Newsletter #22 emailed 5.19.11

***Save the Date***
The calendar is up-to-date on our website: www.titanorchestras.com
Wed May 25 - Awards Concert (all students) 5pm awards, 6pm concert
Mon Jun 6 - Concerto concert (all students - attend or play) 7pm concert

Contained within:

1) Concert info for audience and students for May 25
2) OSAA State Championship wrap up
3) Prep for June 6 concert
4) Lollipop and State tshirt money due!!

1) Concert info for audience and students for May 25
Our Orchestra Awards, movie themed spring concert and Senior Farewell all happens this next Wednesday, May 25. Parents and guests - the awards part of the program is more for the students... you are more than welcome to come, but the music playing portion of the concert won't begin until 6pm! Here's a complete schedule:

4:30pm - This year Chamber and next year's Chamber dress rehearse Ashokan in the orchestra room. Please come dressed.
4:50 - everyone else please report to the auditorium

5pm - Awards show - featuring 2 slide shows and all orchestras. We will also introduce next year's orchestras.

6pm - Concert begins. Here is concert order:
Titan Strings - Phantom of the Opera and Harry Potter
Sinfonietta - Wizard of Oz and Pirates of the Caribbean
Senior recital - solos featuring some of our graduating seniors
Senior farewell - where each senior and their parents are honored and thanked
Ashokan farewell - the piece where we bid farewell musically to our seniors
Post concert hang out at Dairy Queen

Concert dress = black top (not sleeveless, not t-shirt quality, no print), jeans (not ripped or faded), black performance shoes with black socks. Seniors may wear prom formal, as long as you can play in it and not have the 'improperly dressed' police get you!

2) OSAA State Championship wrap up
In the state of Oregon, we honor the incredible music programs by having what ends up being a 'competition' between the orchestras and symphonies each May. Because of the competitive nature of this event, it falls under the OSAA - Oregon School Activities Association - guidelines. This means that we are on par with the sports in the state, and academic endeavors like Mock Trial. As such, our students need to be enrolled in a certain number of classes, making certain GPA's, and must fall under all the rigorous guidelines that our football, baseball, basketball, tennis players do.

West and South were the only 2 schools in the STATE, as far as I can tell, where all 4 top 'varsity' performing groups - choir, band, orchestra, symphony - not only qualified but placed in the top 4 or 5 of their category. Very impressive!

As you probably have read by now, our orchestra tied for 1st place in the orchestra division and our symphony placed 4th. Very proud of these groups! This win definitely puts us on the 'map', as it were.

3) Prep for the June 6 concert
We have one more concert after this next Wednesday's concert - the final senior concerto concert. All students are either attending or playing. Students not playing in Chamber or in the 2 symphony pieces will need to write a quick concert review, during the concert - papers will be handed out before the concert. The concert will start at 7pm and will run about 90 minutes. This is a wonderful concert featuring our talented graduating seniors.

4) Lollipop and State tshirt money due!!
If you checked out some lollipops or got a State shirt or two, the money is past due. Please pay up!

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