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The band and choir held such a lovely concert on Wednesday night! Thank you to all the musicians for their hard work leading into the concert, and to the parents, families, friends, and staff that came to support the musicians. The auditorium was packed! Huge THANK YOU to all who came to the Mattress Fundraiser this past weekend. While I don't have exact totals (we will by Tuesday), I know that we sold 30 units, which the normal amount of units for the first year is from 25-27, so we did exceed that! Those of you that held signs and wore mattresses during the event were a HUGE help! Congratulations to Alex Hornsey, Brayden Shirley, and jazz band member, Emily Pipkin, for being honored as being selected as an Illinois State Scholars! It's wonderful to see so many musicians selected for this achievement. Holiday Showcase On Monday, we will be performing in the Holiday Showcase put on by Student Council. If possible, please be at the school at 7:30am to help set up the gym for our performance. We have to move all percussion equipment, as well as set up chairs and stands. If you cannot be there at 7:30am to help move, please be seated by 7:50am with your instrument in the gym to warm up. We will perform Christmas Prism, then percussion will perform Swingin' Jingle Bells, then it's some individual performances, followed by choir. At the end of the showcase, we will perform Selections from The Polar Express with the choir! Afterwards, we will move everything back to the auditorium and then you will head to first hour! Tour to MB and Trimpe The itinerary can be found HERE. As a thank you for all of your hard work, the Fine Arts Boosters will be purchasing pizza for lunch on Tuesday. Instead of leaving campus to get lunch, just come to the auditorium and you will be fed. :) Dress in Christmas colors, ugly sweaters preferred! After eating, we will load the trailer, then the Mattress Fundraiser people will be presenting a check to us for what we made this past weekend! Remember, our White Elephant gift exchange will be after we return to Trimpe and unload everything! $10 limit, make sure to wrap your gift! You can put it underneath the tree in the auditorium when you get there. SIUE E-Band Professor Smithiger from SIUE has invited our students to join the E-Band during their pep band game on Thursday, Jan 3. He would like a head count of who is attending this event. I'll speak more about it in class tomorrow, but all we do is take our instruments and play music (just like at our pep band games!). It will be a drive yourself there type of event, but it should be a lot of fun! I'll be taking my clarinet and playing as well! Class Goals We will review for the final on Monday, then our final is Wednesday! Please look at GoogleClassroom for the study guide. Week of Dec. 17 Monday, Dec. 17 - Holiday Showcase (7:30am to set up, 7:50am ready to play) - Musical Auditions (2:40pm-6pm) - Meadowbrook Christmas Program (5:30pm call - wear the polo!) - CM Winter Guard (6:30pm-8:30pm, Bethalto East) Tuesday, Dec. 18 - Lunch provided by The Fine Arts Boosters (10:45am) - Check presented by Custom Fundraising Solutions (Mattress Fundraiser) (11:30am) - Tour to MB and Trimpe (itinerary HERE) - White Elephant gift exchange - Musical Auditions (4pm-6pm) Wednesday, Dec. 19 - Band Final - Musical Call Backs (individuals) - CM Winter Guard (6:30pm-8:30pm, Bethalto East) Thursday, Dec. 20 - Early Dismissal! - Tri-M to Villa Rose - Optional Pep Band (alumni will be joining us! - 5:30pm call - wear school spirit colors!) Week of Dec. 31 Thursday, Jan. 3 - SIUE E-Band (Optional - times TBA) Friday, Jan. 4 - Mandatory TheatreFest Meeting (7:30am) - Musical (3pm-5pm) Saturday, Jan. 5 - Musical Vocal Camp (10am-5pm) If you have any comments, questions, or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me. As a reminder, I will be out of the country from Dec. 22-Dec. 29, so my responses will not be regular. I will respond whenever I can! Musically yours -- Michaela Davis
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