Monday, October 28, 2013

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

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

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.


Tuesday, October 15, 2013

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


Friday, October 11, 2013

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!