As first semester wraps up and we look ahead to second semester, our Weekly Update for this week encompasses two week in one to cover our transition! Here's everything we have going on in the band room for this week, next week, and the weeks ahead:
Concert Ensembles (CB, SB, WE) Chamber Music Composition Assignment We are wrapping up our Composition Projects as first semester comes to a close. These projects are worth 20% of our semester grade. Final copies and recordings are due on the day of each student's exam period. After receiving all final editions, they will be sent over to our Hart MS band friends to be performed later this year at our Chamber Music Night in May! Solo & Ensemble Schedules Released Our District MSBOA S&E schedules are now available! All events will be held at Rochester High School. Click links to see for more details. 1/20/2024: Large Brass & Percussion 2/3/2024: All Other Events Detroit Symphony Orchestra Field Trip: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2024 We have an exciting invitation for a field trip to the DSO- Orchestra Hall to enjoy a classical music concert, Elgar and Sheherazade, featuring Mendelsson’s Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor and Sherherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov. Tickets are $27.00 and include the concert ticket and transportation. Please fill out the ticket worksheet and permission slip and return to the black mailbox by January 26th to reserve your seat. Parent chaperones are encouraged to attend as we are in need of you! If you are interested in chaperoning please fill out your information as well as your student. If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact Lisa Halushka at [email protected] for more information. Attire for this event is dressy (no athletic shoes, casual jeans, sweatpants, yoga pants, etc). DSO Registration Link Pre-Festival Concerts: Feb 14 (CB&SB) & Feb 15 (WE) Our next set of performances will be on February 14th (Concert Band and Symphony Band) and February 15th (Wind Ensemble) for our Pre-Festival Concerts! Please make sure your calendars are marked. For our February 14th concert, we will be hosting an afterglow for our Hart 8th Grade Bands, so please be sure to also bring a nut-free goodie to share! Cougar Jazz Band The Cougar Jazz Band resumes our regular 5-8pm rehearsal on Monday, January 22nd! Our Yearbook picture will also be taken on Monday, January 22nd. All Jazz Band members will need to bring concert blacks for this rehearsal. Our Jazz Retreat will be held on February 9-11, 2024. We will be at the Embassy Suites in Troy again for a great weekend of clinics, music, and fun. More information and the registration packet can be found here. Please turn in your registration ASAP if you haven't already done so! Student Leadership Meetings Our next leadership meeting will be Monday, January 22nd at 4pm! The student leadership teams have been busy working on projects for the band program! We hope you can join us for some of these new events: The Outreach Committee is putting together a pep band of wind and percussion students to go to the upcoming hockey game on January 27th. If your SCHS Band Student would like to participate, please have them reach out to their section leader for the GroupMe text link to sign up. Our Publicity and Social Committees will be working with our SCHS Music Boosters to host our first ever Music Department Bowling Night on Tuesday, March 19th! Stay tuned for more details on this fun new event! Leadership Meetings dates for the rest of this year will be: March 11th (4:00pm), April 8th (2:30pm), May 6th (4:00pm), and June 3rd (2:30pm). Students, please mark your calendars- we'd love to have your voice in the meetings! Extra-Curricular Opportunities Michigan Youth Ensembles Applications for the 2024-2025 Michigan Youth Ensemble (MYE) Season are now open! All MYE Programs are open to students who will be in grades 9 through 12 during the 2024-2025 academic year. Audition / application requirements for each ensemble can be found via our website, smtd.umich.edu/mye. Important dates to note:
Social Studies Olympiad: Song Writing Stoney Creek High School will be competing in the Social Studies Olympiad this year, and one of the events is to create an original song! More information can be found here. Please reach out to Mrs. Staniszewski or Mr. Mize with any questions or to sign up! Comments are closed.
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