Glenn Band News - Welcome Back

Welcome Back

We hope that everyone has had a restful week and some time to catch up with your families. We're excited to welcome everyone back this week!

Important Meeting This Week

Parents - we will have our monthly Glenn Band Parent Meeting on Tuesday at 7:00pm.

This is a big meeting for band parents - at the meeting we'll be recapping and making suggestions for future WGI shows, and most importantly, we will be discussing upcoming Booster Board positions and nominations for the 2023-2024 school year.

This year's Booster Board has been incredible, and we will have some positions opening up for next year. We're a young band program and a younger booster organization that has been doing a great job to get our band program to new heights every year. The next few years are going to see the band program at GHS grow exponentially and now is our time to prepare and plan for the future.

If you would like to be involved in this growth of our band community, please come to this meeting to see how you can get involved. We'll have a lot of positions available - some with more time commitment, and many with very little time commitment. As you hear me say, "it takes a village", and it's true! We hope to see you at the meeting tomorrow!

This Week in the Grizzly Band

Conducting Clinic

• Tuesday AM (7:15-8:00am)

Movement Camp

• Thursday PM (4:30-7:30pm)

Wind Ensemble Sectionals

• Tuesday PM (3:50-4:50pm) - Trumpets
  
• Wednesday AM (7:00-8:00am) - Flutes, Oboe, Clarinets, Altos
• Thursday AM (7:00-8:00am) - FULL BAND Rehearsal
• Friday AM (7:00-8:00am) - Low Voices
  

Symphonic Band Sectionals

• Wednesday PM (3:50-4:50pm) - FULL BAND, Rehearsal
• Thursday AM (7:00-8:00am) - Low Voices
• Thursday PM (3:50-4:50pm) - Trumpets & Horns
• Friday AM (7:00-8:00am) - Flutes, Oboe, Clarinets, Altos

Next Week in the Grizzly Band: Pre-UIL Concerts, Gems, Area Perc, Prof. J @ GHS

Next week's schedules will be different than normal!

Please click here to check the Glenn Band Calendar for next week (March 27-31).

• We'll be welcoming Professor Jerry Junkin, Director of Bands at UT Austin, to the GHS Band Hall to work with us on Thursday!
• Gems will be hosting their audition clinics and auditions.
• Indoor Percussion will be preparing for the TCGC Area Contest on Saturday, April 1st.

Pre-UIL Concert Schedules

Where: Don Tew Performing Arts Center @ Leander HS

Wed, March 29th: GHS Symphonic Band (& DMS Blue Band)

Fri, March 31st: GHS Wind Ensemble (& DMS Wind Ensemble)

• Call time: 6:50pm
• Warm Up: 7:00-7:25pm
• Stage Performance: 7:30pm
• Sight-Reading: 8:00pm

Glenn Band Inaugural "Young Artist Contest"

We are hosting our first annual solo contest this year called the "Young Artist Contest"(YAC) on April 27th after school. The purpose of the YAC is to give students more musical experiences learning a solo, playing with a piano accompaniment, and having music literature to practice outside of the UIL concert music. This is not a new concept in LISD as every other school in the district already has their own YAC.

Every musician in the Glenn band program will play a solo for a judge and receive a rating 1-5. Students have already either selected their own solo or have had a solo given to them. Students that have a solo with piano accompaniment will have to pay $50. This pays for 2 rehearsals during class leading up to their YAC performance and also pays for the actual performance as well. All the piano accompanists received the music for their given students over spring break.

The payment for the piano accompanist will be due by April 27th and be paid to the boosters. If you are in need of financial support or want to help pay for these phenomenal pianists we hired please reach out to Mr. Fig - Jeremiah.Figlewicz@leanderisd.org. All other questions regarding YAC should be directed to Mr. Travis - Zack.Travis@leanderisd.org.

Glenn Indoor Percussion @ Vista Ridge TCGC Competition

Congratulations to the Glenn Indoor Percussion on their recent victory at the Vista Ridge TCGC competition! With a 1st place score of 86.1, the drumline continues to excel during their inaugural season.

Weekly Schedule

• Tuesday - Rehearsal, 4:00pm
• Thursday - Rehearsal, 4:00pm
  
• Friday - Rehearsal, 4:00pm

AREA Send-off Performance

Thursday, March 30th 7:30pm (GHS main gym)

Tentative departure time from Glenn on Saturday, April 1st:

8:00am. Tentative return time to Glenn: 1:00am

Calendar for 2023-2024

At their January 26th meeting the LISD School Board approved the school calendar for the 2023-2024 academic year. You can find the calendar at the "Board Brief" listed here.

With this in mind, we have begun planning the dates and times for next summer and fall. These can be found on our Google Calendar at GlennBand.org. Please note that these dates and times may change and changes will be communicated to families and posted to the Google Calendar.

Summer Band 23-24 Overview

• DCI San Antonio Trip (details below): Saturday, July 22
• Leadership Training Camp (leaders only): Monday-Tuesday, July 24-25
• Summer Band Week 1 (FULL BAND): Wednesday-Friday, July 26-28
• Summer Band Week 2 (FULL BAND): Monday-Friday, July 31-August 4
• Summer Band Week 3 (FULL BAND): Monday-Friday, August 7-11
• Summer Band & First Week of School: Monday-Friday, August 14-18

Marching Band Contests 2023-2024 (Preliminary Dates)

• BOA Austin - September 23
• Vista Ridge Marching Contest - October 7
• Region Marching Contest - October 10
• BOA Prosper - October 14
• 5A Area Marching Contest - October 28
• BOA San Antonio - November 3 & 4
• 5A State Marching Band Contest - November 6 & 7

**Some events, like Festival of Bands, rehearsal calendar, and stadium dates are still TBD from LISD. Some events may also be subject to change based on local contest calendars. I'm very confident in the above contest dates, please start planning now!

Summer Band Rehearsals & Contest Day Notes

As with all Texas high school bands, please plan for your student to be at all of the above events. Look ahead now for SAT and ACT dates, as well as for vacation planning. I'll be heading to my log cabin in Wisconsin in June for a while so that I can be back for summer band! Please begin planning your summer/fall calendars for travel and testing now - we are SO EXCITED for next year's marching season and a big part of our success is having 100% attendance!

Conflicts are sure to come up - if you see these, please email me or Mr. Travis to let us know so that we can try to help with any possible solutions. Thank you!