Yes, we are excited! We will experience our very first Music Festival Concert Performance. Friday afternoon we will perform as a concert band and as a string orchestra for judges at Edsel Ford High School. Students were excitedly practicing instruments in the band room after school today. A few girls snapped a few selfies and even created a collage photo to commemorate the afternoon. Sweet!
Tokecang:
Concert Warm-up No. 1:
Rock The House:
Play this audio link for “We’re on a Mission” from this page and just listen to it. After you listen to the recording once or twice you may play the song.
Cousin Louie:
Click this link to see the results from our Adult Music Survey.
Students in grades 6-8
Come to the band room before school or after school to practice your instrument. For each assignment you successfully submit in a recording through GoogleVoice, SmartMusic or EssentialElementsInteractive you will earn 3 raffle tickets. GoogleVoice recordings from home also qualify for raffle tickets. Lets be the Salina Stars we are capable of becoming through hard work and dedication! Let’s sounds fantastic at the Music Festival March 6th!
I realize that with the whole week off for Winter break you have probably lost rack of A and B Days. I just want to give you a friendly reminder that Monday is a B Day which means Strings students have music class Monday, Wednesday and Friday this week. Band students have band Tuesday and Thursday this week.
Also, if you have not returned your permission slip for our field trip to EFHS Friday, March 6, please make a point to get it signed tonight. You would not want to be left out of such an exciting opportunity as this. You can hand your form to Mrs. Reed Monday morning before school starts. Her band room door will be open for you by 7:10 a.m.
Have you played any of your target songs on Smart Music or Google Voice yet? these are all graded assignments. Stay after school, come early before school, or play from home and submit your practice recording for your grade. Check MiStar or out Google Chart to see which songs you have a need to complete. Here is a quick link to the list of songs and the Target Song Charts: Target Songs
Students in grades 6-8 band and strings class. I am dividing you up into groups to work on specific sections of the drama. I think you will have a great time with this. 🙂 Select a topic from your current core subjects for the basis of your commercial. Your commercial can be funny or serious but should last only 60 seconds. Select a song from the book for your team to perform after your commercial.
Commercial 1 5th hour band
Commercial 3 2nd hour band
Commercial 4 2nd hour strings class
Commercial 2 5th hour strings class
Drama 5th hour girls band – please continue refining this drama presentation. we need to keep the whole thing at 15 minutes maximum. We need enough time for our full band and strings performances, too….and walking on and off stage in our groups.
Everyone should keep in mind that we will only be using chairs for the Cello section. Everyone else will need to walk on and perform music from memory or with a music stand that you can carry on with you. Let’s add movement and drama to our presentation. This will be fun and very unique!!
If you are a member of my current Salina Intermediate School Band and Orchestra Program I would encourage you to take this quick survey. Here is a direct link to the SURVEY. Thank you for taking the time to do this. 🙂
Our Salina Intermediate School Band and Orchestra students will have a unique opportunity the first week in March. We have been invited to participate in a Music Festival Workshop at Edsel Ford High School along with other bands and orchestras in our district.
Friday, March 6, at noon a school bus will transport our students to EFHS to perform for ‘judges’. Our ‘judges’ are retired music teachers. Their objective is to listen to our band and our orchestra perform some music for them. They have a specially designed rubric form to write on and make comments about our performance. The judge will take a few minutes to speak to us and rehearse us with the goal of improving our performance. Then we will go to another room and perform some music on sight. A second ‘judge’ will make more comments about our playing. It will be interesting to see what kind of score we might earn.
The whole event is set up with the goal of exciting ad inspiring our students to perform even better. Next year we will have the opportunity to participate in the Michigan Music Festival and our score will count for real. This is a great chance to see what it is all about.
Parents and friends, please encourage us all to practice more so we will do our very best at this Music Festival. Mrs. Reed is available before and after school nearly every day for students to practice if they are not able to take instruments home. We hope to shine as one more bright light for our Salina Community.
The Schedule:
Depart Salina Intermediate School by school bus at noon and parents are welcome to join us.
Salina String Orchestra
Warm up 12:30 Performance 12:55 Clinic 1:20 Sight Reading 1:45
Salina Band
Warm up 2:10 Performance 2:35 Clinic 3:00 Sight Reading 3:25
Return to Salina by 4:15 p.m.
Our Middle School Band and Strings students will be participating in a mock Music Festival Friday, March 6. Please encourage your son or daughter to practice his or her instrument daily so we all have the best experience possible. Here is a link to the songs we will be practicing to prepare well for this event.
Do you have what it takes to be nominated “Student of the Week”?
To qualify for a nomination you must have exhibited all of these qualities throughout the week in band class or strings class. Each week one person from each band and each strings class will be selected. The winning students will have their picture posted in the music display case, have their name added to the honorary list, receive two school raffle tickets and qualify for the title of Sousa Award or Orchestra Director’s Award for the end of the year award ceremony.
Do you exhibit all of these qualities?