Haines Music Department

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 (more…)

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.

A quick update on the scales to be played next week- Concert D, G, C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, and Gb major scales. 2 octaves for those that can play two octaves (flute, clarinet and saxes). The Gb scale was left off by mistake. The chromatic scale and number 3 from Accent on Achievement book III is also due next week.

The end of the quarter is coming soon. Notespellers are due by October 22. Lessons 1-6 in the notespellers are to be completed and turned in by the 22nd. Practice reports should continue to come in. 7 practice reports are to be done by the end of the quarter. Finally the quarter playing test will be taken during lesson times the week of October 22nd. The quarter test is the Bb concert major scale, the Bb concert chromatic scale and #13 in the book.

6th Grade Jazz Band starts October 1st at 7:30 am. We will rehearse every Monday morning through the year until our spring Jazz Concert May 1. There are no auditions for this group, just show up and have fun!! If someone misses the first practice or even the first couple of practices - no problem just come to the next possible one.