Christmas Vacation
Christmas Vacation!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A quick thanks to everyone for a great first half. This year has marked one of the very strongest Marching Bands ever for Hanna, with a collection of some of the highest scores and placements ever. We feel very strongly about our direction and growth and look forward with greater anticipation that ever for the future.
The weeks following marching season have been filled with preparation for our Christmas Programs with the Jazz Band, Concert Band and Chamber Winds. All of these groups performed well with a strong collection of music for this time of the year. We have also been busy reading and selecting festival music for all of our groups and preparing for the Jazz Band's return to Chicago. We are very encouraged with the progress that all of the groups have made in the short time since the Christmas Concerts.
Winter Guard:
The show for this year will feature some percussion in addition to the guard. We are very excited about the potential for this show and feel that it will be the strongest ever. There will be one more additional rehearsal before the first contest which is January 19th at Dorman.
Percussion:
Shon will be back with us second semester, with a new set of percussion ensembles for the spring. We have also made a large number of contacts through the C. Force Percussion group that will prove to beneficial to our Marching Percussion Program. We hope to slowly start introducing indoor concert percussion this year.
Carolina Force:
The Hanna Band is hosting the Independent Percussion Group "Carolina Force". This group is made up of percussion students from Clemson, York, Byrnes, Easley, Pendleton, Dorman, Sumter, Spartanburg, Hanna and McCants. They will be rehearsing at Hanna through most of the Winter on the weekends and all of these rehearsals are open if anyone would like to come and observe.
Region Band, Clinics:
Region auditions are by far the most beneficial activity that you can participate in as an individual band student. This will be our primary focus during the first few weeks in January. The Region Audition will be January 12th. Everyone can benefit from preparing the scales and terms for this. We are also looking at the University of Carolina Clinic and several other College Clinics. Use all of these opportunities as a resource for applications etc.
The Jazz Band will be involved with collecting instruments in partnership with New Trier High School in Chicago, to send to New Orleans for schools and individuals that were adversely affected by Hurricane Katrina. Due to our close association with New Orleans and our plans to return there next school year, we would like to start our own project to take instruments directly to those schools. While this will be during the Mardi Gras season of the 2008-09 school year, we would like to start planning now. Due to our association with New Trier HS, we have established contacts that will aid in this process. We are also looking into a community service project in the New Orleans area during that time. The New Trier High School students are actually partipating in a Habitat for Humanity buidling project during their spring break this year. More information to follow on this.
Chamber Winds will be going to Concert Festival in the Spring along with the Carowinds trip which is scheduled for April 12th.
Best Wishes for a Great Holiday! If you need anything at all please call. I will be in town up until the 27th of December!
Merry Christmas and heres looking forward to a great 2008!
A quick thanks to everyone for a great first half. This year has marked one of the very strongest Marching Bands ever for Hanna, with a collection of some of the highest scores and placements ever. We feel very strongly about our direction and growth and look forward with greater anticipation that ever for the future.
The weeks following marching season have been filled with preparation for our Christmas Programs with the Jazz Band, Concert Band and Chamber Winds. All of these groups performed well with a strong collection of music for this time of the year. We have also been busy reading and selecting festival music for all of our groups and preparing for the Jazz Band's return to Chicago. We are very encouraged with the progress that all of the groups have made in the short time since the Christmas Concerts.
Winter Guard:
The show for this year will feature some percussion in addition to the guard. We are very excited about the potential for this show and feel that it will be the strongest ever. There will be one more additional rehearsal before the first contest which is January 19th at Dorman.
Percussion:
Shon will be back with us second semester, with a new set of percussion ensembles for the spring. We have also made a large number of contacts through the C. Force Percussion group that will prove to beneficial to our Marching Percussion Program. We hope to slowly start introducing indoor concert percussion this year.
Carolina Force:
The Hanna Band is hosting the Independent Percussion Group "Carolina Force". This group is made up of percussion students from Clemson, York, Byrnes, Easley, Pendleton, Dorman, Sumter, Spartanburg, Hanna and McCants. They will be rehearsing at Hanna through most of the Winter on the weekends and all of these rehearsals are open if anyone would like to come and observe.
Region Band, Clinics:
Region auditions are by far the most beneficial activity that you can participate in as an individual band student. This will be our primary focus during the first few weeks in January. The Region Audition will be January 12th. Everyone can benefit from preparing the scales and terms for this. We are also looking at the University of Carolina Clinic and several other College Clinics. Use all of these opportunities as a resource for applications etc.
The Jazz Band will be involved with collecting instruments in partnership with New Trier High School in Chicago, to send to New Orleans for schools and individuals that were adversely affected by Hurricane Katrina. Due to our close association with New Orleans and our plans to return there next school year, we would like to start our own project to take instruments directly to those schools. While this will be during the Mardi Gras season of the 2008-09 school year, we would like to start planning now. Due to our association with New Trier HS, we have established contacts that will aid in this process. We are also looking into a community service project in the New Orleans area during that time. The New Trier High School students are actually partipating in a Habitat for Humanity buidling project during their spring break this year. More information to follow on this.
Chamber Winds will be going to Concert Festival in the Spring along with the Carowinds trip which is scheduled for April 12th.
Best Wishes for a Great Holiday! If you need anything at all please call. I will be in town up until the 27th of December!
Merry Christmas and heres looking forward to a great 2008!
posted by richard c baskin at 3:16 PM
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