Recital Deportment to share with your students

Recital Deportment
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1. Be Prompt: Please arrive 15 minutes in advance to ensure that the performers can be seated and so we can start the recitals promptly. The recitals will start on time!
   
2. Be Courteous & Remain Seated: The students have worked hard for this proud day. Please give them the courtesy of your attention. It is advisable to make other arrangements for children under three who may have trouble sitting for an entire performance and be disruptive. Take your children out into the hall if they become disruptive. It is polite to stay for the entire one-hour program! This is a good time for students to circle pieces in the program they’d like to play in the future. Audiences are to stay quietly for entire recital. In emergency, please walk in and out of the hall only in between student performaces.
   
3. Proper Attire: All performers are expected to dress nicely.
   
   •   Males: Dress shirt, slacks and shoes. Jacket/vest/sweater/tie optional
     
   •   Female: Minimum knee-lenth dress or dress slacks and top. Dress shoes or sandals. Hair
     pulled away from the face.
     
   •   No shorts, mini skirts, jeans, athletic shoes, flip flops or slip-off shoes.
     
4. Bowing: Please give a bow to the audience before and after your performance.
   
5. Cell Phones: All electronic devices that ring and chime should be put on vibrate
   or silent. Text messaging is not appropriate.
   
6. Recording and Photography Etiquette
   
   1. a)  Parents are welcome to take videotaping of the recitals as long as the device is in silent mode and not disturbing the performance.
      
   2. b)  Flash photography is prohibited during the recital.
      
   3. c)  At the end of each recital, all students will gather at the stage, holding their certificate for
      group photo.
      
   4. d)  After the recital, parents may take personal photos.
      
7. Recital Procedure
   
   1. a)  Students are to be seated in performance order. Numbers are written on the programs, which are placed in order on each chair.
      
   2. b)  The emcee will make opening remarks, give instructions to students for walking on and off stage and bowing, announce each performer’s name and piece(s), and give closing remarks.
      
   3. c)  Students, especially younger performers, will be assisted with the pedal extender, bench adjustment and arrangement of cushions.
      
   4. d)  All students will receive participation certificates and will take a group photo holding their certificates.
      
8. Each recital has its own time limit per performance slot. Please read SPTF handbook carefully. Students may perform more than one piece, provided the total does not exceed the time limit. If programming only a longer selection, this may be accommodated for no extra fee - time- permitting. The final decision remains with the recital chairperson. However, Honors Recital is only for single piece registration and time limit will be strictly enforced.
   
9. Student and Parent Attendance Requirement:
   A parent, guardian or an adult responsible for the student must attend the entire duration of the student’s recital.
   SPTF as an organization and any individuals such as teachers, officers, board of directors,
   

committee members, are not responsible for any injuries or losses associated with SPTF-sponsored events.
SPTF reserves the right to publish anonymous student group photos for publicity purposes. These photos may appear in the SPTF Newsletter, posted on the SPTF Facebook page, or in local newspapers.

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