What are we doing this week?– cleaning pollen off of everything!
In this edition:
- Mr. Grush’s New York trip was very successful
- MANY volunteers needed for Band on the Quad Concert and Awards – May 8
- Seniors – information needed for Awards Program by Fri. 4-19
- Writers – I am asking some of you to write about band events – due Fri. 4-19
- Summer Technology Camp with Mr. Grush
- Music Camps for Percussion and for Jazz
New York trip was very sucessful
Thank you students for making Ms. Drtina feel so welcome and for working so hard. She is eager to come back and I am eager to have her come back and work with small groups.
The Village Vanguard and the Lion King were incredible. I have many ideas to discuss with colleagues from the Brain conference, too. However, I am most excited about a connection I made with the music department at the Fieldston School in NYC. They have numerous, bands, jazz bands, and combos. The department chair is a fabulous jazz teacher and a touring jazz musician as well. The directors at the Fieldston school are interested in collaborating with us! So, I’ll look into how we might do that.
MANY volunteers needed for Band on the Quad Concert and Awards – May 8
Plenty of jobs for everyone! Please sign-up and email me with questions.
Band on the Quad volunteer sign-up
Seniors – information needed for Awards Program by Fri. 4-19
Seniors – please fill out info for the Awards program in this google doc. Do it now and you won’t forget. 🙂
Seniors – info for the Awards program
Writers – I am asking some of you to write about band events – due Fri. 4-19
I am asking about 25 students to write about events from our year. These descriptions will be printed in the Awards program for May 8. If your name is listed, please type a description directly into this google doc. Email me with questions. I need them by this Friday. Thanks!
Summer Technology Camp with Mr. Grush
For the 15th summer, Mr. Grush will be teaching a Summer Technology Camp (part of SummerQuest) for rising 4th-8th graders. While I would love to have current CA students join us (a few usually do), I’m hoping that many of you can recommend the camp to siblings, friends, and incoming CA students. Here is a link to our wiki site from last year. Feel free to forward to insterested students/parents and have them contact me. Thanks!
http://ca-techcamp-2012.wikispaces.com/
2 percussion Camps and 1 Jazz Camp
I do not have direct experience with any of these camps, but they look to be excellent.
http://mattsavagedrumcamp.com/ Marching percussion
http://www.summerjazz.org/home.shtml Jazz
Summer Concert Percussion Camps at Cardinal Gibbons High School
Camps are open to all students rising 5th graders and above through high school
Camps include training on snare drum, mallets, timpani, drum set and more! Beginners Welcome! Please tell all your percussion students and parents.
The camp dates are July 8-12, 2013 and July 15-19, 2013 at Cardinal Gibbons High School. The camps are very reasonable at $250 per week. For more information or registration everyone may go to www.cghsnc.org/summercamps for more information or contact me at hsargent@cghsnc.org