On Tuesday, February 21st, the boys’ varsity basketball team lost their playoff game to La Costa Canyon High School, therefore, they are out of the playoffs.  All planned pep band performances through March 2nd are cancelled and can be crossed off of your Spring Band Schedules.

During the next few months, as Concert Band and Orchestra continue to hone their festival repertoire, assessment of performance skills will continue on a smaller, more frequent scale (no pun intended).  Each class recently learned about the three forms of minor scales, how to formulate them in steps starting with the root of the key, and have been assigned another online video submission of the performance of a set of scales on a monthly basis.  This month’s keys in which we’ll be testing are Concert B-flat, Concert F, and Concert C.  Written sheet music of each form of minor scale can be found in the Orchestra and Band Download pages.  You can download details and instructions below.

Online Video Submission     Password-protecting your video on Vimeo     Scale Testing Details

Anyone objecting to online video submissions are free to contact me to discuss alternative submission formats at cbrown@uchsmusic.com.

I’m proud to announce that we have 19 Centurions that made their respective honor groups; a higher number than we’ve ever had before!  Congratulations go to the following students:

SDUSD Honor Orchestra: Emily Siegler, Jessica Chen, Victoria Wheatley, Allie Pilkington, Erin Nicole Vedar, and Lizzy Mitchell
SDUSD Honor Band: Jake Stofan, Josh Basch, Aaron Hong, Emi Zeger, Roxanne Galibut, Tyler Davis, Aidan Estelle, Kirra Spitz, and Eric Wilkinson
(The SDUSD Honor Band and Orchestra Concert is on Saturday, February 25th at 7:00 PM at Copley Symphony Hall.  Admission is free to all!)

CMEA-SBS Honor Choir: Calli Quessenberry, Marina Eddings, Daniel Cunningham, Alexander Perdomo
(The CMEA-SBS Honor Choir Concert is on Saturday, March 3rd at 7:00 PM at Pt. Loma Nazarene University’s Brown Chapel.  Tickets are $2 per person.)