Welcome to 2010!

Although our concert is a month away, we are really in the home stretch! We school starts again, we'll have two weeks before finals, then a week off (during which you should be practicing diligently!), and then a week and two days to the concert for CB, SB, and WE. For those of you in MAJ and TAJ, that's three rehearsals to go! For JB, we have four weeks of rehearsals to get ready for the ETHS Jazz Festival.

In addition, all of you honor-level WE and JB students have your recital on January 13. North Shore Honor Band students have rehearsal on January 13 at DHS and the festival on the 14th and 15th at LFHS. As is all of this wasn't enough, we'll be taking a small jazz combo to Peoria on January 28 to perform Aaron Zemach's first-place jazz composition, Cholic Clown, at the IMEA All-State Convention.

This is, of course, in addition to Pep Band games, musical pit orchestra, a major orchestra concert on 2/4, and preparation for solo and ensemble festival in March. Let's get ready to hit the ground running!