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May 2015 Booster Meeting: Sunday, May 24th, 3pm, SPHS Music Area Volume 43 Issue 7
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From the High School Podium Welcome to the official “Home Stretch” It has been another eventful year in the SPHS Band Department. Thank you for all your hard work, including early morning drop offs, transportation to extra rehearsals, payment on instruments, lessons, reeds, mouthpieces, mallets, attending concerts and a host of other things that you do for your child’s involvement in music – they really appreciate it – even if they don’t always say so. Congratulations to all those students who participated in State Solo/Ensemble. Out of 30 High School Band entries 28 of them received “1” ratings. Seven of them were nominated for performer’s certificates – the highest award given at State – indicating the best of the performers heard at that site that day. Joey Rockman, Don Smith, Kayla Nelson, Chris McCafferty, Robert Rockman and Elizabeth Whalen all received this notable recognition. Wind Ensemble is working hard on their performance for the final concert. They will be performing a Wisconsin premier of a piece they helped commission entitled, “Mythical Monsters” by Roshanne Etezady. The piece will be a musical depiction of legendary monsters of the world. They will also perform “Frozen Cathedral” by John Mackey. We also hope to feature senior Saxophonist, Trevor Wells on part of John Mackey’s Soprano Saxophone concerto. The Wind Ensemble will be working with UW- Madison Wind Ensemble conductor, Scott Teeple and composer John Mackey in preparation for this upcoming concert. The Symphonic Band is working hard to prepare parts of the “Divine Comedy” as interpreted by Robert W. Smith. This piece will feature percussion throughout and paints a great musical picture of Dantes’ Inferno. The Concert Band will perform two works by composer Andrew Boyson, Jr. One of the pieces will be a Wisconsin Premier of a little known work, “Song for my Children”. It is a beautiful piece that will help you recall your earlier days with your own children. The other is a clever piece entitled, “Fantasy on a Theme by Sousa.” The concert will conclude with our seniors performing, “The Water is Wide”
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We would also like to thank our chamber coaches for this year, Cindy Terhune, David Rush, Mark Powell, Matthew Quaglieri and Victoria Rockman for their outstanding work with our students. We are blessed to have such talented teachers and musicians working with our students! THANK YOU! Please Note:
• The final band concert is TUESDAY, MAY 19th AT 8PM – SPHS PAC This concert will be preceded by a recognition dinner in the commons beginning at 6pm.
• Students are to turn in their uniforms on the night of the concert – they should bring a change of clothes for after the concert which may be stored in their respective men’s or women’s dressing rooms – we could use volunteers to help collect the uniforms after the concert – please let Mr. Rush or Mr. Sveum know if you can help out.
Sun Prairie Jazz Ensemble I "Essentially Ellington" competition performance to be broadcast live on the web at www.jalc.org . This will be a multi camera production complete with post-concert interviews. 15 of the nations' finest High School Jazz Ensembles will compete for top honors at this years' finals competition held in Rose Hall at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Columbus Circle in New York. Please look for it at 3pm on Friday, May 8 on a computer near you! Steve Sveum Director, SPHS Bands
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Bernie Powers Band Foundation is Proud to have awarded Four scholarshiP Programs this year
The winners are: Ken Paris Music Scholarship - $500.00 Recipient – to be announced on Senior Awards Night Ceremony at SPHS Jock Bogle Scholarship - $200.00 Recipient - to be announced on Senior Awards Night Ceremony at SPHS Bogosh Jazz Scholarship - $500.00 Recipient – Anton Sederquist Marcia Berman Scholarship - $200.00 each Recipients – Jordan McWilliams, Zoe Shinefield, and Claire Knudten All four scholarships were created to support our terrific music students and their desire to improve. The Foundation is set up to manage these types of programs. If anyone would like to contribute to these scholarships for future years, they can do so at our website www.bpbf.org. Go to the ‘donate online’ page. After choosing your donation amount you can select where to channel your funds in the program section. Congratulations to all of our scholarship winners and thank you to all who support programs that benefit kids.
BPBF President, Ken Paris presented scholarships at the annual SPASD Band-O-Rama on April 13, 2015.From Left to right: Jordan McWilliams, Anton Sederquist, Claire Knudten, Zoe Shinefield.
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FROM Cardinal Heights Band Final Concert – Wednesday May 20th, 7:00 at Cardinal Heights Come join us for our final concert of the year and enjoy some great music by all bands. Students have made tremendous progress this year and it will be a great celebration of all their work. Performance times will be the same as our March Concert: 7:00pm - 8th Grade Bands (6:30pm warm-up) 8:00pm - 9th Grade Band & Wind Symphony (7:30pm warm-up) We are excited to welcome composer, Dr. Kim Archer, as our guest that week. All of the Cardinal Heights concert bands will perform a work composed by Dr. Archer. The Eighth Grade Symphonic Band will perform In the Gathering Dark, the Eighth Grade Concert Band will perform Awakenings, and the Ninth Grade Band will perform In the Hour of Wolves. The Wind Symphony will be premiering a new work by Dr. Archer as part of a composition consortium (several schools join together to commission a new piece of music). The title of the new work is Tides. Things to turn in at Concert:
1. Uniform - on a hanger, please (students should bring change of clothes, so they can turn in the uniform after the concert)
2. Home Practice Instrument
Volunteers Needed:
We could use 8 volunteers to help get uniforms turned in after the concert. Please contact Joe Mesner (318-8137 or [email protected]) if interested.
Summer School Band Classes Cardinal Heights students can take part is Summer Jazz Band or Summer Concert Band. Registration and information about each class is on-line at: http://www.sunprairie.k12.wi.us/district/ss_information.cfm#d385463
Location
Dates
Cardinal Heights Upper Middle School 220 Kroncke Drive
Session 1: June 22 - July 9 (M-TH) Session 2: July 13 - July 30 (M-TH)
Classes meet Monday - Thursday
Jazz Band: Period 1: 8:00 – 9:55 a.m Concert Band: Period 2: 10:05–Noon
For questions regarding registration, please contact Jo Guyette at 834-6579 or [email protected]
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Preparing for Next Year
1. Summer Practice Instruments –if you are interested in renting a school instrument for the summer, please contact Mr. Mesner (318-8137 or [email protected])
2. Summer Camps – there are many great opportunities for students to continue learning, playing, and making music. Please contact us if you are interested and we can recommend some great options.
3. CHUMS Registration Day (August 11 & 12) – as we get ready for next year, students should report to the band
room on registration day to accomplish the following things: a. Get fitted for a Concert Uniform (volunteers needed!) b. Creating a Smartmusic log-in c. Order any needs supplies (reeds, valve oil, slide grease, etc…) d. Check Out School-Owned Instruments
Thank you very much to everyone for another rewarding and great year of music at Cardinal Heights. We are looking forward to welcoming new students and families to Cardinal Heights next year. We wish our 9th grade students well as they move to the high school and we are excited for all of the opportunities they will have there. Most of all we are excited to continue our collaboration with students, parents, teachers, clinicians, and administration in search of the best musical experiences we can provide our students. Thank you very much for all of your efforts to support students here at Cardinal Heights! Joe Menser Ian Melrose
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Prairie View Band Room Banter Encourage your musician to practice every day. Growth happens every time they sit down to play. Ask them to share with you their goals for the day, week and month. Listen to them play often and offer whatever encouragement you can! It means the world to them to have a parent recognize their hard work! Summer school is right around the corner. We have several great offerings in the summer school catalog. Check the district summer school website and take a look at our summer concert band and jazz band. Online registration can be found on the school district website. Registration will be open until June 1st for music classes. We would also encourage you to consider a music camp this summer for your musician! Just keep them playing! We have several performances scheduled and other events in the next month or so. Here is the "short" list! Our final concert is May 12th at Prairie View. Our 6th grade will have their concert at 6:30(warm up at 6:15) and the 7th grade will play at 7:30(warm up at 6:50). We will be rehearsing for the Memorial Day parade on Saturday, May 16th from 9:00-noon at the high school. Students from the Sound of Sun Prairie will be there to march side by side with our 6th and 7th graders that are marching in the parade. We need to know if your child will not be marching in the parade ASAP! Please email one of us with that information. Memorial Day Parade, Monday, May 25th meeting at the CHUM at 9:00. When dropping off your musician, they should exit the car with only their instrument. Please leave cases and other items in the car as we will not be returning to the CHUM afterwards. The parade will go from the CHUM to Main St. to Walker Way. We will let you know where you can pick up your student afterwards. All school owned home instruments will need to be turned in by Thursday, May 28th. If you have experience playing a brass instrument, we are looking for a few volunteers to help clean brass instruments on June 9 and 10 during the day. This involves disassembling and reassembling brass instruments and lubricating all slides and valves prior to reassembly. Please contact Mrs. Sederquist if you can help out at 834-7825. Keep practicing and check that lesson schedule every week! Mrs. Sederquist and Mr. Quaglieri
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Patrick Marsh Band News
May Concert Tuesday, May 12, at 7:00 PM in the High School Performing Arts Center. The concert will feature the world premiere of Mr. John Mackey’s piece, Lightning Field, written for our 7th grade students. Who: 6th and 7th grade bands Where: Sun Prairie High School Performing Arts Center When: Tuesday, May 12 at 7:00 PM 6:40 6th Grade will warm up in the orchestra room. 6:30 7th grade -Band picture and then warm up in the band room. Uniform: Normal band uniform (black band button up, black pants, tall black socks, and black shoes) Instruments: Please bring home instruments to the concert unless you check out one from the school the day of the performance. There will be a video that features all of the students throughout the year at the end of the performance. If a parent can’t make it? LIVE STREAM the concert online at livestream.com! Extra Rehearsals Extra 7th grade rehearsal: in order to be ready for Mr. Mackey we will rehearse on Sunday, May 3
from 6:30-8:00pm. Extra 7th grade rehearsal: rehearsal with Mr. John Mackey on Monday, May 11 in the Patrick Marsh
Band Room. 7th Grade 6:30-8:30pm
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March-a-thon Rehearsal with Sound of Sun Prairie (our High School Marching Band) is on Saturday, May 16 to help prepare our students for our Memorial Day performance. Even if you are not marching in the parade please come. Date: Saturday, May 16 When: 9:00-12:00 Where: High School What to bring: *Instrument and march music-make sure you have your name on your instrument case. *Wear comfortable clothes and tennis shoes (no uniform) *Bring a water bottle. *Tuba players, percussionist and flags will be responsible to bring their own instruments or equipment to and from school. Memorial Day Parade When: Monday, May 25, at 10:00 AM **This is mandatory for 7th grade and optional for 6th grade. Arrive: 9:30 AM Where: Cardinal Heights Upper Middle School What to Bring: Your instrument assembled and out of the case. Leave the case in your parents car. What to Wear: Band Uniform (no shorts) Parade Route: Start at CHUMS, turn left onto Main Street, turn left onto Walker Way by Summit Credit Union and end at the library. Pick up your child at the Public library immediately after the parade. School Instrument Return Day All school instruments and supplies need to be returned to PMMS band room no later than Friday, May 29th. We need to inventory all of the school owned instruments on this day. Instruments will be reissued to current 6th graders by Friday June 5th. Current 7th graders using school instruments should contact Mr. Mesner or Mr. Melrose about getting an CHUMS school instrument.
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Elementary Tour/Band O Rama Concert Thank you, volunteers, for helping with the day by setting up, moving equipment and helping us monitor the students. What a great way to share music with the Elementary schools.
WSMA Middle Level State honors auditions Thank you to all who helped with this event on Friday, April 17th. We had 25 students audition and the results will be mailed to students at the end of May. State Solo/Ensemble UW Whitewater Congratulations to Anastasia Rockman for participating at the State Solo/Ensemble event on her class A flute solo. She received a one rating. Kalahari Band Festival Thank you to all who helped with their time and donations for this event.
Summer Band Opportunities Summer School Jazz Sessions 1 and 2 (June 22-July 30) from 8:00-9:55 $8.00 fee Summer School Concert Band Sessions 1 and 2 ( June 22-July 30) from 10:05-noon $8.00 fee 7th Grade Jump Start Monday, Aug. 17, Tuesday, Aug. 18 & Thursday, Aug. 20 1-2:30 *free Summer School Registration is at http://www.sunprairie.k12.wi.us/ss_information.cfm Summer Band Camp - UW Whitewater July 19-24 $485 for resident camper, $435 from commuting camper 262-472-3165 http//camps.uww.edu/conteduc/camps/band/middleschool.php Mr. Gleason & Mrs. Haraldson
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Sound of Sun Prairie News! - May 2015 There’s been a lot of “newness” & excitement this year in SOSP (new staff, new fitness routines, new uniforms, over 30 new members!!). We are beginning to catch our stride - new members working to understand more of the craziness of why people do this, veterans understanding their role and how important their example is, and simply everyone getting to know each other better. If you haven’t been to observe rehearsal - come on by and check out the end of rehearsals. Preparing for Summer One of the most important aspects for students to have a successful summer is personal health. We have been encouraging proper hydration, sun protection (sunscreen & hats), and making healthy food and drink choices (water, water, water, water!!) Check Off Responsibilities As we get closer to the summer, individual student goals become more pressing. We suggest they find practice buddies (and meet some new folks!) to work on this task, physical conditioning, or anything else SOSP related. If students get behind on their responsibilities, we may ask them to come early or stay during lunch to get caught up. Staff members associated with each section will make these arrangements with students. SOSP Fitness Video – online Much thanks to Kevyn Feiner from the Prairie Athletic Club who has graciously donated his time and expertise to work with Cindy on implementing a new fitness and stretching curriculum for SOSP. Instruction for accessing the video:
1. Go go: http://www.prairieathletic.com/ 2. Click on “PAC Programs & Information” 3. Select Elite Sports Performance - choose espasportsathletes.com 4. Videos - Sound of Sun Prairie - "click here to continue"
a. password: lovethatsound (no spaces) SOSP Volunteers SOSP would not exist without the great support from parents. Many committees are in full swing (Uniform Committee, Sewing Committee) and some are just about to get going (Chuckwagon, Equipment, Chaperones, etc…). If you would like more info about volunteering for SOSP – please check out the Volunteer Connections Page: http://www.spbb.org/sosp-volunteers.html
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Parent Volunteer – Background Checks Thank you to the numerous parents who volunteer their time to make SOSP great. Sun Prairie Area School District requires that all volunteers have a current background check on file. Information can be found at: http://www.sunprairie.k12.wi.us/do_volunteer.cfm Payments Please make sure all payments are written to SPBB in envelope with:
1. Student Name 2. Purpose of payment (ex. Tuition #2, Shoes & Gloves, Tution #2 + Shoes, etc…)
Band Booster Meeting – Sunday May 24, 3pm in HS Music Area This Booster meeting is typically our Marching Band Summer Kick-Off meeting. We will go over lots of important information including:
- Updated Schedule for the Summer - Volunteer needs for Summer, Bring your CALENDARS! - How you can help as a parent during busy the summer schedule
Upcoming Dates (can also be found in commitment forms & online, spbb.org) May 9 & 10: Camp Weekend until 3pm Sunday (also Jazz I in NYC!!) May 16: 8 - 12 (Rehearsal w/ Middle Schoolers & HS Prom) May 23 & 24: Camp Weekend until 5pm Sunday May 24 - SPBB & SOSP Meeting, 3pm!! May 25: Memorial Day Parade May 30: 9 -9 June 6: 9 -9 June 14: Summer Begins, 5-9pm Rehearsal!! June 15: First day of “Everydays”, 9 - 9 SOSP email List If you haven’t already, you may also want to sign yourself up for the SOSP email list to receive future SOSP information: https://mail.spbb.org/mailman/listinfo/sosp LOVE THAT SOUND! Ian Melrose – Director [email protected] 318-8134
May 2015
Student Ledger Policy!
Policies on how SPBB Student Account Ledgers are used: - Accounts are to be used within 1 SPBB Fiscal year (October 1 - September 30) - All Student Ledger funds not used within fiscal year, are transferred to SPBB General Fund on October 1 of following fiscal year Use of Student Ledger Funds
• Costs listed are estimates • Meals may not be included
1. Band field trips/clinics a. HS Wind Ensemble Spring-?? b. HS Symphonic Band Spring-$100 c. HS Concert Band-$TBD d. CHUM Wind Symphony/9th Grade-$90 e. CHUM 8th Grade-Kalahari-$40
2. HS Jazz Groups Festivals/Clinics a. Generally $30-$40 per day plus meals b. $100 overnight plus meals c. New York- fundraising and TBD
3. Other trips TBD 4. Sound of Sun Prairie
a. Fee of $700-$800 b. Uniform Parts and Accessories c. Shoes, Gloves d. Extra parade shirts beyond the one included with their fees e. Other uniform parts as determined by the director
5. Summer music camps a. Providing proof of registration b. Submit the bill to the Band Booster’s secretary for payment
directly to the camp c. If you do not attend the camp, you will need to reimburse the
Boosters the cost of the camp 6. Honors Ensemble tuition, if excepted. This includes WI State Honors
Ensembles, WYSO, Winds of Wisconsin a. Providing proof of registration b. Submit the bill to the Band Booster’s secretary for payment
directly to the camp c. If you do not attend the camp, you will need to reimburse the
Boosters the cost of the camp 7. Private Lessons (Pilot program for 2014-2015)
a. Lesson teachers must be approved by SPASD Band Director b. Maximum of $500 use per fiscal year (October 1-September 30) c. 2 weeks before payment is needed, send email request to SPBB
Vice President ([email protected]) and they will send you a form
d. Check will be made out to the private lesson teacher and can be picked up from CHUMS band director, Ian Melrose ([email protected])
May 2015
Band Director Contact Information
Sun Prairie High School Steve Sveum Dave Rush 834-6780 834-6781 [email protected] [email protected] Cardinal Heights Upper Middle School Joe Mesner Ian Melrose 318-8137 318-8134 [email protected] [email protected] Patrick Marsh Middle School Chris Gleason Sharon Haraldson 834-7625 834-7627 [email protected] [email protected] Prairie View Middle School Ann Sederquist Matt Quaglieri 834-7825 834-7839 [email protected] [email protected] SPBB Executive Committee 2014-2015 President Kris Tazelaar 577-0829 [email protected] Vice President Steve DeWitt [email protected] Treasurer Cindy Bortmess 834-2496 [email protected] Secretary Tracie Ruether 287-6618 [email protected] SPHS Band Director Steve Sveum 834-6780 [email protected] CHUMS Band Director Ian Melrose 318-8139 [email protected]
May 2015
SPBB's General Committee Information 2014-2015 GENERAL and/or BAND SPECIFIC SUPPORT Jazz Tim and Julie Keal [email protected] Newsletter Tracie Ruether 287-6618 [email protected] Publicity OPEN [email protected] Varsity Awards Tammy Weiss [email protected] FUNDRAISING SUPPORT Concert Host John Clawson [email protected] Concessions Paul Kruger & Lori Bunch [email protected] Culver’s Share Night OPEN Entertainment & Bucky Bks Steve DeWitt 220-2521 [email protected] Fruit Sale Ann & Bill Nelson 825-6771 [email protected]
________________________________________________________ The Booster Beat is published monthly during the school year, except for the month of December. This newsletter will be delivered electronically. If you prefer to receive this newsletter via US Mail, please send an email to the editor at [email protected]. In your email, please list your name, your child’s name, and which band they are in. If email is not an option, please contact your child’s band director.
