Haines Music Department

A comment to band students about practicing. Practice is the homework for our class. We encourage students to make a plan of exactly what needs to be practiced for the week. Plan a minimum of 5 short practice sessions a week and then execute the plan. Each practice session should include warm-ups ( like scales and long tones, or rolls), work on lesson or sectional material and band music. Practice should involve using strategies for making the music better. Strategies would include the three step process, breaking down individual measures or sections of music into small parts and also starting a passage at a slow tempo and gradually speeding up the tempo. When a student is done with a practice session and putting their instrument away, the student should be able to think back on a goal for that session that was attained. They should be able to say that the passage of music, run of notes or exercise/etude got better.

Also a note specifically for parents of 6th graders:
The practice reports are to be done only once a week describing one of their practice sessions. Some practice reports are coming in without a date. We can’t give credit to that report since we don’t know what week to assign that report to. We also are getting multiple reports for the same week. We cannot give credit to more than one report during a particular week. It is not a report for each session the student does. The student should just pick one session of many sessions during a week to report about.

To all of the 6th, 7th and 8th grade band members: Great job on the concert last week. We were very proud of all of the performances at the concerts.

CONCERT REMINDERS- 7th Grade and 8th grade concert bands

DATE- Thursday , November 15, 2007

PLACE- Haines Middle School Gym

TIME- 7:30 P.M. ARRIVAL
8:00 pm Perform

DRESS- Boys- Dark pants, dark shoes and socks, white collared shirt, ties are optional
Girls- Dark pants or skirt, white top

Sign-in/Attendence Area
7th grade 5A band report to the Choir room 155
7th grade 5B band report to the Orchestra Room 156
8th grade Band report to the Band Room 155

Please remember to sign in to get attendance credit.

CONCERT REMINDERS- 6th grade concert bands

DATE- Thursday , November 15, 2007

PLACE- Haines Middle School Gym

TIME- 6:00 P.M. ARRIVAL
6:30 pm Perform

DRESS- Boys- Dark pants, dark shoes and socks, white collared shirt, ties are optional
Girls- Dark pants or skirt, white top

Sign-in/Attendence Area
6th grade 4A band report to the Band room 155
6th grade 4B band report to the Orchestra Room 156

Please remember to sign in to get attendance credit.

Congratulations to the orchestra students who auditioned for the Illinois Music Educator Association District Honors Orchestra at Scullen Middle School in Naperville on Wednesday, October 3rd. Students worked all summer on very challenging music to attempt to join this highly competitive and prestigious festival. Students were Jeff Rollins, violin; Amanda Gibble, cello; Josh Phelan, viola; Ryan Joyce, viola; Audrey White, violin; Jessie Moravek, viola; Eric Ye, viola; Eli Broxham, violin; and Keegan Joyce, violin. Students who were accepted into the festival, taking place on November 3rd at Nequa Valley High School in Naperville, were Josh Phelan, viola; Ryan Joyce, viola; Audrey White, 1st violin; Eric Ye, viola, and Jessie Moravek, viola. An extra special honor and congratulations goes to Jessie Moravek for winning 1st chair of the viola section over 70 other viola students from over 30 different schools. Congratulations to all- I am so proud of you! –Mrs. Pogge

Congratulations to the band and jazz students who auditioned for the Illinois Music Educator Association District Honors Concert and Jazz Bands at Edison Middle School in Wheaton on Saturday, October 13th. Students were Eric Zange, trombone; Shannon Farquhar, horn; Danielle Engel, alto sax; Katie Solon, horn; Robert Didier, percussion; Marisa White, clarinet; Kaitlyn Veto, flute; Victoria Hans, oboe; Megan Young, oboe; Collin Snook, trumpet; Zach McCoy, trumpet; and Matt Zmuda, alto sax; Zach McCoy, trumpet; and Collin Snook, trumpet for jazz. Students accepted into the Concert Band festival on Saturday, November 3rd at Nequa Valley High School in Naperville were Eric Zange, trombone; Danielle Engel, alto sax; and Marisa White, clarinet. Students accepted into the Jazz festival, held on Saturday, December 1st at Bednarcik Middle School in Oswego were Matt Zmuda, alto sax; Zach McCoy, trumpet; and Collin Snook, trumpet. Congratulations to all!

Congratulations on making this year’s IMEA festival groups. The concert band and orchestra festival is coming up shortly - NOvember 3rd at Neuqua Valley High School. Click here for a pdf of all the details and a bus permission slip. IMEA Jazz will be later on Saturday December 1st at Bednaricik Middle School in Oswego. More to follow later.

Come one, Come All!!! Jazz Lab, Jazz Combo and Jazz Ensemble will perform next Thursday, October 25 at 7:30. We will be selling ice cream before and during the concert. Come hear some great Jazz and have some ice cream! Click here for the concert reminders.

Any jazz fans looking for a night of great jazz should check out the Rob Parton Jazztech Big Band at Fitzgerald’s in Berwyn tonight (sorry for the late notice). This is argubably the best big band in the Chicago area. They performed at North HS this past spring and sounded amazing. They begin at 8pm. They usually play there the third Wednesday of every month. http://www.fitzgeraldsnightclub.com/

The 7th Grade Band 1st quarter playing test is here! They will be completed during the sectional times this week and next week. The test consists of Bb, Eb, F, Ab, and Db concert scales, as well as chromatic and a short rhythm sightreading. All tests must be completed by Friday 10/26.

We have two updates for the Jazz Ensemble schedule.
Sunday Night December 9th we have been hired to play at the Elgin Shriners Holiday Party at the Milk Pail restaurant north on Route 25. We will be playing for 30 minutes at approximately 8 pm. Also the IWU Jazz Festival is a different weekend than we thought. It is January 26th, 2008.
The note being handed out is right here.