Newsletter #23

In this post:

1) Monmouth Festival tomorrow (Thursday, Apr. 2)
2) Looking ahead - Apr 8, Apr 17 and 18
3) Congrats to Boston Folks
4) Checked out the blog recently??
5) Pre-state concert has been moved back to April 30th

1) Advanced Orchestra and Advanced Symphony perform tomorrow at Smith Hall in Monmouth (WOU) at 1pm and 3pm respectively. This is the first of 2 opportunities we have to qualify (with 2 scores of at least 75) for the State Orchestra and Symphony competition in May - wish us luck!!

All students know the schedule:

Advanced Orchestra and 17 members of Period 7 will leave class at 11:15 - bus leaves at 11:30.
The rest of Period 7 leaves at 1:10pm - thank you to orchestra parent Steve Tatman for chaperoning the 1pm bus!!!
Students will be home around 4:45pm - if you need to call me if to know if the bus is on time or not please feel free to: 818-317-8218

Students must dress in our school-issued black dresses/tuxes. Black socks/hose are a must! Performance shoes too. This is as formal an affair as there is for us - let's look as amazing as we sound!!

I'll let the students know the results and post info on the blog on Thursday or Friday after we play.

2) All period 1 and 7 students are performing at Capitol Manor this next Wednesday evening. Call time is as follows:

Period 7 - 6pm at Capitol Manor
Period 1 - 6:30pm at Capitol Manor

I NEED SOME PARENT HELP TRANSPORTING MUSIC STANDS TO THE MANOR - if you have a large vehicle that could transport 20 stands, I'd greatly appreciate it.

We perform at 7pm - there is plenty of room for parents. The concert will end at 8pm. We're excited about this public performance - Capitol Manor residents are very proud of their connection to West Salem. I'm thankful to them for their donation to Music Boosters for this concert.

On April 17 and 18 we have a big deal coming to West - Friday the 17th from 1-7pm is Central Valley League Band competition and Saturday the 18th from 8am - 5pm is the Salem-Keizer Invitational Orchestra Festival. In years past this fantastic festival has been hosted at North High School - this year marks the first year it will be held at West.

I WILL NEED PARENT AND STUDENT HELP ON FRIDAY THE 17th! More about that in next week's blog.

Advanced Orchestra plays at 8am (yawn) on Saturday the 18th. Symphony performs at 1:30pm the same day.

3) Congrats to all those who performed in Boston. There was an article about it in the Statesman Journal. And, student journalist Meg Carey has written an article from the student perspective - keep an eye for that.

HUGE thanks goes out to the trip committee: Mark and Denise Lowen, Kelly Culver, Staci Larson, Pam Wittman, Sue Love, and Cindy Culpovich. Thanks too to Music Booster treasurer Scott Muller and Missy Page for all their instrumental financial consultations and help!

HUMONGOUS thanks go to the chaperones for our amazing trip: Mama Denise Lowen, Papa Mark "Maahk" Lowen, Staci Larson, Pam Wittman, Becki Weathermon, Steve Tatman, Karen Tatman, Ann McCloud, Stella Kim, Wendy Bruton, Glenys Loewen-Thomas, and Kelly Amsberry.

GIANORMOUS thanks go to the Lowens for the hundreds of hours they spent organizing this trip and leading it.

It's pretty amazing to have occassion to have perfect harmony with a trip like this - it was a grand success; socially, historically, and musically.

4) Have you checked the blog recently? If not, feel free to scroll down. There's the trip blog, the Boston photo slideshow, a great link to a site where you can created and view flashcards in all sorts of disciplines (I put the music link up there for you), and more.

5) The pre-state concert - for all groups at West who qualify for State competitions - will be held on it's original date, *NOT THE DATE LISTED IN THE GREEN HANDBOOK* - it's now going to be at 7pm on April 30th. More info on that later in the month.

Have a great weekend - check back soon to see the results of tomorrow's competition.
:)
~Ms. S