Friday, March 14, 2014

Back to School - Contest Wednesday!

Back to School Monday - Contest on Wednesday!


Our first Contest of the Spring is Wednesday March 19.

  • Students should be practicing at least 15 minutes a day at home to prepare their music for performance
  • We will be having required practice before and after school Monday and Tuesday.  8:00 AM - 8:45 each morning and 3:45 - 4:45 each afternoon.  Make arrangements for transportation.
  • Wednesday morning we will meet in the Band Room at 8:00 am and load the bus to travel to the contest
  •  This applies to the advanced band members who qualified by:


  1. Making an "A" in band 90% or higher
  2. Passing all classes on the last report card 70% or higher
  3. Attended extra rehearsals and passed their music.   

Those students will be traveling by bus to Tasby Middle School Wednesday morning to perform at the Dallas ISD Concert and Sight-Reading Evaluations.

Students should "dress up" in their concert black or a combination of black and gray.   Boys should wear dress pants, shirt and shoes.  Ties and Jackets are optional.  Ties can be blue as an accent color.   Girls should wear a black or black and grey dress or skirt/blouse or dress pants outfit.  All skirts must be knee length or longer.  Girls can wear blue accessories as an accent color.  This is formal wear.  
What NOT to wear.  Students should not wear jeans, athletic shoes or anything outside of the guidelines listed above.  

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