Newsletter #8 (emailed 11/05/10)

***Save the Date***
Fair Use fees are past due - please pay or submit waiver to bookkeeper's office at West
Christmas Tree fundraiser is coming to a close
Coffee Beans are due by Wednesday Nov. 10
Sat 11/6 - Waltz Night - 6-9pm in the Commons
Sat/Sun 11/20, 21 - Salem Chamber Orchestra - great review concert
Check Calendar for December concerts

Contained within:

1) Coffee beans please...
2) Waltz Night info... Tomorrow (Nov. 6)
3) On the blog...
4) Concerts coming up for concert review

1) Coffee beans please...

No, these beans aren't for Ms. S - they are for our fantastic "Year of Coffee" Titan Auction item. Please bring pre-packaged coffee to the orchestra room (imagine if each family donated one bag - what a great auction item!!!) by November 10. If you have anything else that you'd like to donate to Titan Auction, please bring that to school by Nov. 10 too. Also, if you're interested in purchasing a ticket for the Titan Auction (GREAT place to pick up holiday presents!!!! And, visit with some nice people too... ) you can contact Kelly Culver at kculver@comcast.net - we already have 2 orchestra tables purchased and would love to fill a 3rd. I'll be purchasing my ticket this next week... come sit with me?

2) Waltz Night info... Saturday November 6!

Are your dancing shoes all polished up and ready to go? Please join us in the Commons on Saturday Nov. 6 for our 2nd biennial Waltz night. Tickets can be reserved or purchased by emailing boosters@titanorchestras.com or by contacting a member of the Chicago-bound orchestra (any student can ask Ms. S how to get a ticket). Students are $10, adults are $20 - 2 adults can purchase 2 tickets for $35. There will be a bake sale and a few raffles. Your ticket gets you an hour waltz lesson with RJ Dance Studio's Lora LaMon and an hour of live Waltz Music performed by students bound for Chicago this next March. The evening starts at 6pm and will end at 9pm.

Waltz Orchestra players: You have all signed up to come at 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, or to stay after to help with clean up. Also, you are needed in the Commons from 4 - 5:15pm to warm up and sound check. Please bring a sack dinner or make arrangements to eat quickly, change, and be ready to greet guests at 6pm.

Here's a link to see/hear all the waltzes we will be playing (orchestra - don't forget to be listening to these too!): http://titanorchestras.blogspot.com/2010/10/waltz-links.html

3) Article about the OR Symphony coaching session in Chamber, on the blog

This past Tuesday, Chamber Orchestra was visited by Oregon Symphony section violists Jenn Arnold. She coached our entire group, fielded Q&A, and worked with our violists. She was great - animated and helpful! Great player too! Here's a link to the article on our blog that I copied from the Statesman Journal:
http://titanorchestras.blogspot.com/2010/11/jenn-arnolds-visit-to-chamber.html

4) Some great concerts coming up for review
Sunday Nov. 7 - Danny and I are performing with our group Salem Baroque at St. Paul's Evensong concert series in the afternoon: http://stpaulsoregon.org/index.htm
Saturday Nov. 13 - UnBande performs with Salem Pops at the Elsinore Theatre downtown at 7:30pm: http://www.salempopsorchestra.org/
Sunday Nov. 20 - Salem Chamber Orchestra, featuring a few of our Chamber Orchestra students, will be performing at Hudson Hall at Willamette University: http://salemchamberorchestra.org/

Thanks for reading all the way down to the end of the newsletter...
~Ms S.