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AMS Band Newsletter
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Inside this issue
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Mark Your Calendar: 1 Final Schlitterbahn Payment Due 7 Band Booster Meeting 9 Challenger Band Clinic 13-17 Spring Break 24 Band Progress Reports out today 27 UIL Cafe Concert 28 Advanced Band Clinic 31 Happy Birthday Mr. Paul!! 7 End of 5th Six Weeks 10 Begin 6th Six Weeks 11 & 12 UIL Concert & Sightreading Contest 13 06-07 Band Audition Music Available 14 No School 17-21 TAKS Testing
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Did You Know? The latest findings, presented at a meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Los Angeles, underscore how music--as an almost universal language of mood, emotion and desire--orchestrates a wide variety of neural systems to cast its evocative spell. "Undeniably, there is a biology of music," said Harvard University Medical School neurobiologist Mark Jude Tramo. "There is no question that there is specialization within the human brain for the processing of music. Music is biologically part of human life, just as music is aesthetically part of human life." |
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UIL Cafe Concert March 27th 6:00 p.m. Aledo High School Auditorium This is our annual Pre-Uil concert where parents get to hear what we have been working so hard on since January. This is one of our finest concerts of the year. Our music is polished, and we will even have judges present to give us feedback in preparation for the actual contest on April 11th & 12th. Here are the details for the evening... Tuxedo Unforms (please make sure they are clean and looking nice) 5:30pm Concert 3 - Warm-up (on stage) Special Treat!! The middle school bands will also be demonstrating the process for Sight Reading. This is one of the two major portions of our UIL Contest. At the contest, we perform our concert on stage and then we go to the Sight Reading room. We will be given a brand new (never before seen or performed) piece of music, and with only a few minutes to explain and discuss the piece, we perform it for a panel of judges. This will be the first time that we have attempted sight reading for an audience. It will be a special treat for you to see (hopefully!)
In preparation for our UIL contest in April, we will be having a couple of guest directors come and work with our bands to better prepare them for the judges at the contest. Right now we have two clinics planned...one for Concert 2 (Challenger) and one for Concert 1 (Advanced). Here are the details... Challenger Band (Concert 2) The Challenger Band clinic was announced via a letter home, and the Advanced Band clinic has been on the calendar since the first day of school. Attendance is required.
Monday, March 6th 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Aledo High School Band Hall Advanced Band (Concert 1) Concert Band (Concert 3)
Some of you are making a good effort to have your kids here for sectionals each week. These small group sessions are great for us to really focus on the details of our UIL Contest music. We have permission from the coaching staff to begin to pull our band kids from track practice once a week for their sectionals...so all conflicts should be solved by the end of this week. Sectionals will continue through March and into April. Our last week for sectionals will end on April 7th. Here are the sectional schedules for the three UIL Contest Bands...
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