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Band Notes
February 26, 2010

 

Current Events

 

Pep Band
Pep band times this week are Friday at 6:30 and Saturday afternoon at 3:30 at Paris Gibson. Students eligible to participate with us at the State Basketball tournament in Billings will need to sign up next week.  We will leave sometime Friday and return Saturday. The times will depend on the success or lack of success of the basketball teams. Things will happen quickly.


AA Band Festival
The AA band festival will be held at Great Falls HS this year. Students from Helena Capital and Missoula Hellgate  will join CMR and GFHS. The conductors will be Ed Powell from PLU, Rob Thomas from University of Vancouver, and Stephen Versavel from MSU. Individual band concerts will be on Monday March 1st  at 7 pm, and the combined concerts will be on Tuesday March 2nd at 7pm.


Pictures
Wednesday is picture day! Bring your uniforms to school!


District Music Festival
Sign up for district music festival is approaching. Students interested in playing solos or ensembles should be getting music and accompanists.

 

Symphonic Band auditions

Music for Symphonic band auditions will be available next week on Monday. Auditions will be the week of March 22nd.


Symphonic Spring Tour
The dates for the Symphonic Band spring tour are April 8-11.

 

 

This Week

Friday 2/26 Pep Band 7:00
Saturday 2/27 Pep Band 4:00
Monday 3/1, 2 AA Band Festival at GFHS
Wednesday 3/3 Picture Day
Friday 3/5 State BB in Billings



Coming Events:

March 22 Symphonic Band auditions begin

 

 

Band Expectations/Classroom Assignments:

Maverick/ Chaparral Sight Reading
Symphonic Band 3rd Quarter Projects
Rustler Band  
Russtones Major scales, listening, ii V I licks