One of the fun things about our orchestra program is that we have nicknames for virtually everything. Sometimes new people and visitors have a hard time deciphering what we’re talking about – so to make it easier for them – here is a glossary of our Mo terms.
Mo – any time you see Mo or MO – it stands for Memorial Orchestra. This is the ‘root’ of our glossary. It comes from one of the lost ancient languages. BigMo– our pet name for our combined orchestras which meet on Monday nights. LittleMo – our normal daytime groups – there is the Sinfonia, Lyrica, two Philharmonias, and Camerata MiniMo – our chamber music groups. Each year – every student is placed in a small ensemble and learns chamber music for our first semester final PreMo– pronounced primo – is the time between set up and BigMo. We often walk over to Kroger or Baskin Robbins for a snack MoJo – at other times – we walk over to Starbuck’s and get a coffee drink to keep our energy up AprèsMo – many times after BigMo – we are worn out but hungry. A group of us will pick an area restaurant, invade it and stuff ourselves M.O.O. – pronounced moo – just like the bovine utterance. This refers to Memorial Orchestra Olympics – the night we get together to do team building games M.O.O. II - pronounced moo two (or too). This is our second semester version of M.O.O. – and we invite special guests to join us ProMo – this is the name we have given our parents group: Parent Reinforcement Organization for the Memorial Orchestra S.O.M.O.– for Sprit of the Memorial Orchestra. This is an award given by Ms. Prontka at the end of most years to someone who exemplifies the best of our students