Monticello HS, Walton MS, and Burley MS

Dear Parents and Students,

We are still a go for tomorrow for festival.  I would like to meet a little earlier since we haven’t seen each other most of the week and we need to really review our music.  Middle School students please plan on being at Monticello by 11am in the band room.  There is an entrance on the outside of the building.  Just to the left of the main entrance.  Please eat before you come to school so that you are fueled up and ready to go.  If you haven’t turned in the permission slip to ride the bus, please bring this with you.  If you don’t have your instrument please let me know!  I will try to figure something out!

High school students, you may still meet us at Buford MS by 1:15pm.  You are to find a place to practice as a group if possible.  If you want to ride the bus to Buford you need to be to Monticello by noon to get your instrument and get on the bus.  So far I haven’t had any high school students tell me they are taking the bus to Buford.  If you plan on taking the bus please let me know.  Cello and bass students make sure you bring your instrument from home or else you need to come to Monticello by noon to pick up a school instrument (Owen, Tina, and Stephen)

After the MS group performs they will put their instruments away and go into the auditorium to watch Albemarle HS and Monticello HS perform.  Then students will be free to leave at about 3:15.  Please if you have questions please email or call/text me on my cell: 404-307-2615.

-SHK

Shannon Hutchison-Krupat,

Director of Orchestras

Monticello High School

Walton Middle School

Burley Middle School

(home)434-244-0909

(Cell) 404-307-2615

shkrupat@k12albemarle.org

http://monticellohsorchestra.edublogs.org/

Thursday, February 7, will be our first ever 6th grade string jamboree!  This exciting event will combine approximately 180 beginning orchestra students from 5 middle schools.  Students will meet at Monticello HS at 1:00pm for practice on their music.  They will be working with the orchestra teachers from Henley, Southerland/Jouett, and Walton/Burley.   Then they will give a final concert starting at 7:00pm.  Permission slips are needed along with $5 to help pay for dinner, buses, and custodial fees.  Please remember that this is a mandatory concert grade for all beginning string students.

String Jamboree Permission

Dear Orchestra Parents and Students,

This is a reminder that our first concert of the year will be tonight!  All students need to be in the forum at Monticello HS no later than 6:30pm.  The forum is the small glass auditorium in teh front of the main entrance.  Students will leave casses and coats hear while they are tuned.  We will then have yearbook pictures for each school and a large photo with all the students.

Dress for the concert is a plain white collared shirt, plain black dress pants, and black dress shoes.  No sneakers, jeggings, or jeans please.

Friends and family can check out our live stream on ustream.  http://ustre.am/RJ6L or you can also go onto Ustream.Tv and search for MHSOrchestra.  The concert will begin as soon as yearbook pictures have finished.

Upcoming Events:

February-Cookie Dough Fundraiser

February 7 @ MHS   6th Grade String Jamboree

March 2 @ MHS  Orchestra Retreat 7-12 grades only

March 9 @ Bufford MS  Orchestra Festival (SOL)

April-World’s Finest Chocolate Fundraiser

May 21 @ MHS Orchestra Awards Concert

You Are Invited to a Fundraiser Concert

In Support of the WAHS Orchestra Program

Featuring

Marco Escobar, Violin and

Arnold Popkin, Piano

Date and Time: Monday, November 19th — 7 P.M.

Place: Western Albemarle High School- Auditorium

5941 Rockfish Gap Turnpike, Crozet, VA 22932

Admission: adults $10, students $5

Marco Escobar

A Venezuelan native, Marco Escobar enjoys a career of both teaching and performing. Living in Charlottesville, Virginia, he serves as adjunct professor of violin and viola at the Piedmont Virginia Community College and violinist of the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra. He has most recently accepted the position of Spanish teacher and string orchestra conductor at Western Albemarle High School.
Before moving to Virginia, Marco held orchestral positions with the Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho Symphony Orchestra (Venezuela), The Venezuela Symphony Orchestra, The Oklahoma City Philharmonic, The Lawton Philharmonic (Oklahoma), The Accademia Filharmonica (Oklahoma), and the Fort Smith Symphony Orchestra (Arkansas).

With Mrs. H-K out on maternity leave until November 4th the orchestra will have a substitute for the next few weeks.  Her name is Jessica Phaup and she plays the violin and cello.  She will do her best to tune, change strings, and get everyone ready for our winter concert on December 11 at Monticello HS.

The winter concert is the only event on the calendar until December.  The All-County Orchestra event will be held after the holidays.  Information will be sent home about this event.  It may be a 6th grade event this year.  I will keep you posted.

Students have weekly grades including practice cards and playing tests.  Please remember that practice cards are 10% of your grade.  The more that you practice the better your grade!

Welcome 2012-2013 Orchestra! 

We have had a great start to the year. Monticello HS has already started our community outreach with the MHS String Quartet performing at the Curry School Summer Doctoral Graduation.  Such a great honor and the students did an outstanding job!

Our program is growing and we have increased almost 30% over last year!  The beginners have already picked instruments and have starting learning their first notes.  The Intermediate students are finishing the All For Strings Book 1, and are getting ready for Book 2.  The high school students have made great advances and have moved into much more advanced music and some chamber music as well.  Mark your calendar for our first concert on Dec 11.  I know that students are excited to show their new skills and their improvement from last year.

-SHK

Congratulations on a great concert! 

This has been a great year.  Thank you everyone for all your help, support, and encouragement.  You all have made a tremendous amount of progress.  Next year will be even better!

SHK

Our end of the year awards concert is coming soon!  I hope that you are all ready for an exciting night at the movies!  This will be our first ever movie night!  Students are to arrive at 7:30pm for tuning.  The concert will start at 8:00pm.  The beginning orchestra will start, followed by an awards program, and finishing with the advanced orchestra A Night at the Movies.

Dear Orchestra Parents and Students,

Our performance for the SOL/Festival has been set.  We will be performing at 3:30pm on Saturday, March 10.  Parents need to drop students off with their instruments at Monticello High School at 1:15pm.  Students should be dressed in concert dress shirts, black pants, black socks, and black shoes.  We will have a tuning session and practice before we load buses to take us to Buford Middle School. 

Our performance is scheduled for 3:30pm.  Parents and visitors are welcome to watch the performance.  Please remember that once the performance has started they will not let you into the auditorium.  So please be prompt.  We will stay and watch Strasburg HS which finishes at 4:30.  I hope to have the ratings and comments by this time.  Students can then be picked up at this time.  Parents not attending the performance will need to make arrangements for their child to be picked up from Buford MS, 1000 Cherry avenue, Charlottesville, VA, 22903. 

Please Click here to print out the Festival Permission Slip

Please arrive at Monticello HS promptly at 1:00pm on Saturday, March 10.  You may enter the building through the auditorium entrance.  Please sign the attached permission slip. The schedule will be as follows:

• 1:15  Arrive Monticello HS for warm-up
• 2:15 Load Bus
• 2:45 Arrive Buford MS
• 3:00 Warm-Up
• 3:30 Performance
• 3:45 Sight-Reading
• 4:00 Watch Strasburg High School Orchestra Performance
• 4:15 Watch Strasburg High School Sight-Reading
• 4:30 Parents Pick-up at Buford MS

Please make sure to eat lunch before you come to Monticello. 

Do not forget to bring your instrument and music from home.

Please don’t forget your permission slip for this mandatory event.