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| CVHS Instrumental Music Email Newsletter | date 10-16-08 / issue #8.7 | ||||
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FALCON NOTES Being involved in your child's education is extremely important to both your child's development, but also to your school's success. An NEA study found that... "When parents are involved in their children's education at home, they do better in school. And when parents are involved in school, children go farther in school — and the schools they go to are better." - http://www.nea.org/parents/index.html I feel that that CV's success is a direct result of parent involvement. I also feel that the success of the Instrumental Music department can be attributed to parent involvement. We had a parent meeting this past Tuesday and about 26 parents showed up. Out of 260 students in the music department, that ratio could be higher. We currently have a few active parents doing many tasks which help out the music department, yet we need more people to come and volunteer to help out our students. Our next meeting is November 12th from 7:00 - 8:00. In order to keep the music department headed in the right direction, we need more help. Come and be involved! Thank you! |
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SAN FRANCISCO HERE WE COME!
The entire Instrumental music
department will take their spring tour to San Francisco this year! |
INFO FOR UPCOMING BAND EVENTS • FRIDAY 10/17 - NO SCHOOL but still FOOTBALL! FOOTBALL v. Glendale HS. (away, in uniform!) Call time is 4:30pm in the Instrumental Music Room. This is an AWAY game but IN UNIFORM! We have a tradition with Glendale High to play the National Anthem together on the field, and both schools do parts of their field shows. So - don't forget clean shoes, socks, gloves, instrument and music! • SATURDAY 10/18 - UCLA DAY! This Saturday’s call time for the UCLA BAND DAY is 7:00am at the band room. Wear street clothes and good walking shoes, and bring all shoes, gloves, etc for full uniform. We will provide a light, late-morning "brunch" for the students (yogurt, muffins, etc), Please bring MONEY in case you want to purchase food inside stadium . We anticipate returning around 5:30pm This is a great opportunity to play with other schools AND see a great college band! |
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AZUSA RECAP!
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CHARMS Please check out CHARMS to see if your student has been completing their assignments (sectionals, scales tests, etc) and event attendance requirements. To access CHARMS online, click here or type https://www.charmsoffice.com. Once you are on the Log In to Parent's Area, our school log in: crescentav To see your student's personal information, enter their GUSD ID#. Once on their personal site, you may reset that password if you wish.
Charms should only be used as an aid to check for a student's Sectionals,
attendance and
assignments, it is NOT their complete grade!! Charm's
"bottom line" average is NOT correct, and most "extra credit" and
"points off" will NOT show in CHARMS. |
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UPCOMING MUSICAL EVENTS Plan ahead to come to Symphony Orchestra’s Ensemble Concert on Wednesday, Nov. 5 at 7:00p.m. in the CV auditorium. Tickets to this event are $5.00 ($3.00 with ASB or for young children) and all proceeds will go to assist Symphony Students on their Spring Trip to San Francisco. The Winter Concert will be December 19th instead of December 5th. This change was necessary and next year we will hopefully have the same date as last year. Sorry for the inconvenience. |
SCSBOA HONOR BAND/ORCHESTRA Honor Groups – SCSBOA honor applications are now available. Deadline to turn in the application is November 10th. The auditions will be December 14th at CV. Extra credit will be given to those who try out. |
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| JAZZ BAND will be playing a gig this Saturday night at a local Church's 60th Anniversary Dinner/Dance. 7:00pm call time. Go Jazz Band! | |||||
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK "All of the basic elements of music are included in a march - melody, counter melody, harmony, and rhythm. Using a march as a teaching tool enables a musician to learn the basics of phrasing, balancing the lines, tuning the harmonies, and the importance of clarity and precision of rhythms. These basic concepts carry over to all forms of music." Benton Minor HLM 1984 |
UPCOMING DATES Oct. 14- Banking day, Music Booster Meeting 7-8p Oct. 15- MB music rehearsal 3:15-4:30 Oct. 16- MB field rehearsal 4-6:30 Oct. 17- no school, MB-FB v. Glendale AWAY in uniform, 4:30 call Oct. 18- MB UCLA Band Day call time 7:00am Oct. 18 - JB gig at Center for Spiritual Living (NOT the 19th!) Oct. 22- MB music rehearsal 3:15-4:30 Oct. 23- MB Field rehearsal 4-6:30, then BONFIRE Oct. 24- MB-FB v Hoover HOMECOMING, pre-game performance (6:40) • For detailed Information on dates click here | ||||
| If you have questions regarding this newsletter email Mr. Schick at MSchick@gusd.net | |||||
Last
Saturday, CVHS marched down the streets of Azusa to the sounds of their
competition tune, "Bonds of Unity", in the Azusa Golden Days Parade!
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