Titan Orchestra Newsletter #8 (10.25.12)
Contained within...1) Fundraiser/Order Deadlines
2) Visit/work our Haunted House!
3) Waltz Night - January 18 - Grand Theater Ballroom
4) Photo day for Chamber, Symphony, and Big Trip Tuesday
5) Rhythm packets have been handed out
6) Check out this video... (cello music )
1) Fundraiser Deadlines
We have 2 fundraisers and 1 order form due in the next few days:
Due Friday October 26 - Wreaths and Poinsettias. Student receive at least $8 per item ordered! Return the ENTIRE packet, including money, to Ms. Silberman
Due Tuesday October 30 - Willamette Valley Fruit Company Due. Student receive $2-4 per item ordered. Item pickup will be on November 16. Return order form in an envelope to the Grey Box
Tuesday October 30 - Titan Gear order (the necklace/keychain order goes towards Big Trip scholarship fund). Does not benefit student account. This is just for parents and students to have Titan Music/Orchestra wearable gear. The drink tumblers are especially neat - they are double walled for insullation - hot or cold drinks! Return order form in an envelope to the Grey Box.
All checks need to be payable to Titan Music Boosters
2) Visit/work our Haunted House!
Students in orchestra are scaring the living snot out of visitors to the new interactive Haunted House - Salem's House of Horrors. Open at 6:30pm every night through Halloween! To visit ($5 tickets) come to 4248 Riverdale Road South in South Salem. Students on the Big Trip can work the Haunted House - contact Tori Winkler at toriwinkler@gmail.com. This is a fundraiser for students on the Big Trip - and it's a cool scary Halloween Haunted House - please come visit!
3) Waltz Night - January 18 - Grand Theater Ballroom
Waltz Night is back! Please put January 18, 2013 on your calendar. Waltz Night will still be a fundraiser for students going on the Big Trip, but will now include downtown Salem businesses because it will be held at the Grand Theater Ballroom. Parents of students going on the Big Trip will be asked to help run the event. Students will be doing decorating, and learning their Waltz music. Thank you to parent Angela Jones for spearheading this neat event!
4) Photo day for Chamber, Symphony, and Big Trip Tuesday
Tuesday our photographer, Evan Roth from www.rothcouple.com photography - will be coming to take formal pictures of Chamber Orchestra, Symphony, and the Big Trip orchestra. Students will know on Friday or Monday what they'll need to wear. Big Trip students not in Symphony, please come immediately after school on Tuesday so we can take the picture before you run off to your various other events. Thanks!
5) Rhythm packets have been handed out
This year, we have a new system whereby students will be turning in Rhythm/theory worksheets every few weeks. All students in the program have now been issued these packets. Students - please keep the due dates in your planners. I'll also have the assignment pages and due dates listed on the board in the orchestra room. If you misplace or loose your packet, please bring me $5 and I'll issue you a new one.
6) Check out this video... (cello music)
This Saturday, some students in Chamber are playing up in Portland at the Arlene Schnitzer concert hall on the mezzanine before the OR Symphony concert. We'll be seeing cellist Alban Gerhardt performing Tchaikovsky's Rococo variations. He will be playing on Sunday night in Salem ($5 student tix available at the door). Here's a video of Alban playing a bit of Bach...
http://youtu.be/8M5FwitMYlQ
And here is cellist Yo-yo Ma playing the Rococo Variations (20 minute long video... so beautiful!)
http://youtu.be/iN184Ytzmpc
Thanks for reading the newsletter all the way to the end - now you're informed and up-to-date!!! Please don't forget to check the website for more information.
~Ms S (Daryl Silberman)
