Haines Music Department

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.

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.

We have a final list of dates. We had to make a few changes. Please click herefor the final list.

The 6th ,7th and 8th grade concert bands will have their Spring concert this Thursday May 14 at Haines Middle School.

Arrive at 7 pm
4A 6th grade Band - report to the Orchestra Room (dress in the style of the
movie “Hairspray” or Black and White)
4B 6th grade Band - report to the Choir Room (dress in the style of the movie
“Harry Potter” or in Black and White)
7th grade Band - report to the Band Room (solid color top and black pants)
8th grade Band - Report to the Gym (Solid color top and black pants)

Concert at 7:30 pm

Band-A-Rama is just around the corner. This is not just for the students. Save the date, dust off that old instrument, come out and join us! Band Musicians of all ages are welcome.

Monday, June 1st at Saint Charles East High School (rehearsal at 4:30, pizza party at 6:00, performance at 7:00).

More information to come.

The Spring concerts are coming soon.
Thursday, April 30 -Jazz concert- 7:30 pm in the Cafeteria
Thursday, May 14 - Band concert- 7:30 in the Gym

Dress and reporting times TBA.