In This Issue:Trip Update
Required New York Trip Meeting
General Parent Meeting
SCRIPS Due Tuesday
Full Orchestra Rehearsal Schedule & Contest
Solo and Ensemble March 11
Solo and Ensemble Etiquette
Band Fees Final Installment Past Due
SMS Sign-Up
New York Trip Updates on Twitter
Kudos
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TRIP UPDATEAll New York band trip participants need to meet at the airport at 8:30 am on Saturday. We will have e-tickets and enter as a group. Please do not be late. Our travel agent will see each participant through the gate. More information will be available at Tuesday’s band parent meeting. Rain is in the forecast for NYC while we are there. Consider taking an umbrella as we will be walking A LOT.
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REQUIRED NEW YORK TRIP MEETING A required meeting
for students who missed last week’s spring trip meeting will be held at 4:15 in the small band hall.
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GENERAL BAND PARENT MEETINGWe have a very important parent meeting to discuss “Sample the Sound” fundraiser, band trip and contest on Tuesday, March 9 at 7:00 pm. Please make plans to attend.
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SCRIPSScrips orders will be due at the booster meeting on Tuesday night. It is not too early to begin earning money for next year’s band fees or our in-state spring trip band trip 2011.
Future Brennan students will be able to transfer their funds to bear country next year.
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FULL ORCHESTRA UIL CONTESTThe orchestra UIL concert and sightreading contest will be held at John Jay on Wednesday. Students involved in this event have the itinerary. Our final rehearsal will be Wednesday, morning at 7:30 am. Please do not be late.
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SOLO AND ENSEMBLE THURSDAYOur UIL and non-UIL solo and ensemble contest start at 5:00 pm on Thursday. All students should be ready to perform 30 minutes prior to their assigned times. The performance schedule will be posted on Tuesday, March 9.
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SOLO AND ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE ETIQUETTEAll solo participants are required to dress in a professional manner for this event. No jeans or t-shirts are allowed. An etiquette grade will be assigned. Students who do not have “dress” clothes must make prior arrangements with a band director to check out a tux or dress.
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BAND FEES FINAL INSTALLMENT PAST DUEMemo: 5792.03 & Student ID #
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HOT CHECKSPlease do not write HOT CHECKS to the Stevens Band Program! In a new school policy, the organization that deposits a hot check will incur all extra costs associated with that bad check with no chance to recover the loss.
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@JPSFALCONSBANDWe are now on twitter at
http://www.twitter.com/jpsfalconsband. Twitter updates are also linked on the band webpage, however these messages are not seen from NISD computers.
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SMS Sign-UpIf you have unlimited text, you should consider signing up for the SMS service provided through the band website. Several parents and students have already signed up. This service is not linked to the NISD Twitter account and will be used only for band, band council and Texas Future Music Educators activities. You can find the information under the “Home” tab on www.falconspride.org
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NEW YORK TRIP UPDATES ON TWITTERMr. Rubio will be tweeting the New York Band Spring Trip events from the sky and the ground on Twitter. Feel free to follow
http://www.twitter.com/jpsfalconsband. If that is not your thing, you can also checkout the twitter updates on the band webpage.
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KUDOS--Tim K was accepted to UTSA and the UTSA School of Music.
--Chris M for taking the initiative to go and talk band to the Pease and Vale MS bands last week.
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UPCOMING EVENTS:March 9, Band Parent General Meeting, 7:00 pm
March 11, Solo and Ensemble Contest, SHS Fine Arts Wing
March 13-17, Band Spring Trip, New York City
March 23, Buddy Night for future Stevens Falcons
March 29 & 30, UPDATE—Northside Pre-UIL Concerts, 4-9 pm
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Until next time
rdrubio
Many thanks to the following for their generous donation to help defray the cost of the Alabama Honor Band Festival Concert Program.
John and Angela Dominguez
Albert and Diana Gutierrez
Randall and Ruth Kirk
Christine Keyser Fanick--In Memory of Keith Haertel
Jared Morgan
John and Ruth Partain
David and Gloria Rodriguez
Robert and Lisa Rubio
Mark and Layne Roetzel
Jose and Terri Saenz
Ross and Stacey Stilley
Stacey Stilley--In Memory of Susanne Follett
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