It's the most wonderful time of the year!

Dear Parents,

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving week.  It's now time for the home stretch of the semester.  This time of the year is wonderful for many reasons, including many performance opportunities for our students.  Here are some highlights from last week:

• 21 students were selected for the NZNMEA Honor Band this year.  Congratulations to our hard working students! 
• All groups ran through their music last week, setting us up to make final touches for all our events.

We have four events coming up that will involve all performing groups.  Please note that these events are mandatory for the performing groups involved.

December 4: Winter Concert, Part 1
This concert features Beginning Strings, Beginning Band, and Concert Band.  Call time is 5:30 PM for Beginning Strings and 6:00 PM for everybody else at the Carson City Community Center.  The concert begins at 6 PM and should end by 7 PM.  Additional details may be found HERE
December 5: Carson City Tree Lighting
This event features the Advanced Band as they perform Christmas music for part of the tree lighting ceremony.  Call time is 6:15 PM at Telegraph Square and their performance will take place between 6:30 and 7:00 PM.  I encourage students to wear an ugly Christmas sweater, decorate their instruments, and HAVE FUN!
December 6: Sparks Hometowne Christmas Parade
This event features Intermediate Band and Advanced Band.  Call time for students is 9:00 AM in the band room.  The parade begins at 1 PM in Sparks.  Following the parade, students will be given time to explore Meadowood Mall before returning to CMS by approximately 5 PM.  Additional details may be found HERE
December 11: Winter Concert, Part 2
This concert features Advanced Strings, Intermediate Band, Advanced Band and Jazz Band.  Call time is 5:30 PM for Advanced Strings  and 6:00 PM for everybody else at the Carson City Community Center.  The concert begins at 6:00 PM and should end by 7:30 PM.  Additional details may be found HERE

*Your Intermediate Band and Advanced Band students have been asked to try on their tuxedo shirts from last year.  Please make sure they do this as soon as possible!

Practice Logs

Since all classes broke the 80% benchmark, I offered practice logs for extra credit.  I will be grading these on Monday.  Practice logs are due again for everybody this Friday.  Let's see if we can beat these percentages:

Concert Band: 91%
Intermediate Band: 86%
Advanced Band: 83%
Advanced Strings: 90%
Beginning Band: 97%
Beginning Strings: 94%

After School Rehearsals

There is one more marching band rehearsal and one jazz band rehearsal.  In the event of inclement weather, I will shorten the marching rehearsal to just one hour and keep us inside.

December 2: Marching Band Rehearsal, 2:45-4:30 PM
December 9: Jazz Band Rehearsal, 2:45-4:30 PM

Parent Meeting

We will have a planning meeting to discuss all upcoming events on Monday, December 1 at 6:30 PM in the CMS Band Room.  Anyone is welcome to attend.

It's time for the holiday season.  I look forward to a fun and festive few weeks!

Mr. Jacques