Please bring your order forms to class today and tomorrow so they can be sent in. Hope you did a LOT of fundraising for us!
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All HS Chorus students preparing for S&E will work with Mrs. Spangler during class this Friday. You will then work with/perform for the class on Monday of next week. If you are not prepared, you will not be going.
All HS Band students preparing for S&E will perform for the class on Tuesday of next week. Again, if you are not prepared you will not be going. There is no excuse to not be prepared, as everyone has had music for WEEKS now, all can come in during Advisory any day to work with me or on your own or in groups, and I make myself regularly available for lessons outside the school day. I have just received the performance schedule, so please be looking for an updated bus schedule to come very soon. Solo & Ensemble is approaching QUICKLY!!!!!
IHSA is Saturday, March 2 @ Manual HS (Peoria) IESA is Saturday, March 23 @ VIT (Table Grove) All music has been handed out to participating students (for a while now...), so now you NEED to get in with Mr. Schweizer and start practicing, or you will not be going. If you have not seen Mr. Schweizer yet to get your Solo & Ensemble music, you need to do that as soon as possible, this week!
We are now starting to form groups, pick out pieces, and begin the process of preparing for Solo & Ensemble contests in March. Anyone interested should inform Mr. Schweizer, and be ready for more information coming soon!
Members of all curricular ensembles (MS Band, MS Chorus, HS Band, HS Chorus) are expected to reflect on our 12/5 concert performance and turn in the written reflection. This work should be completed in-class. For those absent on reflection days, the criterion for reflection are as follows:
#s 1 - 3: List three positives for each piece performed. #s 4 - 6: List three areas for improvement in each piece. #7: Highlight at least one positive aspect of each performing group of which you were not a part of. #8: What do we need to do as a group to better perform on future concerts. Students are expected to write in complete sentences and use musical terminology whenever possible (i.e. references to measure numbers, dynamics, articulations/diction, etc.). All journals must be completed NO LATER THAN Monday, December 17, 2012. Remember to practice measures 22 - 71 of NC-4 March this weekend, or at the VERY MINIMUM take music home and look at it!
Extra Credit Opportunity! Come to the All-District Senior Concert tomorrow at 4:30pm @ Western Hall (WIU Macomb) and earn 5pts extra credit by showing Mr. S the concert program next Tuesday! Mr. Schweizer will be at the MHS for conferences both tonight and tomorrow. If you would like to meet with me during this time, come see me in the MHS gym tonight, or in my classroom in that building tomorrow. I would love to see some parents and/or students in this time!
All Middle and Senior high band students are to write in measure numbers for every piece they currently have.
Assignment is due Tuesday, October 23, and will be checked for completion. Worth 5 points Only possible scores are: 5 - Complete or 0 - Incomplete No middle ground. CONGRATULATIONS to the following students selected to perform with the 2012 Illinois Music Educators Association All-District Festival ensembles on November 3, 2012, at Western Illinois University!
Junior Band Morgan Whitmer - Trumpet Junior Chorus Alyssa Mitchell - Alto Tiffany Stufflebean - Alto Senior Band Ryan Spangler - Percussion Senior Chorus Kelsey Pribble - Soprano I More information about transportation, dress code, and schedules will be out to each of these students VERY soon! Congratulations again! |