Dear band community,
“Nice
musical concepts!” “Strong program!” “Excellent (Audio/Visual Blend)!” “Well
done (coordination/staging)” “Front ensemble technique is very nice” “Great
woodwinds”
These are all from the judges’ sheets
from Saturday. I am EXTREMELY pleased with our
performance and our progress thus far. We have a
fantastic show that deserves all of our best efforts to pull it off to the
best of our ability. I believe we are well on our way
to an outstanding season. We have many more successes
ahead of us!
Remember that the feeling you have
when you leave the field should determine how our show went—NOT what happens
after awards. If we are always working to put the best
product that we can put on the field, then we are in competition only with
ourselves. The performance of others should never
determine how we feel about our own
performance.
I have never been more proud to be a
part of the Green Hope Band program, and I am proud and honored to share that
experience with all of you. Keep up the good
work! Enjoy your day off from school on Monday, and I
will see you all at practice on Tuesday.
As a reminder, here is a weekend
schedule through October:
Friday, October 2 Home football
(Homecoming/Alumni Night)
Saturday, October
3 Wakefield comp *see FINAL schedule
below. It has changed drastically. We are now meeting at 9am and we
are not rehearsing before we leave.
Saturday, October
10 West Johnston comp
(schedule should be similar to Panther Creek)
Friday, October 16 Home
football
Saturday, October 24 Sanderson
comp (schedule should be similar to Wakefield )
Friday, October 30 Home football
(Senior night) *IMPORTANT: see below
Saturday, October
31 Havelock comp (see notes
below)
Wednesday's Study
Hall: The
following students have told me that they will be attending the study hall
this Wednesday from 2:10-3:10 in the Commons. If you plan to stay
on campus and are not on this list, you must email Mr. Myers no later
than noon on Monday to let him know. Also, if
you are on this list and shouldn’t be, email Mr. Myers as well.
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* = every Wednesday unless I am told
otherwise.
Cary YMCA Event, October 8: We have been asked to send a few
people to the Cary YMCA to perform for a “Kick-Off Night” for their volunteers
beginning a campaign to drum up interest in their community outreach program.
Here is some information about the program:
The Cary YMCA is currently able to
offer opportunities for underprivileged youth and teens in our communities to
attend programs, including tutoring, after-school and summer camp programs,
and leaders’ club. The majority of these programs are offered at no cost to
the participant. In order to make this possible we hold a campaign every year
to ask the community to give of its resources. Volunteers from all walks of
life participate and support these programs financially.
Every year we hold a “Kick-Off”
Night for all the volunteers to really get everyone pumped up for our
one-month campaign.
They would like for us to play from
6:15-6:30. They want to hear the fight song and
anything else we would like to play. I will ask for volunteers
during practice.
Home Football
Game, Homecoming, Friday, October 2: We will NOT perform our
pregame show as normal, since the US Navy Seals will be parachuting on the
field before the game and no one is allowed to be on the field during that
time. We will play the National Anthem and Fight Song
from the track. Everything else is as
normal.
As a reminder,
here is our schedule:
4:00
Practice
5:00
Dinner
6:00 Dress
6:45
Warm-up
7:20 Pregame
show
~8:30
Halftime
~10:00 Game ends,
students are dismissed as a group to change
Be sure to remember your committee
responsibilities before you leave campus.
Wakefield Competition, October
3: Please note that the schedule
below has changed. You can consider this the final schedule. Any changes will
be announced at practice. If drastic changes are made, a mass email will be
sent.
9:00 Report
time for students
9:30 Depart
on bus
10:15 Arrive
at Wakefield
Students
are to BRING THEIR OWN LUNCH AND/OR SNACK
They will be
encouraged to either eat on the bus and/or after our 1pm prelims
performance. They will also be allowed to visit the concession
stands but NOT have hot dog or hamburgers which will be served for
dinner.
10:45 Dress
11:20 Move to
stands to watch Cary High
School
11:45 Move
to warm-up
1:00pm Prelims
performance
1:30 Undress
2:00 -5:00 Time
for concessions, food, in stands watching other bands
5:00 Prelims
Awards
Leadership
in retreat will need to be in uniform
6:00pm Dinner
provided by band
If we make it into
Finals, performances begin at 8:00pm. Schedule for rest of the evening will
depend on placement. If we do not make it into finals, we will stay to watch
performances.
10:30 Final
awards
11:45 Depart
for Green Hope
Snack will be
provided for bus ride home
12:30am Arrival
at Green Hope, unload buses and trucks
Havelock Competition, October
31: This will be an extremely long
day (leaving early morning and arriving back home well after midnight), since
it is our farthest competition during the regular
season. We will most likely not practice on Saturday
before leaving, and we won’t be able to practice on the Thursday prior to the
competition because of the Fall concert. Thus, we will
practice on Friday, October 30 before the football game (Senior Night) that
night. This is also a teacher workday.
At 11:30 on Friday, October 30, we
will be participating in the Corn Maze at Phillips Farms on Green Hope Church
Road in
Morrisville. The cost is covered by your fair share,
so we hope you will participate (although it is not
required). For every student that goes, $1 goes to the
Kay Yow Cancer Research Foundation. The corn maze is a
2-stage maze and involves trivia questions at stages throughout that guide you
through to the exit.
Here is the preliminary
schedule:
Friday, October 30 (Senior
Night)
11:30-1 Corn Maze
2-5 Practice
5:00
Dinner
6:00
Dress
~6:45 Seniors move
to stadium, band warms up
~7:20 Pre-game show
begins (seniors join band on field)
Competitions: Students may take the SAT on October
10 (West Johnston competition). We
had originally scheduled an overnight competition that weekend but changed it
when the SAT dates were released. The West Johnston
schedule will probably be similar to the Panther Creek schedule, while the
Sanderson schedule will probably be similar to the Wakefield schedule.
Final schedules will be distributed as soon as I receive the schedule from the
site host.
Please be sure that you have reserved
the entire day on your personal calendar for competitions. Don't assume
that we will report after a certain time, or that we will dismiss by a certain
time. Often, we are not given the schedule for competitions until within
two weeks before the competition. I will distribute the competition
schedule as soon as possible, but often it is not until the Broadcast on the
Sunday before a Saturday competition. Thank you for your understanding
of this matter. Most competition days will begin with a rehearsal before
going to the competition site. Buses will transport the entire band to
competition sites, except Panther Creek.
Bus
Policy: Students are required to ride the bus to
competitions and are expected to ride back on the bus so that they can
complete their committee responsibilities upon return to school. If a
parent wishes to take a child back with them, a note must be submitted to Mr.
Myers prior to departure. Only a student's parent/guardian can transport
his/her own student.
Rehearsal schedule
post-season: Rehearsals are generally on Tuesdays and Thursdays
from 3:15-5:00 in November and December. A full schedule was
distributed before registration. It is now
available on the website. Please be sure to put
all dates on your personal calendar. As always, attendance is expected
at all rehearsals and performances.
Schedule
Change: Please note that the Raleigh Christmas parade is
now on November 21, not the date that was originally on the band
calendar.
This
week: We
may be adding a few more visuals, and cleaning music and drill throughout the
show. From here through the end of October, we will be
receiving a lot of feedback each week at competitions, so do all you can to
study the sheets and the tape dictations in the hallway to know what we can
work on individually and as an ensemble.
_________________
Brian
Myers
Director of Bands
Green Hope High School
2500 Carpenter
Upchurch Road
Cary, NC 27519
(919) 388-5157 Band
Office
(919) 380-3712 School Fax
www.greenhopeband.org