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Marching Band schedule for the next two weeks:
Monday Sept 17 - Practice on main field 6-8 pm Wednesday Sept 19 - Practice on practice field 6-8 pm (Thursday, Sept 20 - Constitution Day at Anderson 9 am/2nd pd class) Friday, Sept 21 - Home game Saturday, Sept 22 - Trenton Invitational: See schedule below Monday, Sept 24 - Practice 6-8 Wednesday, Sept 26 - Practice 6-8 Friday, Sept 28 - Home game Saturday, Sept 29 - Gibraltar Invitational: See schedule below Monday, Oct 1 - Practice 6-8 Tuesday, Oct 2 - Wyandotte Invitational: See schedule below We still have practices and events after Oct 2 but the next two weeks is crucial for attendance, work, performances, and practice for our success. NOTE: THS football looks like they are in position to eventually qualify for state playoffs. If they do and we host a home game (won't know that until the week of the game), that game would be on Friday, Oct 26. If we would win that game, we move on to the next week and if hosting, that game would be on the following Friday night. FYI
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Sat, Sept 22 TRENTON INVITATIONAL
11am-1pm PRACTICE on main field *Band hosts begin job duties after practice *AMS Band assistants report to field at 1:45 *Drum Majors and Drumline in uniform for 1st awards ceremony at 4pm FULL BAND IN UNIFORM @ 5:15 pm PERFORM @ 6:15pm AWARDS and DISMISS Sat, Sept 29 GIBRALTAR CARLSON INVITATIONAL Practice 11am-1pm on Main Field 1:30 pm Truck load 2:15 pm Buses load/leave 2:30 pm Arrive at Carlson / unload truck 4:15 pm Perform 6 pm Awards 6 pm Buses back at Carlson HS 6:15-6:30 Load and return to THS 6:30-6:45 back at THS Tuesday, Oct 2 WYANDOTTE DOWNRIVER FANFARE INVITATIONAL 4pm load truck 4:30 load buses and leave 4:50 arrive in Wyandotte 6 pm Perform 6:30 Awards Load after awards approx. 7 pm Back in Trenton circa 7:30 pm Students must be in band room by 6 pm on Friday, Sept 7 for the first home football game. We will be in full uniform thus kids must wear appropriate clothing and socks under (details in band class and at practice from uniform moms).
Cedar Point date has CHANGED. Due to Queen's Judging at THS being on Oct 6, we have moved the Cedar Point day to Saturday, Oct 27. Starting Wednesday, Sept 5, all ten remaining evening practices (there's only six weeks of the marching season remaining in this short season - the final night practice is Wed, Oct 10), four home football games, and three competitions have required attendance.
Any absence from any other than missing school that day ALL DAY ("if you get sick after school, Mr K needs an email from parents BEFORE practice) must be pre-approved by Mr. Kurilko via EMAIL CONTACT from parents (I must know that your parents know that you are absent BEFORE the practice or event in the case of last minute illness - absence without email will result in a call to the parent during practice) Work schedules, church youth group functions, and other non-school related activities do not excuse any band member from their attendance responsibilities from the graded academic requirements of the band class. "Homework" is also not an excuse - there's plenty of time before and after any practice to do homework. A band class grade is no different than a math, science, or any other grade except that band class attendance at after school, evening, and weekend practices and performances are required in order to give GYM CREDIT as well as an academic grade. Absences due to school functions such as THS sports and other THS sponsored activities as well as rehearsals for high level area honors bands (Detroit Civic Jazz, etc) are exempt from Monday/Wednesday rehearsals (NOT PERFORMANCES!) but will result in doubling up of requirement for attendance for the NEXT practice. Syllabus will be distributed and grading policies explained in class. Nutshell: You joined band to be in band. We have practices and performances. The expectation is that you are there for both. If you are there, you are fine. If you are not, there needs to be an excused parent-made explanation just like how missing a day of school requires parent contact. Camp went great! We learned a lot. Now it's time to use part of what we learned. Read closely - there is a lot of information about this week:
*PRACTICES THIS WEEK ARE VERY VERY VERY IMPORTANT! There are only two practices and both have to be shortened due to THS summer building schedule. Monday Aug 20 and Wednesday Aug 22 practices will run 6-7:30 pm (regular practice time 6-8 pm will start next week when the regular building schedule starts). The two 1.5 hour practices will be plenty to learn and clean the opener - be there! *IF YOU WERE NOT AT BAND CAMP, YOU MUST BE AT PRACTICES THIS WEEK! This week will be when we reteach the opener drill set by set. We will move into segment two next week - you will be on your own to learn the opener if you miss this week. Our second performance is on Sept 7 where we will perform the opener and segment 2. *OUR FIRST PERFORMANCE OF THE SEASON IS ON FRIDAY. Truck will be at school at 1:30 pm and buses will load at 2 pm. Game is at 4 pm and we will return to THS approximately 7 pm *We will distribute 2018 season show shirts after Wednesday's practice. That shirt with shorts and sneakers will be your uniform for the first performance at Wayne State on Friday. *  If you are in the mood for some jazz, the River Raisin Jazz Festival is happening on Saturday (and Sunday) at St Mary's Park in Monroe - right by the Custer Statue downtown. The "River Raisin Big Band" is opening the festival again this year at 1 pm on Saturday - that's the jazz festival name for the Monroe Big Band. Since I play trumpet for that band, I wanted to promote this free festival. Bring a chair and enjoy some very good jazz. My group is performing some Gordon Goodwin Big Phat Band arrangements, some great vocal standards, a few flashy festival selections, and some great featured soloists. Playing with us this year is Rich Cieslowski (the "R" in A+R Music) on drum set whom you may not know played on Motown recordings and has played with everyone in the Detroit jazz scene since the 1970s. Hope to see you there!
http://www.riverraisinjazzfestival.org/the-lineup.html Saturday, August 11 1:00 pm - River Raisin Big Band Website / Facebook 2:30 pm - Dee Brown Website / Facebook 4:00 pm - DA'JA Band Facebook 5:45 pm - Mindi Abair and the Boneshakers Website / Facebook 7:30 pm - Alexander Zonjic Website / Facebook w/Special Guest Eric Darius Website / Facebook Sunday, August 12 2:00 - Michele Ramo and the World Jazz Group featuring Heidi Hepler Website / Facebook 3:30 - Gregg Karukas Website / Facebook 5:15 - Marion Meadows Website / Facebook 7:30 - The Rance Allen Group Website / Facebook Pre-camp is going well. Attendance has been great and we are getting a lot done in prep for our band camp week.
I have just updated the drill files on the THSMB18 page with the cleaner, easier to read pages that I received and scanned from our drill writer. Individual drill numbers will be much easier to read. The entire 2018 Guys and Dolls show including all parts and drill for four segments is now online on the THSMB18 page. Drill number and instrument part information is also now included as are movies of all four segments of drill.
WE ARE NOW READY FOR PRE-CAMP!!! Here's what I want to accomplish next week: 1. Learn music for opener and segment 2. We will start on memorization at camp. 2. Rehearse seg 3 and 4 music to get idea of those segments 3. Marching basics - WEAR SNEAKERS EVERY DAY! No sandals or bare feet EVER. 4. Learn FIRST THREE** SETS OF SHOW - bring SET BOOK (small spiral notebook) - **If we can learn first FOUR, even better 5. Set tone for the rest of the fall - learn to rehearse well, be responsible for yourself and to your section, be there ON TIME, and always have everything you need. What to bring to pre-camp (and to every marching band practice):
Be there early and ready at 9 am - don't GET there at 9 am. We will never go past posted ending time of noon for precamp. We will not work you to death but we will be working - be prepared to do so. This is not a boot camp but it is also not summer vacation anymore - it's part of your regular classroom requirements for being in high school band. We will not be able to hold your hand the whole time - this is high school; it's time to be responsible for yourself, your results, and your own actions. We will assist your learning but we cannot MAKE you learn. WE ASSUME THAT YOU ARE IN MARCHING BAND TO BE A PART OF OUR SUCCESS. Marching band is a lot of fun and you will be working with a lot of very enthusiastic, fun, hardworking, intelligent, goal-oriented people, both staff and peer students. Sometimes things are hard to learn. Sometimes it's easy. Sometimes it rains and we have to change plans. Sometimes everything goes so well that we move faster than planned. Or vice versa. Point is that OUR TOTAL BAND ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING. We strive to make the whole greater than the sum of it's parts - and one of those parts is YOU. Be prepared to have the time of your life. |
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