What a fantastic week of rehearsals and performances it has been for the SCHS Bands! Congratulations to all three ensembles on your fine performances this past weekend at MSBOA District 4 Band festival! You have worked immensely hard and performed three wonderful programs. It has been such a pleasure to listen to your growth and your culminating performances. I hope everyone has enjoyed the journey, acknowledges how far you have come, and is excited for the great things that lie ahead for the rest of the year!
MP3s of all three SCHS Bands' festival performances can be found by clicking here. Concert Ensembles 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). State Solo & Ensemble: Saturday, March 19th State Solo & Ensemble is just two weeks away and we still have slots on the signup that need to be filled! We are blessed to be selected to host the State Solo & Ensemble (S&E) each year in order to provide our students with this fabulous experience right in our own backyard, without having to travel a great distance. For this event, we typically play host to just over 30 different schools from all over Oakland, Macomb, and Livingston Counties. As a thank you for hosting, MSBOA allows us to sell concessions as a means of fundraising. This is a HUGE opportunity for us to not only do well and be asked to host again so we can bring this opportunity so close to home for our students, but for us to earn some funds to aid in such things as the upkeep/repair of our own school instruments that are currently provided to our students free of charge. We have coordinators and co-chairs for all of our areas, but we need many helping hands throughout the day. We hope you will find a slot to fill on the sign up to bring in a donated item on 3/18/16. We still need cakes, cupcakes, brownies pies... and soda pop cans. Most important there are some slots to fill for volunteer time on Saturday, March 19th (One Concession & Guide Station, Many Load/Unload and Tear Down slots are open). Please Click Here to sign up! Large Chamber Ensembles- Brass: Our next rehearsal will be on Monday, March 7th. Please bring your $3.50 for State S&E if you have not already done so! 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. Upcoming Events
Pit Orchestra Rehearsal will be on Thursday 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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