Haines Music Department

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

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!

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.

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

The link to the website for tickets for the Feb. 19th band concert had an error. It has been corrected and is given below again. Sorry for the error. The free tickets for the February 19th band concert (featuring the 7th grade band, 8th grade band, and SCN Wind Ensemble) are available here:

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/266766907

Click here for the letter and permission slip about our trip to Bloomington, IL for the IWU Jazz Festival.

Quinlan and Fabish and PM music companies will be having a sale of instruments, bows, cases and supplies on Nov 24, the Monday of conference week, from 3-7 pm. The sale will be held at Thompson middle school, with the companies in different rooms. Enter the main door and follow signs for your rental company. This is a WONDERFUL opportunity to take the rental credit you have been building up and appy it towards the purchase of a MUCH better instrument that will be your child’s for the rest of his/her life. Both companies have either interest-free or very low interest financing so you don’t have to pay for the entire purchase that night. Within 2 years you could be not paying a monthly rental fee anymore! Also keep in mind that past 6th or 7th grade, rental credit does not accrue anymore, so your best bet financially is to make the purchase now. The other benefits are that the stores come to you, so you don’t have to drive as far, and all the string teachers in the district will be on site to help your student pick out the instrument that is right for him/her. Instruments, cases and bows come in a wide variety of prices. If you have previously purchased an instrument from one of these two companies and want to upgrade, that is an available option as well. And some 6th grade students STILL do not have their green books; these will be on sale too. Hope to see many of you there!

All 6th grade Orchestra students need to be at school this Thursday, Nov 20, at 7:20 AM with their string instruments to perform for the honors breakfast. Students need to come even if they weren’t invited to the breakfast for academic honors. Parents are welcome.

The 8th grade only concert at North HS is on Nov 18 at 7:30 PM. The students need to arrive no later than 6:00 pm, come through door 11, and wear black on the bottom and white on top. The concert will feature Haines, Thompson, and the HS orchestras as well as a combined piece with everyone. The tickets to this event are free, but the directors would like you to print out tickets from this website.