Week 31 of School – 4/3/20 – 4/7/20 – Distance learning continues, Leadership Auditions begin, BPA Meeting, Sectionals
Happy Easter for all those celebrating. The sun is out and it is going to be a great day! Congratulations to our 2020-2021 Drum Majors: Hannah Speights, Adriana Rodriguez and Emily Nguyen. We are excited for the team strength they have and cannot wait to get the rest of our leadership team lined up this week.
Thank you to the families that came to drop off band fees and that helps to get the year wrapped up from everyone. We will have another dropoff in the next coming weeks. Audition music is out for current 8th-11th graders to start working on. Details online and below. We will be having our BPA meeting this Tuesday via Zoom. Here is the info for the week:
MONDAY – FRIDAY
Week 4 of distance learning continues with all classes
Expectations in Band this week
Check in to each of your classes online. Complete the attendance questions/quizzes
Meeting times may have changed for Tuesday and Thursday sectionals/small ensemble playing meetings in Zoom. Please email your director if you are unable to attend for some reason. Google Classroom should have your Zoom Meeting login requirements and/or Remind texts will go out.
Please email a director if you would like a lesson on need one on one time for assignments.
Jazz
Anyone that is interested in jazz can join the class online for interactive Youtube listenings, play along ideas and jazz theory. Jazz Google Classroom code is: 747lmja
Band events: Drum Major/Leadership Auditions
Leadership training will begin at 8:00am each day through Thursday via Zoom. Winds and Percussion need to be in a white shirt, athletic shorts with athletic shoes, while guard is in all black. Please have something to write on and with for note taking. If you have the visual fundamental handbook that was given to you online as a handbook example, please have that as well.
Google Classroom has Zoom meeting times for morning trainings as well as auditions. There are four rounds of auditions (Thursday through Saturday) due to how many students are auditioning and that is a fantastic thing!
Please be on time to each training and more detail on auditions coming in morning meetings
BPA Meeting Info
We will have our next BPA meeting on Tuesday, April 14th via Zoom at 7pm. We will be voting on board member then.
Topic: BPA Meeting - April
Time: Apr 14, 2020 07:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 609 630 580
Audition Information
The band website has our audition music and information ready to go at: https://wcchargerband.org/auditioninfo
YOU MUST FILL OUT THE GOOGLE DOC FIRST. We will be setting up a Zoom meeting for auditions and that document will allow us to have a time set up for you individually. You will login for the Zoom meeting and the director will click you out of the waiting room and into the live audition process.
Every current 9th-11th high school student in our program will need to play as a performance final grade during the class audition time.
More details to come during our sectionals, but please check the band calendar for audition dates coming up in the next few weeks.
Let’s have a GREAT week!
-Ms. Stevenson
July 5, 2020
