Welcome to the MTHS Band Website
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Program Profile | Listen | Contact | Members | Calendar
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle
"I will teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music,
for in the patterns of music and all the arts are the keys to learning."-Plato
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UPCOMING EVENTS |
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Current Calendar (using google calendar) This will be updated right away and you can subscribe to have the dates, information, and changes go right to your personal calendar.
Full 2011-2012 Calendar
Audition Information (Click Here)
Due May 25th
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Director's Corner - Darin Faul |
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News |
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“. . . a grade is an inadequate report of an inaccurate judgment by a biased and variable judge of the extent to which a student has attained an undefined level of mastery of an unknown proportion of an indefinite amount of material.” -Paul Dressel
Basic College Quarterly
Michigan State University, Winter 1957
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Donate |
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Listen and Watch |
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Joan's Presidential Corner |
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Our 2011-2012 Pledge Drive has begun!
You, our biggest supporters, are now able to donate to the band each month via electronic funds transfer. Select an amount and feel good about your ongoing financial contribution. Money goes to support the music education of the students in the band program with the largest portions going for the purchase of sheet music, to pay guest clinicians, and to cover group travel expenses. All donations are made to our non-profit MTHS Music Boosters organiztion and are tax-deductible. Please pledge whatever amount you can. (read more...)
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You can listen to MTHS Bands and/or purchase audio recordings by the track or full CD's by CLICKING HERE.
Latest Release: Allen Vizzutti with the MTHS Bands in December 2010.
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Recommended Videos |
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Praise for the MTHS Band Program |
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"Once again, your students dazzled our parents and community members with their performances. We received numerous comments from parents on how much they enjoyed listening to the students perform and on how talented they are. Thank you to each of you for working with students to organize the performances for the evening and though thanks seems hardly enough – for the amazing work you do each day with our students." Erin Murphy
"My husband and I, too, thoroughly were blown away by your fantastic group! Good Luck with future performances. We look forward to trying to see your group again."
"Congratulations on stealing the show! Your band was amazing and the only one to get a standing ovation. (read more...)
"I wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed your band's performance on Friday night, and especially... (read more...)
"We just wanted to congratulate you and the members of Jazz Ensemble I on your phenomenal performance at Hot Java Cool Jazz. It was simply magical! (read more...)
Praise for the Fall Band Concert 2009
Praise for the Veteran's Day Assembly 2009
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Recommended Music Links |
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Music Advocacy |
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Quotes |
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"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." -Dr. Seuss
LINKS:
MENC Page
www.supportmusic.com
VIDEOS:
Wynton Marsalis: The Importance of School Music Programs
The Case for Music Education
Why Music Education Belongs in Public Schools
Why Music? (brain research)
AUDIO:
Why Music Matters - Jack Stamp (composer/conductor)
Karl Paulnack Speech - "How Music Works"
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"It gets to the point where the player, if he's going to be any kind of serious player, teaches himself."
-Bill Evans
"The Arts cannot thrive except where men are free to be themselves and to be in charge of the discipline of their own energies and ardors. The conditions for democracy and for the arts are one and the same. What we call liberty in politics results in freedom in the arts. A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too." -Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1939
"The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose -
and is a test to the quality of a nation's civilization."-John F. Kennedy |
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