Newsletter #12 sent 4.28.10

Concert May 3 - State info - SCO and SYSO this weekend... and more

Newsletter #12 (emailed 4/28/10)

Contained within:

1) Pre-State concert Monday May 3 - for all in Chamber Orchestra and Symphony
2) Sinfonietta runs the 4th grade string festival Friday April 30 (1 - 7pm, concert at 6)
3) Did you pay for your OR Symphony tickets?
4) May 14 - Chamber and Symphony go to State - info
5) SCO and SYSO this weekend - Beethoven Symphony #9!!!
6) Wrap up of Judgement Day concert
7) Fundraiser's for next year's Chicago trip will start next week

1) We have a concert Monday night - all students in Chamber and Symphony need to come dressed and ready to go at 6:30pm. Concert begins at 7pm - parents are welcome! This is an opportunity for all 4 (!) groups who qualified to go to State Championships to perform for one another. Each group will only perform for 15 minutes... so, the concert should conclude by 8:30pm. All students are required to attend the full concert - parents may come and go, but you'd really be missing something if you miss any one of the groups. Here's the concert order:

6:30 - call time
7:00 - Symphony, then Wind Ensemble, then Chamber, then Choir
8:30 - quick clean up, then dismissed

2) Sinfonietta students will host over 80 (!!!) 4th graders here at West this Friday. Each student will work with a small group of 4th graders to teach them a tune. Then we'll put it all together. Sinfonietta performs at 6pm - should be over by 6:45 or so. Here's the schedule

1pm - call time (no mandatory dress... just don't look too sloppy for the 4th graders)
2pm - festival starts
(see previous emails for more details)
5pm - dinner (pizza provided for West students)
6pm - Stringman, followed by 4th graders, followed by Styres Rally
6:45pm - clean up and then dismissal

3) Quite a number of students and parents have not paid for OR Symphony tickets. Remember that even if you didn't attend, we already purchased your ticket and you owe $5 per student, $10 per adult ticket purchased for you. Please have students pay up by leaving payment in an envelope in the grey box - they may take funds out of their student account for tickets.

4) Friday May 14 Chamber and Symphony both go to State - yay!!!! Here's the performance schedule - performances are at the LaSalle Stewart performance hall at OSU/Corvallis - more info to follow:

Chamber - 9:40am
Symphony - 5:10pm

Here's a link with more info:

http://osaa.org/band/2010/OrchestraPerformanceOrder.pdf
or
http://osaa.org/band/ - for more spectator information

5) Both the Salem Chamber Orchestra and the Salem Youth Symphony have great concerts this weekend. SCO performs Beethoven's 9th symphony (with full choir - you know the tune "Ode to Joy"? This is it!!!) on Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon - tickets are just about all sold out, but might be worth it to try to go anyway:

http://salemchamberorchestra.org/

Salem Youth Symphony has their big spring concert this weekend on Sunday at 3pm - this will be a great afternoon of music:

http://www.salemyouthsymphony.org/

6) The Judgement Day fundraiser was a musical success - the groups were all really great and we had a small but mighty crowd of very pleased audience members. Unfortunately there wasn't enough of an outcome the render us much of a profit - so, the hope is that if we sponsor something so cool again that the word will spread and we can get more of an audience to come. Thanks to all who did come!!!

7) As you all know, the plan is that all students in Chamber and Sinfonietta for 2010-2011 will be welcome to come on the Chicago Heritage Festival tour. The dates will be roughly Friday before spring break through Tuesday of Spring Break 2011. The price will be roughly $1250 - more concrete info will be distributed in the next 2 weeks. We will unveil a quick fundraiser next week where 50% of the profits go straight to the students' account. Please know that we'll do all we can to help families fundraise the money necessary for the trip. If you are interested in serving on either the fundraising or trip committee, please contact Kelly Culver at kculver@comcast.net

In the next few weeks I'll be getting information out to you all about next year's dates, commitment requirements, and opportunities. Please don't forget to put Boot Camp on your summer calendar!!!
Thanks! ~Ms S (silberman_daryl@salkeiz.k12.or.us)

**SAVE THE DATE**
April 30 - Sinfonietta at 1pm for 4th grade festival - concert at 6pm
May 3 - Pre-State Concert at 7pm (6:30pm call time)
May 14 - State Championships
May 25 - awards for all (6pm) and concert (7pm)
June 7 - Final Concerto Concert (Symphony and Chamber - senior 'goodbye')
Boot Camp - Monday through Thursday, 9am - 1pm, August 23-26

There is a new google calendar on the blog - www.titanorchestras.blogspot.com - on the right side of the screen - that will have all Titan Orchestra performance dates and times, symphony rehearsals, and other important dates. I will not list sectionals because those are on-going. I will do my best to keep that calendar very active. Please use it often. Hope it helps clear up any questions regarding performances, etc...