Dear CHS Band Family
7:40 Wind will gather at CHS Band room
8:30 Warm up at OSU
9:00 Perform
9:30 Sight-read
MPG BIG BAND
MAX PLANCK-GYMNASIUM
SCHORNDORF, GERMANY
The German Jazz band will be arriving for home stays with the CHS families on Thursday, May 14th, They will be with us Thursday night ~ Sunday morning. (Itinerary is below)
CHS has been asked to house the 28 students between the ages of 15 and 21 for 3 nights during their stay in Corvallis. All CHS band member families are invited to host two German students. The CHS students have had an opportunity to see pictures of each German musician and read their ‘bio’s’ written in English. Housing assignments will be concluded this week and the CHS students may contact by email the Germans before they depart for the US.
On the day they arrive ( time ...?), the CHS Wind Ensemble will perform at OSU at the OSAA State Band Championships !!
7:40 Wind will gather at CHS Band room
8:30 Warm up at OSU
9:00 Perform
9:30 Sight-read
Itinerary (Plan B or 2.0 )
May 14 Germans arrive at CHS greeted by CHS students/families/housing assignments
May 15 7:30a Germans to CHS. MPG concert in West Albany HS and at Cascade HS.
Shopping at Woodburn.
5:30 back to Corvallis.
May 16 Breakfast with host family.
10:00a Drop off at Farmers Market
12:00p Lunch Downtown
1:30 Hike MacDonald forrest
Dinner with Host Family
May 17th Breakfast with Host family.
11:00 Drop off at OSU LaSelle (last CHS host activity )
3:00~5:00 CHS, OSU, MPG Jazz Bands concert
May 19 MPG shadow CHS band students at CHS, meet other Germans.
Mr. Price will meet with the OSU profs this week to finalize the event.
Hello all 
The CHS Pep Band completed another year of ‘service’ to the CHS athletic teams.
The combined Concert and Symphonic bands presented their three pieces they have prepared for the District Band Festival on March 18th. The three pieces demonstrated their musical growth this year with Soar Like an Eagle, Hymn from Vespers and To Challenge the Sky and Heaven Above. The composer for Soar Like an Eagle dedicated the piece to flying a glider with the feeling of air turbulence, the sound of a flock of birds and the soaring updrafts. Rachmaninoff’s Hymn is a beautiful piece from the Russian Orthodox Church with the chant-like melody set in a band arrangement. To Challenge… is dedicated to an area in Huntsville, Alabama and the NASA space center that develops rocket boosters. This set of music was selected to meet the criteria for band festivals. Their concert performance was very good and the music was very exciting, even “uplifting.” 
The CHS Blue Tones, fresh off their participation with the Essentially Ellington program out of Lincoln Center in New York, performed four charts with various solos by Dylan Garity, Joseph Kleinhenz, James Ingalls, Claire Froelich, Michael Grant, Aaron Mock, Stephan Smith, Brian McFadden and Alice Anderson. 
On Tuesday, March 18, 2008, the OMEA District XI Band Festival was held at Crescent Valley this year.All games at U of O:
Wednesday
1:30p (11:30 Bus) against Hermiston
*If we win: Friday, 1:30pm (11:30am bus)
* If we lose: Thursday, 9 am (bus?)
Link to the OSAA Boys Bracket: Click here
Please remember to get your parent permission slip on Monday from Mr. Price.
Blue Tones Members:
Please check the Blue Tones page for recording details.
http://chsbluetones.blogspot.com/
On Sunday, December 30th, the CHS pep band will provide the music for the OSU men’s basketball game. The game begins at 7 pm. We will be provided an OSU shirt and pizza. The CHS band room will be open that evening between 5 and 5:30pm for students to pick up their instruments. At 5:31pm our equipment will be moved over to OSU. We will pass out the OSU fight song to the CHS members, go over it a few times and then put on a show for the OSU crowd. This is an exciting opportunity for the CHS band program! Oh, and don’t forget to ‘dress’ for the holidays again!
