S/E Help Times, Escapade NW&P WW Sectional

TIME	FRIDAY	MONDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY
	Dec 27	Dec 30	Jan 2	Jan 3
8:30	King 1	.....................	.....................	.....................
8:45	King 2	.....................	.....................	Dooley/Diller
9:00	.....................	.....................	.....................	Senkmajer
9:15	Dewey	.....................	Repp	King
9:30	NW&P WW	NW&P WW	NW&P WW	NW&P WW
9:45	NW&P WW	NW&P WW	NW&P WW	NW&P WW
10:00	NW&P WW	NW&P WW	NW&P WW	NW&P WW
10:15	NW&P WW	NW&P WW	NW&P WW	NW&P WW
10:30	NW&P WW	NW&P WW	NW&P WW	NW&P WW
10:45	NW&P WW	NW&P WW	NW&P WW	NW&P WW
11:00	NW&P WW	NW&P WW	NW&P WW	NW&P WW
11:15	.....................	.....................	Johnson.Kern	.....................
11:30	Harmer	Perry	.Flute Quart..	Harmer
11:45	.....................	Dobel	.....................	Dobel
12:00	.....................	Fr WW Quint	.....................	Muzz/Wilt.
12:15	.....................	.....................	.....................	Muzzarelli

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I am hoping that Wind Ensemble Clarinets, Oboes, Flutes and Alto and Tenor Saxophones might be available on Friday for 90 minutes of concentrated Escapade sectional time from 9:30 - 11 AM.  Let's do this thing!

Plan on WW Escapade sectional times Next Monday, Thursday and Friday, as well.  Try to attend at least two, please!

Thu/Fri Help TImes, NW&P Woodwind sectional

Thursday
9:00 AM
9:15 AM
9:30 AM Kit Harmer
9:45 AM LS******
10:00 AM
10:15 AM
10:30 AM
10:45 AM Dobel/Matthews
11:00 AM Micaela Muzzarelli

Friday
8:30 AM
8:45 AM
9:00 AM
9:15 AM
9:30 AM NW&P Woodwind Sectional
9:45 AM NW&P Woodwind Sectional
10:00 AM NW&P Woodwind Sectional
10:15 AM NW&P Woodwind Sectional
10:30 AM NW&P Woodwind Sectional
10:45 AM NW&P Woodwind Sectional
11:00 AM
11:15 AM
11:30 AM
11:45 AM

FB message me to claim a time!

I am hoping that Wind Ensemble Clarinets, Oboes, Flutes and Alto and Tenor Saxophones might be available on Friday for 90 minutes of concentrated Escapade sectional time from 9:30 - 11 AM.  Let's do this thing.

Plan on WW Escapade sectional times Next Monday, Thursday and Friday, as well.  Try to attend at least two, please!

S/E Help times for Monday

9:00 AM Repp
9:15 AM Repp
9:30 AM
9:45 AM
10:00 AM Osgood
10:15 AM
10:30 AM
10:45 AM

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I will be available on Thursday for S/E from 9 AM - 11:30 AM (don't claim times for Thursday yet).

I will be available for S/E on Friday from 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM and from 11 AM to 12 Noon (don't claim times for Friday yet).

I am hoping that Wind Ensemble Clarinets, Oboes, Flutes and Alto and Tenor Saxophones might be available on Friday for 90 minutes of concentrated Escapade sectional time from 9:30 - 11 AM.  Let's do this thing.

Plan on WW Escapade sectional times Next Monday, Thursday and Friday, as well.  Try to attend at least two, please!

No Pep Band.

One Call Now / Concert Info

TWiB from today https://www.dropbox.com/s/km7h006qlr0cb3m/TWIB-20131209.pdf

One Call Now from December 9, 2013

Students don’t forget to go to the band website and take the survey.  Completing it counts as a grade for class.

Tomorrow is the class-swap rehearsals for Concert Band and Symphonic band

Information for tomorrow’s concert was handed out again in class today.

Tickets for Thursday’s Marching Band Banquet will be available up through the end of the concert tomorrow night.  We will not be selling tickets at the door on the night of the band banquet.

Marching Band Banquet is Thursday night.  We hope to see your student and your family there to wrap up another great season for the Northern Husky Marching Band.

The text from this message can be found at PHNBands.org 

One Call Now December 7, 2013

A few quick announcements:

It is a beautiful day for a parade.  All of the information you need for the Sarnia Parade was handed out to the students twice this week and is available on the front page of PHNBands.org.

All band students need to take the online survey.  Links are available at PHNBands.org, in the Twitter feed, and on many of the FaceBook pages

The concert is Tuesday night.  Guys should have taken home their tuxes by now.  If you do not already own one, get the 40% off online coupon for hobby lobby and you can get a tux shirt and bow tie for about $15.  Ladies: all black.  Poinsettias can be picked up after the concert.

Marching Band banquet is Thursday night.  It will again be catered by Chef Shell’s.  Tickets are available in the band room and will be available up through the night of the band concert.  In order to make sure we don’t over purchase or underpurchase food again, banquet tickets will not be available at the door.  Many students have been asking for nicer clothing at their banquets.  

Please remember to try to do business with those business that support our bands.  Please also consider signing up for Kroger or Meijer rewards.  More information on both of these topics will be available in the Concert program.

Have a great weekend and we look forward to great parade in the last marching band performance of 2013.

Fall Band Survey 2013

Fall PHN Band Survey.  Please complete by Monday Night:
http://tinyurl.com/PHN-fall2013update

Sarnia Parade

Saturday, December 7 MB-Sarnia Parade
4:00 PM   Band Room Open - eat a big snack/meal before you arrive
        Get on Busses
5:00 PM   Meet in Sarnia
6:00 PM   Parade
8:15 PM   Pickup PHN

Full uniform.  You may wear a red and white Santa hat.
PLEASE wear a scarf.  You MUST have something that covers your ears!
You may wear black headband or *sport* earmuffs under your hat. 
For *this* performance, you may wear a face-covering.
Dress in layers; Tuck any under-layers into your socks  Get hand-warmers. You may not wear gloves that interfere with playing (and no mittens).  Please decorate your instruments and yourselves with lights and garland.  

You must have one of the following: a birth certificate, a passport, a Nexxus card, or an enhanced license

Bring a change of clothes, leave uniform behind.  Bring Hanger and hat box!
Turn in marching marching uniforms by Friday, December 13 - Hat box and hanger

After Dec 13 and you are responsible for getting it dry cleaned at Troy

Travel Permit

This week's TWIB

One Call Now November 29, 2013

Greetings.  Our community really looks forward to seeing our great students perform and it’s a beautiful day for a parade. 

The schedule for the day and the content of this message are online at phnbands.org

Please dress in layers for the parade.  Guidelines for uniform and decorations are online.  

School will open at 4:30 and school will be closed at 4:45.

The Band Booster meeting is Tuesday, December 3.

The Sarnia parade is Saturday December 7.  Guidelines for getting across the border and performing are pretty straightforward.  Those guidelines have been made available to students in class and will be available online.

The Band Concert is December 10.  The guys should have brought home their tuxedos Monday and Tuesday this past week week.

The band banquet is December 12.  Tickets for the meal will only be available for purchase in advance. 

We’re looking forward to some great performances over the next few weeks.

Thank you.

phnbands.org

Santa Parade Schedule

Santa Parade

4:30 PM    Band Room Open 

4:45 PM    Band Room Closes 

5:00 PM    Meet behind SEMCO down by YMCA

6:00 PM    Parade 

6:45 PM    Pickup at McMorran North Lot 

Full uniform.  

You may wear a Red and white Santa hat. 

You may wear a colorful scarf.

You may wear black headband or black earmuffs

Dress in layers

Tuck any under-layers into your socks

Get hand-warmers.  You may not wear gloves that interfere with playing

You may decorate your instruments and yourselves with lights and garland

Macy's Saturday

11:00 AM Band Room opens

11:15 AM Band Room closes

11:30 AM Meet inside mall in front of Macy's

12:00 PM Start

12:30 PM End

Full uniform, no hats.

Bring lyres

New One Call Now, November 11, 2013

Lots on deck this week.

Concert band had playing tests today

Wind Ensemble paying test tomorrow in Gb concert

Symphonic band has a playing test on Wednesday

There is a Band booster meeting on Tuesday at 7 PM

Wind Ensemble is selling butter braids.  Please turn in the order forms and money no later than Wednesday.

Wednesday night is another SC4Band rehearsal from 6:30 - 8:45.  Parents and students please consider joining us in the last 4 rehearsal before the SC4 holiday concert.

Thursday is a short Marching Band parade rehearsal after school.  Please dress appropriately.

On Saturday, Macy’s is looking for a small uniformed band to march and parade to welcome Santa to the mall.  Signup is in the band room.

The content of this message can be found on the front page of phnbands.org

One Call Now November 6, 2013

Conferences: I will not be available Wednesday night, but I have cleared extra time both around the normal conference times tomorrow, Thursday afternoon and evening.

Please go eat at the North End Mama Vicki’s Coney Island for dinner tonight!  A portion of each bill will be donated to the PHN Bands.  Thank you Mama Vicki’s

Marching Band rehearsal tomorrow will run from 11:15 - 12:15.  Please be dressed appropriately.

Information for auditions to Winter Drum Line and Winter Guard has been made available in the band room.  These auxiliary units are a complete reaudition from the fall units.

Both students and adults should consider participating in the SC4 Community band on Wednesday nights from 6:30 - 8:30 in the Fine Arts building.  Even if it has been awhile, we’d love to see you there!

Thank You!  Eat at Mama Vicki’s tonight!

Band-o-grams

Please be at school at 12 Noon!  Really!

Full-uniform performance

Eat before you arrive.  

You can bring a few $$ just in case your transport makes a quick in-and-out stop someplace.

We will have a snack for you later in the afternoon.

Band-o-gram playlist
Eat ‘em up :15 :15
Roll off :05 :20
University Fight Song 1:00 1:20
Let’s Go Blue or :15 1:35
Go Green, Go White, Go State
YMCA 1:30 3:05
Hockey Cheer (Let’s go state/wolves) :30 3:35
Thriller (no ADDED percussion) 1:45 5:20
Hey Ya 1:10 6:30
Jaws 1:00 7:30
University fight song 1:00 8:35
Roll off :05 8:40
Final Countdown :35 8:15
PHN Fight Song 2X 1:30 9:45

Have I’m a Believer, Hey Baby and Halftime Music ready

Play Order

PHN Concert Band

Shenanigans     Robert Sheldon

Midnight Escape  Larry Neeck

Pandora   Randall Standridge

Flight of the Vampire   John Prescott

PHN Symphonic Band

Ghost Riders    Roland Barrett

Themes from Halo Suite      O’Donnell/Salvatore, arr.: R. Sheldon 

Music for a Darkened Theater   D. Elfman, arr.: M. Brown

Northern Winds and Percussion

Night on Fire    John Mackey

Pachyderm Polka   Gary Sullivan

Fantasia 2000    arr.: Jay Bocook

Strike floor, chairs on left as you face band, stands on right

PHN Drum Line

PHN Marching Band

Pregame Sequence

Halftime “Sir Elton John”

Funeral for a Friend

Love Lies Bleeding

Your Song

Saturday Night’s Alright

Introduce seniors

Everybody’s Everything

Fight song

Dismiss

Most of the TWIBs so far this year

Concert Flow Update October 28

Musical Notes Update

October 18

October 14

October 6

September 30

Sept 23

Sept 12

Sept 9

Sept 3

One Call Now! October 16

5 items:
There is an International Symphony Orchestra performance on Friday night, October 18 at Port Huron Northern.  Free student tickets are available in the band room.

Would you like a pep band for your tailgate party for the Big Game on November 2?  Information is available from a band student and also on the band web site.

There is a band concert coming up.  Make sure your student understands the concert uniform expectations.  This information is available on TWiBs that have been handed out repeatedly in class.  The TWiB archive can be found online at PHNBands.org.

Thursday will be the last day for students to include their marching band picture order with the group order.

Thursday is a Marching Band rehearsal from 2:40 - 4:15 PM. Some sections will stay later.

The text of this message can be found at PHNBands.org.

Band-o-grams!

Northern Band plays for you!

Flyer.

Missing Assignments?

Parent Signature
Handed out in class and available in hard copy for the first  weeks and available online since then, this was a packet containing the year's calendar.  Students signed one, then the parent was supposed to sign and return.  Download calendar.

Writing 1
Done during class, this was a short writing assignment that asked students to choose three writing prompts and write a few sentences on each.  Download Writing 1
Writing 2
Done during class, this was a short writing assignment that asked students to listen to somebody play something, ANYTHING and write in a manner that offered constructive, helpful feedback.  Download Writing 2
Pretest
This was a music theory pretest worked on during class on two separate days.  This can not be downloaded.  Studnet will have to schedule an appointment to come in during lunch to complete.

PHNB, PHNBB
These assignments were announced several times in class and made available on several of the TWIB handouts and also included in the newsletter that was mailed home in late September.  Print front page of band web site and booster web site. Print front page, 1-of-1 (first page is very long).
Student print name on it, parent signature
Don’t worry if not all images print, Show that you GOT there


Twitter
This assignment was announced several times in class and made available on several of the TWIB handouts and also included in the newsletter that was mailed home in late September.  All - extra credit to go to Twitter.com and print first page of @phnbands Twitter feed!


FC - Fingering Chart
This assignment was announced several times in class and made available on several of the TWIB handouts and also included in the newsletter that was mailed home in late September.  Acquire fingering chart from ANY source, turn in September 27 Must cover advanced range

Flutes extra credit: trill charts Percussion - print copies of ALL PAS  (2 pages)
Can be downloaded from PAS.org

Driven to Give + Pep Bands

PLEASE come help the band by test driving a Lincoln at Northgate Ford tomorrow!

One driver, 21 and over, from each household can qualify.

We will be there from 9 AM  - 4 PM.

Pep band students!
THANK YOU for helping us out on this!
Uniform: Jeans and Band polo
Times: 9 AM, 11:30 AM, 2 PM
Each pep band will run approximately 1 hour
The band room will be open at 30 minutes prior to the beginning of each pep band.

Let's make some noise!  Bring a friend!  Play several!

Order MB Festival DVDs

http://www.elysiumexp.com/msboa16

One Call Now October 9, 2013

This is a message from the Port Huron Northern Bands

Please don’t forget to come test drive a Ford this saturday at Northgate Ford between 9 AM and 4 PM.  Each drive will earn $20 for the bands.  Please invite your friends, neighbors, and relatives.

We also need three pep bands that day.  Please have your student sign up for a 1 hour shift in the band room.

Wind Ensemble, please wear black tomorrow

Congratulations to the Northern Marching Band for again earning a first division at festival.

Marching band rehearsals will be shortened by about 45 minutes for the rest of the season.  Some sections will still have sectionals.

Festival picture order forms were made available in the band room.  The first round of forms will be mailed out next Wednesday.

Senior Band night is at the October 25 game.  

We have a concert at the end of the month.  Uniform guidelines will be handed out to students in an upcoming TWIB.

This information can be found online at phnbands.org

Northern Band Students Shine On...

3.5 Assembly today:

PHN Band students:
20% of the school population
35% of the 3.5 assembly.  

WOOOT!

Congrats again!

MB Evening Schedule Tuesday, October 8

School	Director(s)	Size	Class
6:30 Marysville HS Freshmen	Dennis Duso	45	D
6:45 Memphis HS	Joshua Eash	68	C
7:00 Algonac HS	Robert Gras	105	C
7:15 Richmond HS	Molly Schack	45	B
7:30 St. Clair HS	Micah Volz	90	B
7:45 Marine City HS	David Uhrig	91	B
8:00 Marysville HS	Dennis Duso	135	B
8:15 Port Huron HS	Scott Jones	147	A
8:45 Port Huron Northern HS	Erick Senkmajer	200	A

One Call Now October 6, 2013

One Call now

Good evening folks.  Here are a couple of quick announcements

MB Rehearsal Monday

MB Festival Tuesday, a very few tickets are still available.  If you buy them through us, *PHN Bands* gets the money.

Band/Senior Night October 25

All Bands Concert October 29

Please, don’t forget to send 1 Adult over 21 per household to Northgate Ford this coming Saturday for Driven to give.  Please also try to send one additional neighbor or relative over 21.  

This information will be available on a TWIB and also on the website PHNBands.org

Thank you!

18 hours away from home, great (long) performance, 3 hour drive each direction (returned within 4 minutes of time posted on permission slip!), 25 minutes from hitting the parking lot to emptying and cleaning busses to putting stuff in school to shutting off lights and re-setting alarms on school , ONLY because so many kids and parents put aside their personal desire to hit a nice comfy bed for a few more minutes to get off the buses or get out of cars and help us.  THANK YOU SO MUCH!  What a blessing to have that many people so willing to pitch in and help!

Cedar Point home about 1:30

October PHN Students of the Month (S.O.M)

Congratulations to the following PHN Band students for being named as PHN Students of the Month!

           For Activities

9^th   Grade     Andy Dubay

11^th Grade     Dan Israel

12^th Grade     Heather Krauss

            For Athletics

12^th Grade     Amy Tseng

Game Day!

Please have your student at the field no later than 5:25 unless their section has called for an earlier time.

The PHN band will perform at 6:25 PM.  Don't be late to watch!

Musical Notes, September 20, 2013

This is a VERY large file.  Be patient.

Musical Notes, September 20, 2013

TWIB! WOOO! Sept 12, 2013

Replacement twib with corrected date!


https://www.dropbox.com/s/2d7xpovla30p499/TWIB-20130912.pdf

Text of Phone Call On Tuesday

This is a message from the Port Huron Northern Bands

We will start marching band rehearsal inside, then move outside after the sun gets a little lower.  Please bring water.  Also bring your chips.

There is a band booster meeting at 7 PM tonight.

Pizza kit pickup is this afternoon and tonight.  Kits that are not picked up will be given away because we do not have access to storage.

Your student received an updated calendar on Monday.  A link to it can be found online at PHNBands.org.

There is a football game this Friday and the itinerary is on that handout from Monday.

Your student will receive a permission slip/order form for Cedar Point/Halloweekends.  Please read it carefully and have it returned by the end of next week.

The text of this message can be found online at PHNBands.org.

New TWIB!

Need help unloading Pizza kits after school!

Also, new TWIB!

GAME DAY!

Who: Marching Band at home games
When: Usually Fridays, though an occasional Thursday or Saturday 

Where: Memorial Stadium

During school, Tubas, Drum Majors, Percussion and a few other large

        instruments load their own equipment onto the truck

5:00 Drop off student at Stadium
Percussion and color guard drop off earlier for sectionals
5:15 Student are at practice field, ready to play, ready to go Practice/rehearsal
6:45 Pregame performance
Cheer football team, play in stands in prearranged seating
7:50 Halftime performance
Cheer football team, play in stands
~9:15 Game concludes, load equipment truck, pick up student

Uniform:

Marching shoes, Hat, Plume
Gloves - bring back pair for each game
Do not wear anything under the uniform that “shows”
Hair must be pulled back or up - Hair must be invisible

No visible hair ties/barrettes

Hair nets may be required (applies to both males and females) Hat must be able to be removed and replaced
No obvious earrings or makeup (visible at 10 feet), no watches
Plain black dress socks that are at least calf-length

Reminders:

Students are to leave instrument cases by equipment truck Students are expected to sit in the band block
Please do not bring food or non-water drinks to your student Students are to stay until the end of the game (9:15ish) Students are to be ready to play at all times

Students are to bring gloves back for next performance

Students that do not meet uniform guidelines will perform from sidelines

Students are expected to reload their own equipment onto truck

By middle of September, most music is memorized

Marching Uniforms will be ready for pick up at the end of Thursdays Practice. student will need to have their Uniform Sheet turned in to pick up their uniform.

Casey’s?

Bring money for food, drink, and tip (total $8-$10)

Uniform for this performance: Full band uniform