QACHS’s Band Blog

The Concord HS “Preview of Champions” TOB has been rescheduled due to weather.  It will be held at Frawley Stadium in Wilmington, Delaware on Wednesday evening, October 2^9th. Below is the schedule that we will follow Wednesday.

Rehearsal: 2:40 – 3:45 PM

Dinner: 3:45 – 4:15 PM

Dress/Pack/Load: 4:15 – 5:00 PM

Leave: 5:00 PM

Arrive: 6:30 PM

Warm-Up: 6:30 – 7:15 PM

Gate Time: 7:20 PM

Performance: 7:30 PM

Awards: 8:30 PM

Leave: 9:00 PM

Return: 10:30 AM

Ticket Price: $5.00 for everyone this week.  This will be a $3.00 savings off of the gate price of $8.00 at the show.

The Concord HS “Preview of Champions” TOB will be held at Frawley Stadium in Wilmington, Delaware this Saturday, October 25^th. Below is the schedule that we will follow Saturday.

Report: 12:00 Noon

Rehearsal: 12:00 – 3:30 PM

Dinner: 3:30 – 4:00 PM

Dress/Pack/Load: 4:00 – 5:00 PM

Leave: 5:00 PM

Arrive: 6:30 PM

Warm-Up: 6:30 – 7:30 PM

Gate Time: 7:35 PM

Performance: 7:45 PM

Awards: 8:45 PM

Leave: 9:15 PM

Return: 10:45 AM

Ticket Price: $5.00 for everyone this week.  This will be a $3.00 savings off of the gate price of $8.00 at the show.

This week, we played host to 7 Group 2 Bands, 1 Group 1 Band, 4 Group 3 Bands, and the Frostburg State University Wildcat Marching Band.  Although we didn’t perform in competition, we did do a judged exhibition performance which means that the process is all the same as other shows except there isn’t a placement for our score.  We were able to pull ourselves out of a deficit from two weeks ago as we fell back 2.2 points.  This week, we came back 2.65 points over that score to achieve our season high so far at a 79.85 points.  The percussion, color guard, and Rachel (drum major) all scored well in their specialty areas as well.  Next week we are headed to Frawley Stadium (home of the Wilmington Blue Rocks Minor League Baseball Team) in Wilmington, Delaware for the Concord High School’s “Preview of Champions” Competition.

The Pops Concert will be held on Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 7:30PM in the John F. Andrews Performing Arts Center.  This concert will include performances by the Symphonic Band, Concert Choir, Athletic Movement Class, and Dance I Class.  This will be an enjoyable eveing of music and movement.

Dress Rehearsal will be held on Monday, October 20th at 12:35PM.  Students that eat on D Lunch should eat on C Lunch.

Concert Report Time will be at 6:45PM on Tuesday night.  Students will report to get dressed in tuxes and gowns.  So, girls will need to have their black closed toed shoes and guys should have their white shirts, black socks, and black dress shoes.

This week will be a short week for classes.  We have two full days on Monday and Tuesday.  Wednesday will be a half day for the kids as we will be administering the PSAT in the morning and then the kids will be dismissed after their snack break.

Thursday, October 16th

We will not have rehearsal at 2:30 as previously scheduled as all of the performing arts teachers in the county will be in Baltimore for the day and will probably not be back until about 5:00 PM.

Varsity Football Game

Report @ 5:45
Warm-up @ 6:15
Star Spangled Banner Pre-Game @ 6:55
Game @ 7:00

Friday, October 17th

Rehearsal - 9AM - 12PM

Saturday, October 18th - QACHS “Pride of the Eastern Shore” TOB Competition 1:00PM

Report - 9AM

Lunch - 11:30AM

March to Stadium - 12:50PM

Report for Warm-up - 1:40PM

Warm-up - 1:50PM - 2:20PM

Gate - 2:28PM

Perform - 2:38PM

Awards - 4:35PM

Clean-up - 5:00PM

Finish - 6:00PM

The last ME Blogger update that we did was back in May.  At that time there were 54 bloggers.  The count over the summer up to today has grown like crazy to 87.  That means there are only 13 more ME Bloggers to go before the goal is met.  Here is the latest list starting where we last posted with #55 through #87.

55.  http://tanbur.wordpress.com
David French -The Music Education Blogspot

56.  http://musicteachers911.blogspot.com
Larry Marra -Music Teachers 911

57.  http://www.pianoteacherblog.com
Rebecca Brown -Piano Teacher’s Retreat

58.  http://wordtogo.wordpress.com
Steve Mugglin -Creativity and Songwriting in Music Education

59.  http://totalmusiceducation.blogspot.com
Greg Albing -Total Music Education

60. http://teachingmusicbs.com
Ben Baker -Teaching Music

61. http://www.susanadavis.blogspot.com
Susan Davis -Music Technology Musings

62. http://www.howtopractise.com (yes it’s a “s”, it’s an English spelling)
Mike Saville - How To Practise

63. http://www.free2create.com/blog
Valerie Kampmeier - Free 2 Create

64. http://musicmattersblog.com
Natalie Wickham - Music Matters Blog

65. http://theresawhite.edublogs.org
Theresa White - Education In Music

66. http://africlassical.blogspot.com
William Zick - Africlassical

67. http://discoverlearnplay.blogspot.com
Eugene Cantera - Discover, Learn, Play (MusickED.com’s Blog)

68. http://mstrismusic.com
Ms. Tris - MsTrisMusic.com

69. http://www.learn-theory-music.com/learn-theory-music-blog.html
Julian Partridge - Learn Theory Music Blog

70. Tennyson Williams - Guitar Articles.Net
http://www.guitarticles.net

71.  Dan Thompson -Creative Kid Music
http://creativekidmusic.wordpress.com

72. Oscar - Educacion Musical - Music Education (Our first, in Spanish, ME Blog!)
http://educacionmusical.blogspot.com

73. Dr. Eric Rasmussen  - Rizz’s Blog
http://rizzazz.vox.com/

74. Mr. ReBand
http://reband.wordpress.com

75. Brenda Muench - DiscomBlogulated!
http://muench.edublogs.org

76. Thomas J. West
http://www.thomaswestmusic.com/blog.htm

77.  Andrew Spang  -MusicTech4Ed
http://musictech4ed.edublogs.org

78.  Jon Ensminger -Pedaplus
Click this link. (A very log blog URL…)

79. Richard McCready - Tech Toys and Tunes
http://techtoysandtunes.blogspot.com

80. Derek  -Downpressup
http://downpressup.wordpress.com

81.   Rachel Rambach - Listen and Learn
http://listenlearnmusic.com

82.  Allan Perkins - Jazz Works
http://jazzworks.wordpress.com

83.  Alexandra Gallant - The Misadventures of a First Year Music Teacher
http://msgallant.edublogs.org

84.  Cameron Grant - Acoustic Path
http://www.acousticpath.com/blog

85.  Scott Ashby - Music Teacher’s Cafe
http://musicteachercafe.viviti.com/

86.  Stever Carter - Frog Story Records/Player’s Journal
http://www.frogstoryrecords.com/player_journal.html

87.  Cary Stewart - Third-Stream Music Education
http://thirdstream.musiced.net

This week the Marching Lions Band will participate in various Homecoming activities.  Below is the schedule for the various events.

Friday, October 10 - Pep Ralley, 4th Period (Report at 12:55PM)

- Massed Band Rehearsal, 6-7PM (Report at 5:45PM)

Saturday, October 11 - Homecoming Parade, 11:30 AM (Report at 10:00AM)

- Homcoming Pre-Game, 1:15PM (Report at 12:30AM)

- Homcoming Game, 1:30 - 4:30PM (Halftime approx. 2:30 - 3:00PM)
*All Personal Appointments should be scheduled after 5:00PM

Saturday, the Marching Lions Band traveled to Broadneck High School, in Annapolis, Maryland  for their second competition of the season hosted by Severna Park High School. After a week of hard work, they gave an outstanding performance putting into place those things that we had worked on.  However, as we do from time to time, we ran into a tough panel of judges that didn’t quite agree on what we were doing.  In the end the band received a score of 77.2.  This unfortunately is a drop of 2.2 points from last week’s score.  They placed 5th out of 8 bands.

This week the band will perform for the various Homecoming events.

The Severna Park TOB will be held at Broadneck High School in Annapolis, Maryland this Saturday, October 4^th.  The show is actually being done in two parts and will begin with groups 1 and 3 at 5:00 PM with their awards being held at 7:15 PM.  Then groups 2 and 4 will begin at 8:00 PM.  Below is the schedule that we will follow Saturday.

Report:  12:00 Noon

Rehearsal:  12:00 – 4:30 PM

Dinner:  4:30 – 5:00 PM

Dress/Pack/Load:  5:00 – 6:00 PM

Leave:  6:00 PM

Arrive:  6:45 PM

Warm-Up:  7:00 – 8:15 PM

Gate Time:  8:20 PM

Performance:  8:30 PM

Awards:  11:00 PM

Leave:  11:30 PM

Return:  12:15 AM

Ticket Price: $7.00 for everyone this week.

Saturday, the Marching Lions Band traveled to Lake Forest High School, in Felton Delaware for their first competition of the season. After finally getting to do their performance with out it raining on them, they scored a 79.4 placing 1st out of 4 bands. Also, our very own Rachel C. received the award for Best Drum Major. Congratulations to everyone for an outstanding start to your season. Currently this places QA #7 in the score ranks out of 38 Championship level bands.

This week the band will travel to Broadneck High School in Annapolis, Maryland for the Severna Park TOB Competition. Check back for times and details on that show.