The 2008 All-Shore Concert will be held on April 12th, 2008 at QACHS for the 6th consecutive year.  Rehearsals will take place from 9AM-4PM on Friday then again from 12:30PM-5PM on Saturday.  A banquet will be held following the rehearsals at 5:30PM with the concert to follow in the John F. Andrews Performing Arts Center at 7:30PM.  Admission is $3 for Adults, $2 for Students, and FREE for under school aged children.

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You can now goto the Band’s Website and listen to the first episode of “From the Director’s Desk.” Each month I will be posting a new podcast about the latest happenings and upcoming events. I will plan to post it the day after the monthly Band Booster Meetings which are usually held the first Thursday of every month in the Band Room at 7:00 PM. If you can’t make it to the meeting to hear my Director’s Report, the podcasts will give it all to you.  Click to go there now, http://boe.qacps.k12.md.us/qhs/qaband/podcasts.html

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The Symphonic and Concert Bands performed as one unified group at Wicomico High School on Wednesday, March 12th at the Maryland District V Band Festival.  They received an “Excellent” rating for their prepared stage performance and a “Superior” in sight reading.

Click here to listen to each selection that was played. 

King Cotton (March)
Click here to play music


Shenandoah
Click here to play music


Sea Songs
Click here to play music

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Extra Credit Opportunity!

30 Points Possible

You are cordially invited to attend a free concert given by the United States Army Ceremonial Band. On Thursday, March 27th, the U.S. Army Ceremonial Band will present a concert entitled “Music Meets Hi-Tech.” This event will take place at Brucker Hall in Fort Myer, Virginia at 7:30 PM. 

However, thanks to modern technology, you don’t actually HAVE to go there person! The concert will be also available via live Webcast at the following URL:

http://rastaban.ite.gmu.edu/usarmyband  

(The URL will be active 30 minutes prior to the concert).

 In the meantime, visit www.soundtree.com/usarmy for a podcast about the concert.

Immediately following the concert, audience members will be encouraged to blog about their reactions to the concert at: http://soundtree.musiced.net.

 

For your assignment, please answer the following questions, either typed or on a lined piece of notebook paper, answering ALL questions with complete sentences:

1. State the name of the concert along with the date, time and place the concert happened.

2. Was the performance instrumental, vocal or both?

3.  Were any instruments or voice parts featured in the performance?  If so, how were they featured?  (Were there solos or sections that played?) 

4. Write a paragraph or two telling me about your favorite piece of music from this concert.  Explain why you liked it, how it made you feel, what was the title of the song and who wrote it.  Be as specific as you can. 

5. Write a paragraph or two about the entire concert.  Explain the concert as if you were writing a review for the local newspaper.  Be very detailed and specific about all aspects of the concert.

6. Post a blog about your reaction to the concert at http://soundtree.musiced.net. Print a copy of your blog entry and attach it to your paper.

7. Post a blog about your reaction to the concert on our blog about this assignment at http://qachsband.edublogs.org.

Due: Monday, March 31, 2008
This assignment will not be accepted after this date!

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Well gang, the results are in………

Check it out yourself at http://www.mustech.net/2008/03/new-me-bloggers-added-midway-through-march-2008/

We are number 34 out of 35 to date.

Here is the updated list:

31. Geejay Arrioloa and Jeffrey Langlois -Music Anthology
http://musicanthology.org  

32. Michael Compton -Southern Iowa Music Education Network
http://southiowamusiced.blogspot.com/

33. Jonathan Filbert -Sound On ~Music and Music Education
http://jonathanfilbert.com/blog/

34. Eric Wright- QACHS’s Band Blog
http://qachsband.edublogs.org/

35. Alison Hulihan- Marching Music
http://alleyjazz13.wordpress.com/

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QACHS’s Band Blog is becoming a member of the ME Blogger Campaign.  We are working to join the list below in becoming 100 Music Educators that Blog.  Looks like we would be #31. :)

Here’s who we are joining as of today!

Drum Roll Please..

  1. http://www.mustech.net 
    Dr. Joseph M. Pisano- MusTech.net
  2. http://digitalmusiceducator.wordpress.com 
    Owen Bradley -The Digital Music Educator
  3. http://etobiasblog.musiced.net 
    Evan Tobias- Catalysts & Connections
  4. http://musiced.about.com/ 
    Espie Estrella -About Music Education
  5. http://jamesfrankel.musiced.net/ 
    Dr. James Frankel-  Music Technology in Education
  6. http://weblog.siba.fi/msalavuo 
    Dr. Miikka Salavuo-  Music Education, Technology & Social Media
  7. http://pwhitfield.edublogs.org
    Pete Whitfield-  e-Learning for Music
  8. http://www.musicedmagic.com 
    Chad Criswell- Music Ed. Magic
  9. http://81.179.47.224/jon/ 
    Dr. Jonathan Savage- Jonathan Savage
  10. http://musictechforme.com/ 
    V. Keith Mason- Music Tech. for Me.
  11. http://tjweller.wordpress.com
    Travis J. Weller- Composing Like Mad
  12. http://mystro2b.edublogs.org/ 
    Ken Pendergrass- Music is Not for Insects
  13. http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/ 
    Joel- So You Want to Teach
  14. http://stengel99.wordpress.com/
    Steve Engel- Music Ed. Lounge
  15. http://fsharpbflat.wordpress.com/
    Linda Granite- Bb, F#
  16. http://musicisfree.ning.com/
    Robert Brannan- The Music is Free
  17. http://dvzmix.wordpress.com/
    Deborah Valdivia-Zwolinski- DVZ’s Mix
  18. http://choirteachers.blogspot.com/
    Kyle Gardner- Choir Teachers
  19. http://www.pauldraper.org
    Paul Draper- Draper’s Blogspot
  20. http://johnwilborn.wordpress.com
    John Wilborn- John Wilborn’s Weblog
  21. http://iknowithink.blogspot.com
    Leo Park- I Know…I Think
  22. http://gluedtothestring.blogspot.com
    Stan Haskins- Glued to the String
  23. http://edgroves.wordpress.com
    Edgar Groves- Edgar Groves’ Weblog
  24. http://musicedtech.wordpress.com
    Barbara Freedman- Music Ed. Tech.
  25. http://tomrudolph.berkleemusicblogs.com
    Dr. Tom Rudolph-  Make the Most of Notation Software
  26. http://wirechoir.dlewisweb.com
    Dale Lewis- Teaching the “Wire Choir”
  27. http://docandry.edublogs.org
    Dr. Kevin Andry-Dr. Andry’s Band Blog
  28. http://sperham.wordpress.com
    Steffany Perham- Perham’s Prattlings
  29. http://alexruthmann.com
    Alex Ruthmann- Alex Ruthmann’s Blog
  30. http://www.beatechie.edublogs.org
    Carol Broos- Be A Techie:)

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For those that have been a part of the QACHS Band program over the past several years with me, know that one of the key elements that I feel is most important to making this program successful is communication.  I like to keep everyone as informed as possible and make future plans and schedules available as soon as possible so that we can all plan our very busy lives accordingly.  I hope that through this new communication medium, that I will be able to keep everyone up to date with the latest information from the band program.  Stay tuned and stay up to date.

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