Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Looking for Pictures!
If you have any fun pictures from Orchestra Tour, activities or performances, please send them our way to post on the Blog! We would love to make it a great site with great pictures!
Announcements for Sept/October 2010
1. All unsold Pizza Cards need to be brought back to Mrs. Smith by Friday Oct 1, 2010. If you have funds from the sales of the Cards, please take the money to American Fork High School Finance Office by Friday, Oct 1, 2010. If you have questions, contact Mrs. Smith.
2. Reminder that we will be starting the Pies and Mixes Fundraiser around October 15th. All orders will be due by October 28th at the Concert. More information to come!
3. Fall Concert is Thursday, October 28, 2010. The performance is at American Fork High School Auditorium. Junior High Concert begins at 6pm. All junior high students need to meet in the High School Orchestra room at 5:30 for warm up and tuning. HIGH SCHOOL CONCERT begins at 7:30pm. The HS call time is 7 pm.
4. If you are a 9th grade advanced orchestra student or a High School Student and are planning on going on Orchestra Tour to Anaheim, the 1st payment of $150 dollars is due to the Finance office by October 15th. This is a non-refundable deposit. If you have participated in the Pizza Cards Fundraiser, you may use credit from the sales to go towards this 1st payment. Contact Mrs. Smith if you have any questions. (801) 756-8547 ext 130 or smitsh704@alpine.k12.ut.us.
5. Did you know we have a blog? check us out on afschoolorchestra@blogspot.com
2. Reminder that we will be starting the Pies and Mixes Fundraiser around October 15th. All orders will be due by October 28th at the Concert. More information to come!
3. Fall Concert is Thursday, October 28, 2010. The performance is at American Fork High School Auditorium. Junior High Concert begins at 6pm. All junior high students need to meet in the High School Orchestra room at 5:30 for warm up and tuning. HIGH SCHOOL CONCERT begins at 7:30pm. The HS call time is 7 pm.
4. If you are a 9th grade advanced orchestra student or a High School Student and are planning on going on Orchestra Tour to Anaheim, the 1st payment of $150 dollars is due to the Finance office by October 15th. This is a non-refundable deposit. If you have participated in the Pizza Cards Fundraiser, you may use credit from the sales to go towards this 1st payment. Contact Mrs. Smith if you have any questions. (801) 756-8547 ext 130 or smitsh704@alpine.k12.ut.us.
5. Did you know we have a blog? check us out on afschoolorchestra@blogspot.com
Friday, April 2, 2010
Packing list for Southern Utah Tour 2010
o We are loading busses@ AFHS at 8:00am on Thursday, April 15, 2010.
o Pick-up from Tour is Sunday, April 18, 2010 @ 12:30pm at AFHS.
Orchestra packing checklist for TOUR 2010
Shirts/Sweatshirts
Pants/Capris/ LONG Shorts (it still may be cold, prepare for cooler weather)
Underwear
Shoes: comfortable shoes that you can walk and tour in. Concert shoes (Black)
Socks
Pajamas
Concert Clothes:
Ladies: long black dresses, black shoes, black nylons
Gentlemen: tux shirt, bow tie, black jacket, pants, BLACK socks, BLACK shoes
Instrument
Music
Clothes for Performance of Lion King (Nice Casual, no T-shirts and jeans)
Money, enough for 4 lunches and souvenirs
Coat, scarf, beenie
Jacket for evening or bad weather
Snacks
Modest Swimming suit and COVER-UP
Medicine (only the kind that you have listed on health sheet)
Card Games, CD/IPOD player with headphones, DVDs or Videos (G or PG rated only)
Toiletries, make-up, DEODERANT (please), Girls-feminine items, toothbrush, hairbrush, etc.
MANNERS AND POSITIVE ATTITUDES, KINDNESS, AND CONSIDERATION
Please do not pack your bedroom to go on this tour!!! Luggage is limited to one medium-sized suitcase to check under the bus, your instrument and one carry-on backpack.
LET’S HAVE A GREAT TIME! Any questions? Call Mrs. Smith 369-6147 (cell)
o Pick-up from Tour is Sunday, April 18, 2010 @ 12:30pm at AFHS.
Orchestra packing checklist for TOUR 2010
Shirts/Sweatshirts
Pants/Capris/ LONG Shorts (it still may be cold, prepare for cooler weather)
Underwear
Shoes: comfortable shoes that you can walk and tour in. Concert shoes (Black)
Socks
Pajamas
Concert Clothes:
Ladies: long black dresses, black shoes, black nylons
Gentlemen: tux shirt, bow tie, black jacket, pants, BLACK socks, BLACK shoes
Instrument
Music
Clothes for Performance of Lion King (Nice Casual, no T-shirts and jeans)
Money, enough for 4 lunches and souvenirs
Coat, scarf, beenie
Jacket for evening or bad weather
Snacks
Modest Swimming suit and COVER-UP
Medicine (only the kind that you have listed on health sheet)
Card Games, CD/IPOD player with headphones, DVDs or Videos (G or PG rated only)
Toiletries, make-up, DEODERANT (please), Girls-feminine items, toothbrush, hairbrush, etc.
MANNERS AND POSITIVE ATTITUDES, KINDNESS, AND CONSIDERATION
Please do not pack your bedroom to go on this tour!!! Luggage is limited to one medium-sized suitcase to check under the bus, your instrument and one carry-on backpack.
LET’S HAVE A GREAT TIME! Any questions? Call Mrs. Smith 369-6147 (cell)
REMINDER AND FINAL INSTRUCTIONS before Tour!
TOUR Orchestra Students and Parents.
REMINDER and FINAL INSTRUCTIONS
There will be a DRESS REHEARSAL/Tour Send Off Concert for all Students Touring to Southern UTAH/Las Vegas on MONDAY April 12, 2010 @ American Fork JUNIOR HIGH BAND ROOM at 7 pm. This will be our final practice concert before we leave on Thursday, April 15, 2010. Each student is responsible for attending this final practice/performance. WE invite all to come to this performance and give your support. We will also answer any final questions before the tour.
Thanks for your help.
Shauna Smith
REMINDER and FINAL INSTRUCTIONS
There will be a DRESS REHEARSAL/Tour Send Off Concert for all Students Touring to Southern UTAH/Las Vegas on MONDAY April 12, 2010 @ American Fork JUNIOR HIGH BAND ROOM at 7 pm. This will be our final practice concert before we leave on Thursday, April 15, 2010. Each student is responsible for attending this final practice/performance. WE invite all to come to this performance and give your support. We will also answer any final questions before the tour.
Thanks for your help.
Shauna Smith
Thursday, April 1, 2010
FINAL TOUR ITINERARY TO SOUTHERN UTAH/LAS VEGAS
Proposed Itinerary for Southern Utah/LAS VEGAS Tour- April 15, 16, 17,18, 2010
Thursday April 15, 2010
7:30 AM—Meet/Load Charter Bus
8:30 AM—Departure for St. George
12:30pm Arrive in St. George/ Sack Lunch on own
1 PM –Dixie State College—Rehearsal/Master Class Possible exchange concert with St. George H.S.
225 S. 700 E., St. George, Utah (435) 652-7500
3PM—Check into Hotel –Abbey Inn St. George
3:45 PM-- Load Bus—Early Dinner at Golden Corral
42 South River Rd.
St. George, Utah
4:30 PM Depart for Las Vegas
6:30pm Arrive in Las Vegas/ Mandalay Bay Theatre
7:30pm - Mandalay Bay-Broadway production of Disney’s Lion King
10:30pm Return to St. George
12 Midnight Room check/ Lights out
Friday April 16.2010
8:30-9:30 am Breakfast at Abbey Inn, 1129 south Bluff St, St. George, UT 84770, (435) 652-5950
9:45 am Load bus for Zion National Park
11 am- Load Shuttle in Zion’s Park
Lunch on own at Zion’s Lodge
Visit visitor center, various trails and sightseeing in park (NO ANGEL’S LANDING HIKES!)
3:30 PM Load Busses and travel to Laverkin, UT for Tailgate BBQ –Dinner Provided
6pm Return to St. George
7:30-9:30 pm Lazer Mania Game Center
Return to Hotel 9:30pm
Room check 10:30pm
Lights OUT! 11PM
Saturday April 17, 2010
6:30-7:45am Breakfast at Abbey Inn
8 am Load bus
8:15 am Leave for Las Vegas/ Heritage Festival
10 am Arrive at Heritage Festival/
Performance and Concert Attendance TIME TBA
11:30- Warm Up Symphonic Strings
12 NOON Performance-Symphonic Strings
12:35 Warm up Chamber Strings
1:10 Performance Chamber Strings
Lunch at Food Court –Fashion Show Mall
Shark REEF adventure at Mandalay Bay
-Return to Adventure Dome/Circus Circus
-Dinner Voucher at Circus Circus Buffet
-7:30pm Heritage Festival Awards
9pm Return to St. George and Abbey Inn
11:30pm-Room Check/Lights out
Sunday ,April 18, 2010
6:30-8am Breakfast and Checkout
8:30 am Leave St. George for Home
12:30pm Arrive at American Fork High School
The cost of the tour is $350/per person. That includes transportation, Hotel, National Park fees, Meals (Breakfast and Dinner each day), Heritage Festival entrance fees, Entrance to Hoover Dam, Lazer Mania, Lion King and AdventureDome.
Thursday April 15, 2010
7:30 AM—Meet/Load Charter Bus
8:30 AM—Departure for St. George
12:30pm Arrive in St. George/ Sack Lunch on own
1 PM –Dixie State College—Rehearsal/Master Class Possible exchange concert with St. George H.S.
225 S. 700 E., St. George, Utah (435) 652-7500
3PM—Check into Hotel –Abbey Inn St. George
3:45 PM-- Load Bus—Early Dinner at Golden Corral
42 South River Rd.
St. George, Utah
4:30 PM Depart for Las Vegas
6:30pm Arrive in Las Vegas/ Mandalay Bay Theatre
7:30pm - Mandalay Bay-Broadway production of Disney’s Lion King
10:30pm Return to St. George
12 Midnight Room check/ Lights out
Friday April 16.2010
8:30-9:30 am Breakfast at Abbey Inn, 1129 south Bluff St, St. George, UT 84770, (435) 652-5950
9:45 am Load bus for Zion National Park
11 am- Load Shuttle in Zion’s Park
Lunch on own at Zion’s Lodge
Visit visitor center, various trails and sightseeing in park (NO ANGEL’S LANDING HIKES!)
3:30 PM Load Busses and travel to Laverkin, UT for Tailgate BBQ –Dinner Provided
6pm Return to St. George
7:30-9:30 pm Lazer Mania Game Center
Return to Hotel 9:30pm
Room check 10:30pm
Lights OUT! 11PM
Saturday April 17, 2010
6:30-7:45am Breakfast at Abbey Inn
8 am Load bus
8:15 am Leave for Las Vegas/ Heritage Festival
10 am Arrive at Heritage Festival/
Performance and Concert Attendance TIME TBA
11:30- Warm Up Symphonic Strings
12 NOON Performance-Symphonic Strings
12:35 Warm up Chamber Strings
1:10 Performance Chamber Strings
Lunch at Food Court –Fashion Show Mall
Shark REEF adventure at Mandalay Bay
-Return to Adventure Dome/Circus Circus
-Dinner Voucher at Circus Circus Buffet
-7:30pm Heritage Festival Awards
9pm Return to St. George and Abbey Inn
11:30pm-Room Check/Lights out
Sunday ,April 18, 2010
6:30-8am Breakfast and Checkout
8:30 am Leave St. George for Home
12:30pm Arrive at American Fork High School
The cost of the tour is $350/per person. That includes transportation, Hotel, National Park fees, Meals (Breakfast and Dinner each day), Heritage Festival entrance fees, Entrance to Hoover Dam, Lazer Mania, Lion King and AdventureDome.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
FESTIVALS, FESTIVALS, FESTIVALS 2010
American Fork Junior High School Intermediate and Advanced Orchestra
Dear Parents, March 2010
Every other year we have participated in the Music in the Parks Program Festivals located at Lagoon Amusement Park. Last year we had planned on the event but were asked not to attend due to the recession. This year we have opted to attend this festival. Each year that AFJH has attended the Festival, we have received superior ratings and in 3 cases, we have received the top awards at the festival. This is a moral booster for these students that have worked so hard this year! It also gives them opportunity to be adjudicated by nationally ranked judges and compete with students outside the state of Utah.
There is a cost involved for each student. We are asking the students to please pay $50 dollars for the event. The cost includes transportation to and from Lagoon, entrance to Lagoon and Fee for the festival. Payment will be taken from March 22 thru April 30th. Please make the checks payable to American Fork JUNIOR HIGH ORCHESTRA. Many of the students participated in the fundraiser we did at the beginning of the year. If your student participated in these fundraisers, please have them contact me and I will be able to let them know how much credit they have towards this event. If your students participated in fundraisers last year, unfortunately the money that was earned does not roll over to the next year. (Please see the Orchestra Disclosure Document.) That money has been used to fund this years music, strings, repairs and operating cost of the Orchestra Classes.
Here is the ITINERARY for the festival
DATE: May 8, 2010
11:00AM Leave from AF Junior High School/ Bring Sack Lunch to eat on the way
12 noon Arrive at Northridge High School, Layton, UT
12:35 pm Warm Up- Intermediate Orchestra
1 pm PERFORMANCE- INTERMEDIATE ORCHESTRA
1 pm WARM-UP ADVANCED ORCHESTRA
1:25 pm PERFORMANCE ADVANCED ORCHESTRA
2 pm LEAVE FOR LAGOON- IN THE PARK
5 pm Awards Assembly Pioneer Pavilion
5:45 pm Back to the Park/Dinner on own in the PARK
8 pm LOAD BUSSES
8:45-9pm BACK TO AF Junior High
American Fork Junior High School Intermediate and Advanced Orchestra
Dear Parents, March 2010
Every other year we have participated in the Music in the Parks Program Festivals located at Lagoon Amusement Park. Last year we had planned on the event but were asked not to attend due to the recession. This year we have opted to attend this festival. Each year that AFJH has attended the Festival, we have received superior ratings and in 3 cases, we have received the top awards at the festival. This is a moral booster for these students that have worked so hard this year! It also gives them opportunity to be adjudicated by nationally ranked judges and compete with students outside the state of Utah.
There is a cost involved for each student. We are asking the students to please pay $50 dollars for the event. The cost includes transportation to and from Lagoon, entrance to Lagoon and Fee for the festival. Payment will be taken from March 22 thru April 30th. Please make the checks payable to American Fork JUNIOR HIGH ORCHESTRA. Many of the students participated in the fundraiser we did at the beginning of the year. If your student participated in these fundraisers, please have them contact me and I will be able to let them know how much credit they have towards this event. If your students participated in fundraisers last year, unfortunately the money that was earned does not roll over to the next year. (Please see the Orchestra Disclosure Document.) That money has been used to fund this years music, strings, repairs and operating cost of the Orchestra Classes.
Here is the ITINERARY for the festival
DATE: May 8, 2010
11:00AM Leave from AF Junior High School/ Bring Sack Lunch to eat on the way
12 noon Arrive at Northridge High School, Layton, UT
12:35 pm Warm Up- Intermediate Orchestra
1 pm PERFORMANCE- INTERMEDIATE ORCHESTRA
1 pm WARM-UP ADVANCED ORCHESTRA
1:25 pm PERFORMANCE ADVANCED ORCHESTRA
2 pm LEAVE FOR LAGOON- IN THE PARK
5 pm Awards Assembly Pioneer Pavilion
5:45 pm Back to the Park/Dinner on own in the PARK
8 pm LOAD BUSSES
8:45-9pm BACK TO AF Junior High
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