Good morning band family and happy Sunday! I hope you’ve had a great weekend. It’s concert week! This band news is going to be a little lengthy, please take your time to read, and don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions. The schedule will be a little different due to the concert!
- Monday - Symphonic Band rehearsal 2-4pm. - Also on Monday, Mr. Cromer is in need of leadership members to help at his dress rehearsal and concert. His rehearsal is Monday from 4:30-6:30pm and his concert is Tuesday at 7pm. Leadership call time will be at 6pm. He is in need of the following instruments: 1-2 clarinets 1-2 trumpets 1 euphonium 1 trombone 1 tuba 3-4 additional leadership members to help with ensemble guiding and stage set up. - Tuesday - Wind Ensemble will rehearse 2:00-4:00pm. Jazz band will rehearse 4:30-5:30pm, and color guard will practice 2-4pm. - Leadership helping with Mr. Cromer’s concert on Tuesday will receive community service hours. Please wear your red band polo and black dress pants. - Wednesday is our final dress rehearsal from 2-5pm. This is for full band! - Thursday is the day of our concert! No rehearsal after school, but the band room will be open. Student call time is 6pm in your concert black attire! Don’t forget your secret Santa gift if you are participating! - Other information about our concert!! Tickets are on sale at the following link! They are only $7 a piece! https://events.ticketspicket.com/agency/8a5cf9af-a458-4fbb-9721-66e5c62214b9/events/0cca45fa-881b-48fd-8b11-5d67327bd187 Also, we are still in need of people to bake some goodies for the winter concert bake sale! If you’d like to show off your skills, while also helping out the program, and bringing joy to the concert, let me know if you will be baking something! - On December 21st, the student leadership is planning a band holiday movie party in the band room! We will have hot chocolate and other treats while we can all come together and have a good time watching a holiday movie! The movie will be decided this week!! We hope you can make it out! BAND TRIP!!! - Finally, after lots of phone calls, emails, and speaking with the band students, we have decided to go back to Universal/islands of adventure for a 3 day band trip from may 3rd-5th! This trip seems to be the most cost effective AND fun for the students compared to other similar trips. This will cost each student $500, and will include the following: 1. Travel cost 2. Two night hotel cost with breakfasts included 3. Two full days at islands of adventure, and universal. 4. A ticket to Medieval Times with dinner included. 5. Participation in the Music USA Concert Band Festival. For students that would like to go, our first payment will be due on Monday December 18th, and it will be $100 per student. This will be our “commitment” payment which will essentially secure your spot on the trip. The remaining balance can be paid in your own time, as long as it is paid in full by the final payment date listed below. I have made a suggested payment schedule for monthly payments… December 18th - $100 January 19th - $100 February 16th - $100 March 15th - $100 April 12th - $100 (final balance due) - We will also be needing between 6-8 parent chaperones willing to attend the trip. The chaperone/student combination will receive a discounted rate of $875 for the package. The suggested payment schedule for chaperones and students is listed below: December 18th: $175 January 19th - $175 February 16th - $175 March 15th - $175 April 12th - $175 Thank you all very much for everything you do! Thanks to those of you who have been helping out at the Gift Wrap Booth and are planning to help! In order to keep the high standard of performance excellence within our program, a certain amount of funds is unfortunately vital. Your help is so appreciated!!
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Good morning all! As the Booth season is beginning to pick up, I just want to put out a few reminders to ensure that it is being run as successfully as possible! This fundraiser is very crucial for our programs success, and your help is so appreciated and vital! Thanks for all you do!
- Students, please remember that if you sign up for a shift, you need to show up. If you have to arrive late or leave early, please indicate it on the document. - Please remember that students must wear a band shirt, or hoody to the booth! Already a few students have violated the dress code. - All opening and closing procedures are in a binder under the table by the entrance with the black filing cabinet! - Only pslhs band volunteers and students should be in the booth. It’s already a tight space. Thank you for understanding! - All transactions must be logged into the tablet, cash and card. It is strongly preferred that the adults handle all things with the money and tablet. Trusted students may help if it is busy. - No eating in the booth! If you need to eat, just step right outside and eat. Once you’re finished, you may return! - Having fun in the booth is obviously acceptable, but please remember to keep this a professional environment! No rough housing, immature behavior, or foul language should be happening! - Remember to keep the spirits up! The booth is a positive place! No grinches :) Again, thanks for all you do to make this a success!! Good morning band family! I hope you all had an incredible Thanksgiving break and got many opportunities to do the things you love with the people you love. I am so incredibly excited to see you all again tomorrow and get back to making awesome music with you. Only a few weeks to go until winter break, let’s finish strong!
- We will be setting up our gift wrap booth tonight!! We will definitely need some help loading and unloading equipment, so if you are able to help, please plan on meeting at our school at 6pm, and then transition to the mall to set up at 7pm! - Reminder that I will be absent from school on Thursday and Friday of this week to take our student representatives to the Tri - State Honor Band Festival! - Due to my absence, there will be no after school rehearsals on Thursday or Friday. - We will have jazz band rehearsal on Tuesday from 2-4pm. Color guard can practice on Tuesday instead of Thursday since I will be out. - We have the annual Festival of Lights Parade on Saturday, December 2nd! Call time for students will be at 4:30pm in full marching band uniform. The parade will take place at the PSL Event Center (civic center). We will gather near the main entrance off of US1 in front of the grassy area. You will see the band trailer there! The parade steps off at 6pm and will be over no later than 7pm. Students should be dropped off and picked up at the event center. - Our gift wrap booth is our Bands largest fundraiser and takes place at the treasure coast mall between December 1st and December 24th! We will need tons of parental and student help! Parents should complete the slc volunteer application on our school board website (very easy and short process). students! Reminder, the section with the most shifts worked over all in the month of December will win a free section dinner paid for by yours truly! The process to sign up for shifts is through the following link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r-Q5zCJ8ng7bkeKP0PnPOQLYmlKtUnbxmzfa-XEP8CY/edit Please download the google docs app on your phone so you can easily sign up for shifts on your phone by typing your info into an available slot! You can also access this link on a laptop. Keep the link handy and ready so you can sign up with ease!! I will be posting this link frequently for your convenience. - Our bands winter concert is on December 14th at 7pm!! It will be an amazing show that the kids are working really hard for. Tickets will be $7 each and will be sold on ticketspicket.com. The link to purchase will be made available soon. Also, we would like to continue our annual winter concert bake sale! If you’re interested in baking some yummy holiday treats for this, I will be sending out a link this week! - Finally, I am in the final stages of finalizing our spring band trip. Our commitment payment is going to be $100 per student on December 20th. Stay tuned for finalized info coming very soon! Thanks for your patience. Good morning band family! Happy late Veterans Day to all the brave men and women who have served our country!
Here is this weeks news! - Jazz band will rehearse Tuesday 2-4pm. - Symphonic band and color guard will practice Thursday 2-4pm. - Indoor percussion clinics and auditions are this week! They will be Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 5-8:30pm in the band room. - We will be setting up the gift wrap booth on Sunday, November 26th! We will meet at Pslhs to load up and go to the mall at 7pm to set up! We will definitely need some student help to load and unload the trailer! The booth opens Friday December 1st! - We have two performances coming up! Saturday December 2nd is the Festival of Lights parade at the PSL Event Center on Walton road, and our winter concert is December 14th at 7pm! - Based on the student vote, we will be planning to go on a 3 day band trip the first weekend of May! Final details regarding the trip and payments will come out this week as soon as I nail down some details. The trip will cost somewhere between 500 and 600 dollars per student, and there will be payments once a month starting in December! Please let me know if you have any questions! Take care! Good morning band family! Congrats again on officially closing the book on the 2023 marching season! What a great time it was… this band grew so much, and I’m proud of each and every one of you. I’m excited for the future of this program, and that starts now as we officially begin concert season! Winter concert prep is up first!
This week, after school rehearsals will resume. Unlike marching season, NOT every student will be rehearsing every Tuesday and Thursday. You will be reporting to after school rehearsals based on with ensemble you play in. Please read below! - Tuesday - jazz band will rehearse 2-4pm. Jazz will rehearse every Tuesday in November (minus thanksgiving break) and December up to the concert on the 14th. Jazz will continue on Tuesdays in January, but not February. - THIS WEDNESDAY, symphonic band will rehearse from 2-4pm. This is 3rd period students, with a combination of 5th period wind ensemble students who chose to also play in symphonic band. Normally these rehearsals will be on Thursdays 2-4pm, however the schedule is altered this week only. - Wind ensmeble students will not have after school rehearsals except on December 12th and 13th. Wind ensemble will begin regular after school rehearsals in January and February. - Color guard will practice after school on Thursdays from 2-4pm for the winter concert, the color guard after school practice schedule will change as we get closer to winter guard season. - We have a band family meeting THIS TUESDAY from 6-7pm. I am encouraging all parents and students that are interested in hearing about/going on the band trip in May. At this meeting we will be discussing details regarding this trip (cost/location/etc). We will also be going over details regarding our largest band fundraiser, the Gift Wrap Booth! I hope to see many of you there! we will need lots and lots of parental help for the gift wrap booth, so if you have not applied to be a volunteer in SLC, please consider applying so you can also help us out and get in on the holiday fun! - I will be out of school on Friday, and the last period of the day on Thursday. - Some performances we have coming up are the Festival of Lights Holiday parade on December 2nd, and our winter concert on December 14th. Please reach out with any questions and have a great Sunday! This Saturday is the FBA district 13 Marching Music Performance Assessment! This is at Jensen Beach High School, and we perform our Show for the final time at 7:20pm! If you’d like to see it, tickets can be purchased here: HTTPS://TEACHTIX.COM/FBA13
Dinner will be a little different for this day. Students will pay the concession stand directly, and should bring money to Jensen or their own food. Due to our later performance time, we’ll have a little bit of a different schedule. Please read carefully! 12:00pm - call time in the band room in show shirt, black shorts, and black socks/marching shoes. Please eat before you arrive! -12:30pm- final continuity rehearsal! -1:45pm - transition to the band room -2:00pm- leadership meeting/full band shirt signing - 2:30pm- senior send off -3:00pm- load truck -3:30- load buses - 3:45pm- depart for Jensen beach high school -4:00pm - arrive at Jensen beach high school - 4:15pm- transition to the concession stand for dinner - 5:30pm - unload truck and get dressed - 6:15pm - line up for warm up -7:20pm - perform -7:30pm - props exit field with pit and go back to the bus. Full band quickly transition to bus to leave instruments in cases and put hats and coats away. -8:00pm - band enter stands for final performances and ratings ceremony -9:00pm - final ratings announced -9:30pm - load buses and depart -10pm - arrive at pslhs and unload/dismiss. Good morning band family and Happy Sunday! Can you believe it?? We are already in our final week of marching season. It seems like only yesterday we were taking our first marching steps as a band at camp in July. The amount of growth that I’ve seen you go through since then is remarkable. I truly can’t wait to see you perform this Saturday at MPA, it will be our best one yet! Here is what to expect this week.
- Marching rehearsals Tuesday and Thursday 2:30-5:30pm! - Saturday is MPA at Jensen Beach High School! This is where we will receive our final evaluation and rating of the season, aka an opportunity for you to showcase the sum of all your hard work! We perform at 7:20pm, which is right at prime time!! Fully expect the stands to be packed for your performance! A separate like will be sent out with all the details for Saturday. - Wind Ensemble, due to several students being sick last week, there’s still a few auditions I need to hear tomorrow before finalizing the seating order. Thank you for your patience. - We are very close to the beginnings of concert season! Details on what that means for you will be gone over in classes this week! The after school commitments will go down after marching season, but there will still be some after school rehearsals with days varying depending on which class you are in. - Next Wednesday, November 1st, at 6pm, we will be having a very important band family meeting! We will be discussing the band gift wrap booth as well as the spring band trip. Please plan to attend! - Thanks to all the band parents and volunteers who have been helping us out this season. We truly couldn’t do it without you! After marching season, the need for consistent volunteers will go down a bit, but there will still be several opportunities to help out! You rock! Please reach out if you have any questions! Good morning!
This Friday is our homecoming football game. This game will be a little different for us as we are performing our show pregame at 6:30pm. Parents, please plan on coming out and seeing the performance, and plan to arrive no later than 6:15 so you don’t miss it! Students will arrive at 5:00pm in uniform. This is also alumni night. Alumni will gather in the auditorium between 5:00 and 5:30pm and warm up on their own. Alumni will then transition to the stands when we perform our show and then play with us in the stands. We are in need of volunteers for the game! Please let us know if you can help! 5:00pm - call time/put on uniform 5:15pm - section warm up 5:40pm - full band warm up 6:20pm - line up/transition 6:30pm - perform 6:45pm - transition to stands (guard and costume characters will go back and change out of show uniform 7:00pm - kick off 8:15pm - half time(Approx) 9:45pm - end of game (Approx) Hey band! Below is the full detail for crown jewel. The band will wear their show shirt, solid black shorts, high black socks, and marching shoes. Guard will wear what will be determined by Mrs. LeBlanc. Communicated tomorrow. Students will need to bring money for the dinner break TO crown jewel. A menu will be posted below. Tickets for crown jewel are $13 each. They can be purchased at the following link: https://www.crownjewelvb.com/#home-section 10am - call time in the band room in uniform 10:30am - begin continuity rehearsal 12:00pm - snack/ transition to band room. 12:30pm - begin loading trucks 1:00pm - begin loading buses 1:30pm - depart pslhs 2:30pm - arrive at vbhs/bathroom/change into full uniform 3:30pm - line up for warm up 3:50pm - warm up 4:40pm - PERFORM 5:00pm - load equipment/breather 5:45pm - dinner break at concession stand. Bring money! Here is the menu. 6:00pm - dinner
6:45pm - enter stands to watch bands 8:30pm - awards ceremony 9:30pm - load buses 10:45pm (Approx) - arrive at pslhs and unload 11:00pm (Approx) - dismissal after everything is away and after the group picture. Mythos - the Awakening of Gods
In the beginning, mortals and Gods lived harmoniously, keeping the stirring of emotions and power in tow. Each had their role, their presence, and their mission. Those that kneel shall always kneel, and those that stand tall, shall always stand tall. This hierarchy has always been present, even amongst the Gods themselves. That is, however, until the true truth was reviled, not the falsities of following what you have just because you “should”. Zeus was comfortable amongst his kingdom; aligning the starts, the Sun, the wind, the rain, and all mortals in between. There was no questions, only answers. Maybe this is because the questions haven’t been asked. Maybe the questions haven’t been spoken from the correct lips. Maybe the lips of the true divine needed to pose the question. Alas, the world was “calm”, but some could feel the storm coming. Something about the current stage was not set up to last. A young, but motivated Goddess, Athena, was filling her role. Providing wisdom and courage, she prevailed. When war was the question, she was the answer, with a logical yet calm twist. Athena never reacted in a way that was thoughtless or filled with emotion. It was precise, it was logical, and it was honest. By guiding with wisdom and honesty, the mortals felt security. They felt belonging. They felt love. This was within an understandable, yet relatable, grasp for the ones that come and go. Athena didn’t sit high upon the mountain top, she ebbed and flowed, and entranced all those who took notice. The mortals were invested in a sense of security, belonging, and purpose. They were no longer on a lonely island as they have always been between the sun, the moon, and the stars. This purpose led them to giving it all to Athena, doing as she says, without resistance. There must be trust, there must be love. There was. Even the divine took notice. As the mortals on the land were already committed, the Gods of the elements on Earth took notice. The patriarch of the most powerful and abundant element on the earth, Poseidon, was so amused and impressed with Athena’s devotion to love, honesty, and wisdom, he dedicated all of his resources to her in a show of power and admiration. The sea is dangerous, yet beautiful, but above all else is powerful. As the mortals of the Earth, and the Gods of the elements were taking notice…. So was the God of all. The order in which the Chaos was kept at bay, Zeus had the power to make it all unfold. Zeus was NOT happy. Zeus was feeling the opposite of order; Chaos. Athena must be stopped, as the order belonged to ZEUS, not to the mortals. The most impressive display of power was shown for all to witness for all mortals and Gods to see, and almost put everything back into what it always has been. The rebellion must be stopped, and those that have turned away MUST face their actions. There was just one thing stopping them. That is the Truth. That is the love, and that is honesty. This is Athena. As Zeus was flexing his power, Athena thought through how to handle it. She would not be intimidated by the bright colors of Zeus’ metaphorical hide. She would rebel, and she would win. Those that believed in the truth would truly believe. In the end, love and honesty would win. True order would ensue, and things wouldn’t stay how they always have been, but instead become what they truly would always be. |
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