QACHS’s Band Blog

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From the Band Room – Episode Two – November 6, 2009

In this show we will take a look back at what the band accomplished in October. Brittany and Becca join me once again to bring our coming events. I will share more moments in both Classical Music History as well as Pop Music History. This month our spotlight is on the Freshman Concert Band as they go through one of their last rehearsals for the Veteran’s Day Ceremony that they will play for on November 11th in front of the Queen Anne’ s County Courthouse in downtown Centreville. The final selection also features that Queen Anne’s County Concert Choir as we did a combined rehearsal of the patriotic piece that we will perform together.

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Tuesday – The Jazz Band will begin its rehearsals for the Winter Concert.  Rehearsals will rehearse Tuesdays and Thursdays after school.

Wednesday – The Freshman Concert Band will travel downtown to the Courthouse lawn for the Veteran’s Day Ceremony.  The band will play beginning at 10:45 AM while everyone arives.  They will also perform a patriotic piece with the Concert Choir during the ceremony.  All students are to be dressed in black pants/skirt, white dress shirt/blouse, and black dress shoes.  Students are to report to the band room at the end of 1st period.

Thursday – Jazz Band Rehearsal after school.

The schedule for this week is a little thinner than the past few weeks as we begin to slow things down just a bit.

Thursday – Full Marching Band Rehearsal (After School)

Friday – Home Football Game (Report time 5:45)

This morning, the Marching Lions Band competed in the Tournament of Bands Atlantic Coast Invitational Championship Competition for the fourth consecutive year in a row.  The band finished their competition season with a season high score of 82.00.  This earned them the title of the “2009 Atlantic Coast Invitational Championship Group 1 Champions” as they took first place over all.  They also were awarded the Specialty Awards of 1^st Place Music, 1^st Place Visual, 1^st Place Drum Major, and 1^st Place Color Guard.

Here is a copy of our Itinerary for the weekend:

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2009

11:45 A.M.        Report

12:00 P.M.        Rehearsal

2:00 P.M.          Pack/Load

3:00 P.M.          Depart QACHS.

6:00 P.M.          Dinner (Old Country Buffet – Harrisburg)

7:00 P.M.          Continue to Hotel

                        Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites

7:15 P.M.          Arrive at Hotel

10:00 P.M.        Lights out!  Everyone get a good night’s sleep, we have to be up early tomorrow to get ready for our performance.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2009

6:00 A.M.          Buffet Breakfast at the Hotel

6:30 A.M.          Room check, Check out, Load.

7:00 A.M.          Leave for Hershey Stadium

7:30 A.M.          Arrive at Hershey Stadium

7:40 A.M.          Prep

7:50 A.M.          Move to Warm-up

8:00 A.M.          Warm-up

9:00 A.M.          Move to Gate

9:12 A.M.          Gate

9:22 A.M.          Performance

9:50 A.M.          Awards

10:30 A.M.        Depart for QACHS

1:00 P.M.          Arrive back at QACHS – Centreville, MD

Tickets can be purchased in advance at a discounted rate over the gate price.  Adults $15 and Students $12.

For those Parents that have reserved a room in our hotel block, the total cost of each room will be $76.59.

We have also included all of those staying with us in our dinner reservations and that cost will be $13.03 per person.

Today, the Marching Lions Band traveled to Broadneck High School for the Chapter 9 Championships. It had been postponed until Sunday from Saturday due to the weather. The Marching Lions gave it all they had and finished 2nd out of 4 in Group 1 Championship competition. They also took specialty awards for 2nd Place Drum Major, 2nd Place Color Guard, 2nd Place Music, 2nd Place Visual with a final regular season score of 79.1. They have finished 29th over all in the Tournament of Bands Competition circuit which qualifies them for a fourth year in a row to attend the Atlantic Coast Championships in Hershey, PA this coming Sunday.

As was announced at the end of rehearsal on Thursday, due to the impending severe weather for Saturday, part or all of the show could be postponed until Sunday.  After everyone left today, I had a chance to log back into my e-mail and found out that Chapters had indeed been moved to Sunday.  I know that various sacrifices have to be made to make this happen.  Remember, I am in this with you and so the Eastern Shore Wind Ensemble will be without their 1st Trombone for their concert on Sunday afternoon.  But, the bottom line comes down to this…..If we don’t go Sunday, we don’t goto Hershey next weekend and so you will have done two shows and that is it after all the work we have done since last May.  Times are to remain the same on Sunday as they were to be for Saturday.  See below for those details.

Chapter 9 Championships
Broadneck High School
Annapolis, Maryland

Groups 1/3 @ 12:00 PM

Rehearsal @ 8:00 – 9:00 AM

Dress/Pack/Load @ 9:00 – 9:45 AM

Leave – QACHS @ 9:45 AM

Arrive – Broadneck HS @ 10:45 AM

Prep @ 10:45 – 11:15 AM

Goto Warm-up @ 11:15 AM

Warm-up @ 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Goto Gate @ 12:30 PM

Gate @ 12:46 PM

Perform @ 12:56 PM

Awards @ 3:30 PM

Leave – Broadneck HS @ 4:00 PM

Return – QACHS @ 5:00 PM

Tickets: Adults $7.00 / Students $5.00

Tuesday, October 13 – Band Booster Meeting @ 7:00 PM

Thursday, October 15 – Marching Band Rehearsal 2:30 – 4:45PM

Friday, October 16 – Marching Band Rehearsal 9AM – Noon

*ANYONE MISSING EITHER ONE OF THE REHEARSALS ON THURSDAY OR FRIDAY CAN EXPECT TO NOT PERFORM ON SATURDAY.  THESE TWO REHEARSALS HAVE BEEN ON YOUR SCHEDULE SINCE MAY SO THAT YOU WOULD HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO WORK ALL NECCESARY ARRANGEMENTS TO BE THERE.  IF YOU NEED TRAVEL ASSISTANCE, TALK TO OTHER MEMBERS AND CARPOOL TOGETHER.*

Saturday, October 17 – Parkside HS “Delmarvacade of Bands” TOB Competition 6:30PM  See Details of the Day Below!

Rehearsal @ 12:00 – 2:45
Pack/Load @ 3:00
Leave @ 3:30
Arrive @ 5:00
Dress/Prep @ 5:00 – 5:25
Warm-up @ 5:25 – 6:25
Move to Stadium @ 6:25
Gate @6:34
Perform @ 6:44
Awards @ 9:35
Leave @ 10:00
Return @ 11:30

$ Tickets are $5.00.  Remember all proceeds from these prepurchased tickets will stay with our band.$