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December 17 Tri-M Inductions « Result #1 Yesterday at 12:04pm »
Congratulations to all the students inducted into Tri-M during ceremonies held at the Arundel Instrumental Music Concert Thursday night. I do not have the names to post to the forum and will hope that someone will post as soon as possible.
Tri-M photos taken with Ms. Clark will be edited and posted to the AIMA Photobucket by Sunday evening.
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AIMA Meeting Minutes - November 10, 2009 « Result #2 on Dec 16, 2009, 8:53am »
Arundel Instrumental Music Association Minutes for November 10, 2009
Attendance: Andy Musliner (president), Jim Protin (vice-president), Mark Greco (treasurer), Kathy Mackey (secretary), Joe Fleming & Randy Buckley (co-publicists)
1) Convene A quorum was present (17 members). The President called the meeting to order at 7:07 pm in the band room.
2) Mr. Butts’ Report - given by Lauren Fleming - All county orchestra and band doing well. - We will have a Pep band on Friday during the playoff game. They need volunteers. Parents are invited to play. They will not use the marching uniforms. Wear something with Arundel on it if you have it or all the same color. The pep band will play at each playoff home game, as long as we are winning. We could possibly go to state and play at Ravens stadium. There we would wear the marching uniforms. Upcoming events – All-County concert at South River– Dec 12th Chorus concert – Dec 16th Winter concert – Dec 17th
3) President’s Report Things are going well except for the weather – TOB, Pitt crew, band events, uniforms, and new fundraisers. We need to improve on – communications, more volunteers and more money. We had a board meeting last week and discussed the following – need more volunteers, maybe we need to start calling people.
4) Guard Report Indoor guard has started. A-team practices on Tuesdays, B-team on Thursdays and both on Saturdays. Missy would like to get permission to reallocate some of the marching guard budgeted money that she did not use to indoor guard. Vote was asked for and passed. Mark told her that ‘marching’ and ‘indoor’ guard budgets are not separated in his budget. So it was no problem.
5) Outreach Report A meeting was scheduled for Saturday but looks like it will have a poor attendance. Denise will reschedule and send out an email.
6) Fundraising Report Citrus orders need to be handed in by Nov 18 and online orders finished up NLT Nov 20th. We have 73 sales already. We will need volunteers to help out at the craft fairs to sell poinsettias, wreaths and citrus. Susan expects chorus to provide half the volunteers. 50% of the proceeds will go to the workers and 50% will go to AIMA. We need parents on standby to deliver extra plants to the craft fairs. We cannot leave them in the cars because they might freeze and there is not that much room to store them at each craft fair. We will sell wreaths at the fairs as post-sale items only. We were not able to do pre-order sales because AVID was selling wreaths. The wreaths do not have any decorations on them. So we might possible buy or make bows to put on them. We will also sell baskets of citrus at the craft fairs. They are not whole cases, only what the basket holds. We hope to have 5 to 10 baskets at each location to sell. This is good for people who do not want to sell door-to-door. The truck should arrive sometime around the weekend of Nov. 5th. We will need parents and students to help count, move and sort all these orders. Behnkes is doing rolling deliveries with the flower and wreaths. This benefits the guard and chorus only as it is their fundraiser. Susan needs to get into the PO Box on the 21st to get the last minute orders and checks. Maybe Mark or one of the other board members could open it up for her. We have 2 concession stand fundraisers. One is on Saturday the 14th from 3pm to 9:30pm. We need 10 people to help out. So far we have 5 parents and 1 student. Volunteers will have to stay to clean up. The other concession stand fundraiser is on Nov 22 from 8am to 9:30pm. We will be working this with the Middle school along with their director. It was brought up that the chorus is confused about Spring Trip, what it is and why they are raising funds for this. We need to hand out a flyer to explain some of the basic things about Spring Trip. The orchestra also seems to be confused. Maybe Linda could go talk to them. An idea came up to have some kind of social event to help break the ice with some of the parents. This might also help to get information to them about what is happening in the music program. We need someone to chair the bake sale table at the Winter Concert. Leftovers from the Craft Fair will be sold along with new items. Someone needs to look into whether or not we really can sell baked goods or have to use baked goods only from a store or restaurant. Joe Corbi’s order forms will go out sometime before the Winter Break. There is a 40% profit margin on this. If we push it, we can do better then in the past. Cookie Sales and car washes are other options we have talked about doing later. We just need people to volunteer and help out. Linda is canceling this weekend’s event of a small band playing in front of Giant. They were going to put out the donation buckets. They couldn’t get anyone to do play. Denise has a spreadsheet of all the people that signed up to help volunteer at the beginning of the year.
7) Craft Fair Report – Kelly Dean Kelly wants to take over the Craft fair. She plans to go to the county board of education about possibly getting a temporary food license. She hopes that this will work for having a certified person in the kitchen and not having to pay for someone. She will also talk to Ms. Stratton and Ms. Hoyles about our chances in using the kitchen. If not then we will set up in the hallway. We will need 2 tables for food, tables to eat on, tables for flowers, citrus, ornaments and buttons. Randy says he could possibly play Santa at the craft fair. We could take pictures with Santa and put them on buttons. Each table cost $30. We need to bring our own tables. Shifts can be from 7:30 to 10, 10-4 and 4-close (or cleanup). We could use some kids as food servers. They could take food orders from vendors and bring them their food. Many cannot leave their stand. They really liked this last year. Not sure about baked goods. Kelly will check on this with Ms. Stratton and Ms. Hoyles. Afterwards the leftovers are taken back to the store, stored in the closet until we need it again or sold at the Winter Concert. The craft fair this year has doubled in size. This gives us an opportunity to make more money. Last year we made $700.
7) Treasurer’s Report Mark read off ‘What is AIMA?’ and the purpose of participation fees. He said we gave them the chance to pay off their fees with Baysox. At the TOB we made $3,960. At Baysox we made $14,200. We have only collected $15,400 in participation fees and still need to collect $27,800 more. The final payment for participation fees is due on Nov 15th. We need people to pay off their participation fees. We still need $16,500 after participation fees have been collected to fund this program. Most of the money goes out after January. If we have a shortfall of money then we will have to start cutting back on expenses, activities, transportation, etc. Bus and truck transportation costs are up this year along with other things. Linda Fleming suggested that maybe if she got up in front of the students, as many times as she needed, to get them to understand the costs and what we are doing. We all have to work together to raise money for the fees and AIMA. We need to raise money for the AIMA community and participation fees because it benefits us all.
8) Closure A motion was made, seconded and carried to adjourn about 9:20 pm.
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AIMA Meeting Minutes - October 13, 2009 « Result #3 on Dec 16, 2009, 8:51am »
Arundel Instrumental Music Association Minutes for October 13, 2009
Attendance: Andy Musliner (president), Jim Protin (vice-president), Mark Greco (treasurer), Kathy Mackey (secretary), Joe Fleming & Randy Buckley (co-publicists)
1) Convene A quorum was present (22 members). The President called the meeting to order at 7:05 pm in the band room.
2) Mr. Butts’ Report Dr. Butts introduced the new Music Department Liaison to everyone – Ms. Magee. The Halloween Parade is Saturday, October 31 in Crofton. The kids will be bused to Crofton Woods Elementary School. They will step off at 10 am arrive at Crofton Elementary around 11am and should be back to the school by 12 noon. Saturday’s TOB went well. Carl was in charge. He has 10+ years of experience. Some of the parents said they would have liked the kids to see some of the other bands. Dr. Butts says that sometimes the program does not allow it for this. He tries to let them when he can. Tractor died right at the gate. So they had to borrow one from Northern. It will not be fixed by the next TOB. So we will use the Buckley’s golf cart. We have a wonderful staff working with the marching program this year. Carl Hautman has been a music teacher in Calvert County for many years and Dave Wright worked with our program last year. Both have kids in the program. The band ladies cooked lunch for the kids. – Carol Johnson, Jean Little, and crew. This was great. Thank You! Some marching bands are just football bands. They play only at the football team’s home games. Other marching bands do that and go to competitions (TOBs). That is what we do. That is why Dr. Butts works them so hard. He expects a certain degree of excellence. We had a great TOB even though it rained and everyone got wet. Thanks to everyone for all you do in working with the music program to make it such a success. Glen Burnie’s TOB is this weekend and he has already handed out the schedule to the kids. Went over the schedule. The performance time has been changed to 12:43. We could possibly be back by 4pm. Students need to brown bag it. They will not have the time to change after the get there. So, they will change clothes here. The cost of the buses to Northern’s TOB was $1200. It was more because it was further away. So going to Glen Burnie should cost less. We are going to chapters this year because we have qualified. Our scores have set us in the middle of everyone else. This year it will be at Broadneck High School. Looks like the football team will go into playoffs this year. Orchestra has been practicing for a few weeks so far. They practice every Wednesday. We use a full orchestra – woodwinds, brass and percussion. You must be in marching band to be in Jazz band. Practices start next week on Tuesday. Down to only Thursday practices only for Marching band. Min Lee and Nat Atnafu have been selected for side-by-sides with the BSO. All-County orchestra auditions took place today at South River. 20 students tried out. We have a uniform code for orchestra, concert and jazz bands. This is because it looks nicer when they are all dressed the same and also to make sure all the skirts are the same length. Some in the past were way too short. There is a locked wooden box in the band room mounted on the wall behind Dr. Butts’ desk. This is used to drop money (payments, fundraiser money) in. All-State auditions will be held in November and by nomination. The cost of the tickets for Saturday’s TOB (the one’s which we receive to sell to our group) we will sell for $4 for 1 and $10 for 3. Please contact the drum majors, Dr. Butts or Susan Aiello. We only have a limited number of tickets. Senior Job Shadowing day is coming up soon. Dr. Butts was thrilled that 4 students chose music teachers to shadow. Mr. Clune is organizing a guitar ensemble and is hoping to take them to Boston on the Spring Trip with us. The County Exhibition this year will be at Chesapeake High School on October 21.
3) TOB Report It rained for the TOB. The kids got wet and the uniforms were taken home by some of the parents to hang up and allow them to dry. The kids did a great job. Their score was 74. Steve Mackey passed a bill on to Mark Greco for light towers. He had received it from Mike Dean. Mark says we made about $4000 but is still waiting for the last of the bills to come in. We had the drawing for the gift card for selling program ads. Amanda Hautman won this. Denise McHarg is holding the gift card and will pass it on to Amanda when she gets a chance. $7 was a good price for the tickets but there should be a child ticket price. It gets expensive when you bring in a few children. Northern has free student admission with a paid adult. Also there was some confusion with prices. Some people had heard we were charging $5. Maybe this was what the other schools were charging for the free tickets we sent them and that is what they thought ours were at the gate. Part of Logistics should have included clean up the next day. There was a huge mess. The good thing was people did not leave any programs in the stands. They must have liked them. We sold 100 programs. We need to have police to staff the event because of the smoking problem behind the old concession stand at the end. We also really needed them to direct traffic for people leaving. We don’t want our parents to be run over.
4) Treasurer’s Report We have about $33,000 so far. We just bought 2-3 violins for orchestra.
5) Fund Raising Report Need to raise $120,000 for the year to cover all the programs. The fundraising group needs to raise $10,000 this year to cover what participation fees do not. We are doing a citrus fundraiser this year. It starts Nov 2d. We need to send out flyers and drop them off at businesses. We are trying to set up tables at craft fairs and need people to staff them. We need to hand out flyers at games, plays and at the winter concert. People can also sell online. We can possibly do poinsettia sales at craft fairs and other events to sell more. A motion was made to split the proceeds of these kind of fundraisers 50/50 (students accounts/AIMA). Passed. It will start with the citrus. Play-a-thon will not be included in this split. AIMA decided to drop poinsettias but the guard and chorus will pick it up for their own type of fundraiser. Drum Majors asked if we could bring back the 24 hour Play-a-thon. They will come back to the November meeting with more information on logistics so we can make an informed decision.
6) Publisher’s Report – Joe Fleming There are weekly updates to the website. Please check back often to keep currant on what is going on. The order forms and activity schedule changes are all on there. Many photos from activities have been posted.
7) Spring Trip Spring Trip is to Boston this year on April 22-25. The chaperones’ price is the same as the kids.
8) 40th Anniversary Andy has come up with a logo to represent this celebration. It is set up like a time signature. The ‘b’ flat is for ‘B’ in Butts. The repeat is for keeping his legacy going. We can use this as a letterhead or anything else we come up with – buttons, t-shirts. We could possibly sell these at the Winter Concert.
9) Closure A motion was made, seconded and carried to adjourn about 8:50pm.
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AIMA Meeting Minutes - September 15, 2009 « Result #4 on Dec 16, 2009, 8:49am »
Arundel Instrumental Music Association Minutes for September 15, 2009
Attendance: Andy Musliner (president), Jim Protin (vice-president), Mark Greco (treasurer), Kathy Mackey (secretary), Joe Fleming & Randy Buckley (co-publicists)
1) Convene A quorum was present (25 members). The President called the meeting to order at 7:07 pm in the band room.
2) President’s report Thanks for coming to this meeting. We need leaders to help out with fundraisers to seed an endowment fund. We need a webmaster to set up a site to show off what we are doing for Dr. Butts for the whole year.
3) Mr. Butts’ Report Everything is running well. The Jazz band played at the Arch Social club in Baltimore. It was a smashing success and a nice jazzy atmosphere. They were feed upstairs. It was great for being so early in the season. This is their 5th time performing there. The marching band will show off their talents on Thursday when they are on the field for the first time this year. The game is at 6:30 and the kids will being staying after for pizza. The next one will be our TOB on the 26th. All County and All State competitions will be coming up soon. Check their websites for current information. Need support for the Pitt Crew. They need to be there by 5pm. So, they can do a couple of run-throughs and practice their timing. Randy bought new tires for the Drum Major stand and will work on that. The schedule has been handed out and there were changes on it concerning Oct 3rd, which is Homecoming. We have not been contacted yet by Crofton to do the Halloween parade. We think it might be the Saturday before.
4) Treasurer’s Report We didn’t make as much as we had hoped to at Baysox – about $7,000. Three events are not in our budget (Spring Trip, Jazz Festival and Band Camp) because they are self sustaining. Spring Trip fundraisers are Poinsettias (starts in Nov.), Joe Corbis (starts in Jan.) and Play-a-thon. We have not really set dates yet. We need someone to co-ordinate these events. We need to check with Linda to see if they have been approved yet by Debbie Hoyles. The Boosters sent out an email to ask if people wanted to work in their concession stand on certain dates. We tried but they are already full. Next year we will have to jump faster. People are starting to pay their fees and everyone should have received a letter stating what they owe. South River did a car wash on Saturday (rainy). They pulled in $700. What happens with extra money form Band Camp ($3000)? Leave it until end of marching season for extra expenses. Misc. Expenses examples – paying for the drill, paying students to line the field, paint to line the field, custom music. There are about 120 students in the program. $250 is expensive for those that come in for only part of a semester. (Mr. Butts) For these we will have to prorate their fees. We use to do it that way and still should.
5) Fund Raising Report Saturday is the 2010 Senior Class Bazaar. We have a table to sell yard sale items. We need volunteers to come help out and items donated to sell. We also need a canopy. The items can be dropped off at the TOB meeting tomorrow or just email Susan Aiello. An email will be sent out to ask for items also. Checked into a 50/50 Raffle for our TOB as an extra fund raiser. WE can not do it because it is considered gaming. Escrip – (Debbie House) We are still trying to get people to sign up on their Safeway cards and select AIMA as the group they wish to help support. There is also a promo code on some of their receipts which we can turn in up to Oct 15 to get extra money if they are not registered. People can also get dining reward at certain restaurants around the area. Perry’s is one. You would have to go on-line to see the rest. There is also an on-line mall people can go through to purchase stuff. This is another way to get more money out of the program and not be registered. Just go to the AIMA website and click on Escript than click on on-line mall. Don’t do the ‘auto-earn’. It is just not worth it. We may be doing restaurants this Fall. We need volunteers for the bake sale at the Winter Concert, at Giant and at Safeway. People could possibly play music at they while n uniform. We also need someone to run a Fall Car Wash. Susan will run the Poinsettias sale if someone will help her. She will be getting them through Behnkes’ nursery. “Good Search’ is another idea. We could get money by using their search engine. Possibly ask organizations, like Kiwanas, for donations.
6) Publisher’s Report – Joe Fleming Can’t put students addresses and public emails on the website. Photobucket has been straightened out. Joe and Randy now have authorization and the AIMA card is connected to the AIMA account instead of Steve Barrett’s credit card. We now own Arundelmusic.org. Pete Little took photos at the Jazz concert in Baltimore. Andy has a percussion video. They will hand these off to be put up on the site. We are always looking for anyone else that has photos. Please send them to the publicists to put up on the site. We want to recognize both students and volunteers for all they do.
7) Spring Trip We are going with Heritage and going to Boston, MA this year. The dates are April 22 – 25. This is definite and we have already made our first deposit for the hotel, buses to lock them in. We will be riding on Hunt Valley buses. They came in with the lowest cost, wanting to get our business. The cost per person will be $440 this year. This is based on 100 kids and 20 chaperones. Choir is coming with us again this year. The packet may be out early this year – around November. Paul Romer has given her all the information on the truck.
8) President’s report cont. Trying to create an endowment fund to help with funds for the program. There will be a Gala Tribute for Mr. Butts on May 22. Other things might be planned. The word is getting out and people want to get involved and help out. We are trying to create a website community to pass on any and all information to people that want to know what is going on. Pay-pal can help us get donations and people paying their fees. We would also like to add a Wish List of items Mr. Butts would like to have or needs to help out with the program. (Randy) We already have a Pay Pal. Sue Houston signed AIMA up for it. We need to see if she remembers the password. So we can use it. Maybe we can pass out buckets at the Winter concert to help raise money. Since we do not charge for the event. We need volunteers to help run fundraisers. We need a webmaster to help with the website. If anyone knows someone who can help us out please email Andy.
9) TOB Report Severna Park and South River have not sent in their registration forms yet but they have verbally told us they are coming. We have a couple bios. The TOB organization is not doing Brass awards this year. So we will save money there. The host is supposed to supply tapes this year. Randy recommends going to the dollar store to get them. They only need to be 30 minutes in length. Susan has some ideas and will get with Randy later. The TOB meeting is tomorrow night at 7pm. We still need help in many committees. They will be assembling the programs on the 24th and will need help for this.
10) Closure A motion was made, seconded and carried to adjourn about 9:15 pm.
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AIMA Meeting Minutes - June 9, 2009 « Result #5 on Dec 16, 2009, 8:42am »
Arundel Instrumental Music Association Minutes for June 9, 2009
Attendance: Mitch Wightman (president), Kim Rosekrans (vice-president), Mark Greco (treasurer), Kathy Mackey (secretary), Joe and Linda Fleming (co-publicists)
1) Convene A quorum was present (19 members). The AIMA president called the meeting to order at 7:00 pm in the band room.
2) President’s report This is Mitch Wightman's final AIMA meeting. He has been around for a long time since Joey started 9th grade. During orientation, he walked up to Dr. Butts and he still remembered Mitch from when he was in school. He had said something about retiring soon then. Of course, Dr. Butts is still around.
3) Mr. Butts’ Report No report except ‘Have a good summer’. He was at his class reunion.
4) Outreach - Should set up "Section Mom or Dad" for fall to represent each group. Have this and a phone tree to better communicate back and forth. It is hard now to get stuff to and from kids and parents. - Denise McHarg will compile a list of volunteer jobs and pass it out at the picnic to get people to help out more. Maybe we could also put it up on the website. - Maybe have some kind of social in the fall to get people more acquainted with each other. - Uniforms have been turned over to the new group that will be in charge of them next year. - We don’t have anyone to run Band Camp next year. We need at least 1 adult there every day. - It is hard for people to come to meetings and volunteer for things when they don’t know anyone. - Orientation went well. - The middle school performance went well especially the drumline sign-ups.
5) Treasurer’s Report - We did pretty well on budget this year. We still have some outstanding checks. - Band Camp forms will be mailed out soon. - Because of the passing of Joyce Mayes (an involved guard grandmother), we voted to send $75 to the West Lanham Hills Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary Fund as requested by the family. - Still missing a color guard bus bill from January. - We will set up the budget for next year some time around the 1st or 2d week in July. - We need the forms for DMA camp so they can be sent out. It should cost about $475 per person we send.
6) Publisher’s Report – Joe Fleming, Steve Barrett - Main site has been updated and the new info is on the forum. - Band camp will cost $150. Some of the forms are not correct. - Need to get the passwords and stuff moved over to new publicists. So they can completely take over the website. - Need to move over cost of Photobucket from Steve to the AIMA card. - Donna Fellows has copy of an article that Steve wrote. She may possibly run it in the West County newspaper about the Banquet and end of year information. - Had many band photos in the yearbook this year. Steve cropped and edited them before he sent them off to Ms. Trimnal. The guard had very few. They need to be more proactive if they want more in the yearbook next year.
7) TOB Report – Randy Buckley - Nothing yet for volunteers. - Glen Burnie and Patuxent have signed up. About 100+ letters have gone out to invite as many schools as possible to our TOB. The first one to register is the last one to perform in their group. - Last year we were blindsided by the scoring changes. This year we need to double check the rules to make sure that does not happen again. - Asking senior parents that normally chair a committee, to co-chair this year. This way we can train people to run those committees for next year.
8) New Business - Voted to change over Photobucket ownership ASAP. - Andy will be having a transition meeting to help things move over smoothly to the new board. He could possibly have a few of these meetings. - Need to talk to Tyrone to get a place to store AIMA’s tractor and get it out of the Wightman’s garage. Have had problems in the past with storage and finding people to open the storage room to get it out on time for events. Can we possibly set up our own shed? We could get it donated. - Went over what happened at the Craft Fair. This is still a sore spot with Ms. Stratton. Mrs. Myers runs the craft fair. Maybe there is something else we can do. You have to be a certified food handler to serve food. So no crock pot meals. - Denise suggested to add a concert attire exchange to the forums for people that have outgrown or no longer need them. Can also include instruments. - Kim suggested bake sales at Safeway. When Tri-M did one, they took in about $600. - Aaron Eppinger is working on an Eagle Scout project. He wants to overhaul the closet. He needs to know what it will be used for. He has already measured it and has put it into a CAD program.
9) Closure A motion was made, seconded and carried to adjourn about 8:20pm.
« Last Edit: Dec 16, 2009, 8:44am by Steve Barrett »
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Re: AACC Community Jazz Band Fall Semester 2009 « Result #6 on Dec 13, 2009, 12:04am »
Another season has come to a close following the AACC Jazz Band Concert of December 12 at the Pascal Center. We had a wonderful audience and provided our patrons with a great variety of music that featured classic Basie-style tunes to some jazzy popular charts sang by Fran and Charlie. We even sang a couple of Christmas Songs -- Jingle Bells and White Christmas in a sing-a-long mode.
Had a good time and glad to see that there was a lot of fun on stage -- especially withe Marty, Zach and Wes playing music chairs on the drums during one of our charts.
As with the tradition of localizing this entry, we had a few musicians with AHS ties performing tonight. In addition to co-director Marty Knepp (AHS 1981), we also had Sarah Wightman (2009) on baritone sax, Mitch (1975) and Joey Wightman (2005)playing trombone, and Corey Grove (2008) and Arundel band parent Steve Barrett in the trumpet section.
We would have had Nat Atnafu (AHS 2010) in the rhythm section, but Nat had a commitment as a member of the Anne Arundel All-County Orchestra, which held their concert at 7 p.m. this same night. Nat was able to catch the last part of the concert tonight.
With the concert over, the next meeting of the AACC Jazz Band won't be until January 27. Until then, thanks for a wonderful season, travel safely and may you all enjoy the holidays with family and friends.
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Re: AACC Community Jazz Band Fall Semester 2009 « Result #7 on Dec 10, 2009, 11:54am »
Hope the rehearsal at Pascal went smoothly tonight. Just got back from Upstate New York this evening following a family emergency. I will be able to perform at Pascal on Saturday night to close the semester.
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AACC Community Jazz Band for Spring 2010 « Result #8 on Dec 10, 2009, 11:51am »
Spring semester for the Anne Arundel Community College Community Jazz Band begins on Wednesday, Janaury 27 from 7 to 9:45 p.m. in the Cade Center on the AACC Arnold Campus. Arundel High School Jazz Band musicians are encourged to participate in the weekly sessions to gain experience in performing with college musicians and local professional and recreational musicians.
« Last Edit: Dec 10, 2009, 11:52am by Steve Barrett »
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Re: AACC Community Jazz Band Fall Semester 2009 « Result #9 on Dec 2, 2009, 11:28pm »
Most of the musicians returned to rehearsal tonight following the Thanksgiving Weekend holiday break. Marty was a little disappointed in those who have been randomly appearing for rehearsal and pledged to the band members that there may be some changes regarding attendance in rehearsals. We were missing a handful of key performers and only had one bass player all night. He also emphasized that musicians who are going to miss rehearsal to provide either he or Ray Ascione with a call or e-mail to let them know.
Marty then went over the remaining schedule and dress requirements for the 8 p.m. December 12 concert. We have one remaining rehearsal - December 9 at 7 p.m. in the Pascal Center on the AACC campus. The concert will be at Pascal as well.
As far as attire, it is an all black affair with open collars. Santa hats are optional and he is permitting red or green t-shirts (no olive green) to promote the festive season.
We went over as many items as we could this evening, and there were a lot of charts that we didn't play. Fran performed two of her numbers, as did Charlie. We also went over "The Count is In," "Meet the Flintstones," "Avenue C," "Satin Doll," Tenderly" and "Impressions."
Our Arundel ties tonight were limited to Marty, Mitch, Dave, Sarah and me.
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Re: AACC Community Jazz Band Fall Semester 2009 « Result #10 on Nov 24, 2009, 9:09am »
Just a reminder...there is no AACC Jazz Band Rehearsal on Wednesday, November 25. The next rehearsal is slated for Wednesday, December 2 at Cade and the final rehearsal is scheduled for December 9 at Pascal.
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