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Announcements/Non-performance Assignments

• Remember to also check the Home Page for news and calendar info.
• Downloads: Handbook | Q2 Practice Log
• Holiday Concert date is rescheduled for Tuesday, December 16 at 8:15 pm
• Fruit Distribution: Thursday & Friday, 3:00-6:00 pm.
  All orders must be picked up by Friday at 6 pm!

Rehearsal today

• Warm up #1/option 5
• Ab concert scale review, FSP page 26; Quiz begins on Wednesday
• Bb chord tuning exercise, FSP page 30.
• Maslanka - rehearsal TBA

Assignments

• Practice: Week 1 due Friday, November 14.
• Next quizzes during 1st Quarter: Posted on Monthly Calendar
• Repertoire for Holiday Concert, Tuesday, December 16 at 8:15 pm
  • David Maslanka - Rollo Takes a Walk
  • John Kinyon - Flurry for Winds & Percussion
• Technique Development
  • Winds & Percussion: Foundations for Superior Performance (FSP)
  • Winds & Mallets: Bach and Before for Band (BBB)

The Concert Band is the first year wind and percussion ensemble at NVOT. Made up primarily of instrumentalists in grade 9, this ensemble performs at four campus concerts per year. In addition, members are invited to participate in the annual spring festival. In 2008, the Concert Band is traveling to the Hershey Music Festival on May 9, 2008.

Students in this ensemble are also eligible to participate in Jazz Band (by audition), honor ensembles (by audition: County, Region, & All-State), chamber ensembles, and Musical Theater Pit Orchestra. Members of this class ensemble are encouraged (but not required) to participate in Marching Band during the 1st marking period (fall).