Festival Results and Recordings!

After a fun, music-filled week of hosting, performing, and volunteering at festival, the results are in! 

Junior Band - GOLD

Massed Band - SILVER

Senior Band - GOLD

Flute Choir - SILVER

Clarinet Choir - SILVER

Sax Ensemble - SILVER

Brass Choir - SILVER

Percussion Ensemble - SILVER

Jazz Band - BRONZE

Congratulations on outstanding performances!  You should all be very proud of how you played and performed - we were both very pleased and proud of all of you!!! :)

Below you will find the recordings for each of our ensembles.

All of the pieces are part of one long track, so you will have to fast forward through the breaks - 

Junior Band

Massed Band

Senior Band

Flute Choir

Clarinet Choir

Sax Ensemble

Brass Choir

Percussion Ensemble

Jazz Band

Instrument Scavenger Hunt - Music Assignment, Monday April 4

Internet Scavenger Hunt: Get to know your instrument!

Working individually or in pairs, answer these questions and share with Ms. Hunter through Google Drive.  Please note, if working in pairs, both students should be working on their own computers and co-editing the document.

                                                         

1. Find the 5 W’s of your instrument (What instrument, Who invented it , Where, When, Why)
2. Find an interesting fact about your instrument
3. What role does your instrument have in an ensemble?  Can it play different styles of Music? (Jazz, Rock,  Concert band, orchestra….)
4. Find a famous person who is not a musician that plays your instrument
5. Find a person who specializes in (i.e. is considered a master) the instrument you play
6. Find a popular song that has your instrument in it.
7. Has your instrument evolved from when it was first invented to now?
8. Find the most expensive version of your instrument
9. Find the funniest joke about your instrument!  (eg.  What's the difference between and Oboe and an Onion?  Nobody cries when you cut up an oboe!)
10. Find a video of someone playing flight of the bumble bee on your instrument.  Include the link.