We have a big performance this week! Without further ado, here is this Week's Update:
Concert Ensembles Pre-Festival Concert: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 Our Pre-Festival Clinic Concert will be held this Wednesday beginning at 7pm in the SCHS Auditorium. All HS students are asked to arrive in concert dress by 6:30pm. We also welcome the 8th Grade Band from Hart MS who will be joining our SCHS Concert Ensembles for this performance! This year's clinician will be Mr. Christopher Marra, doctoral candidate from the University of Michigan. Mr. Marra has many years of teaching experience, and we are very excited to invite him to work with our ensembles as we continue our festival preparations! Large Chamber Ensembles- Brass: Our next rehearsal will be on Monday, February 22nd. We will plan on beginning at 2:45pm, although Mrs. Staniszewski will be coming from a meeting elsewhere and may be a few minutes late. Please start yourselves on time by warming up, doing some lip slurs and tuning should she not return by 2:45pm. Woodwind: You are responsible for keeping up with your parts in the coming months, as we will be performing for our final performance, our Chamber Music Day in Rochester Park on Friday, May 20th. We will resume Tuesday 2:45-3:30pm rehearsals on April 26th, May 3rd, & 17th in order to prepare for our performance. Percussion: Your final performance will be for our Spring Concert on May 11th. Rehearsals will resume with James in April.. MSBOA BAND FESTIVAL DATES ANNOUNCED:
Please click here to view our detailed timeline for all three festival performances. Please click here for recordings of all our festival pieces to be used as we prepare for festival! Enjoy! April 2017 NYC Trip: SCHS Bands to perform at Carnegie Hall! It's official! The SCHS Band program will travel to New York City in April 2017! Our 2017 trip will include many highlights, including working with professional musicians and performing on stage at Carnegie Hall! Other highlights will include: seeing a Broadway show, visiting many NYC landmarks and highlights, sightseeing, and more! Space is LIMITED for this trip. The first 44 students and 10 parent chaperones to submit their deposits will be guaranteed, after which a wait list will be created. Should we have enough students and parents to fill a second bus from the wait list, they will also be cleared for travel. Anyone interested in traveling with us is HIGHLY encouraged to attend and bring a checkbook for the deposit to our initial trip meeting on Wednesday, March 9th at 7pm in the band room (following Parent/Teacher Conferences). Upcoming Events
Pit Orchestra Rehearsals will be on Tuesday and Thursday of this week, 2:45-4:30pm. For those who need the information distributed at this past week's Parent Meeting, they are available for download here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4-vO4QRSLl4QXBsQjE0eDZ6OFk/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4-vO4QRSLl4Mk82TXhrX0NPY1E/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4-vO4QRSLl4T3J6YlNvdzAzNEk/view?usp=sharing Marching Band Congratulations to the Cougar Marching Band on the completion of a very successful 2015 season! Please make a note of these important dates for next year:
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