WCS Band Virtual Music Gallery               Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 7 pm

WCS Band students in grades 4-7
are busy creating musical stories and poems.
Their performances will be celebrated
at our virtual gallery opening on
Tuesday, 6/9/20 at 7 pm. 
We hope you will join us in celebrating
their creative work.
Links to the grade level galleries
will be available on the WCS Band website. 

The galleries will remain open after this date so
please feel free to visit at another time if needed! 

CVSD Front Yard Concert in the News!

Our CVSD Front Yard Concert was featured by three different local news  groups!

Click here to see the coverage by WPTZ 

Click here to see the coverage by WCAX.

Click here to read a great article in Seven Days.

   

Weekly Guide

CVSD "Front Yard" Concert is on Monday, 5/4.
Please click here for details.

Click here for the Weekly Band Guide

Click here for Google Classroom

Click here for Band Google Meets

nickname: WCSThompsonBand

Click here for the Essential Arts Learning Menu

Click here for the WS Remote Learning Site

NEW 7/8 CONCERT DETAILS

Sunday, March 15, 2020

Hello Wind Ensemble Family,

I hope this finds you all healthy and doing well. Thank you for your patience as our plans and schedule continue to change.  Students, you have consistently exhibited positive attitudes, perseverance, flexibility and kindness. You  are all wonderful young people and I am so lucky to work with you every day! 

Hopefully you all know that the concert is canceled. Ms. Kennedy and I plan to use the next two days to focus on preparing for our time away from school. When we return to school, we will revisit the concert and if there is a way to perform, we will. 

Regarding band and lessons this week: 

I welcome (but certainly will not require) all to come to band on Monday morning at 7:30. If you choose to attend, we will sight read through some new music with the purpose of connecting and enjoying making music together before we break. 

I will also be available for lessons on Monday. Please follow the schedule from last Monday, 3/9. Attendance at lessons is welcome but not required.  I encourage you to make the decision that is best for you. 

Band will not meet on Tuesday morning at 7:30 am. 

Regardless of your decision, please do your best to bring your instrument home for the break.

Be well and thank you all,

Kim Thompson  

Upcoming 7/8 Concert Details

Upcoming 7/8 Concert  Details: 

Tuesday, 3/10- dress rehearsal 8:10-dismissal 

Wednesday, 3/11- Concert day. Performances during the school day and at 7 pm. 

Concert dress: black, bottoms, black top, and the WCS Performing Arts shirt

Snow date plans: 

If school closes on 3/11, our concert day will be on Thursday, 3/12

If school closes on 2 of the above dates,  we will follow the schedule below: 

Monday, 3/16- dress rehearsal 8:10- dismissal

Tuesday, 3/17- Concert day. Performances during the school day and at 7 pm. 

5th-8th Grade December Concert Information

        The Upper House concerts are scheduled for Wednesday, 12/18. 
All student musicians will perform during the school day and again in the evening.
Students should wear concert attire for both performances.  

Performance times:

5:30 pm- 5th and 6th grade bands and chorus (5:00 call time) 

7:15 pm- 7th and 8th grade bands and choruses. (6:45 call) 

Please honor all musicians by staying for the entire concert.

Concert Dress 

We strive to reflect the pride we feel when performing. 

We request the following attire: 

Daytime:

Performing Arts t-shirt

 black pants or skirt of appropriate length.

Evening:

 dressy shirt/collared shirt with tie

 pants, dress or skirt of appropriate length

Shorts, t shirts, hats, athletic wear,  jeans, flip flops and clunky boots are not appropriate.

Please contact a music teacher if you need to borrow any clothing in advance.

Attention Beginner Band Families!

Please remember that the instrument pick up night is tonight (Wednesday, 11/13) at 6:30 in the WCS theater.

If you cannot attend and have not yet signed a rental contract:

Please contact Ellis Music Company ASAP and make alternate arrangements. (Lessons start tomorrow.)

If you reserved a rental through my sign up form but have not signed a contract yet:

         You should attend tonight. Upon arrival, you will get a number (deli counter style). Ellis Music representatives will run a quick meeting and review the details of the rental contract with all of you. They will then call you up according to the number you received upon arrival. You will then sign your contract and be assigned an instrument to bring home. 

         Children do not need to attend this evening. If you have to bring them, please be sure they have something quiet and calm to do while you are waiting. 

If you completed your rental contract online through the Ellis Music website: 

     You should have received a receipt from Ellis by now. You can arrive at 6:30 and get your instrument right away. You are welcome to sit through the meeting if you would like, but it is optional for you. 

       Please be sure to purchase the book, Tradition of Excellence Book 1, and any other needed supplies such as reeds for clarinets and saxophones. 

  If you cannot attend tonight, the representatives will leave your instrument with me. I will give it to your child at their lesson. 

If you secured an instrument in another way: 

You do not need to attend tonight. If you need reeds for your clarinet or saxophone, and/or the book, Tradition of Excellence Book 1, you can stop in and purchase these from the table in the back of the theater. 

When do we start? What is our schedule? 

     Lessons are scheduled during the school day on Thursdays and Fridays and will begin tomorrow. Your child will attend one lesson per week, always on the same day, but the assigned time will rotate. The time rotates in order to avoid missing the same part of the other classes each week.  Please check the schedule here.  If you see an error, please let me know via email asap. (kthompson@cvsdvt.org) 

If you have questions, I will be available tonight and am also easily reached via email. 

Sincerely,

Kim Thompson