Here is this week’s newsletter (PDF).
Thanks to Tara, Penney, and Karen who chaired the BBQ yesterday.
Hope to see everyone at the banquet tonight. The banquet starts at 5:00pm and we eat at 5:30pm.
Quote of the Week
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States
Here is this week’s newsletter (PDF). Have a great week.
Quote of the Week
Music Education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them – a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.
Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States
Here is this week’s newsletter (PDF). Have a great week!
Quote of the Week
During the Gulf War, the few opportunities I had for relaxation I always listened to music, and it brought me great peace of mind. I have shared my love of music with people throughout this world, while listening to the drums and special instruments of the Far East, Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Far North, and all of this started with the music appreciation course that I was taught in a third-grade elementary class in Princeton, New Jersey. What a tragedy it would be if we lived in a world where music was not taught to children.
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, United States Army
Congratulations to the Symphonic Band on their Superior (I) Rating at State Adjudicated Event. Congratulations also to the Symphonic Winds for their Excellent (II) Rating at State.
Here is this week’s newsletter (PDF). Have a great week!
Quote of the Week
Music is exciting. It is thrilling to be sitting in a group of musicians playing (more or less) the same piece of music. You are part of a great, powerful, vibrant entity. And nothing beats the feeling you get when you’ve practiced a difficult section over and over and finally get it right. (Yes, even on the wood block.) Music is important. It says things your heart can’t say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders, turns smiles into frowns, and vice versa. These observations are shared with a hope: that, when schools cut back on music classes, they really think about what they’re doing – and don’t take music for granted.
Dan Rather, CBS News
Here are some upcoming events to note.
1) 6th grade band performs for 4th graders (Demo Concert), Monday, May 6th at 9:00am.
2) ALL band students (both 5th and 6th grade) will be performing at our annual Chicken Barbecue concert on Saturday, May 18th.
3) We will have a Spring Recital on Wed. May 15th at FT (in the bandroom) for those students who take private lessons.
4) Our Awards night is Tues. May 28 in the FT cafeteria at 6:30pm.
Thank you for supporting our band students. Have a good week.
Mr. Giffin
Here is this week’s newsletter (PDF). Congratulations to the cast, crew, and pit on their fine production of “The Music Man”. Have a great week.
Quote of the Week
Music is an essential part of everything we do. Like puppetry, music has an abstract quality which speaks to a worldwide audience in a wonderful way that nourishes the soul.
Jim Henson, Television producer and puppeteer
Here is this week’s newsletter (PDF). Please come to the Musical this Thursday-Saturday. The cast, crew, and pit includes many band students. Have a great week.
Quote of the Week
Should we not be putting all our emphasis on reading, writing and math? The ‘back-to- basics curricula,’ while it has merit, ignores the most urgent void in our present system – absence of self-discipline. The arts, inspiring – indeed requiring – self-discipline, may be more ‘basic’ to our nation survival than traditional credit courses. Presently, we are spending 29 times more on science than on the arts, and the result so far is worldwide intellectual embarrassment.
Paul Harvey
Here is this week’s newsletter (PDF). I hope everyone had a great break.
Quote of the Week
Our schools tend to refine intellects but neglect to discipline emotions. For anyone to grow up complete, music is imperative.
Paul Harvey, Broadcaster/Commentator
Here is this week’s newsletter (PDF).
On Thursday we will be taking concert band pictures for all the bands during the school day. Students should bring their concert wear with them to school on Thursday. Included with the newsletter is a form to order pictures if you would like to purchase them.
Have a great week.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Hope you have a great week. Here is this week’s newsletter (PDF).
Quote of the Week
Music doesn’t lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.