Band Newsletter #24

School Closures affect multiple WSHS Band Events
(Contributors:  Dr. Nail, Mr. Griffiths, edits by Jesse Seeley)
Although it brings back fond memories to most of our adult readers of our own high school years, school closures are cool in one way, but bad in many other ways. For those involved in the ever-productive requirements that rehearsals garner in the music business, when those get cancelled everyone has to work all that much harder. Students — keep in mind one thing: while it’s cool to have an extra day off here and there, too many of these snow days can extend your school year AND your graduation date. So music aside, it can be a cascading BAD thing if you can’t start that summer vacation on time. - J

There will be other events that we will publish that have to be rescheduled, but for now we will only address the make-up session for the missed sectionals for the All-City Band.

Make-up sectional for All-City Band
"As of noon today (Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008) Dr. Nail and Mr. Griffiths report the following as the make-up sectional for the one that was missed this Wednesday (Jan. 30). Originally they were attempting to have the make-up on Monday, Feb. 4, but the message below from Karl Rashkes (music coordinator for the All-City Band) offers the latest:
“There were several conflicts with scheduling the make up sectionals for the entire All City HS Band on Monday, Feb. 11. This is what Mary Lou Boderman and I came up with as a solution:

"The all City HS Clarinet Sections only will have their sectional on Monday, February 11 from 4:00 to 6:00 PM at North Salem HS with Cindy Bartelles. The rest of the all City HS Band will do their sectionals with their assigned section coaches on Wednesday, February 13 at North HS from 4:00 to 6:00 PM.

"All the other rehearsals will remain as scheduled.”

Band Booster Meeting to be rescheduled
As soon as the information becomes available, the Band Booster Meeting will be rescheduled.  Stay tuned in these newsletters for a future date.

Upcoming Titan Jazz/Pep/Basketball Band Basketball Gigs
(Contributor:  Mr. Griffiths)
Please check with Mr. Griffiths for which band for which event—editor did not have exact information at press time

Basketball Gigs:
THIS FRIDAY, February 1st Boys vs. South, 5:45 call time
Tuesday, February 5th Boys vs. McKay, 5:45 call time
Tuesday, February 12th, Boys vs. Redmond, 5:45 call time
Tuesday, February 19th, Girls vs. North, 5:45 call time

Winter Ensemble—Time Change for Rehearsal on Friday, February 1st ONLY
(Contributor:  Jesse Seeley, Alan Keown)
Reminder to all participants in the Winter Ensemble that the rehearsal for this Friday only (February 1st, 2008) was rescheduled to be 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM.  It was previously scheduled from 6:00 – 9:00 PM.  All participants have already been notified, but this is here for that one more reminder.

Wind Ensemble and Bands Concert Events Schedule
(Contributor:  Mr. Griffiths)
Please note the below Wind Ensemble performances as some might differ from the originally scheduled dates
March 4, Wind Ensemble performs at OSU (original date was March 6th)
March 11, the Wind Ensemble will perform at the “Clackamas Community College Festival”
March 13, ALL band perform at the “West Salem Area Band Festival”
March 17, Concert Band and Symphonic Band perform at “High School International Band Festival” at Sprague High School

More information will be announced on these events as it becomes available.

Editor’s Corner—Please “vote”
(Contributor:  Jesse Seeley, WSHS Newsletter Editor)
For those that read last week’s “So you want to be successful” I hope you found it entertaining.  I’d like your feedback if you DID read it and also if you did not or didn’t get a chance to read it (that is, if you read this far. -J).  To continue to put in the time to compile this information it would be nice to know that some are finding value or entertainment from the piece. So if you have the time, it would be nice to hear from as many as possible.  Vote by sending e-mail to:  wshs.band.news@comcast.net and place your vote in the subject field (e.g., “VOTE Yes—entertains”; “VOTE Yes, fun”, “VOTE No—no time to read”; “VOTE No—other”).  Feel free to elaborate in the body of the message for additional comments.  All of your responses will be kept confidential and used to improve or modify the content.  Thank you in advance for your input.