Don't forget - our Holiday Concert is Next Thursday, December 9 at 7:00 PM. The Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble will be performing. Alumni are invited to perform A Christmas Festival with the Wind Ensemble - just bring your instrument!
Please check previous blog entries (search for concert dress) for Concert Dress instructions and information. Warm-up will begin for both bands at 6:30 PM.
Jazz Band will begin January 10. Rehearsal will run from 6:00 - 7:30 on Monday evenings.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
Reminders Week of 11/22
Wind Ensemble Members: No sectionals this week
Honors Band Members - Assignment is due Tuesday, November 23 with Honors Band Projects for each specific expectation, along with the quarter they will be completed. (Honors Packet info was distributed two weeks ago.)
Extended Make-Up projects from Marching Band are due November 30. (Each student this involves was given a assignment sheet.)
Brook Park Holiday parade - check the itinerary on the website for details! We will wear raincoats in the parade if it is cold or rainy but only if EVERYONE has their raincoat!!! If your family is staying for the lighting ceremony, please send a note the day of the parade and plan on meeting us at the end of the parade route - (behind Kennedy Field). We cannot release your child unless you are there at the buses to pick them up.
Have a great Thanksgiving and we'll see you Sunday for the parade!
Ms. Holtshouse
Honors Band Members - Assignment is due Tuesday, November 23 with Honors Band Projects for each specific expectation, along with the quarter they will be completed. (Honors Packet info was distributed two weeks ago.)
Extended Make-Up projects from Marching Band are due November 30. (Each student this involves was given a assignment sheet.)
Brook Park Holiday parade - check the itinerary on the website for details! We will wear raincoats in the parade if it is cold or rainy but only if EVERYONE has their raincoat!!! If your family is staying for the lighting ceremony, please send a note the day of the parade and plan on meeting us at the end of the parade route - (behind Kennedy Field). We cannot release your child unless you are there at the buses to pick them up.
Have a great Thanksgiving and we'll see you Sunday for the parade!
Ms. Holtshouse
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Brook Park Holiday Parade
Don't forget - the Brook Park Holiday Parade is Sunday, November 28. The Itinerary is posted on the website now! If you will be out of town for the Holiday weekend and will not back in town for the parade please send in your excused absence form ASAP. Excused absence forms are due by Friday, November 19. We will be using music for the parade. All students should bring raincoats for this performance. If it is cold, we will wear them in the parade - but we can only do that if EVERYONE brings their raincoat!!!
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Concert Band Announcements
Sectionals begin this week! Here is the schedule of sectionals for both bands:
Wind Ensemble - Monday - Trumpets/Horns/String Bass
Wednesday - Flutes/Oboes
Thursday - Low Brass/Low Reeds
Friday - Clarinets/Alto Sax
Symphonic Band
Monday - Low Brass/Low Reeds
Tuesday - Trumpets
Wednesday - Clarinets (depending on FMS schedule)
Thursday - Flutes/Clarinets (depending on FMS schedule)
Friday - Horns/Alto Sax
Don't forget that sectionals are 25% of the quarter grade and excused absence forms need to be turned in one week in advance. Excused absences may be made up. (See your director to schedule a day or another make-up assignment.
Concert Dress - Reminder that concert dress is tuxes for boys and all black dress clothes for girls. Boys need to purchase black dress pants, a white tux shirt and a black bow tie. (American Commodore Tuxedo at Parmatown has the following prices available: Gently used tux shirts - $14.95, new tux shirts $25.00, bow tie $7.50 and if you need dress pants they have washable ones available for $39.00)
Ladies - you need to be in complete black - dress pants or a long black skirt (below the knees when sitting). If you wear a skirt that is not full length you need to wear black hose or tights. Dress shirt in black - ladies may also wear a full black dress.
Wind Ensemble - Monday - Trumpets/Horns/String Bass
Wednesday - Flutes/Oboes
Thursday - Low Brass/Low Reeds
Friday - Clarinets/Alto Sax
Symphonic Band
Monday - Low Brass/Low Reeds
Tuesday - Trumpets
Wednesday - Clarinets (depending on FMS schedule)
Thursday - Flutes/Clarinets (depending on FMS schedule)
Friday - Horns/Alto Sax
Don't forget that sectionals are 25% of the quarter grade and excused absence forms need to be turned in one week in advance. Excused absences may be made up. (See your director to schedule a day or another make-up assignment.
Concert Dress - Reminder that concert dress is tuxes for boys and all black dress clothes for girls. Boys need to purchase black dress pants, a white tux shirt and a black bow tie. (American Commodore Tuxedo at Parmatown has the following prices available: Gently used tux shirts - $14.95, new tux shirts $25.00, bow tie $7.50 and if you need dress pants they have washable ones available for $39.00)
Ladies - you need to be in complete black - dress pants or a long black skirt (below the knees when sitting). If you wear a skirt that is not full length you need to wear black hose or tights. Dress shirt in black - ladies may also wear a full black dress.
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