Band and Orchestra Music Festival
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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.

Student of the Week Nominations
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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?

  • Leadership
  • Discipline
  • Responsibility
  • A strong desire to improve musically
  • A strong desire to see others succeed musically

Perform a song for extra credit points
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if you are in the middle school band or strings classes you have the opportunity to perform for me for extra credit.  All you have to do is use your mobile device to call me at me GoogleVoice number and play a song for me.  Each week I will give you some specific songs you may choose from to play.  Remember this is my googl voice phone number and not my regular phone.  When you call the number you will hear a recorded message and then play for me.  Your performance will be recorded and sent to my google voice account.   I look forward to hearing from you……I’ve already had one student play for me this past weekend.   🙂

my number:
(313) 451-2083

Hot spicy chips…
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