Newsletter for Titan Orchestras September 5, 2008
1) MUSIC DAY!!!
2) Eugene Symphony - free (!) tonight
3) Student/handbook coming next week
4) Entertainment Books
5) www.TITANORCHESTRAS.COM
6) Stroebel, Weathers, and David Kerr - local music shops
7) Concession sales opportunity Oct. 2 - 4:30 - 9pm
8) Sectionals and Advanced Symphony this next week
9) SAVE the date - SEPT. 22!!
1) Music Day is this Saturday - no freshman involvement this year. At this point, all students know whether they are participating in Music Day (thank you!!!), working in the room (thanks!), or doing an assignment for me due on Monday. Thanks to the parent driver volunteers!! Here's some informatino:
The students and drivers need to be at the school by 8am. Students will need to get dressed in concert dress, and be SEATED in the auditorium by 8:30am!!!
Drivers will need to fill out their insurance forms, if they haven't already, and proceed to the auditorium. At 8:30 the drivers and students will be matched up and then leave the school at 9am. MUSIC DAY participants must stay until 1pm - no leaving early!! WORK DAY students will be done roughly by 11am.
2) Ms. Silberman is playing with the Eugene Symphony tonight - it's a free concert at 8pm at the Hult Center. The concert is fantastic - it's part of the conductor search series. This conductor is very dynamic and has had a very positive effect on the orchestra. Music of Mozart, Prokofiev (Piano concerto!!), Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky (Romeo and Juliet overture) - a nicely paced concert - very pro! For more info: http://www.eugenesymphony.org/
3) Student/Parent handbooks are coming by the end of next week (hopefully). All dates, program information and instrument info will be contained within. There will be a signature page that needs to be signed and returned by all students.
4) This is a "TRIP" year - all students will be fundraising to go on a trip (big trip for periods 1/2 and 7, local trip for period 6). Entertainment Books are a great fundraiser - they are $20 each, $10 goes to student accounts. Please email Linda Beardsley for more information: beardsley_linda@salkeiz.k12.or.us or call 503-399-6443. Students who have money to turn can do so in the grey box in the room.
5) Website!!! http://www.titanorchestras.com/ is active! Please bookmark it. It will have static information like calendars, student lists, schedules, and links. This newsletter will refer to it often.
6) Local music stores have contacted Ms. Silberman - Weathers, Stroebel (in Aumsville), and David Kerr (in Portland) all have instruments, bows, cases, rosin, strings, etc.... available for purchase/rent. See the website (http://www.titanorchestras.com/) for links to these String Shops.
7) Another great way for students to fundraise is to work concession stands at games. The next orchestra day is Oct. 2, from 4:30 - 9pm. A signup list will go up in the next week in the Orchestra room.
8) Advanced Symphony starts at 4:30pm this Tuesday. Next meeting is Friday at 2:40pm. Attendance is mandatory unless excused for sports (talk with Ms. Silberman) or other sanctioned event.
Tues Sept. 9 - All Violins from Orchestra Period 6 have mandatory sectional 2:30 - 3:30
Thur Sept. 11 - "STRING ENSEMBLE" (select students) from 2:30 - 3pm
9) SAVE the date - September 22 at 6:30pm is the Parent Meeting. ALL TRIP PLANS WILL BE ANNOUNCED at this meeting - students are welcome. See you then!!
~Daryl Silberman
silberman_daryl@salkeiz.k12.or.us
