Newsletter 4.10.08

Orchestra News - April 10, 2008

1) District concert Saturday - come support the orchestras (and write a review!)
2) Thanks to Judgement Day
3) Saturday, April 26th - save the date
4) Extra info. and links on the blog!

1) Saturday, April 12, at North High School's auditorium is the Salem-Keizer Invitational Orchestra festival. Both the Advanced Orchestra and Advanced Symphony are playing. Groups from all the district's high schools will be performing approximately every 30 minutes.

For those not in those orchestras (parents welcome!), please come support our orchestras. Advanced Orchestra performs at 11:00 am. Advanced Symphony performs at 2:45pm, although the performances may not run exactly according to schedule. Students, you may use this for review credit. FOR EVERY 2 GROUPS YOU REVIEW, YOU RECEIVE 1 CONCERT REVIEW CREDIT. Just think about it!!! You could satisfy the entire semester's assignment just for reviewing groups for 2 hours.

Here's the full day's schedule:

North HS Chamber String Orchestra 8:30 – 8:55
McKay HS Adv. String Orchestra 9:00 – 9:25
McNary HS Adv. String Orchestra 9:30 – 9:55
Sprague HS Camarata Orchestra 10:00 – 10:25
South Salem HS Chamber Orchestra 10:30 – 10:55
West Salem HS Advanced String Orchestra 11:00 – 11:25 (previously scheduled for 10:30)
Reynolds HS Adv. String Orchestra 11:30 – 11:55

North HS Symphony Orchestra 1:00 – 1:30.
Sprague HS Symphony Orchestra 1:35 – 2:05
South HS Symphony Orchestra 2:10 – 2:40
West Salem HS Symphony Orchestra 2:45 – 3:15
Reynolds HS Symphony Orchestra 3:20 – 3:50

CCTV will be video-taping the concerts - when we hear the broadcast schedule, we'll let you know. Student schedules for Saturday - (for details, check the sheet handed out in class):

Advanced Orchestra -
Call time at the front of the auditorium: 8:25am - done by 11:30-ish (bring a lunch if you're in Symphony!)
Advanced Symphony - Call time at the front of the auditorium: 12:55pm - done by 4:00-ish

2) Judgement Day played here on Wednesday April 9 - about 50 students, a handful of teachers and some parents were in attendance for what was simply a really 'cool' experience. Anton and Lewis Patzner and Jon Bush put on an amazing show. Many students bought CD's and shirts. We're hopeful these guys will be back again soon. The Statesman Journal was there, so in the next day there will be an email sent and info. up on the blog. Thank you to Whiteaker Middle School's Music Booster group for helping our boosters to pay for the afternoon's event.

3) Save the date - Saturday, April 26, 7pm. The Salem Chamber Orchestra is performing here at West High in the auditorium. Ms. Silberman has 20 free tickets, and may be able to get more (on a case by case basis). We received the tickets as part of the residency grant that the Salem Chamber Orchestra received. Over the next 4 weeks principal players from the SCO will be
presenting master classes and coming to coach music groups at all the West Salem schools. More info. on that over the next few weeks.

4) Remember that Ms. Silberman often posts information, fun musical links, and Titan Orchestra-related tidbits on the blog. Check frequently:

www.titanorchestras.blogspot.com

Hope to see you Saturday!
~Ms. Silberman (silberman_daryl@salkeiz.k12.or.us)