Midwest Parent Meeting
Please join us in the McCracken Middle School Music Room this Sunday at 3:00 for the first meeting of the Midwest Parent Committee Meeting. All parents of current Symphonic Band members are welcome to attend this meeting.
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Agenda items to include:
- Discussion of how big a deal an invitation to perform at Midwest is.
- Organize and select chairs for various committees
- Initial planning and discussion of fundraising needs and activities.
- Discussion of summer schedule and band camp.
- Schedule future meetings.
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Volunteers and chairpersons needed for the following areas:
- Communications
- Fundraising
- Historian
- Videographer
- Photographer
- Social/Food
- Moving
- Chaperone
An invitation to present a concert at the Midwest Clinic is the most prestigious distinction a concert band can receive. Hundreds of bands from around the world apply to perform each year. Only three middle school bands were invited: McCracken Middle School (Skokie, IL), Hill Country Middle School (Austin, TX), and Doerre Intermediate School (Klein, TX).
The Midwest Clinic is the largest band (and orchestra) conference in the world. Nearly 14,000 band and orchestra directors come from every state in the US and more that 30 countries to listen to concerts, attend workshops, and visit the various exhibits.
Preparing for and performing at the Midwest Clinic will be an extraordinary experience for your child as well as an enormous undertaking as well. This is going to be a very exciting several months!
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Posted: April 20, 2006 | PermaLink