninth grade students who play the various stringed instruments (violin, viola, cello, and bass), and are directed by Mr. Samuel Tsugawa.
The students had different emotions before the concert. [...]

by Kristi Hatch
SJHS Staff Writer
Near the end of every year, students at SJHS choose the classes they want to take the following year. Among these options is the orchestra class. Mr. Samuel Tsugawa is the conductor at Springville Junior High School. He loves teaching orchestra and has been teaching for over twenty years.
Along [...]