Thank You Parents

We want to first of all thank all of the parents for coming to our section concerts and supporting your children in their music education. This is also a special note of appreciation to the parents of the clarinet players who had to go out of their way to pick them up Wednesday afternoon. Thank you so much for your tremendous help in making the School Dedication and Memorial such a wonderful success. Many of the audience members have made it a point to let us know personally how much the music added to the experience. We are still getting emails and notes from community members expressing their appreciation for the event.

This Thursday will be our final section concert of the fall semester, featuring the low brass sections. All Trombone, Euphonium, and Tuba students should report to the band hall after school, have a rehearsal until 4:00, have pizza, and then begin the concert at 5:00pm. This concert will be over by 5:30pm. We hope that you can come out and hear the results of the hard work that these young men and women have been putting into their instruments. Because of the number of students represented in the concert this week and because of limited spacing and seating availability, you are encouraged to be early if you would like to ensure that you can be inside the band hall for the concert.

All the rest of the students should be working diligently on their Christmas concert music as well as the warm up exercises that we are working on in class. Please continue encouraging them to fill out their practice planners and be sure that they are signed each week. The more you can encourage your children, the more successful they will be. Again thank you so much for everything that you do for your children. You have no idea how much the little things help to make the San Felipe Memorial Middle School Band great.

Week #13

This week is an action-packed week with the SFMMS Band. On Wednesday, our clarinet players will play for the school's ribbon-cutting ceremony and on Thursday, the trumpet and horn sections will have their first section concert.

We are still awaiting finalized details for Wednesday, but the ceremony is set to begin at 6:30pm at the old stadium. We will meet in the band hall after school, have some pizza as a snack, and then begin rehearsal around 4:45 or 5:00. We will work on the music together with the choir. and then move out to the field around 6:00. We will set up in the bleachers and be prepared to play some. We are assuming that the whole thing will be over by around 7:30, but have not gotten that information.

The trumpet and horn section concert will be the same schedule as previous section concerts. Students will report to the band hall after school, have a rehearsal until 4:00, have pizza, and then begin the concert at 5:00pm. This concert will be over by 5:30pm.

Students should wear their blue band shirt, blue jeans, and nice shoes for both events.