Congratulations to all our SCHS Band and Choir students on wonderful performances this past week for our Fall Concerts! We begin looking ahead this week onto our next events: Marching Band's Season Finale performance, starting our Large Chamber Ensemble rehearsals, and lots more. Plus, we are happy to announce further details about our Jazz Band Retreat! All the details are in this Week's Update:
Marching Band Rehearsal will be held this week on Monday, October 29th beginning at 6pm. At this week's rehearsal, we will be distributing the Cougar Christmas Medley and going over materials required for performing our upcoming Cougar MB Concert Celebration/End of Season Awards event on November 8th. Rehearsal will likely get out earlier than 9pm, so long as we are able to address all our items of business-- please plan your transportation accordingly! Please click here for the video of our District MSBOA MB Festival performance at Bloomfield Hills HS. Cougar Marching Band to perform at Little Caesar's Arena The Cougar MB as been invited as a feature band for the Detroit Red Wings on Wednesday, November 28th! We also have discounted tickets available for the game that night when the Detroit Red Wings will take on the St. Louis Blues. Tickets are $45/each (face value $75). Student ticket sales will also benefit SAF accounts! We would love to have a huge turn out for the game, so please feel free to invite friends and family to come-- it's sure to be a great night of music and hockey! Order forms and additional information can be found by clicking here. Upcoming MB Events Oct 29: PM Rehearsal 6-9pm Nov 5: PM Rehearsal 7:30-9:30PM (please note: we are rehearsing at different times and we are having rehearsal even though school is not in session this day!) Nov 8: Marching Band Season Finale Concert Celebration (SCHS Main Gym) Nov 26: PM Rehearsal 6-9pm Nov 28: SCHSCMB Performs at LCA/Detroit Red Wings Dec 2: Rochester Christmas Parade Concert Ensembles (Concert Band, Symphony Band, Wind Ensemble) Congratulations to all our Concert Ensemble members on their performances this past week! We also have a new section of our website that will include recordings from concerts! If you'd like to listen to any of our performances, please click here/navigate your browser to this new area and enjoy! (Please note: Federal Copyright Law prohibits the distribution of these recordings. Recordings are ONLY for educational usage.) Large Chamber Ensembles Our Large WW, Large Brass, and Large Percussion Ensembles begin rehearsing in the next few weeks! All rehearsals are REQUIRED. Please bring your $7/person entry fee to your first rehearsal. All Large Chamber Ensembles will be performing at Solo & Ensemble on Saturday, January 19th, 2019.
Disney Trip Update Students who register at this point are being added to a waitlist. We only need 9 more people total- can be chaperone or student! If you would like to review our trip itinerary and registration information, you can click here or view them on the documents section of our website. The next time SCHS Bands travel in 2021, we will be going to a different destination-- we hope you can join us for this truly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! Disney rehearsals begin after school (2:45-3:45pm) on Monday, December 3rd! Midterm Assignments/Projects Symphony Band & Wind Ensemble students will be composing a short piece of chamber music to be performed by Hart MS students for our Chamber Music Night in May. More information can be found by clicking here. All compositions (PDFs and Audio files) must be submitted electronically by January 23rd, 2019. Concert Band students need to perform all twelve major scales, one octave, from memory. Students may choose to perform these live or video record themselves (must be done in one take, not edited). Videos or live performances must be received by January 22nd, 2019. Extracurricular Performing Opportunities The Detroit Metropolitan Youth Symphony would like to invite students seeking an advanced youth ensemble experience to their open house on Saturday, November 10 from 9:30am-12pm at Royal Oak Middle School. As a supplement to the student’s school music program, Detroit MYS complements and supports school music instruction with additional guidance and challenge for the advancing music student in grades 2-12. They are accepting students for their second and third concert cycles. For more information about their orchestras and open house, including specific audition requirements, please see their website: https://www.detroitmys.org/ Jazz Band Jazz Band Retreat Dates: January 11-13, 2019 We are looking to kick off our Jazz Band season with a fun getaway! Our first ever SCHS Jazz Band Retreat will be held on the afternoon of Friday, January 11, 2019 through Sunday morning, January 13, 2019 at the Embassy Suites in Troy. The student cost of $160 includes all meals, hotel/lodging costs, clinicians, chaperones, and activities for the duration of the weekend. We are also in need of 4-5 chaperones for the weekend. The chaperone cost for this experience will be $0; all hotel/lodging costs, meals, lodging, fingerprinting, etc. will be covered. Please note: this retreat is not required for students looking to be in our jazz band, but will be a special weekend for us to distribute music, work with professional jazz musicians, and strengthen our ensemble skills as we look ahead to officially beginning in the second semester. If you are planning on being in the SCHS Jazz Band this year, please click on this link and complete the attached form. (Yes, even if you are not planning on attending this year's retreat.) Fundraisers Amazon Smile Now you can support SCHS Music when you shop on Amazon-- .5% of all sales come back to our SCHS Music Boosters! Please be sure to add the SCHS Music Boosters as your preferred charity or click here when doing your Amazon shopping! Buffalo Wild Wings We will be having another restaurant night on Wednesday, November 7th at Buffalo Wild Wings (Livernois & Walton location)! Forget cooking and doing dishes- join us for dinner and a portion of your bill will be donated back to our SCHS Music Boosters! Please click here to see our flier- be sure to print it/show it on your phone when you dine! Grand Traverse Pies We are selling Pie Vouchers ($17) good for any freshly baked pie at Grand Traverse Pie Company! Please see your SCHS Music (Band or Choir) student to place your order; all students are asked to sell at least two pies if possible. Vouchers are redeemable at any Corporate Grand Traverse Pie location, including the Rochester & Tienken location. You can also purchase your voucher by contacting Amy Smith ([email protected]), at our upcoming Fall and Winter Concerts, or by visiting our SCHS Music Booster Online Store! (Please note: there is a convenience fee for all online orders.) Comments are closed.
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