Haines Music Department

Please click here for a list of all Haines Music Dates for the 2011-2012 school year.

PLease click here for the information letter about the 2011-2012 school year.

Please click here for the letter including all band information for next school year.

For those of you involved with today’s performance of the national anthem- we are on for playing today. There will be a firetruck between Field #4 and #7. We will meet there at 9:45 am or so and play at 10 am.

Here is the link for the Solo and Ensemble Registration:

 http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dHhCaDVqRV9FSUhSNmhPUHR4LXB3bkE6MA.

Please click and follow the instructions. Thanks!

Fall Band concert coming soon!!

Thursday November 19, 2009, 8pm in the Gym at Haines.

Students should arrive at 7:30. There is an orchestra concert at 6 pm Please do not come early as we need time for the orchestra students and parents to depart the building before the band folks arrive.

A note about the concert - It will be a rather brief concert because of the start time and the number of groups on the concert. There will be 2 - 6th grade bands, one combined 7th grade band and one 8th grade band. Best guess is that the concert to be in the area of 40 minutes, if not less.

Dress for the concert is White top (collared shirts for the guys) and black pants/skirts, black socks and shoes. Ties are optional for the guys.

The 6th grade 4A Band should report to the orchestra room.
The 6th grade 4B Band should report to the choir room.
The 7th grade combined bands should report to the band room.
The 8th grade band should report to the center set up in the gym.

The 6th grade Jazz Band will start up next Tuesday after school. There are no auditions for this group. Students who are interested just show up at 3:30 in the band room. We will rehearse every Tuesday afterschool 3:30-4:15. Our only performance will be at the Spring Jazz Concert on April 29 in the cafeteria here at Haines.

Welcome to Haines and the band program. Here are a few notes of interest:

Please remember that if you are in town next week we are having a free orientation session Wednesday (August 19)- Friday (August 21). The Wednesday rehearsal begins at 9:30 in the band room and we will play and discuss all kinds of topics about band and middle school until about 10:45. That will be the time we will walk over and join the rest of the 6th graders for a picnic beginning at 11 am. The band room will be open for the students to leave their instruments and music in during the picnic.

Also please remember to purchase the books - Accent on Achievement Book II as well as the note speller.

The first day of school we will play, please have your instrument and/or needed supplies. Low brass and horns only need their mouthpieces, percussionists only their snare drum sticks, clarinet and saxophone players need good reeds along with their instruments. Clarinet, Oboe, Saxophone and trumpet players will have a band locker assigned to them by the first day of school. Clarinet and oboe players share lockers and those who are at the orientation session can choose their locker partners. Only those who have lockers are encouraged to purchase a third lock for their band lockers. Everyone else has so little to bring back and forth to school for band that those mouthpieces, flutes or stick bags can be left in the student’s hallway lockers.

Percussionists:One new piece of information- Percussionists should NOT purchase the Rhythm Speller ( the equivalent of the note speller) as I have put together a workbook for you to use that I will give you at the orientation session or the first day of school. If you have one already, please return it. Also percussion students should have the Accent on Achievement combined percussion book. The book should have both the snare and mallet parts combined in it.

Welcome back to what will be another great year!!! Please take some time to review your scales and read through the 8th-grade-band-scale-review-assignment.doc. The highlighted area is a word document about our first assignment that is due just as school begins. Please remember we will play the first day. Lockers will be ready be the first day of school for clarinet sax and trumpet players. We will play the first day of school, please be prepared. Also remember to purchase the Accent on Achievement Book III before school begins.

It is airing as I type this and it really is amazing, fascinating research about music and how it affects the brain. There is a great deal of research being presented and much of it seems to be new/recent. It is called “The Music Instint: Science and Song” and it’s on WTTW. It will be airing again – here is what the website says for air times — set your DVRs!

regular WTTW and WTTW HD: Friday, June 26 at 2:30 AM (aka very late Thursday night)

WTTW Prime: Thursday June 25 at 3:00 PM

Hopefully it will be airing more times in the coming weeks but that is all that is on the website as of this writing.

Here is the blurb from WTTW’s site:

“An exploration of the music-mind interaction that delves into the neuroscience of how melodies and rhythms affect and influence the brain, featuring jazz vocalist Bobby McFerrin, classical cellist Yo-Yo Ma, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie and rockers Jarvis Cocker and Richard Hawley. Included: the link between the brain’s auditory and motor regions, which can be used to help people with Parkinson’s disease and stroke patients. McFerrin and neuroscientist Daniel Levitin host.”

There website is such that I can’t get a good link that goes straight to the info for this program, but you can find some info by going to www.wttw.com and searching ”the music instinct.” Enjoy.