1:15 p.m. - Welcome
1:30 p.m. - Ensemble Warmup
1:45 p.m. - Festival Performance Simulation (Recorded from front)
2:00 p.m. - Starfire Fanfare
2:10 p.m. - Midnight Sky
2:25 p.m. - Plaza de Toros
2:35 p.m. - Logistics
2:45 p.m. - Festival Performance Simulation (Recorded from front)
3:00 p.m. - Clean up
- Quietly and efficiently prepare for rehearsal
- Make sure you are in your assigned seat according to the seating chart
- Section leaders: Take attendance on a piece of paper and place on my podium
- Ask your neighbors how their day is going
- Warm up on your own - good sounds only please
1:30 p.m. - Ensemble Warmup
- Concert F Articulation
- Tune
- Festival Band Warmups
- B-flat Intonation
- Rhythm Studies
1:45 p.m. - Festival Performance Simulation (Recorded from front)
- Starfire
- Midnight
- Plaza
2:00 p.m. - Starfire Fanfare
- 27-37 low brass
- 61-64 - reps
- 83 - tune chords, more AIR, stronger!
2:10 p.m. - Midnight Sky
- Trumpets measure 4-6
- Low brass and reeds - 14-16 not "chunky"
- Ensemble 13-16 no breath!
- 11-16 no breath! Never breathe at a barline unless there's a breath mark!
2:25 p.m. - Plaza de Toros
- Trumpet slurs
- Low brass D-flats and G-flats
2:35 p.m. - Logistics
- You can wear your concert black to school or bring it in a bag
- Respectfully ask to be excused from your 8B class at 12:55 p.m. (you are responsible for whatever assignments or work you miss from 12:55 to 1:15 p.m.)
- Report to room 91
- Leave in room 91:
- Backpack
- Anything you DO NOT need for the Festival
- Bring:
- Instrument
- Music
- Pencil
- Water bottle
- Concert attire
- Snack/lunch/money to buy food
- Load the buses:
- Last names A through L on the first bus
- Last names M through Z on the second bus
- Flutes, clarinets, oboe in laps
- Other instruments in empty seats or under the bus
2:45 p.m. - Festival Performance Simulation (Recorded from front)
- Starfire
- Midnight
- Plaza
3:00 p.m. - Clean up
- Put away instruments (woodwinds swab please!)
- Woodwinds: rack all chairs
- Brass: rack all stands
- Percussion:
- Cover instruments, put all mallets and small instruments away, clean up and organize
- Put the following in the middle of the room:
- Bongos
- Marimba
- Tam Tam
- Xylophone
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Vibraphone
- Chimes