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, and four Philharmonias
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
MOO – pronounced moo, just like the bovine utterance. This refers to Memorial Orchestra Olympics, the night we get together to do team building games
MOO II – pronounced moo two (or too). This is our second semester version of MOO, 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
SOMO – for Sprit of the Memorial Orchestra. This is an award given by Mr. Chan at the end of most years to someone who exemplifies the best of our students